Intercultural learning

Abstract: This volume presents the research outcomes of Working Group 2 of Cost Action A11, 'Flexibility, transferability, mobility as targets of vocational education and training'. The group focused on the issue of transfer of learning in vocational education and training and the development of new conceptual tools for the promotion of transformative learning. The book presents an overview of different theoretical approaches to transfer of knowledge and skill, including recent attempts at reconceptualisation. The emphasis is on a perception of learning as boundary crossing between contexts. It is argued that this process is not just the transfer of intact knowledge and skills from task to task or from the school to the workplace, but that as evidence increasingly shows in the process of transfer knowledge and contexts are changed. The chapters are: From transfer to boundary-crossing between school and work as a tool for developing vocational education: an introduction / Terttu Tuomi-Grohn, Yrjo Engestrom and Michael Young. Part one, 'Boundary-crossing as a theoretical basis for research on transfer', contains: Conceptualizing transfer: from standard notions to developmental perspectives / Turttu Tuomi-Grohn and Yrjo Engestrom; Consequential transitions: a developmental view of knowledge propagation through social organizations / King Beach; Transfer and transition in vocational education: some theoretical considerations / David Guile and Michael Young. Part two, 'Learning and transfer in vocational education', contains: Exploration of an industrial enterprise as a method of boundary-crossing in vocational education / Barbel Furstenau; Developing competence during practice periods: the learner's perspective / Johan van der Sanden and Christa Teurlings; Curriculum-embedded mastery learning as a tool for fostering transfer / Frank Achtenhagen; Boundary-crossing in the context of intercultural learning / Susanne Weber; 'Speaking from experience': boundary-crossing within a pre-vocational education programme in Ireland / Gary Granville and Mary Reilly; Developmental transfer as a goal of internship in practical nursing / Terttu Tuomi-Grohn; Promoting developmental transfer in vocational teacher education / Pirjo Lambert. Part three, 'Learning in workplace', contains: Learning in working life: from theory to practice / Petra Angervall and Per-Olof Thang; A model for analyzing knowledge content and processes of learning a trade within alternance vocational training / Annalisa Sannino, Alain Trognon and Lara Dessagne; Workplace learning across activity systems: a case study of sales engineers / Sten R. Ludvigsen, Anton Havnes and Leif Chr. Lahn; Epilogue: from transfer to boundary-crossing / Roger Saljo.

Abstract: INHOUDSOPGAVE:##Student learning abroad : paradigms and assumptions / Michael Vande Berg, R. Michael Paige and Kris Hemming Lou -- Intervening in student learning abroad : recent research / R. Michael Paige and Michael Vande Berg -- What happens when we take stage development theory seriously? / Douglas Stuart -- Paradigmatic assumptions of intercultural learning / Milton Bennett -- The intercultural development inventory (IDI) : a new frontier in assessment and development of intercultural competence / Mitchell Hammer -- Using experiential theory to promote learning and development in programs of education abroad / Angela Passarelli and David Kolb -- Learning, brain and study abroad / James Zull -- Anthropology, intercultural communication, and study abroad / Bruce La Brack and Laura Bathurst -- The psychology of student learning abroad / Victor Savicki -- Scholarship of teaching and learning in support of student-centered : learning abroad / Jennifer Meta Robinson -- Shifting the locus of intercultural learning : intervening prior to and after student learning abroad / Laura Bathurst and Bruce La Brack -- Beyond immersion : the aucp experiment in holistic intervention / Lilli Engle and John Engle -- Maximizing study abroad / R. Michael Paige, Tara Harvey & Kate McCleary -- Facilitating intercultural learning abroad / Kris Hemming Lou and Gabriele Weber Bosley -- Developing a global learning and living community : a case study of intercultural experiences on the scholar ship / Adriana Medina-Lopez Portillo and Riikka Salonen -- An experiment in developing teaching and learning : ciee's seminar on living and learning abroad / Michael Vande Berg, Meghan Quinn and Catherine Menyhart -- Intervening for student learning abroad : closing insights / Kris Hemming Lou, Michael Vande Berg and R. Michael Paige.

Abstract: Intercultural learning is often assumed to be an automatic benefit of e-mail exchanges between groups of learners in different countries, but little research exists on whether on-line intercultural collaboration does actually develop learners' understanding of the other culture's perspective and world view. This paper reviews what recent literature suggests intercultural learning to involve and then reports on a year-long e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university language learners. Using the results of qualitative research, the paper identifies key characteristics of e-mail exchanges which helped to develop learners' intercultural communicative competence (Byram, 1997). It also outlines elements of e-mail messages which may enable students to develop successful intercultural relationships with their partners.