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Graduates and Global Citizens

Perspectives on Learning & Teaching

David Killick

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Internationalisation

What is it? How is it related to globalisation? What might be some appropriate ‘graduate

attributes’ for global citizens? Cross-cultural capability & global

perspectives

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Basic PropositionsInternationalisation -

is about all students must be embedded across the disciplines requires a strategic approach requires a whole institution approach is not an optional extra

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Basic PropositionsInternationalisation -

is about all students must be embedded across the disciplines requires a strategic approach requires a whole institution approach is not an optional extra

•Meeting the needs of diverse students

•Capitalising on the diverse perspectives and knowledge of those students

•Our own development to help achieve these

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“Graduate attributes for effective and responsible engagement with a globalising world”

Cross-cultural capability

1. Intercultural awareness and the associated communication skills.

2. International and multicultural perspectives on one’s discipline area.

3. Application in practice

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Global Perspectives

the relationships between local actions and global consequences, highlighting inequalities

helping us reflect upon major issues such as global warming, world trade, poverty, sustainable development, and human migration, and

promoting a response based on justice and equality not charity.”

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critically examine how the student, through participation on the course and as a member of the university community, is enabled to develop:

the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in multicultural contexts and across cultural boundaries

the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in a global context

values commensurate with those of responsible global citizenship.”

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Interaction Read the instructions on your card Immediately begin Carry out the instructions with everybody in

the room When you have finished – please sit down

again

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Barriers to engaging with the ‘other’

HapticsProxemicsChronemicsKinesicsOculesics

IndividualismPower DistanceUncertainty- AvoidanceMasculine/FeminineTime Orientation

Prototypes, Stereotypes & Misattribution

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For each, think of a nationality who are said …

… to treat their wives very badly. … to be very hypocritical. … to be cruel to their children. … to be un-hygienic. … not to have proper meals … to be cold and hard, like their weather

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Stereotyping “International” Students

= ? “Asians” = ? Chinese students = ?

6,706,993,152 731,000,000 1,330,044,544 4,050,404,000

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Classic Misattribution Error When we do good – it’s down to us. When we do bad – it’s down to

circumstance.

When ‘they’ do good – it’s down to circumstance.

When ‘they’ do bad – it’s down to them.

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Misattribution

Value Attitude Behaviour

Respect for others

Honesty

Modesty

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Value Attitude Behaviour

Respect for others

Older people deserve to be shown respect

Honesty Everybody should exhibit honesty when interacting

Modesty Flirtatious & sexual behaviour is not acceptable

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Value Attitude Behaviour

Respect for others

Older people deserve to be shown respect

I do not make eye contact with older people

Honesty Everybody should exhibit honesty when interacting

I make eye contact with everybody

Modesty Flirtatious & sexual behaviour is not acceptable

I avoid eye contact with members of the opposite sex outside my family

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Prototype Theory

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Schema

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Supply Chain Management

In pairs – quickly note key features in supply chain management as it applies to the agricultural industry

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Crossing the line

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Procedural Schema

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A man went to the doctor …

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Watch Your Tongue!

Whose language is it anyway? “International” English

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English as an International Language – Kachru’s Model

Expanding Circle

Outer Circle

Origin

0.5 billion speakers of English in inner and outer circles

1.0 billion in expanding circle

80% of conversations in English involve no native speaker

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Sounds

OK She lives in London Final falls The importance of stress …

…….and impotence

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Get …

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Sentences + Pragmatics

I’m in the bath.

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Issues and Impact Communication Schema Cultural “norms” Stereotyping

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Aspects of Culture Shock anxious, confused, apparently apathetic lacking points of reference, social norms and

rules to guide their actions powerlessness, meaninglessness,

normlessness, self and social estrangement, and social isolation

a continuous general ‘free-floating’ anxiety which affects people’s normal behaviour

Adrian Furnham, The experience of being an overseas student, in McNamara & Harris (Eds) 1997 Overseas Students in Higher Education: Issues in teaching and learning, Routledge, pp14-15

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Culture Shock – continued

confusion in role, role expectations, values, feeling and self-identity.

surprise, anxiety, even disgust and indignation after becoming aware of cultural differences.

feelings of impotence due to not being able to cope with the new environment.

Adrian Furnham, The experience of being an overseas student, in McNamara & Harris (Eds) 1997 Overseas Students in Higher Education: Issues in teaching and learning, Routledge, pp14-15

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How good is your world knowledge?

Sketch a map of the world

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Geographic projection

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GDP Projection

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Internet projection

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Population projection

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critically examine how the student, through participation on the course and as a member of the university community, is enabled to develop:

the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in multicultural contexts and across cultural boundaries

the awareness, knowledge and skills to operate in a global context

values commensurate with those of responsible global citizenship.”

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Review Internationalisation is about higher education

responding to a globalising world One model proposes the twin dimensions of

cross-cultural capability and global perspectives

Communication across cultures is a key aspect of cross-cultural capability

Understanding the barriers erected by our own cultural norms, values, schemas, and practices is an important attribute

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Review

May be more relevant to our home students than our international students

Home students further disadvantaged by speaking English as a first language

We need to develop & model good practice Perhaps – effective intercultural group work is

a key ‘tool’ to enable our students to be more effective in this dimension of global citizenship

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Diamond Ranking Diamond rank each of

the statements on the requirements for an internationalised curriculum according to how important you think each to be.

Most

Least

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Diamond Ranking II Review your ranking – on

the basis of your choices, have you given most/ least importance to:

Knowledge

Skills

Values & Attitudes

Equal ranking =1 from each

Most

Least