Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally, Third Edition

Learning Across Cultures: Locally and Globally, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to integrating intercultural learning into the fabric of twenty-first century higher education. This new edition synthesizes two decades of societal, theoretical, and technological developments. It combines established and emerging voices from education, history, anthropology, and communication to provide a holistic perspective on learning across cultures.

Topics include:

• terminology and intersections
• international student identity and the digital environment
• social psychology in intercultural contexts
• neuroscience behind intercultural learning
• design and pedagogy for transformative intercultural learning
• intercultural facilitation
• mindful reflection in intercultural learning
• learning outcomes and assessment

Incorporating the latest theories, research, and practices, this book provides the tools and strategies for building and improving successful approaches to learning across cultures that are applicable to a wide range of contexts.

About the editors:

Barbara Kappler Mikk is assistant dean and director of the Department of International Student and Scholar Services with Global Programs and Strategy Alliance at the University of Minnesota.

Inge Ellen Steglitz is the associate director for education abroad and exchanges in Michigan State University’s Office for Education Abroad.