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11 septembre 2016

Interreligious and intercultural education for dialogue, peace and social cohesion

The need for Interreligious and intercultural education in addressing world challenges cannot be over-emphasised, as detailed in the August 2016 special issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE). As conflicts convulse different countries of the world with spill-over effects into many world regions and various attempts to find ‘solutions’, it seems as though dialogue was never more urgently required, at least since the end of the Cold War. The need for peaceful resolution of these conflicts across cultures and religions in order to restore human dignity and stop loss of life is pressing. Integrating this dialogue and its different facets into interreligious and intercultural education systems and approaches is one way to ensure its sustainability, which is instrumental in building peace and enabling social cohesion. More...

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12 juillet 2016

A higher education institution combining offline and online components

After realising that "less than 1% of the world’s current refugees have access to higher education", a group of social entrepreneurs, refugees, students and professors have decided to make higher education more widely accessible. Kiron was launched in October 2015, covering a wide array of subjects ranging from Economics, Computer Science to Engineering and Intercultural Studies. More...

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29 juin 2016

Multiculturalism can foster a new kind of Englishness

By Wendy Ayres-Bennett. To many, multiculturalism as a political idea in Britain suffered a body blow in 2001. In the shock of 9/11 terrorism and after race riots in some northern English towns, many forecast that its days were numbered. More...

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6 mai 2016

Évaluation en langues pour le multilinguisme : promouvoir la diversité linguistique et la communication interculturelle

La conférence ALTE est l’un des plus grands évènements multilingues de la communauté mondiale des organismes certificateurs en langues. Le thème de la conférence « l’évaluation en langues pour le multilinguisme : promouvoir la diversité linguistique et la communication interculturelle » témoigne de l’importance, toujours croissante, de l’évaluation des compétences en langue étrangère.
5 conférenciers pléniers et 120 conférenciers ont abordé les quatre grands axes thématiques de la conférence, que sont la diversité, l’égalité et l’équité, la communication interculturelle et la mobilité. Les présentations ont été faites en allemand, anglais, espagnol, français, et français langue des signes. Les plénières en anglais ont été interprétées en français. Les conférenciers représentaient 92 organisations différentes et 30 pays ou régions sont représentées. Voir l'article...

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1 mai 2016

Second International Conference on Cultural Political Economy

Theme for the conference: “Putting culture in its place in political economy”. The conference will focus on themes in inter‐ and trans‐disciplinary social sciences, approaching Cultural Political Economy as analytical resource. It will look to further develop the Cultural Political Economy conceptualisations and it is particularly interested in ‘the cultural’ in relation to ‘the political’ and ‘the economic’. More...

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27 avril 2016

How universities can teach their students to respect different cultures

By Orla Quinlan and Darla K. Deardorff. Universities are diverse spaces. Their students are of different races and religions, belong to different socioeconomic groups and are even geographically different: some come from cities, others from rural areas and still more from completely different countries. With such exposure to difference, students have the unique opportunity to learn from others. More...

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4 avril 2016

Mediating knowledge through peer-to-peer interaction in a multicultural online learning environment

The continuous growth of online learning and its movement towards cross-border and cross-culture education has recently taken a new turn with the epic hype that currently surrounds the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) (Beattie-Moss, 2013). This development brings to focus the experiences of international students who take online courses designed and offered within the paradigm of Western pedagogy. More...

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11 mars 2016

Literacy at a distance in multilingual contexts: Issues and challenges

Literacy is perhaps the most fundamental skill required for effective participation in education (formal and non-formal) for national development. At the same time, the choice of language for literacy is a complex issue in multilingual societies like Nigeria. More...

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1 mars 2016

Cross-Cultural Delivery of e-Learning Programmes: Perspectives from Hong Kong

The growing popularity of e-learning may pose one of the greatest challenges currently facing traditional educational institutions. The questions often asked are how, rather than whether, to embrace this new form of instructional delivery and how to create an appropriate learning environment for the learners. Educational institutions in Hong Kong have the option of adopting programmes or learning materials developed in other parts of the world for local learners, or not. More...

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13 février 2016

Bridging the Gap Between Administrators and Faculty With an Intercultural Perspective

By Catherine Koverola - EvoLLLution. At any gathering of higher education administrators, the conversation inevitably turns to the topic of faculty. You hear comments on faculty’s lack of appreciation of institutional financial pressures (“Can’t you just increase class size?”), or the need to be nimble (“Two years of planning doesn’t constitute nimble!”), how online teaching really can be effective, how not being in compliance with federal regulations really does have consequences—faculty please select your textbooks on time—on and on goes the list. More...

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