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Engaging Dissonance: Developing Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education
Amy Lee
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Description for Engaging Dissonance: Developing Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education
Hardback. This volume explores the internationalization of higher education in the context of global citizenry and intercultural competencies. It focuses on presenting dissonance as a means to facilitating students' openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills or their experiences in the classroom. Editor(s): Lee, Amy; Williams, Rhiannon D. Series: Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This volume explores the internationalization of higher education in the context of global citizenry and intercultural competencies. It focuses on presenting dissonance as a means to facilitating students' openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills or their experiences in the classroom. This volume provides educators with a conceptual and practical resource that focuses on the critical role of cognitive complexity/dissonance in the education of global citizens and the enactment of intercultural pedagogy. Addressing the tensions and complexities of varying viewpoints and experiences with equity and intercultural work will challenge readers to think critically about the implications of individual practice ... Read more
This volume explores the internationalization of higher education in the context of global citizenry and intercultural competencies. It focuses on presenting dissonance as a means to facilitating students' openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills or their experiences in the classroom. This volume provides educators with a conceptual and practical resource that focuses on the critical role of cognitive complexity/dissonance in the education of global citizens and the enactment of intercultural pedagogy. Addressing the tensions and complexities of varying viewpoints and experiences with equity and intercultural work will challenge readers to think critically about the implications of individual practice ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787141551
SKU
V9781787141551
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About Amy Lee
Amy Lee is Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her Ph.D. is in English/Composition Studies. Her scholarship focuses on teacher-education for faculty in higher education so as to support equity, diversity, and inclusive excellence in college classrooms and her publications include four authored and two edited books. She has taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses, including first year ... Read more
Reviews for Engaging Dissonance: Developing Mindful Global Citizenship in Higher Education
Practitioners and researchers in higher education explore the tensions and complexities of intercultural work in higher education, and challenge colleagues to think critically about the implications of individual practice as well as disciplinary and institutional structures and supports for cultivating sense of global citizenship in their students. They cover toward a conceptual framework to support global citizenship, enacting global citizenship ... Read more