| A cross-cultural teacher training program for Singaporean Muslim students.
| Bowering, M.
Lock, G. | 2007 |
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Title: A cross-cultural teacher training program for Singaporean Muslim students.
Author(s): Bowering, M. | Lock, G. |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Teacher Education v.32 n.3
Published: August 2007
ISSN: 1835-517X | 0313-5373
Abstract: Drawing upon evaluations of a teacher-training program for Muslim participants presented by Edith Cowan University staff in Singapore, this case study provides readers with insights into program design and management. It reports on lecturer and student attitudes as revealed in evaluations of the Singapore short course. In drawing the conclusion that attention must be given to cultural matters such as religious values and obligations and issues of language and assessment, the article asks the reader to rethink the universality of prevailing notions about internationalisation, particularly those relating to the necessary redesign of the curriculum. It ends with the suggestion that the by-product in terms of new knowledge and mutual understanding of such cross-cultural experiences for both teachers and learners may provide a valuable outcome of the internationalised curriculum. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1380&context=ajte
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=163856
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| An examination of two case studies used in building a decision-making model.
| Hyde, Mervyn
Lindgren-Gatfield, R. | 2005 |
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Title: An examination of two case studies used in building a decision-making model.
Author(s): Hyde, Mervyn | Lindgren-Gatfield, R. |
Journal Details: International Education Journal v.6 n.5 p.555-566
Published: December 2005
ISSN: 1443-1475
Abstract: Higher education in Australia contributed almost $3 billion to the Australian economy in 2000 and education has become an essential source of export profits. Australia now provides university places for over six per cent of the global student population. However, there is little empirical research undertaken in that domain. The research underpinning this paper addresses this problem by focusing on students from Singapore, which represent an overseas student client group of Asia. It sets out to explore personal, environmental and behavioural factors that influence educational decisions of students from Singapore, and to build a model that represents the complex interaction of factors and processes involved. While a built model is the major objective, the focus of this paper is on one component, the two interpretive, in-depth case studies. These present an interpretive phenomenological perspective that represents the complexity of individual experiences and supplements the quantitative research and building of a descriptive decision-making model. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/iej/articles/v6n5/Gatfield/paper.pdf
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