Interdependent intercultural task as a tool for developing intercultural awareness through Collaborative Online International Learning in Global Leadership
This paper discusses a teaching approach that can be used in Collaborative Online International Learning - Interdependent Intercultural Tasks (IIT). IIT are characterized by the following features: (1) they include culture-specific information that creates cognitive dissonance and motivates students...
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2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | This paper discusses a teaching approach that can be used in Collaborative Online International Learning - Interdependent Intercultural Tasks (IIT). IIT are characterized by the following features: (1) they include culture-specific information that creates cognitive dissonance and motivates students to analyze information about another culture; (2) they provide instructions aimed at learning subjective information about individuals from another culture; and (3) they can only be performed through interaction between students from different countries. We expect two learning outcomes of implementing IIT in a Global Leadership course; an increase in (1) intercultural interaction when working on a collaborative project; and (2) awareness of general cultural differences and those related to a specific global problem. Preliminary findings suggest that employing IIT (i.e. having students discuss native and non-native country media articles describing culture-specific perspectives on a global problem) increases the frequency of student interactions outside the classroom and improves coordination between teammates. |
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| Item Description: | 2647-4832 10.21827/jve.3.35803 |