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Education, Global Competence

References

I. Some students learn, some don’t: Churchill, R. (1958). The Student Abroad. The Antioch Review. Vol 18, #4, pp.447-454. Kinginger,…

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Education, Global Competence

Study abroad must be supported by mentoring, another study confirms

A new study from Purdue University confirms that university students who received group mentoring through the AFS Global Competence Certificate…

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Intercultural Education from the Inside Out

Podcast with Dr. Michael “Mick” Vande Berg. Mick has been a long-time friend and advocate of AFS Intercultural, Inc. Last week Linda…

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Global Competence

Purdue University Shares Intercultural Learning Gains for Short-term Programs

Over the past year, Purdue has conducted a study on intercultural learning gains on students doing short-term study abroad. In…

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Global Competence

Intercultural Competence is Today’s New Language Education

In February 2019, AFS/Sentio delivered an interactive workshop at Languages Canada’s 12th Annual Conference – “On Common Ground: A shared…

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How is your HEI going about global competence development?

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it’s faced.” James Baldwin     Most…

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