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Role of blended cultures in enhancing teacher and learner performance outcomes
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posted on 2009-01-01, 00:00 authored by Siewmee BartonSiewmee Barton, Jason SargentThis paper explores the enhancement of teaching and learning perfonnance outcomes from the perspective of educators from different cultural backgrounds and a very large mix of international students. The research milieu focuses on social connectivity, peer-ta-peer networking and peer-ta-peer meDtaring amongst teachers, tutors and students; particularly aspects of trust and cultural awareness between teacher and learner. The key findings of this research are that the social capital dimensions of trust and reciprocity, and the notion of academic guanxi can assist academics and institutions to better understand ways in which to optimize teaching and learning. The result is a pool of educators who have become change-agents by inspiring a network of their peers in using components of a collective cultural toolkit as a culture reference point.
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World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (2009 : Honolulu, Hawaii)Pagination
323 - 330Publisher
AACELocation
Honolulu, HawaiiPlace of publication
Chesapeake, Va.Start date
2009-06-22End date
2009-06-26ISBN-13
9781880094730ISBN-10
1880094738Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2009, AACETitle of proceedings
ED-MEDIA 2009 : Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2009Usage metrics
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