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Crossing Global Boundaries: Beyond Intercultural Communication

TyAnna K. HerringtonView all authors and affiliations
Volume 24, Issue 4
https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651910371303

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This article analyzes the benefits of experiential learning in cross-disciplinary global learning environments by recounting work in the Global Classroom Project, which electronically links students and professors from Russia and America. The author asserts that students learn by experience what cannot be taught and claims that they benefit from synthesizing the viewpoints, ideologies, and frames of reference of diverse co-participants. In doing so, students prepare for a future in which synthetic thinking that leads to innovative, imaginative problem solving and invention will be desirable and necessary.

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Volume 24, Issue 4
Pages: 516 - 539
Article first published online: August 23, 2010
Issue published: October 2010

Keywords

  1. international
  2. partnership
  3. cross-cultural
  4. experiential learning
  5. global interaction
  6. international communication

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Published online: August 23, 2010
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TyAnna K. Herrington
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, [email protected]
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