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Internationalization: What are the Intercultural and Global Learning Outcomes for Students?
Join us for this exceptional opportunity to explore important emerging research and workshop ideas that can further support and advance internationalization for your own practice and institution
In this session Dr. Kyra Garson will present the results of her study "Are We Graduating Global Citizens? A Mixed Methods Study Investigating Students' Intercultural Development and Perceptions of Intercultural and Global Learning in Academic Settings, which was awarded the Dissertation of the Year 2014 by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.
Kyra began the study in order to understand if the rhetoric of International Education, which often claims to support intercultural and global learning as an outcome of increased international enrolment, was in fact an outcome of such endeavours. The study was conducted at regional universities in British Columbia that have increased both the volume and diversity of international students in recent years. Kyra will share both the quantitative and qualitative data and analysis with a focus on the main findings of interest to International Educators.
Participants will then be invited to consider the study's results in relation to their own programs and practices. Participants will work with provincial colleagues to revise approaches that may inadvertently be creating more divisive and biased attitudes among students and to devise approaches that will meet the goals of comprehensive internationalization to promote intercultural and global competencies.
Takeaways:
- Explore emerging and applied research in International Education emanating from student and administrative experience in BC schools and institutions.
- Workshop relevant and trending strategies to support and advance internationalization within your practice and institution.
- Collaborate with colleagues within a dynamic, critical and inspirational professional development setting.
Dr. Kyra Garson is the Intercultural Coordinator for the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation at Thompson Rivers University. She works to enhance intercultural competencies for students, staff, and faculty. She was the primary author of TRU: A Globally Minded Campus: A Resource for Academic Units which has guided internationalization on her campus. Her research interests include intercultural and global learning outcomes of undergraduate students as impacted by internationalization and Interculturalizing curriculum through faculty development. Her research on this topic was awarded Dissertation of the Year, 2014 by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. In 2011 she was awarded the Canadian Bureau for International Education’s Internationalization award. Kyra is also an instructor for Queen’s University’s International Educators Training Program (IETP) and has developed and delivered intercultural and internationalization workshops for institutions across Canada.
This is a paid BCCIE event open to all educators outside of BC as well as BC public school districts, recognized independent K-12 schools and EQA-designated post-secondary institutions and language schools.
To attend this event, please register online before Monday, December 8.
For more information, please contact BCCIE at events@bccie.bc.ca.