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Weltweite Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen stellen die Soziale Arbeit vor große Herausforderungen. So treffen diese Prozesse auf nach wie vor vorhandene gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse, in denen Menschen entlang von Kategorien wie der zugeschriebenen Herkunft, des Geschlechts und weiteren Dimensionen zu „Anderen“ gemacht werden. Wirkmächtige Narrative über den oder die „Andere“ entlang spezifischer machtvoller Kategorien gehören zum lebensweltlichen Alltag. Pädagogische Konzepte, die zu einem offeneren gesellschaftlichen Zusammenleben beitragen, gilt es in diesem Kontext umzusetzen und im Rahmen einer kritischen, subjektorientierten und angewandten Wirkungsforschung diskursiv weiterzuentwickeln. So kann empirische Forschung, die sich im Rahmen eines lebenswelt- und subjektorientierten Blickwinkels mit Fragen nach den Wirkungen entsprechender Konzepte befasst, Aufschluss darüber geben, an welchen Stellen und in welcher Weise es Sozialer Arbeit in den verschiedenen Lebenswelten ihrer Adressat•innen gelingt, zu Veränderungen beizutragen und wo andererseits Herausforderungen bzw. Ansatzpunkte für eine Weiterentwicklung der Profession und Disziplin liegen. Antworten auf diese Fragestellungen bietet der vorliegende Band. Vorgestellt wird ein internationales Praxisforschungsprojekt, bei welchem im Rahmen eines qualitativen Zugangs die Frage nach den Wirkungen des deutschjordanischen Jugendbegegnungsprojekts „Wie lebst denn Du? – Das Narrativ des Anderen kennenlernen“ gestellt wurde. Präsentiert werden das konkrete Vorgehen, die Jugendbegegnungen in Bayern, Sachsen und Amman, das Forschungsverständnis, die theoretischen Implikationen und Grundannahmen sowie abschließend die Ergebnisse und Perspektiven, die sich abzeichnen.

Developing Cross-Cultural Exchange Projects: A Step-by-Step Guide aims at providing readers with a systematic guide to cross-cultural encounters, either at home or abroad, in a globalizing era. It is a useful and a valuable guide for teachers, students, school heads and administrators, agencies of language proficiency tests, police makers, material developers, owners and managers of multicultural corporations, and other non-governmental organizations. Different groups of readers can find useful parts of information based on their needs and objectives. It is especially useful for professors in higher education and practitioners of cross-cultural exchange projects because the book is organized in a sequential manner to guide them step by step to reach their goal, starting from the initial design of the project and the research method and recruiting students to evaluation of the students and the entire project at the final stage of the project. For students who are planning to work on their higher degree in a foreign country, this book covers much useful information for them to make the best decision before they head for a foreign country. Cross-cultural exchanges in this book is defined broadly to cover anything involving people from different cultures, including student mobility, teacher mobility, cross-border collaborations or partnerships, working abroad, and distance education. One of the important features of this book is that it covers a considerable number of examples and empirical studies reported by practitioners of different types of cross-cultural exchange projects. Readers may learn from their experiences of success or failure so that they may feel easier and more comfortable to be prepared for their forthcoming cross-cultural experiences. Finally, in the last chapter, the author envisions the future of cross-cultural exchanges to remind readers that cross-cultural exchanges, like globalization, is dynamic and an on-going practice. The future of cross-cultural exchanges will surely change in accordance with the change of the global community. Practitioners of cross-cultural exchanges need to be aware of the subtle differences happening around the globe and to adjust their cross-cultural exchange projects accordingly to best fit the current situation.

The issue of academic environments involves both research and practice. It gathers theoretical and practical pieces of knowledge for a permanent analysis and evaluation of pedagogy, content, and accomplishments in the educational field. Moreover, educational practices no longer occur within the boundaries of a specific field; in a globalized world, those practices must overcome their traditional boundaries in order to expand to different disciplines and to different ways of understanding pedagogy. In our time, knowledge travels; ideas and experiences are shared in educational platforms worldwide while educators and students create novel ways to collectively participate in research projects that contribute to a greater understanding of the universe. The anthology Teaching to Discern: Forming Connections, Decolonizing Perspectives aims to provide a novel context for academic dialogue on globalized pedagogical practices. pecifically, it focuses on what it means to teach abroad, which means discussing methodologies, pedagogies and contents used by educators who have had the opportunity of teaching in a foreign country. This book is a dialogue that engages academic experiences in a theoretically expansive and encompassing methodological and content-driven framework around the topic of teaching abroad.

Christine Loy erarbeitet eine Typologie motivationaler Orientierungen von (männlichen) Bildungsmigranten. Diese erfasst auch die sozialen Hintergründe, welche die Bildungsmigration biografisch begründen. Motivation bleibt so nicht auf zukunftsgerichtete Ziele beschränkt, sondern es zeigt sich vielmehr, welch hohe Bedeutung Auseinandersetzungsprozesse mit der Familie und der Gesellschaft für die Migrationsmotivation haben. Für diese mit der Dokumentarischen Methode entwickelte Typologie wurden Studienbewerber und angehende Fachärzte, die ein Studium bzw. eine Facharztausbildung in Deutschland planten, in den Goethe-Instituten im Libanon und in Jordanien interviewt.

Teaching abroad is one promising pathway to educational diplomacy and positive international relations. As opportunities to teach internationally increase, educators need to develop skills and cultural understandings that will prepare them for the challenges they may face in diverse cultures. Cases on Global Competencies for Educational Diplomacy in International Settings is a pivotal academic resource that explores the development of cultural competency, knowledge, skills, and dispositions critical for teaching abroad. Featuring anecdotal vignettes that illustrate competency on topics, such as adaptability, educational diplomacy, and cultural fluency in educational ventures, this book is geared towards school administrators, university professors, curriculum developers, and researchers interested in teaching and leading abroad.

Academic mobility promotes the development of joint research activities, broadens the horizons of researchers, lecturers and professors, and promotes knowledge flows between institutions. This book offers a contemporary perspective on the mobility of academics across the globe with contributions by authors based in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. With a focus on the context for and experience of academic mobility in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Gulf and the United States, issues such as historical perspectives and contemporary reflections, the impact of English as the'lingua franca'of academe in South Africa, the motivations and experiences of international academics working in the United Arab Emirates, the integration of foreign-born faculty within Israeli academia, academic mobility within the US, and, the legal status of academic mobility, this volume is both comprehensive and relevant.

Bildung ist keine interne Angelegenheit einzelner Staaten oder Gesellschaften, sondern ereignet sich über nationale Grenzen hinweg: Fremde Bildungskonzepte und -inhalte werden ausgetauscht, angeeignet oder abgelehnt; Lehrer und Schüler gehen auf Reisen. Dieser Band präsentiert aktuelle, an Transfers und transnationalen Zusammenhängen interessierte Forschungen zu diesem Phänomen: Sieben Fallstudien beleuchten Verflechtungen im Schul- und Hochschulbildungssektor auf europäischer Ebene ebenso wie zwischen Europa und dem Nahen Osten, Nordamerika und Indien. Zwei programmatische Aufsätze führen in den Forschungsstand und in das Konzept der »Bildungsräume« ein.

With the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of students in U. S. schools, all teachers, regardless of the content area or grade they teach, need research-based strategies for assisting all students to gain English proficiency. This practical, concise guide shows teachers what they need to know about language, how it is learned, how it is used, and how teaching about it can be incorporated into lessons throughout the curriculum. Understanding Language in Diverse Classrooms offers a model of how learning takes place and describes the critical role of teachers in that model. It includes comparison charts showing how some of the most common heritage languages represented among present-day students compare with English, and it provides examples of hands-on materials including checklists, rating scales, and sample lessons to help teachers prepare to teach all their students in diverse classrooms. Each chapter ends with questions to stimulate discussion and reflection on major chapter points, to enable readers to review and evaluate the information and then integrate it into their own practice.

L'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère est également un moyen d'apprendre à connaître une autre culture. Enseignants des écoles et chercheurs en sciences analysent ici les différents contextes de rencontres interculturelles lors d'échanges scolaires franco-allemands. La présentation de situations paradigmatiques, lors de la confrontation avec la langue de l'autre, vise à développer les aspects tant théoriques que pratiques que ces expériences de la rencontre suscitent.

This essay-interview traces Annamaria Pagliaro’s contribution to cultural relationships, cultural and educational exchanges between Australia and Italy, particularly based on her work as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).

Academic mobility in higher education is an old phenomenon, but it has become a high profile issue as the numbers of students and staff engaged, and the number of countries involved, has increased hugely in the last few decades. For this reason and many others – political, cultural and educational – this book reports research on the many facets of the experience and people involved, both now and in the past. The emphasis in research has so far tended to focus on contemporary student mobility but this collection deliberately includes articles on mobile staff, because the question of mobility is a matter for universities and higher education in its entirety and not just a matter of bringing new students into existing and unchanging lectures, laboratories and seminars.Despite the fact that universities are and have been international institutions in their composition from the beginning, universities became in the 19th and 20th century de facto national institutions. This has changed and continues to change in the 21st century, for many reasons, but often financial, as universities seek to enhance their budgets in a globalised economy, and students seek to enhance their employment chances by acquiring qualifications with a difference. However, even if the starting point is financial, nonetheless the chapters in this book demonstrate that the effects of mobility are much more far-reaching.The effects are on host universities, on the university community of staff and students, on the ways in which staff and students understand the nature of university study, on the ways students may or may not integrate with a local community. By experiencing something different—for institutions, an influx of students with different ideas about academic study, for students an interaction with ‘locals'and with other ‘internationals', for staff a challenge to their assumptions about teaching and learning—all see themselves in a new light and are often forced to change. This book charts the changes which are happening now and will undoubtedly continue for the foreseeable future. It therefore offers all involved a reflection on their own experience and practice and the means of improving them.