Teaching intercultural communication competencies as an international student cooperation project: an innovative teaching approach

Abstract: This paper analyzes an innovative approach to train students in Germany and the francophone part of Switzerland in intercultural communication competencies. The teaching material has been created during a cooperation project between a university in Germany and one in Switzerland. It deals with three different aspects: First, the learning and teaching approach, which is based on team learning experience described initially by Kolb (1984), the analysis of different intercultural subjects and upcoming critical incidents1 in teams (Schumann 2012). In a second part, it treats the developed teaching and learning material including the guidelines to indicate tasks and exercises to the students, as well as the realization of the project by the students of both institutions. And third, the paper concludes with an evaluation analyzing in detail the students’ opinion about the cooperation, what they liked or disliked, and which communication and working tools they applied. The evaluation resu

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Die Vermittlung interkultureller Kompetenzen im Rahmen internationaler studentischer Zusammenarbeit: ein innovatives Unterrichtsmodell
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien ; 14 (2015) 25 ; 29-48

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2015
• Urheber: Frisch, Julia ; Kristahn, Gerlinde

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47117-3
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:29 MESZ