{"id":141,"date":"2009-12-15T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-12-15T21:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:02:51","slug":"write-up-talking-about-teaching-teaching-as-a-global-scholar-at-unsw-4th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/blog\/2009\/12\/write-up-talking-about-teaching-teaching-as-a-global-scholar-at-unsw-4th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Write-up: Talking about Teaching: Teaching as a Global Scholar at UNSW, 4th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teaching as a Global Scholar at UNSW: Adaptations and Insights Gained<br \/>\n<em>Facilitated by Colina Mason and Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the session was to explore the extent to which an academic\u2019s educational and cultural background impacts on three domains of learning and teaching: classroom practice; discipline knowledge and teacher-student relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The session started with Colina and Felicity identifying the benefits of sharing experiences, including: improving campus cross-cultural communications and helping academics to work effectively inter-culturally.\u00a0 They outlined some of the scant academic literature in the area.\u00a0 \u2018Global scholar\u2019 was defined as someone who adapts their knowledge from one cultural setting to another.<\/p>\n<p>Following this was a facilitated discussion where a number of issues were raised, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can be positive for students to learn about a lecturer\u2019s global experiences; this can enculture them as global citizens and encourage them to explore inter-cultural opportunities in their own lives.<\/li>\n<li>Importance of contextualising curriculum and providing international examples for the students to see relevance.<\/li>\n<li>Try and learn a few words of greeting in the languages of your students as this will go a long way in building relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow this link for resources and references linked to teaching International students: <a href=\"http:\/\/learningandteaching.unsw.edu.au\/content\/LT\/diversity\/welcome.cfm?ss=2\">http:\/\/learningandteaching.unsw.edu.au\/content\/LT\/diversity\/welcome.cfm?ss=2<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow this link for resources and references linked to \u2018Cultural Diversity\u2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/learningandteaching.unsw.edu.au\/content\/LT\/diversity\/welcome.cfm?ss=2\">http:\/\/learningandteaching.unsw.edu.au\/content\/LT\/diversity\/welcome.cfm?ss=2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please contact Felicity (ext 51645) or Colina (ext 56977) if you would like to discuss the topic further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching as a Global Scholar at UNSW: Adaptations and Insights Gained Facilitated by Colina Mason and Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei The purpose of the session was to explore the extent to which an academic\u2019s educational and cultural background impacts on three domains of learning and teaching: classroom practice; discipline knowledge and teacher-student relationships. The session started with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talking-about-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}