Helping Modern Learners Become Intercultural Learners

by Pilar Teran & Gabriela Weglowska Introduction The fields of intercultural communication studies and intercultural education are not new, but have grown in recent decades in response to new challenges as the world has become more globalised: advances in new...

Only foreign students and staff need cultural awareness training?

The world we live and work in today has changed and diversity has become a distinguishing feature all around us, in countries, regions, cities, companies, families and in universities and classrooms. Learning to live together ‘as equals and in dignity’ (White Paper on...

Learning, Training and the Modern Learner

The role of technology in learning We are all aware that the world seems to be changing very fast, but few people anticipated quite how quickly this change would occur. Industry after industry is being digitally transformed. And there are very clear winners and losers...

How about integrating nationals towards migrants?

Written by Dr Katharina Lefringhausen  (Introduction to the research paper “Acculturation and Discrimination: A Parallel Mediation Model via Intergroup Contact and Threats” by Dr Katharina Lefringhausen, to be presented at the Mini SIETAR congress: Building Dialogues...

It’s Not About Culture, It’s About Diversity & Inclusion

Culture and its various concepts and components have long been the raison d’être of SIETAR. But we need to enlarge the concept of culture to comprise more paradigms when it is about changing your own environment and adapting to a new one, for example, students...