International Educational Trends in Cross-Cultural Training

Cross - Cultural Training a Review

ROGRAMS designed for preparing people for living in another culture are usually referred to as “Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Orientation Programs.” It seems that the early practitioners and researchers viewed preparing people for international assignment as a process in which one needed to be oriented to the differences in social interactions between the two cultures. It is no surprise that ...

Cross-Cultural Training in Business Chinese

Cross-cultural Communication and International Development Ethics

Is cross-cultural communication and criticism possible? This question is important question, since, if such cross-cultural practice is not possible, then development ethics, which applies ethical reflection to the ends and means of development, could only be used by citizens of a given country to think critically about their own country’s development goals and strategies. By contrast, if cross-...

Developing Believable Interactive Cultural Characters for Cross-Cultural Training

One path to training for cross-cultural competency is through immersion in a target culture, but real immersion can be expensive. Virtual immersion may be a viable alternative, but only if the experience is realistic and compelling enough. The characters in the virtual environment must embody the behaviors of the people in that culture in a way that is realistic and believable to facilitate tra...

Cross-Cultural Training: Bridging Japan and Sweden