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Intensity

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• short-answer questions. Ask your students to give concise answers to open questions on international contents to assess their knowledge and understanding;

• make sure that students pay specific attention to the international contexts/regional differences in written assignments or presentations.

Assessment

Embedding international contexts in your classes or your learning materials is a low-threshold approach to confront your students with different points of view, insights, and concepts.

Practical Examples

• contextualise how the perspective of, the approach to, and the application of your discipline can differ according to the cultural and geographical contexts;

• incorporate case studies and literature on global phenomena, challenges, and issues;

• invite students to explore non-Western/non-Anglo-Saxon literature and theories/models/data;

• compare different international practical examples and point out the contextual differences clearly;

• explore how 'wicked problems' arise globally and locally, what solutions would work where (or not)...;

• refer students to your own international/intercultural professional or research experience, and their concomitant challenges.

Internationalisation@Home

What?

International Contexts in the Teaching Practice

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International Context in the Teaching Practice

In the Global Health Governance and Leadership course unit, the students acquire insights into the different concepts on the macro level which influence global health, including, among other things, legal and other normative (inter)national frameworks. In addition, international global health stakeholders are discussed (international organisations, networks, foundations), as well as the most significant evolutions in policies on global health.

International Contexts in the Teaching Practice

The ‘Social and Economic Geography’ course unit incluses a mandatory reading assignment for students. They have to read and discuss a number of international scientific publications. The students are asked to compare data from different countries, and to discuss this comparison in a paper on the Human Development Index.

International Contexts in the Teaching Practice

The ‘Social Dialogue’ course unit compares the Belgian system of social dialogue with that of other countries. The students gain insights in the different traditions of social dialogue in multinationals at a global as well as at a European level.