Documentary television series Clarkson's Farm has been lauded for its positive, entertaining depiction of British agriculture. Airing in 240 countries and territories, the program follows British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson in his attempts to manage his operation with the help of more experienced farmhands. Researchers at The Ohio State…

Positive academic climates are critical to helping students thrive, and kindness innovations might enhance these climates. This conceptual paper's purpose is to share insights from a consensus building event focused on fostering relationships and knowledge-sharing among an international group of multidisciplinary students, faculty, and staff who…

Substantial variability exists with regard to autism service provision around the world. Service disparities observed in many low- and middle-income countries may be driven, in part, by limited autism knowledge; however, measurement limitations have made it difficult to quantify autism knowledge across countries. The current study uses the autism…

This conceptual paper presents a decolonial critique of Eurocentric epistemic hegemony in South Africa and its impact on the curriculum. We argue that the propagation of knowledge from the Global North as 'universal' through conceptually vague framings of curriculum internationalization is contributing to the maintenance of Eurocentric hegemony.…

The characteristics of global competence among South Korean college students at a single large national university using performance-based assessments to evaluate key dimensions: global perspective and intercultural sensitivity. The study identified five distinct student profiles, illustrating a spectrum from limited to advanced levels. The…

Global service-learning fosters intercultural competence development. This study was grounded in the intergroup contact theory, which explains the causes of bias against one another and how intergroup contact helps negate those perceptions. We employed a comparative census between alumni of Iowa State University (ISU) and Makerere University (MAK)…

Qatar's transition from a hydrocarbon-based to a knowledge-based economy spurred the development of Education City, which houses several International Branch Campuses and one home-grown university, Hamad bin Khalifa University. Through the case study of EC, this paper seeks to improve our understanding of higher education policy borrowing and the…

This research aimed to 1) study the context of Thainess within cross-cultural families in the global society; 2) develop a Thai society and culture learning process to enhance global literacy of cross-cultural families students in the global society; and 3) evaluate the Thai society and culture learning innovation to enhance global literacy of…

To function in global business, managers require global business knowledge and skills to deal with cultural differences. Business schools must develop the global business literacy of their students, but it is not clear what factors determine the dimensions of global business literacy and what role country differences play. This study compares the…

This article critically evaluates the effects of the ACU Virtual Mobility (VM) Project Digital Information Security Course (DISC) programme on improving students' awareness of cyber security skills, pre and post the educational intervention. Our selected VM tool is Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Building on a conceptual…

The purpose of this study is to describe differences in global perspective taking between MBA alums who graduated with a dual degree from both a Colombian university and a U.S. university and those who did not participate in the program. The Global Perspective Inventory (GPI) is a survey tool that evaluates global competencies across three domains…

The central argument of this article is that post-colonial states operate--and have always operated, due to their roots in colonialism and capitalism--according to an "ethos of privatization," through which state agents derive private benefit from positions ostensibly responsible for providing public services. The article offers a…

Citizenship education has been transcending from traditional national boundaries to Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as an innovative educational response to ever-intensifying globalization. However, GCE remains an under-researched area in the field of English language teaching (ELT), and few efforts in China have been made to explore how…

Background: In an era of precipitous insect declines, effective entomology education is especially needed to support firsthand knowledge of nature. Understanding what students know and feel about insects is instrumental to teaching and curriculum development. This study describes the development and validation of a new survey instrument, EntoEdu,…

This study explores Taiwanese college students' awareness and action on UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched in 2015. These goals define key dimensions wherein youth's recognition, appreciation, and implementations ignite global citizenship, therefore enhancing both employability and mobility. The SDGs have set a strong presence in…