Challenge 1:
- Globalization: Name for the process of increasing the connectivity and interdependence of the world's market and businesses. This process has speeded up dramatically in the last two decades as technological advances make it easier for people to travel, communicate, and do business internationally.
- Biggest challenges: Something that by its nature or character serves as a call to battle, contest, special effort, etc.: Space exploration offers a challenge to humankind.
Challenge 2:
- Globalisation & Internationalization: Internationalization is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. The internationalization process is sometimes called translation or localization enablement.
- Cultural diversity: Multiplicity of sub-cultures and different value systems in a plural or multicultural society.
- Competences:
- The state or quality of being adequately or well qualified; ability.
- A specific range of skill, knowledge, or ability.
- Attitude: Is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for something. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event, this is often referred to as the attitude object. Attitudes are judgments. The cognitive response is a cognitive evaluation of the entity that constitutes an individual's beliefs about the object. Most attitudes are the result of either direct experience or observational learning from the environment.
- Global citizens: Applies the whole world to bring world peace and the concept of citizenship to a global level and is strongly connected with the concepts of globalization and cosmopolitanism.
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Challenge 3:
- Assimilation and accommodation learning strategies:
- Assimilation is a term referring to another part of the adaptation process initially proposed by Piaget. Through assimilation, we take in new information or experiences and incorporate them into our existing ideas. The process is somewhat subjective, because we tend to modify experience or information somewhat to fit in with our preexisting beliefs.
- Initially proposed by Jean Piaget, the term accommodation refers to part of the adaptation process. The process of accommodation involves altering one's existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences.
- Culture shock: Is the difficulty people have adjusting to a new culture that differs markedly from their own.
- Stereotypes and prejudices:
- A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions.
- A prejudice is an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
Challenge 4:
- Culture: the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture; the drug culture. A particular form or stage of civilization , as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture.
- Dilemma:
- A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirablealternatives.
- Any difficult or perplexing situation or problem.
- Dynamic: a basic or dynamic force, especially one that motivates, affects development or stability, etc.
- Values: the ideals, customs, institutions, etc., of a society toward which the people of the group have an affective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom , or education, or negative, as cruelty, crime, or blasphemy.
Challenge 5:
- Identity: Is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations (such as national identity and cultural identity).
- Hybridity: Refers in its most basic sense to mixture.
- Local: subjective emotions are conected with localism.
- National: nationalism is increase. National unification.
- Trans-national: cosmopolitanism. Cities predate the nation-state system. Open identities. Lifestyle.
- Cosmopolitanism: Is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. This is contrasted with communitarian and particularistic theories, especially the ideas of patriotism and nationalism. Cosmopolitanism may entail some sort of world government or it may simply refer to more inclusive moral, economic, and/or political relationships between nations or individuals of different nations.
- Diaspora: Is "the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland", or "a people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".
- Ethnicity:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
- Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries: ethnic Hungarians living in northern Serbia.
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Challenge 6:
- Development: the act or process of developing; growth; progress.
- Cooperation: an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- Third world:
- The underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
- The group of developing nations, especially of Asia and Africa,that do not align themselves with the policies of either the U.S. or the former Soviet Union.
- Intercultural: pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures.
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Challenge 7:
Challenge 7:
- Diversity: the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.
- Model: a pattern or mode of structure or formation. A simplified representation of a system or phenomenon, as in the sciences or economics, with any hypotheses required to describe the system or explain the phenomenon, often mathematically.
- Curriculum: the aggregate of courses of study given in a school, college,university, etc. A regular or a particular course of study in schoool,college, etc.
- Attitude: manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to aperson or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes.
- Learning environment: is a term used in connection with a range of quite specific areas of education, as well as to convey some broad ideas about learning.
