Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education
One strategy to work with international goals in the classroom at universities has been intercultural group work (IGW), combining students from different cultural backgrounds, on-campus or virtually, to develop their intercultural skills and understanding. Since much of the existing IGW research ha...
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2025-05-01
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| author | Becky Bergman Jan Van Maele Helen Spencer-Oatey Raffaella Negretti |
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One strategy to work with international goals in the classroom at universities has been intercultural group work (IGW), combining students from different cultural backgrounds, on-campus or virtually, to develop their intercultural skills and understanding. Since much of the existing IGW research has had a student perspective, this scoping review investigates the existing empirical literature on the teacher perspective. While the review reveals little research exists at present, a thematic analysis of the articles revealed a focus on virtual group work and individual course initiatives around aspects such as facets of constructive alignment, facilitating student interaction, designing the group work, and negotiating institutional settings. The themes were compared to an integration model, showing that the existing research provides some insights into the classroom level in terms of teacher facilitation of IGW, particularly virtually, but more research is needed into on-campus IGW and how individual course initiatives might address program and institutional goals.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4473fab5864644eaaa40de24c08245ba2025-08-20T01:49:15ZengOsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNordic Journal of Comparative and International Education2535-40512025-05-019210.7577/njcie.6015Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher educationBecky Bergman0Jan Van Maele1Helen Spencer-Oatey2Raffaella Negretti3Chalmers University of TechnologyKU LeuvenUniversity of WarwickChalmers University of Technology One strategy to work with international goals in the classroom at universities has been intercultural group work (IGW), combining students from different cultural backgrounds, on-campus or virtually, to develop their intercultural skills and understanding. Since much of the existing IGW research has had a student perspective, this scoping review investigates the existing empirical literature on the teacher perspective. While the review reveals little research exists at present, a thematic analysis of the articles revealed a focus on virtual group work and individual course initiatives around aspects such as facets of constructive alignment, facilitating student interaction, designing the group work, and negotiating institutional settings. The themes were compared to an integration model, showing that the existing research provides some insights into the classroom level in terms of teacher facilitation of IGW, particularly virtually, but more research is needed into on-campus IGW and how individual course initiatives might address program and institutional goals. https://humanrer.org/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/6015Intercultural group work,internationalisationteacher experienceintegration model |
| spellingShingle | Becky Bergman Jan Van Maele Helen Spencer-Oatey Raffaella Negretti Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education Intercultural group work, internationalisation teacher experience integration model |
| title | Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education |
| title_full | Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education |
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| title_short | Teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education |
| title_sort | teacher experience of intercultural group work in higher education |
| topic | Intercultural group work, internationalisation teacher experience integration model |
| url | https://humanrer.org/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/6015 |
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