The Cross-Cultural Classroom

Abstract

For most international students, the academic program is the heart of the university experience. It is why they (or most of them) are in the foreign country, and it is often crucial in the evolution of their communications and vocational skills and their interpersonal confidence. For international students, academc success is vital. In higher education, students are coproducers of their own learning, or so conventional wisdom has it. But international student potentials are also shaped and limited by the cultural Other.