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Development Of Intercultural Competence And Cultural Empathy In High School Students Participating In A Short-Term Study Abroad Exchange, Jeffrey Mapes
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
A major effect of globalization is the decreasing importance of national borders in favor of international economic cooperation. However, many of the issues of the imperialist era of the 16th to the 20th centuries still linger including poverty and marginalized populations of people. A space in schools exists for programs that have an ability to engage students in critical thought through cultural empathy and also prepare students for the modern, interconnected world. When education policymakers attend too much to standardized testing, school curricula do not tend to have options for such critical and empathic education. Through opportunities such …