Abstract
Making students revisit their worldviews through an encounter with discomforting ideas is a valuable teaching and learning device. We administered an exercise in our “Democracies, Diplomatic Relations, and Global Business” upper division course that documents the reactions of our students to different worldviews. We found that students were more accepting of the provocative propositions in the post-instruction exercise given at the end of the course than in the pre-instruction exercise administered at the beginning of the course. We conclude that exposure to different worldviews, a fundamental activity of international studies courses, expands students' perceptual horizons and their cognitive and affective awareness.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 65-81 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Teaching in International Business |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2002 |
Keywords
- Attitudinal exercises
- Change of worldviews
- Critical pedagogy
- International business
- International studies
- Teaching of global business
EGS Disciplines
- Political Science