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There are many reasons why we incorporate GLE components in a variety of courses across multiple disciplines.
A GLE is an intercultural experience; a unique opportunity to learn about different cultures. It’s important to know that the idea of culture is quite complicated, and there is not just one culture in the partner country, just as there are many cultures in your home country and your home city. However, there are some new cultural practices or norms that you may discover by working with instructors and students at a new institution in a different part of the world. Learning these differences can be fun, exciting, and sometimes challenging.
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There are many advantages to participating in a GLE. As a student, you get to meet students from all over the world and learn how they live, study, and view the world. Practically, you can also build essential life, relationship, and job skills, such as empathy, intercultural competencies, communication skills, and cross-cultural awareness. You can become more adaptable and adept at addressing challenges like time and task-deadline management, global team management, and time zone differences in a highly interconnected world.
More importantly, through your GLE you can learn how to be a global citizen. You can build that “sense of belonging” with students all over the world and feel a “collective responsibility” for humanity across the globe.
Definition: Global Citizenship
Definition: Global Citizenship
According to UNESCO (2017), global citizenship doesn’t have one definition, but,
“It refers more to a sense of belonging to the global community and a common sense of humanity, with its presumed members experiencing solidarity and collective identity among themselves and collective responsibility at the global level. Global citizenship can be seen as an ethos or a metaphor rather than a formal membership. Being a framework for collective action, global citizenship can, and is expected to, generate actions and engagement among, and for, its members through civic actions to promote a better world and future.”
Through your GLE you can learn how to be a global citizen. You can build that “sense of belonging” with students all over the world and feel a “collective responsibility” for humanity across the globe.
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