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PDW - Teaching across cultures

  • 1.  PDW - Teaching across cultures

    Posted 07-21-2003 13:52
    Dear colleagues and friends,

    If you love to get up early in the morning, we invite you to join us in our PDW:
    Teaching across cultures. See the information below.

    Sincerely,

    Andi and Teresa

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    Understanding cross-cultural differences using Business Games: A European/US
    perspective. Teaching across cultures
    Presenter: Teresa Torres-Coronas; U. Rovira I Virgili; Spain
    Presenter: Andrea A Licari; St Johns U.;


    Program Session #: 54
    Sponsor(s): (MED, IM)
    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 2 2003 7:00AM - 8:30AM at Sheraton Seattle Hotel &
    Towers in Room 426


    As professors we need to teach our students to break down wrong assumptions
    about other cultures and to be more open-minded. This PDW will focus on
    assumptions about cross-cultural differences. Using film and business games as
    teaching resources our purpose is to show how Americans could be wrong when
    looking at European/Spanish culture and vice versa. The best way to do that is
    using funny tools as film scenes and games. This PDW would like to be a forum of
    assumptions interchange. What do American people think about Europeans? And how
    European people think American people are alike? We still have too much to know
    about each other. Our mutual understanding is crucial when dealing with
    international business management.