The learning process in intercultural collaboration: evidence from the eChina-UK Programme

The learning process in intercultural collaboration: evidence from the eChina-UK Programme
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跨文化合作的学习过程：eChina-UK 项目的证据

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2009
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S. Reid
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eChina-UK项目成立于2002年，最初由一个小型的 英国和中国团队合作开发的项目数量 在教育领域试行电子学习材料。方案第一阶段 2003年至2005年期间，并产生了一些实际产出（斯宾塞- Oatey 2007）。10月开始的第二阶段为三个后续项目提供了资金 2005年，这些研究包括反映教育学问题的研究以及 编写进一步的教学材料。这些项目一直持续到2007年， 同年12月，该计划的第三阶段开始实施， 从所有已完成项目的经验中。第三阶段的目标是 从eChina-UK项目的第一和第二阶段中汲取经验， 管理国际教育项目的跨文化方面。 除了从eChina-UK项目中学习之外，第三阶段的工作 包括对第一阶段和第二阶段产生的数据以及其他来源的新研究 与跨文化有效性相关的知识。重点是将学习置于 从eChina-UK项目到更广泛的知识背景。其用意是 最大限度地了解国际教育的跨文化管理 项目，并使资源的生产，为那些从事目前和未来 这类项目（Reid et al. 2009）。 本文介绍了在第三阶段进行的一系列研究的结果， eChina-UK项目。这一部分的目的是利用eChina的数据- 英国和相关研究，以产生理论和实践的见解的性质 跨文化合作是一个学习的过程。学习的重点主要是 由实现情况决定（来自eChina-UK数据分析和其他研究 文化间合作），建立文化间能力需要大量的 注重个人和团体的学习。任何实用的建议和资源 因此，在该计划的第三阶段开发的项目需要注意如何 参加者在国际伙伴关系期间管理他们的学习。同样我们 也许能够有效地展示那些计划这种合作的人如何能够 从工作一开始就将良好的学习做法纳入工作中，从中受益。 本文的目的是总结和分析实证研究的结果， 在第三阶段研究中进行的工作。我已经在其他地方阐述了 本研究的理论背景，特别是学习的发展 使用的过程模型（Reid 2009 a）。该模型将构成部分材料 研究人员、管理人员和其他从业人员可通过全球人 eChina-UK第三阶段开发的资源库（www.globalpeople.org.uk） Programme.如果没有持续的支持， 我们的同事在各种eChina-UK项目中的合作以及我们的资金 英格兰高等教育基金理事会。
The eChina-UK Programme was established in 2002 and originally comprised a small number of projects in which British and Chinese teams worked collaboratively to develop and pilot e-learning materials in the field of education. Phase 1 of the Programme spanned the period 2003 to 2005 and produced a number of practical outputs (Spencer- Oatey 2007). Three follow-on projects were funded in Phase 2, which started in October 2005, and these included research reflecting on issues of pedagogy as well as the creation of further teaching and learning materials. These projects ran until 2007 and, in December of that year, Phase 3 of the Programme was put in place to capture insights from the experiences of all of the completed projects. The goal of Phase 3, therefore, was to draw out the learning from Phases 1 and 2 of the eChina-UK Programme with respect to the management of intercultural aspects of international education projects. In addition to the learning to be gained from the eChina-UK projects, the Phase 3 work included new research both into data generated in Phases 1 and 2 and into other sources of knowledge relating to intercultural effectiveness. The focus was on situating the learning from the eChina-UK projects into a wider intellectual context. The intention was to maximise the understanding of the intercultural management of international education projects and enable the production of resources for those engaged in current and future projects of this kind (Reid et al. 2009). This paper presents findings from one strand of the research carried out during Phase 3 of the eChina-UK Programme. The objective of this strand was to draw on data from eChina- UK and related studies in order to produce theoretical and practical insights into the nature of intercultural collaboration as a learning process. The focus on learning was primarily determined by the realisation (from analysis of the eChina-UK data and other studies of intercultural collaboration) that building intercultural competencies required significant attention to individual and group learning. Any practical recommendations and resources developed in Phase 3 of the programme would therefore need to pay attention to how participants managed their learning during an international partnership. Similarly, we might usefully be able to demonstrate how those planning such collaborations could benefit from embedding good learning practices from the outset of their work. The purpose of this paper is to summarise and analyse the findings from the empirical work carried out within this strand of Phase 3 research. I have set out elsewhere the theoretical background to this research and specifically to the development of the learning process model utilised here (Reid 2009a). That model will constitute part of the material available to researchers, managers and other practitioners through the Global People Resource Bank (www.globalpeople.org.uk) developed in Phase 3 of the eChina-UK Programme. None of this work would have been possible without the sustained support and co-operation of our colleagues in the various eChina-UK projects and at our funding body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England.