“…(p. x) Due to the variety in terminology, providing a precise definition of global competence seems to challenge scholars and result in interchangeable terms (Schenker, 2019). Global competency is the most prevalent of them (Shams & George, 2006;Reimers, 2009;Li, 2013;Li & Xu, 2016;Meng et al, 2017;Baily & Holmarsdottir, 2019;Schenker, 2019;Liu et al, 2020) which is accompanied by other terms such as intercultural competency (Deardorff, 2006;Bektaş-Çetinkaya & Çelik, 2013;Cui, 2013;Polat & Barka, 2014;Lin & Kapur, 2021;van de Vijver & Leung, 2019), global awareness (Hanvey, 1982;Kirkwood, 2001;Oxfam, 2006;Merryfield, 2008;Kurt et al, 2013;Hongtao, 2013), global mindedness (Hett, 1993;Park et al, 2016), and global citizenship (Lima & Brown, 2007;Morais & Ogden, 2011;Oxfam, 2015;Başarır, 2017;Andrews & Aydin, 2020). Despite the variety in the terminology, as comprehensively defined by Liu et al (2020), global competence (GC hereafter) refers to "students' capabilities to actively acquire and understand other cultures and norms, keep an open mind, and use their global knowledge to communicate, interact, and work effectively outside their own culture" (p. 2).…”