Education for Workplace Diversity: What Universities and Enterprises Can Do to Facilitate Intercultural Learning in Work Placements Abroad

Service-learning: New Dimensions to Usual Practice

“…Possible new challenges for faculty are likely to arise as the pressure builds to ensure that new graduates are -employment ready‖. In many countries, the response to this demand is to add a -practical dimension‖ to basic classroom learning, assuming that an exposure to the real world will help qualify students for employment in globalized settings [8]. So out-of-classroom experience is included in the student curriculum, or is included as short multicultural experiences in the form of modules within various courses.…”

“…Internships, work experience, and summer placements are elements being added to ongoing courses. In many fields, an emphasis is placed on students learning ‗soft skills' such as communication skills, ways of behaving in intercultural situations and general cultural sensitivity is now regarded as basic to business, management and communication degrees [8]. The issue is not whether or not these are valuable student experiences, or whether they increase the employability of students.…”

Developing (new) language skills through student mobility - the impact of an Erasmus+ experience

“…Also, the impact on developing a supranational, European, sense of identification has been intensely discussed (King and Ruiz-Gelices, 2003;Sigalas, 2010;Wilson, 2011;Van Mol, 2013, ). Other aspects, such as the impact on personal development (Dolga et al, 2014) or the influence in developing the so called soft skills or transversal skills (Jacobone et al, 2015;Abermann and Tabuenca-Cuevas, 2016) have not been ignored in the literature.…”