Building bridges online: Issues of pedagogy and learning outcomes in intercultural education through citizenship

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-94

  Austin, Roger ^a,c   Anderson, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Dissolving Boundaries Programme

Author keywords

Citizenship; Collaborative learning; Contact hypothesis; Information communication technology (ICT); Inter cultural education; Knowledge construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649107981     PISSN: 15501876     EISSN: 15501337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jicte.2008010108     Document Type: Article

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