Swimming in the deep end: transnational teaching as culture learning?

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 561-574

  Hoare, Lynnel ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

academic development; expatriation; human resource development; intercultural development; internationalisation of curriculum; transnational education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880046987     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2012.700918     Document Type: Article

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