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Global Competence
New Global Competence in Teacher Education Project Launches with an Erasmus+ Grant
AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS) and the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) together with the University of Hull and four other universities in Europe have been awarded a Erasmus+ research…
Study abroad must be supported by mentoring, another study confirms
A new study from Purdue University confirms that university students who received group mentoring through the AFS Global Competence Certificate Program (GCC) during their semester abroad improved their intercultural competence…
Are we there yet? The State of Global Competence Education
2019 AFS Global Conference on Active Global Citizenship—and How to Educate for It (9-11 October 2019 in Montreal, Canada) featured a revealing panel discussion, “A Hard Look at the State…
Growing a global competence coalition at the 2019 AFS Global Conference
What will it take to provide young changemakers with the global skills they need to make the world a better place? The 2019 AFS Global Conference on Active Global Citizenship—and How…
AFS in Action | AFS Now newsletter (June 2019)
AFS One Classroom Initiative conducted virtual exchanges of schools in China with schools in Brazil and Czech Republic throughout June. Eighty students and teachers participated in meaningful cross-border classroom-to-classroom dialoguediscussing…
Learning to Live Together Must Become a 21st Century Educational Right
“Developing real solutions to the world’s interlinked problems—to our problems—depends on everyone working together at some fundamental levels. Given these interlinkages, intercultural learning and global competence education cannot only be…
Purdue University Shares Intercultural Learning Gains for Short-term Programs
Over the past year, Purdue has conducted a study on intercultural learning gains on students doing short-term study abroad. In a telling summary, Katherine Yngve of Purdue shows that students…
Intercultural Competence is Today’s New Language Education
In February 2019, AFS/Sentio delivered an interactive workshop at Languages Canada’s 12th Annual Conference – “On Common Ground: A shared commitment to quality and integrity in Language Education” where over…