What is Global Competence?
- Being global means you possess a mindset about learning that appreciates, respects, and embraces other cultural perspectives and norms; You need to be Open-minded, curious and non-judgmental;
- Being global demonstrates you experience and expose yourself to multicultural environments either abroad or in your own country.
- Being global indicates that you are adaptable and flexible in strange and different situations
- Being global implies that you have international awareness, knowledge and understanding
- Being global shows that you have capacity for effective communication and engaging collaboration across cultural and linguistic boundaries.
What Does a Competent Global Learner look like?
- An aspiring intercultural learner in global contexts makes full use of strong and diverse global learning networks with multi-technology;
- A competent global learner develops different perspectives of the world to establish their viewpoints and beliefs;
- A professional global learner learn with critical thinking ability and creativity have foresight to predict and take up challenges;
- A capable global learner has ability to communicate, to collaborate, to model and share with others.
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The 1st picture retrieved Feb 29, 2015 from
http://www.binghamton.edu/ccpd/students/undergraduate/international-opportunities/building-globalcompetencies.html
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http://www.berlitz.com.cn/total-solutions.html
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