Glossary
Affordances: Opportunities for learning
Agency: Sense of ownership, power or control
AUQA: Australian Universities Quality Agency
Authentic learning: Real life learning
Authenticity: Real, true or accurate
Blended learning: Part of course content is delivered online
CALD: Culturally and linguistically diverse
Case study: Research into the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time
Collaboration: Working with others to produce something
Conceptual model: A diagram which shows a set of relationships within a system
Cultural awareness/understanding: A person’s ability to understand the differences and similarities between themselves and people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Cultural competency: An ability to interact effectively and sensitively with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Cultural proficiency: The knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable someone to engage with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Culture shock: Disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life or culture
Dispositions: Temperament or character qualities
Diversity: Including individuals from a variety of ethnicities, ages, physical abilities religious beliefs, educational backgrounds ect.
Double socialisation: The process of inculcating norms, customs and ideologies from two different areas of society
EAL: English as an Additional Language
Employability: The acquisition of knowledge, skills and understandings that are necessary to gain employment
English language proficiency: The ability of an individual to speak or perform in the English language. Universities in Australia often have proficiency requirements for overseas students
Equity: The quality of being fair and impartial
Ethnocentrism: Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture
Feedback: Information that relates to a person’s performance of a task
Global citizenship: A person who places their identity with the ‘global community’
Global mobility: The ability of an individual to move internationally for employment
Globalisation: The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas as other aspects of culture
Good practice principles: Assist teachers to design, implement and evaluate criteria and teaching practices in international education
IEAA: International Education Association of Australia
IELTS: International English Language Testing System
International student: Students who are not citizens of the country in which they are studying
Internationalisation of the curriculum: All aspects of a university’s experience fostering a global perspective. Strategies engage students and staff from different backgrounds
Key competencies: Abilities that people need to participate effectively in the workplace
Labour market: Where workers find paying work, employers find employees and where wage rates are determined
Massification of education: Development of education to meet the mass market and increasing student enrolment
Mentor: A person with more experience or knowledge who has a personal or working relationship with the learner
Multi-socialisation process: The process of inculcating norms, customs and ideologies from multiple areas of society
Opportunities: Favourable or advantageous circumstances
Pastoral Care: Care provided to those in institutional settings with a focus on healing, guiding or sustaining
Performance-gap: The difference between the current situation and intended situation
Personal epistemology: How an individual develops a conception of knowledge to understand the world
Practicum: A course designed to give students supervised practical application of studied theory
Pre-service teacher: Students who are studying education and whom have not yet begun working in the profession
Professional identity: One’s professional self-concept based on attributes, beliefs, motives and experiences
Professional socialisation: The acquisition of values, attitudes, skills, and knowledge pertaining to a professional subculture
‘Real world’ learning: Learning which focuses on real-world, complex problems and their solutions, using role-playing exercises, problem-based activities, case studies, and participation in virtual communities of practice
Reflection: Serious thought, consideration, and critical analysis of a situation, act, or piece of information
Reflective practice: Paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which inform everyday actions, by examining practice reflectively and reflexively
Reflective thinking: Critical thinking process referring specifically to the processes of analyzing and making judgments about what has happened
Reflexivity: Circular relationships between cause and effect
Regulations: A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Scaffolding: The process through which educators support and guide children to build upon their emerging abilities and interests
Self-assessment: Assessment or evaluation of oneself or one's actions, attitudes, or performance
Self-awareness: The capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals
Service learning: A method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service
Socialisation: The adoption of the behavior of the surrounding culture
‘Soft skills’: Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people
Stakeholder: A person with an interest or concern in something
Study abroad: Pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own
Study exchange: A reciprocal arrangement where students pursuing educational opportunities in each other’s countries
Supervisor: A person who supervises a person or an activity
Threshold Learning Outcome: Minimum standard of performance, achievement or attainment
TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
University liaison: University employee who provides support for students when taking work placements
Work experience: Work experience is any experience that a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation
Work integrated learning (WIL): Purposeful, organised, supervised and assessed educational activity that integrates theoretical learning with its applications in the workplace
Work place ready/ work ‘readiness’: Having sufficient skills, knowledge and experience in order to enter the workforce
Work placement: Temporary (usually unpaid) employment in order to gain skills and experience
Work simulated learning: Immersive techniques to simulate real experiences that evoke aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion
Agency: Sense of ownership, power or control
AUQA: Australian Universities Quality Agency
Authentic learning: Real life learning
Authenticity: Real, true or accurate
Blended learning: Part of course content is delivered online
CALD: Culturally and linguistically diverse
Case study: Research into the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time
Collaboration: Working with others to produce something
Conceptual model: A diagram which shows a set of relationships within a system
Cultural awareness/understanding: A person’s ability to understand the differences and similarities between themselves and people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Cultural competency: An ability to interact effectively and sensitively with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Cultural proficiency: The knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable someone to engage with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds
Culture shock: Disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life or culture
Dispositions: Temperament or character qualities
Diversity: Including individuals from a variety of ethnicities, ages, physical abilities religious beliefs, educational backgrounds ect.
Double socialisation: The process of inculcating norms, customs and ideologies from two different areas of society
EAL: English as an Additional Language
Employability: The acquisition of knowledge, skills and understandings that are necessary to gain employment
English language proficiency: The ability of an individual to speak or perform in the English language. Universities in Australia often have proficiency requirements for overseas students
Equity: The quality of being fair and impartial
Ethnocentrism: Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture
Feedback: Information that relates to a person’s performance of a task
Global citizenship: A person who places their identity with the ‘global community’
Global mobility: The ability of an individual to move internationally for employment
Globalisation: The process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas as other aspects of culture
Good practice principles: Assist teachers to design, implement and evaluate criteria and teaching practices in international education
IEAA: International Education Association of Australia
IELTS: International English Language Testing System
International student: Students who are not citizens of the country in which they are studying
Internationalisation of the curriculum: All aspects of a university’s experience fostering a global perspective. Strategies engage students and staff from different backgrounds
Key competencies: Abilities that people need to participate effectively in the workplace
Labour market: Where workers find paying work, employers find employees and where wage rates are determined
Massification of education: Development of education to meet the mass market and increasing student enrolment
Mentor: A person with more experience or knowledge who has a personal or working relationship with the learner
Multi-socialisation process: The process of inculcating norms, customs and ideologies from multiple areas of society
Opportunities: Favourable or advantageous circumstances
Pastoral Care: Care provided to those in institutional settings with a focus on healing, guiding or sustaining
Performance-gap: The difference between the current situation and intended situation
Personal epistemology: How an individual develops a conception of knowledge to understand the world
Practicum: A course designed to give students supervised practical application of studied theory
Pre-service teacher: Students who are studying education and whom have not yet begun working in the profession
Professional identity: One’s professional self-concept based on attributes, beliefs, motives and experiences
Professional socialisation: The acquisition of values, attitudes, skills, and knowledge pertaining to a professional subculture
‘Real world’ learning: Learning which focuses on real-world, complex problems and their solutions, using role-playing exercises, problem-based activities, case studies, and participation in virtual communities of practice
Reflection: Serious thought, consideration, and critical analysis of a situation, act, or piece of information
Reflective practice: Paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which inform everyday actions, by examining practice reflectively and reflexively
Reflective thinking: Critical thinking process referring specifically to the processes of analyzing and making judgments about what has happened
Reflexivity: Circular relationships between cause and effect
Regulations: A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Scaffolding: The process through which educators support and guide children to build upon their emerging abilities and interests
Self-assessment: Assessment or evaluation of oneself or one's actions, attitudes, or performance
Self-awareness: The capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals
Service learning: A method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service
Socialisation: The adoption of the behavior of the surrounding culture
‘Soft skills’: Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people
Stakeholder: A person with an interest or concern in something
Study abroad: Pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own
Study exchange: A reciprocal arrangement where students pursuing educational opportunities in each other’s countries
Supervisor: A person who supervises a person or an activity
Threshold Learning Outcome: Minimum standard of performance, achievement or attainment
TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
University liaison: University employee who provides support for students when taking work placements
Work experience: Work experience is any experience that a person gains while working in a specific field or occupation
Work integrated learning (WIL): Purposeful, organised, supervised and assessed educational activity that integrates theoretical learning with its applications in the workplace
Work place ready/ work ‘readiness’: Having sufficient skills, knowledge and experience in order to enter the workforce
Work placement: Temporary (usually unpaid) employment in order to gain skills and experience
Work simulated learning: Immersive techniques to simulate real experiences that evoke aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion