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Chapter 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2791-6.ch014
ABSTRACT
Most curriculum internationalization studies have been focusing on international students and study
abroad programs, which has excluded the majority of non-mobile students on American campuses. In
addition, the existing studies have been conducted from administrator and faculty perspectives. This
chapter generates a substantive theory of intercultural curriculum and teaching methods from the experi-
ences of students who have taken intercultural classes in American classrooms. Active interview theory
and grounded theory were utilized for data collection and data analysis. Based on the pure voices from
both domestic and international students, this chapter has identifed three core categories and eight
sub-categories representing student-preferred internationalized curriculum. These categories or themes
ofer new angles to look at curriculum internationalization.
INTRODUCTION
In the contemporary era of globalization, higher education institutions are more important than ever as
mediums for continuous global flows of people, information and images, investments, and knowledge
at an unprecedented pace and scale (Appadurai, 1996; Friedman, 2005; Rizvi, 2008). American Council
of Education published a preliminary report Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education claimed that
Opening the Classroom
to the World:
A Grounded-Theory Study of Student
Perceptions of Integrating Intercultural
Competence Into Curriculum
Xingbei Ye
Eastern Michigan University, USA
Inna Molitoris
Spring Arbor University, USA
David Anderson
Eastern Michigan University, USA