a dynamic, web-based methodology for developing intercultural understanding
This paper describes a pedagogical project that was designed at MIT in 1997 and that has been taking place every year since then, connecting American and French language students for the purpose of helping them develop intercultural understanding. It centers on the dynamic process that allows students to gradually and collaboratively construct, through a series of stages, an in-depth understanding of each other's cultures. It ends with some reflections on the challenges brought by the use of web-based communication tools as well as the pedagogical impact they inherently have on the ways students develop intercultural understanding.
process co-construction pedagogy internet dynamic methodology