ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication: National and International Adaptations.

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Contributors: Authors' Biographical Information. Foreword, Patricia A. Edwards. Introduction: What is the ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication? Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt and Claudia Finkbeiner. Constructing Third Space: The Principles of Reciprocity and Cooperation, Claudia Finkbeiner. The ABC's: A Journey Toward Making a Positive Difference, Judy Osetek. Doing the ABC's: An Introspective Look at Process, Stacy Leftwich and Marjorie E. Madden. Investigating the Role of Awareness and Multiple Perspectives for Intercultural Education, Claudia Finkbeiner and Sylvia Fehling. Revealing and Revisiting Self in Relation to the Culturally Different Other: Multicultural Teacher Education and the ABC's Model, Jyotsna Pattnaik. The Complexity and Multiplicity of Preservice Teachers' Exploring Diversity Issues, Shelley Hong Xu. A Successful ABC's In-Service Project: Supporting Culturally Responsive Teaching, Andrea Izzo and Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt. The ABC's Online: Using Voice Chats in a Trans-National Foreign Language Teacher Exchange, Eva Wilden. The ABC's as a Starting Point and Goal: The Online Intercultural Exchange Project (ICE), Claudia Finkbeiner and Markus Knierim. Using the ABC's Model in Management Education, LaVerne Higgins. Afterword: The Future of the ABC's Model, Greta Nagel. References.