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Intercultural Understanding in the IB Curriculum
Farrah Collette
Mar 17, 2017
The following critique discusses the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) “Language A: Language and Literature” course curriculum, specifically focusing on the complexity of developing intercultural understanding through student...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Three faces of global citizenship education
This study examines the construction and meaning of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools as manifested by schools in four locations: Chicago, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. Through analysis of...
An Explanatory Comparison of Japanese Secondary English Textbooks and IB English Textbooks
Akihiro Yasuda
Feb 19, 2021
Fifty percent of IB schools in Japan use both the national and IB-authorized English textbooks. This chapter will explore the issue of how these differ. Books used for the study came from MYP Phase 3, MYP Phase 4, DP English B...
Teacher Education Education Educational Administration and Leadership Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Intercultural Understanding in the IB Curriculum
Farrah Collette
Mar 17, 2017
The following critique discusses the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) “Language A: Language and Literature” course curriculum, specifically focusing on the complexity of developing intercultural understanding through student...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
The International Mindedness Journey
Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Chloe Blackmore, Kathleen Bullock, Tristan Bunnell, Michael Donnelly, Susan Martin
Jan 01, 0001
International-mindedness is an overarching construct related to intercultural understanding, global engagement and multilingualism. The concept, which is particular to the International Baccalaureate (IB), is at the heart of the...
Published by: International Baccalaureate Organisation
The International Mindedness Journey
Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Chloe Blackmore, Kathleen Bullock, Tristan Bunnell, Michael Donnelly, Susan Martin
Jan 01, 0001
International-mindedness is an overarching construct related to intercultural understanding, global engagement and multilingualism. The concept, which is particular to the International Baccalaureate (IB), is at the heart of the...
Published by: International Baccalaureate Organisation
Three faces of global citizenship education
This study examines the construction and meaning of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools as manifested by schools in four locations: Chicago, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. Through analysis of...
The dearth of International Baccalaureate schools across Africa
Tristan Bunnell
Jan 01, 0001
The Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) celebrated its 50th Anniversary as an organizational entity in 2014, having first appeared in 1964 as the International Schools Examination Syndicate. In January 2015 the...
The dearth of International Baccalaureate schools across Africa
Tristan Bunnell
Jan 01, 0001
The Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) celebrated its 50th Anniversary as an organizational entity in 2014, having first appeared in 1964 as the International Schools Examination Syndicate. In January 2015 the...
Vascular Inflammation and Aortic Stiffness
ABSTRACT
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex inflammatory condition in which an important extra-pulmonary manifestation is cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that COPD patients would have...
The Mediating Effect of Knowledge Sharing and Usage on Human Resource Practices and Innovative Behavior
As work contexts dynamically evolve, enhancing managerial human resource practices (HRP) becomes crucial to foster employee innovative behavior (IB) while promoting positive knowledge usage (KU) and sharing (KS). This paper...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The rise and decline of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the United Kingdom
Tristan Bunnell
Jan 01, 0001
The three main programmes of the Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) have grown substantially worldwide over the past decade although the programmes have found a natural ‘home’ in the United States. This paper...
Impact of circulating microRNA test (miRNA-371a-3p) on appropriateness of treatment and cost outcomes in patients with Stage I non-seminomatous germ cell tumours.
Aditya Bagrodia, Anna Savelyeva, John T Lafin, Ryan W Speir, Gregory T Chesnut, Anne Lindsay Frazier, Solomon L Woldu, Vitaly Margulis, Matthew J Murray, James F Amatruda, Yair Lotan
Nov 09, 2020
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether utilisation of a serum microRNA (miRNA) test could improve treatment appropriateness and cost-effectiveness for patients with Stage I non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCTs). PATIENTS AND...
The rise and decline of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the United Kingdom
Tristan Bunnell
Jan 01, 0001
The three main programmes of the Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) have grown substantially worldwide over the past decade although the programmes have found a natural ‘home’ in the United States. This paper...
Complete Genome Sequences of BK Polyomavirus Strains from Two Patients with Urinary Tract Infection, Sequenced Using the Ion Torrent Platform.
Graham Rose, Kyriaki Ranellou, Raju Misra, Colin Crump, David Wooldridge, Surendra Parmar, Christopher Maddren, Saheer Gharbia, Hamid Jalal
Feb 26, 2018
BK polyomavirus is an important pathogen in kidney transplant patients. We report here two complete genome sequences, those of isolates CAMB-1035 and CAMB-1055, identified in two urine samples tested for urinary tract infection...
International Mindedness in Practice
Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Chloe Blackmore, Kathleen Bullock, Tristan Bunnell, Michael Donnelly, Susan Martin
Apr 01, 2018
International Mindedness is an overarching construct related to multilingualism, intercultural understanding and global engagement (Hill, 2012). The concept is central to the International Baccalaureate (IB) and sits at the...
High water vs. ad libitum water intake for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
R El-Damanawi, M Lee, T Harris, LB Cowley, S Bond, H Pavey, RN Sandford, IB Wilkinson, FE Karet Frankl, TF Hiemstra
Dec 02, 2020
BACKGROUND: Vasopressin stimulates cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and is a key therapeutic target. Evaluation of high water intake as an alternative to pharmacological vasopressin blockade is...
Endovascular Treatment of Intracerebral Giant Cell Arteritis.
Claus Z Simonsen, Lasse Speiser, Ib Tønder Hansen, David Jayne, Paul von Weitzel-Mudersbach
Jun 22, 2020
Background: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common primary systemic vasculitis predominantly affecting large and medium sized vessels. In rare cases, the vasculitis can affect the vessels of the brain. Results: We...
Englishization in offshore call centers
The spread and use of English as the lingua franca of international business (IB)-"corporate Englishization"-has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years but the focus has mostly been on the communication...
Preconception and early pregnancy maternal haemodynamic changes in healthy women in relation to pregnancy viability.
STUDY QUESTION: Are there differences in preconception cardiovascular function between women who have a viable pregnancy and those who have a first trimester miscarriage? SUMMARY ANSWER: Preconception cardiovascular function of...
Change in maternal cardiac output from preconception to mid-pregnancy is associated with birth weight in healthy pregnancies.
OBJECTIVE: Birth weight (BW) is thought to be determined by maternal health and genetic, nutritional and placental factors, the latter being influenced by anatomical development and perfusion. Maternal cardiovascular changes...
Curriculum alignment, articulation and the formative development of the learner
Richard Watermeyer
Jan 01, 0001
Articulating and aligning the curriculum is a complex and time-consuming endeavour, requiring the cooperation and collaboration of teachers, educational managers and regulators. Synergies of this sort may however not always be...
Published by: International Baccalaureate Organisation
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