Diversity on a Global 30 'World Studies' Program

There is a high degree of agreement, amongst faculty, administrative staff and students, on the value of classroom diversity, of providing students with a varied, stimulating, international environment in which to learn. There is, on the other hand, far less agreement in views on the most appropriate and effective solutions to the practical problems of how to actually create, maintain and use such an environment. In this chapter, I have outlined my experiences, and through interviews have also drawn on the experiences of faculty colleagues, in the university classroom where the ideal of the ‘diverse environment’ meets practical pedagogy