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Title: Bringing Intercultural Sensitivity into Study Abroad Programs


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  • Bringing Intercultural Sensitivity into Study
    Abroad Programs
  • NAFSA Region VII Conference, Charlotte, NC
  • (Sunday, November 12, 2006 130-300)
  • Facilitators
  • Penelope Pynes (Director, Study Abroad
    Exchanges at The University of North Carolina at
    Greensboro email pjpynes_at_uncg.edu)
  • Tom Martinek (Assistant Director, Study Abroad
    Exchanges at The University of North Carolina at
    Greensboro email tjmarti2_at_uncg.edu)

Image from http//www.fcsl.edu/events/diversity/i
mages/multicultural.jpg
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Agenda
  • I. Scope and purpose of session
  • II. What is culture?
  • III. Developmental Model of Intercultural
  • Sensitivity (DMIS)
  • IV. Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
  • Hammer Bennett (1999, 2001)
  • V. How to use the DMIS in pre-departure
  • activities
  • VI. Question Answer
  • VII. Summary, Wrap-Up, and Feedback

http//www.uncg.edu/pjpynes/ipc/interculturalstud
yabroad.htm
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Intercultural Competency
  • From The Identification and Assessment of
    Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of
    Internationalization at Institutions of Higher
    Education in the United States
  • by Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Raleigh NC North
    Carolina State University, 2004

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What is culture?
  • Working with a partner, take a few moments to
    jot down your definition of culture

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Subjective Culture
The learned and shared patterns of beliefs,
behaviors, and values of groups of interacting
people
Source Bennett 1998 3.
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Diversity Iceberg
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Identity Molecule
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http//www.pacific.edu/sis/culture/File/sec1-1-1h1
.htm
http//www.pacific.edu/sis/culture/File/sec1-1-1h1
.htm
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Milton Bennetts Model Development of
Intercultural Sensitivity
Experience of Difference
Ethnocentric Stages
Ethno-relative Stages
Source Bennett Bennett in Landis et al. 2004
153.
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Stages of Intercultural Sensitivity
  • Denial Does not recognize cultural
    differences
  • Defense Recognizes some differences,
    but sees them as negative
  • Minimization Unaware of projection of own
    cultural values sees own values as
    superior
  • Acceptance Shifts perspectives to understand
    that the same "ordinary"
    behavior can have different meanings in different
    cultures
  • Adaptation Can evaluate others behavior from
    their frame of reference and can
    adapt behavior to fit the norms of a different
    culture
  • Integration Can shift frame of reference and
    also deal with resulting identity
    issues

Source http//www.awesomelibrary.org/multicultur
altoolkit-stages.html
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Activity
Place each of the 18 statements into one of the
six stages of the DMIS
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How do pre-departure orientation activities stand
up using DMIS as a model?
  • Working in small groups determine what level of
    cultural sensitivity various activities address.
  • Start with your assigned activity. When you
    have finished discussing it, move on to any of
    the other activities in the packet (you may also
    choose to discuss activities you use)

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Developmental task
  • Denial Recognize cultural differences that are
    escaping your notice
  • Defense Become more tolerant of differences
    and recognize the basic commonalities among
    people of different cultures
  • Minimization Learn more about your own culture
    and projecting that culture onto other
    peoples experience
  • Acceptance Link your knowledge about your own
    and other cultures to the skill of
    shifting perspective
  • Adaptation-
  • Cognitive frame-shifting Link your cognitive
    ability to other aspects of your behavior,
    with the goal of generating
    natural behavior in more than one
    cultural context
  • Adaptation-
  • Behavioral frame-shifting Deal with identitiy
    issues associated with the chameleon
    effect that may accompany your cultural
    flexibility
  • EM See yourself less as a victim of cultural
    confusion and more as a conscious
    constructor of multiple cultural
    experiences

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Resources
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Maximizing Study Abroad
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