Incorporating intercultural sensitivity
into study abroad programs
Compiled by
Penelope Pynes, Ph.D.
Updated 21 March 2007
(Descriptions come from the individual
websites)
Culture websites
What’s up with culture?
http://www.pacific.edu/sis/culture/pub/CULTURE_ISSUES_2.htm
This material was developed to support and enhance a student’s
ability to make successful cultural adjustments both before going overseas and
upon returning home from studying abroad. It was produced primarily for
traditional-aged, undergraduate US-American university students. Those
preparing to participate in a study abroad program will find the first seven
sections useful while those who are about to, or have, returned home from an
international program can refer to the final four sections. The focus is
generally on the concept of culture and how it impacts one’s ability to
understand and function in a new and unfamiliar environment. It
concentrates on the skills, attitudes, and behaviors which all study abroad
students, regardless of their specific destination, will find useful.
Awesome Library:
Multicultural Toolkit (Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Collaboration)
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/multiculturaltoolkit.html
The Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Collaboration was created as a result of a study of collaboration styles of African American, Asian American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Anglo American communities. While some similarities in styles were found across communities, a great chasm separated each minority community from the European American Communities. The chasm was created by differences in expectations, styles, assumptions, values, body language, and privilege. Each minority community understands that great differences separate them from the European American mainstream cultures. In contrast, European American communities do not have much awareness of the magnitude of differences. Occasional events open a small portal to this awareness, but European Americans do not experience cultural differences as a central concern in their lives. For minority communities, the differences are not only central, but vast and inescapable.
Of
particular import: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/multiculturaltoolkit-myths.html
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
(DMIS)
Milton
Bennett developed the DMIS as a way of organizing and explaining an
individual’s reactions to cultural difference. One of the central tenets
of the model is that, as an individual’s experience with cultural difference
becomes more sophisticated and complex, there is a simultaneous increase
in his or her competence in intercultural relations. Each stage
of development is associated with distinct cognitive phases that correspond to
certain types of attitudes and behaviors related to one’s orientation toward
cultural difference. In this regard, the DMIS is not a model of attitude
change or skills acquisition, but rather a model of the development of a
"worldview" structure.
http://www.intercultural.org/pdf/dmis.pdf
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/multiculturaltoolkit-stages.html
Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
http://www.hammerconsulting.org/idi_consulting.php
http://www.intercultural.org/pdf/idi.pdf
http://www.greenleafconsulting.com/idi.htm
Maximizing Study Abroad (By R. Michael Paige, Andrew D. Cohen,
Barbara Kappler, Julie C. Chi, & James P. Lassegard; CARLA Working Paper Series · August 2002 ·
237 pp. · $12.00 + shipping)
http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/guides.html
Aimed at
students who want to make the most of their study abroad experience, this
flexible and user-friendly guide helps students identify and use a wide variety
of language- and culture-learning strategies. The guide begins with three
inventories designed to help students be more aware of how they currently learn
language and culture. The following sections provide students with tools and
creative activities they can use to enhance their favored learning strategies
and try out unfamiliar ones. Students can use this guide as they prepare for
study abroad, during their experience, and once they return to maximize their
experience.
To order: http://www.carla.umn.edu/resources/working-papers/index.html
Sample Pre-departure orientations
http://www.uwlax.edu/oie/SA/Syllabus250.doc
http://perth.uwlax.edu/oie/SA/Syllabus251.pdf
http://www.uwlax.edu/oie/SA/Syllabus252.pdf
http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/samples/PPG_Workshops.pdf
Assessment and IDI
http://liberalarts.wabash.edu/cila/home.cfm?news_id=1809
http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/keycomponents/assessment_eval/outcome_h.html
http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs/katzsym/vanhook.html
http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2767
http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs/katzsym/vanhook.pdf
http://www.sit.edu/publications/docs/competence.pdf
Other Recommended
Bennett,
Milton J. “Towards Ethnorelativism: A Developmental
Model of Intercultural Sensitivity.” IN: Paige, R.M. (ed.) 1993:1-51, Education for the Intercultural Experience
(2nd ed.)
Bennett, Milton J.
“Intercultural Communication: A Current Perspective.” IN: Bennett, Milton J.
(ed.) 1998: 1-34, Concepts of
Intercultural Communication: Selected readings.
Landis,
Dan, Janet M. Bennett and Milton J. Bennett (eds.) Handbook of Intercultural Training, 2004 (3rd ed.) 1000
Oaks,
Supplement
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Deardorff, Darla K. “In Search of Intercultural Competence.” International Educator, Spring 2004.
<http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/in_search_of_intercultural.pdf>
Deardorff, Darla K. “A Matter of Logic?” International Educator, May-June 2005.
<http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/InternationalEducator/LogicMayJune05.pdf >
Deardorff, Darla K. “Intercultural Competence Model.” From “The Identification and
Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of
Internationalization at Institutions of Higher Education in the
<http://www.usief.org/docs/INTERCULTURAL-COMPETENCE-MODELS-06.pdf >
Deardorff, Darla K. Intercultural Competence Model. From “The Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
as a Student Outcome of Internationalization at Institutions of Higher
Education in the
<http://www.usief.org/docs/all%20chapters%20061404.pdf>