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
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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
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http//www.pacific.edu/sis/culture/File/sec1-1-1h1
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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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