Intercultural Competence

ИННОВАЦИИ В ПРЕПОДАВАНИИ: ПРОЕКТ-ТЕЛЕМОСТ

by Kate Isaeva

Интернет-конференции (на сайте http:// www.engectver.ru)
ПРОСТРАНСТВО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ
С 1 ноября 2011 года по 31 января 2012 года
Секция 5. Психолого-педагогические проблемы контекстного воспитания и профессионального обучения

UNA EXPLORACIÓN AL PROCESO DE ADAPTACIÓN, LA COMPETENCIA INTERCULTURAL Y LA IDENTIDAD DE ESTUDIANTES MÉXICO-AMERICANOS …

by Irlanda Olave

Learning to Negotiate Reality: A theory of action approach to intercultural competence

by Ariane Berthoin Antal

co-authored with Victor Friedman, published in Management Learning, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2005:69-86

In an increasingly global business environment, managers must interact effectively with culturally complex people in... more In an increasingly global business environment, managers must interact effectively with culturally complex people in culturally complex situations. The dominant stream of thought in international management literature frames this situation as a problem of conflict and offers generalized models of cultural difference as guides to “adaptation” for avoiding conflict. This paper offers an alternative approach to intercultural competence, “negotiating reality”, that engages cultural conflict as a resource for learning. Negotiating reality draws on concepts from action science and identity-based conflict to take a new look at the meaning of competence in intercultural interactions. This paper analyzes and critiques the approach to culture implicit in the dominant international management literature and the adaptation model. It then describes negotiating reality and the kinds of thinking and behavior that must be adopted in order to put this approach to intercultural competence into practice.

Interactive critical reflection as intercultural competence

by Ariane Berthoin Antal

co-authored with Victor Friedman, in: David Boud, Peter Cressey, Peter Doherty (eds.), Productive Reflection at Work, Routledge: London:120-130

In this chapter we shall argue that cultural knowledge and a focus on adaptation can actually inhibit learning.... more In this chapter we shall argue that cultural knowledge and a focus on adaptation can actually inhibit learning. Furthermore, we shall argue that an interactive process of critical reflection lies at the core of "intercultural competence". This process, which we call "negotiating reality," entails (1) an active awareness of oneself as a complex cultural being and the effect of one’s own culture on thinking and action, (2) an ability to engage with others to explore tacit assumptions that underlie behaviour and goals, and (3) openly testing with others different ways of thinking and doing thing .

Materialien zur Schulung interkultureller Kompetenz durch Sprachmittlungsaktivitaten Eine Unterrichtsreihe fur die 8. Klasse

by Karsten Senkbeil

Knowledge Must Brochure

by Daniel Ratheiser

Knowledge Must assists students, professionals, and organisations to successfully cross cultural boundaries, mainly... more Knowledge Must assists students, professionals, and organisations to successfully cross cultural boundaries, mainly between East Asia, South Asia, and the Western world. The organisation has five divisions: Career Must, Language Must, Training Must, Travel Must, and Culture Must. Starting with career counselling, they provide study and work experience, language immersion, culture-specific and process-oriented training, individualised travel arrangements, and intercultural events, in order to fully equip people to work more effectively across a multitude of cultures.

2011-12-14-Recommendations Diversity Panel for the Police

by Rey Ty 鄭文華 (郑 文华)

Issues and Recommendations for
Police Officers for Cases Involving People of Diverse Backgrounds:
Diversity Panel for
Training Police Officers of the Department of Police and Public Safety
Northern Illinois University
Barsema Hall, 300, Northern Illinois University
December 13, 2011

© 2011 Dr. Rey Ty
International Training Office
Division of International Programs

Issues and Recommendations for
Police Officers for Cases Involving People of Diverse Backgrounds:
Diversity... more Issues and Recommendations for
Police Officers for Cases Involving People of Diverse Backgrounds:
Diversity Panel for
Training Police Officers of the Department of Police and Public Safety
Northern Illinois University
Barsema Hall, 300, Northern Illinois University
December 13, 2011

© 2011 Dr. Rey Ty
International Training Office
Division of International Programs

2012-01-09-Intercultural-Orientation-reyty-SUMMARY-CHART-version

by Rey Ty 鄭文華 (郑 文华)

Rey Ty. 2012. Intercultural Orientation for New International Students

Sprachmittlung als Interkulturelle Kompetenz -- Interkulturelle Kompetenz durch Sprachmittlung

by Karsten Senkbeil

The competence of language mediation has recently become a central aspect in teaching curricula across Germany;... more The competence of language mediation has recently become a central aspect in teaching curricula across Germany; handbooks and curricula usually emphasise its centrality in the development of students’ communicative competence in real-life situations outside school. Being a competent language mediator not only encompasses language skills though, but pupils are faced with diverse other cognitive challenges. Among those, “intercultural competence” is usually mentioned as a basis for successful language mediation in the leading literature, yet often the definition of how exactly these competences intersect falls short. This article hopes to fill this gap and delineate precisely, how exactly intercultural competence and the competence of being a language mediator overlap and intertwine, by bringing together the leading theories of intercultural communication with the language curricula in secondary schools today. This article will then not only give an overview of the theoretical foundations of that intersection, but it also proposes a framework on how teaching materials which aim towards a joint approach of teaching mediation skills and intercultural skills at the same time may be designed.

Interviewing clients across cultures

by Lisa Fontes

Boundary-Crossing Competence: Theoretical Considerations and Educational Design

by Dana Walker

Language Learning and Intercultural Training: The Impact of Cultural Primers on Learners and Nonlearners of German

by Michael Boehringer

Co-authored with Christiane Bongartz (UNC-Charoltte) and Anne-Katrin Gramberg (Auburn U). Published in The Journal of Lnaguage for International Business, 2004.

Cross Cultural Communications Survey for The Gran Comité de Cooperación Western Department of Caquetá, Southern Colombia

by Patrick James Christian

School of Professional Studies
Gonzaga Jesuit University – Spokane, Washington

The Gran Comité is essentially a Civil-Military/Public-Private Security Steering Committee, chartered by the founding... more The Gran Comité is essentially a Civil-Military/Public-Private Security Steering Committee, chartered by the founding organizations, under the guidance of a US advisory team and a similar structure based out of the office of President Uribe in Bogota.
It is an emergent virtual organization, and one for which the quotes above have particular meaning. The importance of the organization is not in dispute, only whether such a diverse membership of multi-governmental, multi-agency, military-police, and public-private partnerships can actually work in any semblance of harmony.
The overriding purpose of this eclectic collection of organizational entities is the termination of a 43 year old Marxist insurgency which has morphed into possibly the world’s largest criminal narcotics organization. Certainly, after four decades of military conflict with the state of Colombia, it is the most organized and efficient, operating as a non-state actor in regional political and diplomatic affairs.
The public and private representatives of the legal state have been pushed by this challenge to their authority to enact many remarkable reforms. Chief amongst these have been the extension of participative democracy into all corners of rural Colombia. As participative political processes emerged in the Department of Caquetá, an new enemy arose; that of bureaucratic sectarianism and interagency / intergovernmental infighting.
It is against this new enemy that the Gran Comité of Western Caquetá was founded to confront. Its prognosis for success is entirely dependent upon the good will and communicative abilities of its members and their willingness to create a shared meaning of their organizational life and its challenges.
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Los sitios wikis como mediadores de la adquisición de la competencia intercultural en ELE

by María del Carmen Martínez Carrillo

III Congreso Internacional de FIAPE: El español en tiempos de crisis. Cádiz, España, 23-26 septiembre 2009.2010

Wikis: un nuevo instrumento para el aprendizaje colaborativo de ELE mediado por ordenador

by María del Carmen Martínez Carrillo

J. M. Izquierdo, F. Martos Eliche, A. Yagüe, F. Moreno Fernández, N. Sanz and J. Eguiluz, eds. II Congreso Internacional de FIAPE: Una lengua, muchas culturas [on line]. Granada, Spain, 26-29 September 2007.2007

Processes of nurturing and maintenance of multicultural identity in the 21st century: A qualitative study of the experience of long-term transcultural sojourners

by Oskar Vallazza

Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning Published at Linköping University Press

In today’s world, exposure to other cultures has become a symbol of increasing globalization processes. Many people... more In today’s world, exposure to other cultures has become a symbol of increasing globalization processes. Many people leave their home area to embark on a voyage of discovery and learning that affects their original cultural identity.

This study explores the life experience of independent transcultural sojourners, i.e. people who freely decide to relocate to different cultural contexts after their formative years. The inquiry covers three major themes of their intercultural experience: Multicultural identity, processes of intercultural adaptation, and change and transformation ensuing from multiple intercultural relocations. The aim of this study is to show the effects of multiple intercultural experiences on the identity of transcultural sojourners, and how they dealt with relevant emerging processes of intercultural adaptation.

Following a format suggested by Seidman (1996), five respondents were asked to recount and reflect on their transcultural experience in three separate, asynchronous interviews that covered three dimensions of their intercultural experience: past, present, and reflections. The ensuing text comprised about 16,000 words and was analyzed using both a narrative and a thematic approach using a mixed typology of categories and sub-themes made up of indigenous typology stemming from relevant scholarly literature and researcher-constructed typology suggested by the researcher and the respondents.

The analysis indicates that personal factors like mindfulness, motivation, resourcefulness, and intercultural awareness strongly influence processes of Intercultural communication competence and Multicultural identity development. Contextual factors are also relevant, as they include issues of avowed and ascribed identity. The analysis also shows no specific, generalizable link between the presence of intercultural stimuli in the original cultural milieus and the decision to relocate across cultural boundaries. Furthermore, it points to a strong relation between Piagetian constructivist learning theories and the development of ICC competence. The study also indicates that independent transcultural sojourners are in a position to negotiate the level of their integration and marginality, which in turn affects the spectrum of their Intercultural communication competence.

Finally, this study indicates the limited applicability of traditional functionalist approaches to understanding and conceptualizing processes of intercultural adaptation and multicultural identity building. It also suggests the need for a shift towards a dialogical perspective informed by systems-thinking and Chaos theory.

LES COMPÉTENCES DU TERMINOLOGUE RAPPORTÉES AU WEB 2

by Cristina Varga

Faro, 13 mai 2010, XIIe Assemblée générale du Réseau panlatin de terminologie et Journée scientifique "Formation en terminologie : de la recherche en communication multilingue aux compétences pour l’exercice professionnel"

L'article représente une analyse des compétences du terminologue du point de vue des TIC, Web 2.0 en particulier. L'article représente une analyse des compétences du terminologue du point de vue des TIC, Web 2.0 en particulier.

The Irish are too polite: Analysing stereotype and identity dynamics in student webchat.

by Helen O'Sullivan

Co-authored with Gillian Martin and Breffni O'Rourke, published in Intercultural Competence: Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations, Arnd Witte and Theo Harden (eds), Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.

European Citizenship and Study Abroad: student teachers' experiences and identities

by Audrey Osler

1998 Cambridge Journal of Education, (28) 1: 77 - 96

Member states of the Council of Europe have acknowledged the importance of education for citizenship and have passed a... more Member states of the Council of Europe have acknowledged the importance of education for citizenship and have passed a number of resolutions concerning European citizenship and the need to promote democratic values, social justice and human rights. Yet there remains a degree of ambivalence over citizenship education and its relationship to the development of various identities, including personal and national identities. This paper examines the experiences of student teachers from a variety of European countries and the impact of a period of study abroad in another European country on their development of intercultural awareness, national identities and perceptions of how we might best educate young people for participation in democratic life. It considers the implications for teacher education.

Culture and competencies of Romany (Gypsies) children in the field of health, hygiene and the care of others

by Monika Krajčovičová

Published in: “СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ЕНДЕНЦИИ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЯ
ПЕРСОНОГЕНЕТИЧЕСКОГО НАРРАТИВА НА ОСНОВЕ ЗЛЕМЕНТОВ СОЦИОГЕНЕТИЧЕСКОГО ФЕНОМЕНА“. BOGOMAZ, S. L. pod obshej redakciji: Sovremenyje tendencii konstruirovanija personogeneticheskogo narrativa na osnove elementov sociogeneticheskogo fenomena. Nauchnoje izdanije z mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferenciji: Problemy organizaciji roboty s rozlichnymi kategorijami detej i molodezhi. Vitebck: UO, VGU im. P. M. Masherova, 2009, p. 101-105. ISBN 978-985-517-168-4

This article talks about the cultural features of the Slovak Romany (Gypsy) community and about the development of... more This article talks about the cultural features of the Slovak Romany (Gypsy) community and about the development of young Romany children’s competencies within the Romany family, in the field of health, personal hygiene and the care of others. They can be divided into three subcategories of competencies: 1. The personal hygiene of oneself and of one’s own health, 2. Caring towards others, 3. The treatment of others. Knowing the subcategories of competencies should help us understand the culture of the Romany community, eliminate the misunderstandings between the majority and the minority and meet the fulfillment of successful adaptation between Romany and non Romany pupils in the education system.
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This article describes the partial results of the long life field research, made in terms of the author’s PhD. thesis within the realization of the project VEGA 1/4529/07 ”Adaptívne schopnosti a kompetencie rómskych detí“/"The Adaptive Abilities and Competencies of the Romany Children"