Activity 2: Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Environment

2.1. Interview an international student on cultural differences
Find an international student (or teacher) from your school for a short interview. (If you cannot find anyone else you could maybe contact someone from our iVET group?)

Familiarize yourself with Hofstede's dimensions of cultural difference and read chapter "3.3 Koulutuksessa ilmeneviä kulttuurieroja". (Only in Finnish.) Compare Hofstede's dimension differences between your own culture and your interviewee's culture.

Interview questions:
  • Has your interviewee noticed these differences? Or any other intercultural differences? Have they impacted his or her experience about Finland?
  • Did your interviewee receive any kind of tutoring for intercultural awareness issues when he or she moved to Finland
  • Has your interviewee's school taken multicultural issues into account in its teaching?
Share the summary (e.g. written summary or video recording) of your interview in your blog. Share link to your blog post here in comments!

2.2 Watch the video: Raising Intercultural awareness for international and home students through creative workshops


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WjkOyX9IFg


Comment someone else's blog post for previous question and discuss how you as a teacher could support students from diverse cultural and social background. Add a link to your text to the comments below.

2.3 Fill in the Cultural Competence Self-assessment

http://mikyong.polldaddy.com/s/cultural-competence-self-assessment. (The survey is anonymous. We cannot identify you but we will collect some statistics from our class.)

This self-assessment tool is designed to explore individual cultural competence. Its purpose is to help you to consider your skills, knowledge, and awareness of yourself in your interactions with others. Its goal is to assist you to recognize what you can do to become more effective in working and living in a diverse environment.   

The survey statistics can be accessed from here, and password for the report is “oamk”.


Discuss shortly your results in your blog and share your blog link in the comment box below:
    •    What are your strengths in intercultural competence?
    •    How could you enhance your intercultural competence?


2.4 Evaluate your own intercultural competences


Watch Milton Bennett's lectures on Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity:
If you have access to scientific journals you can also find the original articles describing the model e.g. here and here. Please note! If you are busy, you may study Bennett's model by watching only one video. Wikipedia also offers info about the model.

Answer the survey: Which of the six stages you see yourself belonging to?  (Also this survey is anonymous. We will not see your answer, but we would be interested to collect statistics for the whole class.)

11 comments:

  1. Päivi8 February 2014 at 23:19

    Hi all! My interview is here: http://paiviinivet.blogspot.fi/2014/02/multicultural-task-interview.html

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  2. Unknown11 February 2014 at 20:22

    Hi!

    2.1 - http://christophersmithple.blogspot.fi/2014/02/global-and-multicultural-activity.html

    2.2 - For this part, if I understood the task correctly, I am commenting on Päivi's interview with the practical nurse from New Zealand. I'm not sure there's much to say as there doesn't appear to be any conflict. It seems that the student is coping quite well and has the support of the faculty around him. Maybe this goes to show that having the right attitude from the start is a large part of the success and he certainly seems to have had that right attitude.

    2.3 - http://christophersmithple.blogspot.fi/2014/02/intercultural-competences.html

    2.4 - I watched the video and answered the survey. Very interesting.

    Chris

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  3. annalearningtoteach11 February 2014 at 20:33

    Here are my fulfilled tasks:

    2.1. http://annalearningtoteach.blogspot.fi/p/voc2.html - scroll down to "Continuing 11.2.2014, an interview with Christopher Smith"

    2.2. I'm really not sure about what was asked in this one but commenting then to Päivi's blog post, the interview: She interviewed a person who is from New Zealand and hasn't noticed difference between his home country and Finland. The person has got tutoring for his being here and he's fine with everything. I guess in a teacher's position, I could give tips and contacts to a new person at the start and when in classroom, appreciating the fact that there's a new person from whom all the class can learn and the other way round.

    2.3. http://annalearningtoteach.blogspot.fi/p/voc2.html - scroll down to "Discussing briefly my Cultural Competence Self-assessment"

    2.4. Watched and answered!

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  4. Unknown23 February 2014 at 14:40

    2.1 Please scroll down to the posts of 23 Feb. http://maritaatamok.blogspot.fi/p/voc-2.html

    2.2 I am as confused as the others but commented Anna´s blog http://annalearningtoteach.blogspot.fi/p/voc2.html. However the comment will become visible only after approval...

    2.3 Please scroll down to the posts of 23 Feb. http://maritaatamok.blogspot.fi/p/voc-2.html

    2.4 Done!

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  5. Unknown25 February 2014 at 01:43

    Please follow my link:
    http://yaxi-ivet.blogspot.fi/search/label/VOC2

    I have watched the video and answered the survey!

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  6. Unknown25 February 2014 at 13:54

    I have made comment on Marita's interview & analysis.

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  7. Aleksandra Paravina28 February 2014 at 01:23

    Please scroll down in my post for all of the tasks. I interviewed a German translator, an ex student living in Finland.

    http://reflectionsonstudy.blogspot.fi/

    I very much liked Ana Pesonen – Smith interview as student in India, comparing Indian and Finnish culture.

    http://christophersmithple.blogspot.fi/2014/02/global-and-multicultural-activity.html

    It gives some very interesting insights about a very different culture, that scores high in power distance, and low in Individualism. I think that incorporating Indian art and film would be a great way to show students a different view of the world, perhaps much more alive as Ana says in her interview. Also the inequality could be also discussed and power relations too.

    I have done the surveys as well.

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  8. PäiviP28 February 2014 at 10:40

    Hi,

    Here are my answers to this section:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByzDy4uXDKauVTdYYmhfZnI5MGs/edit?usp=sharing

    or

    http://whataboutteaching.blogspot.fi/p/blog-page_983.html --> Activity 2

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  9. Marja1 March 2014 at 00:00

    Hi,

    you can find my answers here: http://digitalteacherportfolio.blogspot.fi/2014/01/global-and-multicultural-activities.html

    BR
    Marja

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  10. Päivi2 March 2014 at 22:57

    Here are the rest of my tasks:

    My comments to Marja's interview are in her blog: http://digitalteacherportfolio.blogspot.fi/2014/01/global-and-multicultural-activities.html

    The text about my cultural competence: http://paiviinivet.blogspot.fi/2014/03/my-cultural-competence-does-it-exist.html

    The last one: Done!

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  11. Unknown3 March 2014 at 23:16

    Here are my answers for these tasks. Quite a variety in this assignment!:

    http://learnteachteachlearn.blogspot.fi/p/blog-page_15.html

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