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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Four 'Moments' of Intercultural Encountering
Wernicke, Meike
Teaching in Higher Education, v26 n7-8 p1130-1140 2021
Teaching a graduate course focused on critical understandings of interculturality offers an opportune space in which to explore decolonizing pedagogical practices. In this short paper, I examine my own attempts at decolonizing students' experiences of intercultural learning by incorporating non-Western knowledge systems to draw attention to dominant cultural perceptions, authority structures, and power relations. Using extracts of students' texts and multimodal representations of cultural discourses, I focus on four 'moments' of intercultural learning: (1) the importance of connecting to history on one's own terms; (2) how knowledge and experience shape our relationship to the land; (3) the need for uncomfortable and vulnerable spaces as potentially facilitating anti-racist/decolonial pedagogy; and (4) the tensions around cultural appropriation in relation to teaching resources. In sharing these practical realizations of teaching in higher education I hope to contribute to the larger discussion of the possibilities and challenges of a decolonizing praxis.
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Racial Bias, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience, Power Structure, Foreign Policy, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, Educational Resources, College Faculty, Indigenous Knowledge, Canada Natives, Land Use, Conflict Resolution, History, American Indians, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students, Immigrants, Botany, COVID-19, Pandemics, Western Civilization, American Indian Culture
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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