Listen "Intercultural Learning"
Episode Synopsis
Maha Bali talks about intercultural learning on episode 124 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
By spending a lot of time with people who are different than yourself, you get to know yourself even better.
–Maha Bali
When you leave your culture and go to live somewhere else it helps you question your values, what you take for granted, and your assumptions.
–Maha Bali
You need deep, sustained interaction with a person or a group of people to be able to understand their culture.
–Maha Bali
Resources Mentioned
Maha’s PhD Thesis: Critical Thinking in Context: Practice at an American Liberal Arts University in Egypt
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice* by Michael Byram, Adam Nichols, and David Stevens
The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language by Caryl Emerson
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Milton J. Bennett
Hannah and the Talking Tree by Elke Weiss
The Lion Guard song: We Are the Same
Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space Theory
Edward Said
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