The final task on this blog is as follows:
Reflect on the learning outcomes for this FLC, describe your
experiences that contributed to those outcomes, and analyze your mastery of
those ideas. Present how you might incorporate your new insights in your
teaching, your department, your office, or in designing student
experiences.
Here are the learning outcomes for the community:
- Describe strategies of learning to cope with new social/cultural expectations through immersion experiences such as BaFa BaFa and personal experience.
- Analyze experiences of dealing with diversity through personal assessment using the Intercultural Development Instrument.
- Create ways to foster of diversity in professional life/classes/student services/student groups
I think I am have some new strategies for coping with new
social cultural expectations. These include finding the familiar while being
open to novelty. Finding the familiar helps me to use my cultural strengths and
referents to access new spaces and ideas. Being open to and embracing the
unfamiliar allows me to learn about others. Having opportunities to feel like
an outsider in the immersion experiences served as important reminders both of
how to welcome others and how to successfully join new experiences.
Participating in personal assessment through reflection and the Intercultural
Development Instrument allowed me to have some insight into the distance
between what I know and believe and what I do. As an advisor for a student
group, course instructor and colleague I need to find ways to allow for that learning
space and to be intentional about creating it. One specific thing I can do is allow time for
reflection. Without reflection and dialogue there is a danger of reinforcing
stereotypes instead of recognizing the “funds of knowledge” or cultural and
cognitive resources (Moll, Amanti, Neff & Gonzalez, 1992) that others bring
to the table. What I can take away from
this group is to not be held back by or wrapped up in what I already know and
recognize how much I have to learn.
Reference
Moll, L. C., Amanti, C., Neff, D., & Gonzalez, N.
(1992). Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to
connect homes and classrooms. Theory into Practice, 32(2), 132-141.
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