Overview
The purpose of the course is to enhance the multicultural experiences of both staff, teachers and students within higher education in Ireland. Higher education has evolved into a multicultural phenomenon with HEIs re-orientating to an outward facing trajectory which embraces new cultures along with the opportunities and learning this brings. Many HEIs are actively pursuing an International strategy which involves completing applications for the funding of transnational projects and recruiting international students. In particular, an increase in cultural awareness can encourage educational communities to appreciate the richness of diverse culture, to challenge prejudice and discrimination as well as promote equality. This awareness can also change the perceptions of interactions among those of different cultures and enrich the educational experiences of all involved.
This course has been developed with these factors in mind and aims to equip HEI staff with skills and competencies necessary to appreciate the benefits and challenges of embracing interculturalism. The essence of this process is to become good communicators.
You’ll Learn to
- Define the concept of culture and how the cultural model of the Iceberg relates to it. What implications has this, for example, to the workplace?
- Identify how stereotypes can influence our behaviour
- Evaluate how useful the application of “cultural dimensions” is to your relationship with students and colleagues.
- Identify how ethnocentrism and ethnorelativism can influence our behaviour.
- Developing intercultural attitude (curiosity and willingness to learn): acquire intercultural knowledge (cultural (self-) awareness and cultural knowledge; Intercultural skills (empathy and frame shifting)
On earning your open badge award for this course, you will have achieved further recognition in the following domains of the National Professional Development Framework for Staff who Teach:
- Domain 1: Personal Development: The ‘Self’ in Teaching and Learning emphasises the personal values, perspectives and emotions that individuals bring to their teaching, including self-awareness, confidence, life experience and the affective aspects associated with teaching. It makes transparent the importance of the personal values that underpin any human interaction, especially those needed for authentic, engaged teaching and how these values are impacted by the work context.
- Domain 3: Professional Communication and Dialogue in Teaching and Learning Description focuses on the importance of the excellent, clear and coherent communication skills required for the changing learning environment. It emphasises the key skills of written/verbal/visual communication, listening, dialogue and collaboration with others in the professional learning process. It recognises the importance of teaching and learning in a community to enhance student learning. The social dimension of professional learning is emphasised, and it recognises the role that communities of practice and networks play in supporting this locally, nationally and internationally; and within and across disciplines.
Course Developers
This open course will be developed by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in partnership with Munster Technological University.
Kristin Brogan
Munster Technological University
Louise Nagle
Munster Technological University
Susan Horgan
Munster Technological University
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