EDUC-1046EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intercultural Competence, Organizational Culture
12 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Worldview: behaviour, beliefs, conceptions
What are the beliefs I know to be true?
What are the conceptions I know to be true? (family, trust, loyalty)
How do these impact my behaviour?
Privilege: advantage
Activity (white men are very privileged)
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Cultural Competence
What is a culturally competent teacher/school?
Culture: the shared traditions, beliefs, customs, history, folklore, and institutions of a
group of people. Culture is shared by people of the same ethnicity, language,
nationality, or religion. it's a system of rules that are the base of what we are and
affect
Cultural Knowledge: you know about some cultural characteristics, history, values,
beliefs and behaviours of another ethnic or cultural group.
Cultural Awareness: next stage of understanding other groups
Cultural Sensitivity: knowing that difference exist between cultures, but not assigning
values to the differences (better or worse, right or wrong). Clashes on this point can
easily concern
Cultural Competence: brings together the previous stages that adds operational
effectiveness. A culturally competent organization has the capacity to bring into its
system many different behaviours, attitudes, and policies and work effectively in
cross-cultural settings to produce better outcomes
We all develop in some type of culture. Our environment determines what we learn,
how we learn it, and the rules for living with others. These rules are transmitted
School systems have a "culture" of policies, procedures, programs and processes,
and incorporate certain values, beliefs, assumptions, and customs. Organizational
cultures largely echo mainstream culture in its sense of time orientation, perception
and use of time. A school's organizational culture may not lend itself to cultural
competence, so that is where skill building comes in. a culturally competent
organization brings together knowledge about different groups of people and
transforms it into standard, policies, and practices that make everything work.
Why is it important to be culturally competent?
When does a teacher need to become culturally competent?
How do you create a culturally competent education system?
Lecture 1: Worldview
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
2:35 PM
Document Summary
What are the conceptions i know to be true? (family, trust, loyalty) Culture: the shared traditions, beliefs, customs, history, folklore, and institutions of a group of people. Culture is shared by people of the same ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion. it"s a system of rules that are the base of what we are and affect. Cultural knowledge: you know about some cultural characteristics, history, values, beliefs and behaviours of another ethnic or cultural group. Cultural awareness: next stage of understanding other groups. Cultural sensitivity: knowing that difference exist between cultures, but not assigning values to the differences (better or worse, right or wrong). Cultural competence: brings together the previous stages that adds operational effectiveness. A culturally competent organization has the capacity to bring into its system many different behaviours, attitudes, and policies and work effectively in cross-cultural settings to produce better outcomes. We all develop in some type of culture.
