Intercultural competencies 'In this new environment, cultures observe one another, asking the same question: how to coexist and interact in a more and more interconnected world?' Four pillars of education: Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be Cultural literacy Conceptual vocabulary : Culture : is that set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or social group, encompassing all the ways of being in that society; at a minimum, including art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs
Cultural Identity: refers to those aspects of identity shared by members of a culture that, taken as a set, mark them as distinct from members of other cultures. Cultural diversity refers to the existence of a wide variety of cultures in the world today Values, beliefs, and attitudes key aspects of culture, underlie all communication with others, whether within a culture or between members of diff erent cultures. Intercultural describes what occurs when members of two or more different cultural groups (of whatever size, at whatever level) interact or influence one another in some fashion, whether in person or through various mediated forms. Communication often said to be a message conveyed from one person to another, more adequately should be viewed as joint construction (or co-construction) of meaning Communication includes language as well as nonverbal behavior, which includes everything from use of sounds (paralanguage), movements (kinesics), space (proxemics), and time (chronemics), to many aspects of material culture (food, clothing, objects, visual design, architecture) and can be understood as the active aspect of culture. Competence refers to having sufficient skill, ability, knowledge, or training to permit appropriate behavior, whether words or actions, in a particular context Communicative competence implies both understanding and producing appropriate words and other communication forms in ways that will make sense not only to the speaker/actor but also to others Language is both the generic term for the human ability to turn sounds into speech as a form of communication, and a specifi c term for the way in which members of any one group speak to one another. Dialogue is a form of communication (most often linguistic, though not always) occurring when participants, having their own perspectives, yet recognize the existence of other, diff erent perspectives, remaining open to learning about them. Intercultural dialogue specifi cally refers to dialogues occurring between members of diff erent cultural groups. Universality, refers to those elements common to all cultures – such as having a language, or having values and beliefs. Intercultural citizenship refers to a new type of citizen, the one required for the new global village Intercultural competences refer to having adequate relevant knowledge about particular cultures, as well as general knowledge about the sorts of issues arising when members of diff erent cultures interact, holding receptive attitudes that encourage establishing and maintaining contact with diverse others, as well as having the skills required to draw upon both knowledge and attitudes when interacting with others from different cultures. Intercultural literacy, which might be glossed as all the knowledge and skills necessary to the practice of intercultural competences, has become an essential tool for modern life, parallel to the development of information literacy, or media literacy Intercultural responsibility builds on understandings of intercultural competence by considering the importance of related concepts such as intercultural dialogue, ethics, religion (including interfaith dialogue), and notions of citizenship Reflexivity refers to the ability to step outside one’s own experiences in order to refl ect consciously upon them, considering what is happening, what it means, and how to respond Liquidity, the term proposed by Bauman (2000) to describe the fl uid nature of modern life implies change as a central element of human experience Creativity is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is, indeed, our ability to imagine that gives us the resilience to adapt to diff erent ecosystems and to invent “ways of living together”, the term used by the World Commission on Culture and Development to describe culture. Cultural shifting refers to the cognitive and behavioral capacity of an interculturally competent person to shift or switch language, behavior, or gestures according to his/her interlocutors and the larger context or situation11 Disposition, refers to the mind set progressively acquired through primary (family) and secondary (school) socialization. Semantic availability, proposed by Hempel (1965), describes the plasticity of ideas: when a concept is dimly understood, but not clear; pre-emergent, not yet fully formed; having a word at the tip of one’s tongue, except that the word has not yet been invented in that language. (АУТСАЙДЕР) Conviviality is the term Illich provided for “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment… in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can eff ectively satisfy the needs it creates among society’s members” Resilience is a key characteristic to consider when addressing cultures in their handling of tradition and modernity.
A point from last week - 1. The onion - understanding multilyared identities 2. relationships between materiality and immateriality / experience (re: Georgie) 3. Workshop intercultural and transcultural with M