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It Can Be Taught: Explorations into Teaching the Foundations for Multicultural Effectiveness
Connections are drawn between the development of intercultural sensitivity, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, and multicultural effectiveness. A case is made that fostering particular critical thinking skills in courses enhances interpersonal skills, and that enhanced interpersonal skills facilitate movement along Bennett's proposed continuum of development of intercultural sensitivity. As a result of these changes, students should become more multiculturally effective. Discussion centers on how to integrate these qualities (e.g., critical thinking, intercultural sensitivity, and interpersonal skills) and facilitate them in courses (especially online courses). A call for research on how to test these assumptions with experiences beyond the classroom is introduced.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 16, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- January 23, 2020
- Authors:
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Randall E. Osborne,
Texas State University
Paul Kriese, Indiana University East
John M. Davis, Texas State University - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
