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Pivoting Perspectives through Intercultural Learning

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Thursday, October 02, 2014
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Dr. Caryn McTigheMusil, AAC&U

This workshop will engage participants in seeing through national trends how the practice of promoting intercultural learning is being incorporated into a variety of courses and adopted as a pedagogical strategy to contribute to students being more constructive and adept global citizens. We will be drawing from participants¿ observations about their own courses and supplement with examples across different disciplines at other campuses involved with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. We will also examine the new intercultural overlapping practices as they are embodied within thematic courses focused on US diversity, global learning, and civic engagement. Evidence is mounting that learning is accelerated as students apply their learning in the face of complex realities and how learning is sharpened when they confront questions of their personal and social responsibility to a larger public. Participants will be challenged to invent some additional ways they might expand on their own ways to enhance intercultural learning in their current and future courses. Everyone should bring at least one syllabus with them they hope to enrich as a result of this workshop. Please RSVP at the link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3WW3PHZDr. Musil is the Senior Scholar and Director of Civic Learning and Democracy Initiatives at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

Contact: Darla Deardorff