Difference and Diversity as a Resource for Learning: Teaching Transcultural Social Practice

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume13
dc.contributor.authorNapan K
dc.contributor.authorConnor H
dc.date.available2014-05-13
dc.date.issued2014-05-13
dc.description.abstractAbstract: This article explores how difference and diversity are valued and recognized as resources for learning within a multicultural classroom while teaching a course on Transcultural Social Practice within the Master of Social Practice Programme at Unitec Institute of Technology, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The course is taught as an elective and attracts practitioners from a range of professional and cultural backgrounds, affinities, personalities and motivations for enrolling. The differences and diversity within the class cohort are utilised as a main asset of the course content and process. Students are invited to collaborate and co-create the course by utilising their unique abilities, sharing their experiences, knowledge, cultural insights and perspectives in order to develop transcultural approaches to social practice. The course focusses on an exploration of the concepts of transcultural social practice, multiplicities of cultural identities and development of cultural awareness and respectfulness within the bicultural context of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Tensions between Aotearoa/New Zealand’s commitment to biculturalism and students’ assumptions about multiculturalism are examined, presented and opened for discussion and dialogue within a framework that posits an exploration of the meaning of transcultural practice.
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dc.format.extent79 - 89 (10)
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dc.identifier.citationTHE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION, 2014, 13 (3), pp. 79 - 89 (10)
dc.identifier.elements-id207939
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2327-0020
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherCommon Ground Publishing
dc.publisher.urihttp://ijde.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.244/prod.57
dc.relation.isPartOfTHE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION
dc.subjectLearner Diversity
dc.subjectDifference
dc.subjectTranscultural
dc.subjectInclusive Education
dc.subjectCo-Creative Learning
dc.subjectBi-culturalism
dc.subjectMulticulturalism
dc.subject.anzsrc1399 Other Education
dc.titleDifference and Diversity as a Resource for Learning: Teaching Transcultural Social Practice
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Health
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Health/School of Social Work
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