Socrates:
I CANNOT TEACH
ANYONE
ANYTHING
I CAN ONLY MAKE
THEM THINK...
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY ISSUES
IN SUPERVISION
Dijkhuizen & Gaspar, 2011
• Sensitivity for diversity
• Dealing with diversity
• Managing diversity
Module:
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY &
INTERCULTURALITY AS A
SUPERVISOR
Module links:
-Experiences
-Feedback
-Reflection
-Theory
As a foundation for learning
and teaching
KEY QUESTION….
WHY SHOULD WE DEAL
WITH DIVERSITY IN
SUPERVISION?
CORE COMPETENCES for
supervisors and coaches dealing
with diversity:
SENSITIVITY FOR DIVERSITY
• Knowledge of your own baggage
• Developed sensibility for diversity
• Willingness to investigate in your own
affirmative introspection
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY
• Knowledge of views/opinions in other
cultures
• Insight into one’s own norms and values
and those of ‘others’ and the capacity to
make interventions based on this insight
• Capacity to act free from imposing norms
• Capacity to switch perspectives or codes
MANAGING DIVERSITY
• Knowing how to define roles and how to
structure them
• Capacity of recognizing exclusion/unequal
treatment and engage in dialogue about
this
• Capacity to intervene in case of
discrimination
PROCESS ASPECTS
Ability to:
– deal with different ways of
communication
– deal with power and dominance when
diversity is under discussion
– create space and time for ‘not knowing’
– manage conflicts well
– turn friction into brilliance
Gardenswartz & Rowe (2003)
Part of the Grundtvig Group in 2009
Amersfoort the Netherlands
We ended up safe and sound……although
some of us were not so experienced…..in
riding a bike….!