Teaching
Cultural
Competence
⊛ Measuring Intelligence
Diverse Populations in the
United States
⊛ Sources of Diversity
Cultural Competence
4-stages
⊛ Programs have grown out of the need to improve
COMMUNICATION and prevent malfunction in multicultural
work groups of various types, including health care
⊛ Cultural Knowledge:
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Familiarization with selected cultural characteristics, history,
values, belief systems, and behaviors of the members of another
ethnic group (Adams, 1995).
⊛ Cultural Awareness
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Developing sensitivity and understanding of another ethnic
group. This usually involves internal changes in terms of
attitudes and values. Awareness and sensitivity also refer to the
qualities of openness and flexibility that people develop in
relation to others. Cultural awareness must be supplemented
with cultural knowledge (Adams, 1995).
Definitions from: http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_howdifferent.htm
Cultural Competence
⊛ Cultural Sensitivity
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Knowing that cultural differences as well as similarities exist,
without assigning values, i.e., better or worse, right or wrong, to
those cultural differences (National Maternal and Child Health
Center on Cultural Competency, 1997).
⊛ Cultural competence = ACTION
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Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating
in different cultural contexts. Knowledge, sensitivity, and
awareness do not include this concept. "This is beyond
awareness or sensitivity," says Marva Benjamin of the
Georgetown Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental
Health.
http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_howdifferent.htm
More than language. . .
⊛ Ethnicity: a shared sense of identity that includes a set of
cultural meanings based on national origin, religion, language
etc., may include race)
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Word comes from Greek “Ethnos” = people.
(Nagel, p. 2, M&M) notes that ethnicity is based on
• Language
• Religion
• Culture
• Appearance
• Ancestry
• Regionality
More than language. . .
⊛ Ethnicity: shared common orientation toward the world
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Sense of identification with one another
Identification by outsiders as belonging to a distinctive culture
Often incorporates social, religious, linguistic, dietary and other
variables to identify individuals and populations
Share common ancestry and cultural traditions
Shared values and norms
Ethnic boundaries and dynamic and imprecise
⊛ Are “Southerners” an ethnic group?