Developing Cultural
Competence Through
Deep Learning
A Tutor’s Approach
Presented by
Lukasz Swiatek
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Overview
1. Surface versus deep culture
2. Deep learning approaches
3. Examples
4. Interactive demonstration
5. Conclusion
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1. Surface versus deep culture
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2. Deep learning approaches
Jackson’s (2012a, 2012b) advice:
- analyse and test ideas, evidence and arguments against other
sources:
- general knowledge,
- common sense,
- prior learning, and
- media (esp. Internet) sources; and
- make connections, find patterns.
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3. Examples
- Embedding insights when returning feedback
- ‘What/Why Communicators’ (Tomalin and Nicks 2010)
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3. Examples
- Fulfilling student requests
- El Perro Y El Gato (link)
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3. Examples
- Sharing students’ presentation slides
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3. Examples
- Sharing students’ presentation slides
- ‘Past-, present- and future-oriented cultures’ (Hurn and Tomalin
2013)
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3. Examples
- Sharing students’ presentation slides
- ‘High- and low-context communicators’ (Hall 1959, 1976; Hall
and Hall 1990)
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3. Examples
- Cultural insights in the weekly quiz
https://youtu.be/4sNkXreBPnk?t=15m55s
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4. Interactive demonstration
The weekly quiz
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https://youtu.be/VIB7bMBFfaA?t=5m32s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN72n1ogy18
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Team 3
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Conclusion
Does it work?
Challenges:
- Surface versus deep culture: not always distinct
- Motivating students
- Media content isn’t always representative
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References
Hall, E.T. 1959, The Silent Language, Random House, New York
Hall, E.T. 1976, Beyond Culture, Random House, New York
Hall, E.T. and Hall, M.R. 1990, Understanding Cultural Differences: German, French and
Americans, Intercultural Press, Yarmouth
Hurn, B. J. & Tomalin, B. 2013, Cross-cultural communication: theory and practice,
Palgrave
Macmillan, Basingstoke
Jackson, M. 2012a, ‘Deep Approaches to Learning in Higher Education’, Encyclopedia of the
Sciences of Learning, Springer, pp. 913 – 915 [Online] Available:
http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1428-6_1843
Jackson, M. 2012b, ‘Approaches to Learning and Teaching: Some Observations’, in Analytic
Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, vol. 33, pp. 65 – 71
Tomalin, B. and Nicks, M. 2010, The World’s Business Cultures and How to Unlock
Them,
Thorogood Publishing, London
Images:
– Iceberg model from: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com (link)
– ‘The deep culture onion’: Shaules, J. 2010, A beginner's guide to the deep culture experience
beneath the surface, Intercultural Press, Boston
– ‘High- and low-context communicators’: whenyougetgive.wordpress.com (link)
– ‘Past-, present- and future-oriented cultures’: whenyougetgive.wordpress.com (link)
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