Talk:Intercultural learning teams/Course description
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| Nice project | 1 | 06:16, 24 April 2015 |
| Great start to your course description | 1 | 07:30, 23 April 2015 |
I love to see educational works aimed at promoting intercultural relations and cooperation-collaboration among people. In fact, in my PhD research, I'm working with more than 300 traditional stories from over 160 cultures and spiritual traditions able to transmit a complex systems thinking and the values of social justice, peace and sustainability framed by the Earth Charter, and it is amazing to see how each culture has so much to contribute for a better world. Neoliberal globalization defenders are imposing their beliefs about unbridled individualism and fierce competition worldwide. Moreover, they are imposing a single model of society -and an unique thinking- which don't respect cultural diversity. Proposals like yours, Donna, seems indispensable in the times we are living in. I am not able to evaluate the technical aspects of your work, but just seeing what you intend with it is a hopeful vision for me. Thank you. All the best, Grian
Thanks for the feedback.
Your dissertation research sounds so interesting and helpful to connecting people interested in power with instead of power over. I'll keep my eyes open for your publications.
I also worry about the neoliberal and neocon lack of respect for thought diversity, as well as cultural diversity and sustainability. There's a strong consciousness about the Earth Charter values in grassroots Canada and the political opposition parties and various citizen social action initiatives. For us, the tar sands oil business is a huge threat to the environment and democratic rights as we knew them have been undermined by awful international trade deals.
Thanks for sharing your course description - this is a great start.
Developing courses for inter-cultural learning teams has huge potential for the open course delivery model.
With reference to ideas for refining the course description, I think it would be useful to provide some more detail on the intended target audience. Is this a course intended for educators, or working in teams more generally.
One of the big challenges when you start thinking about your design blueprint is how to implement team work within the open course environment.
I'm looking forward to the next edition and seeing your design blueprint.
Thanks for the feedback.
Based on my experience of who shows up for intercultural learning initiatives, I decided on a broad audience of educators working with adult learners. But I think this course could be developed at various levels from professional development, conted certificate, to M.Ed. level.
Thinking about team work in the open, I think one key is a variety of communication options so people can choose their level of privacy. A format like the WikiEducator course planning page could work to track team project task progress. Team process & maintenance is the main learning zone and needs to be addressed more sensitively – yet openly, because open minds and open dialogue are critical goals.
