Monday, January 18, 2010

Course construction ideas

I read an article by Robert Weigl that discussed his construction of an open ended course for intercultural competence which was used by the Peace Corps and the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute. He constructed a course that uses as a text, McGoldrick, Giordano and Garcia-Preto (Eds.) (2005). Ethnicity and family therapy, 3rd Ed. The only assignment is that the student completes a 2400 word paper that focuses on how the student, their family and their larger cultural reality is described from 8 different conceptual patterns.

Weigl strongly upholds the idea that the process of self-discovery will open a larger door of cultural awareness that will lead the learner to further examination of other cultures and understanding.

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