In true Web 2.0 style I discovered that our podcast was a winner through a wall posting on Facebook from the Danish organiser of the European Podcast Awards. This is wonderful and, after four years of doing the podcast, tells me that we must be doing something right. Although I do every other show from [...]
When I arranged to speak with Adrian Pilbeam about the intercultural training courses he offers I was surprised to find out that you could get EU support with your expenses to attend. Not that I am unfamiliar with the Grundtvig scheme which pays for adult educators to attend 5 day courses in EU countries since [...]
Jun 302010
When we first started the Absolutely Intercultural podcast back in 2006 and wrote on the podcast website that we were the first podcast to deal with intercultural matters I thought it wouldn’t be long before we had many competitors. But now four years later something has happened to make me look again to see what [...]
You may not have noticed but May 21 was UNESCO’s World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development. As a change to the cliched international fair of ethnic cuisine Debbie Swallow, crosscultural expert based in the UK, decided to start a blog called the World at Work. The idea would be to invite people [...]
May 172010
May 21st (Friday) is UNESCO’s “The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development” and Debbie Swallow has organised a new website for collecting workplace critical incidents. Do you have any examples of intercultural differences you have come across while working in other cultures? If so why not share them at the World at [...]
May 082010
I was amazed at the prevalence of tired old stereotypes about Africa when I spoke to Ekene Ajufo and Polly Anna Sanches Martinez about a discussion forum event they organised on behalf of the African Student Union at the University of Florida to discuss the theme of ‘Us v Them’. They called them National Geographic images. The problem [...]
Apr 112010
An aspect of intercultural learning which we haven’t looked at much so far in the Absolutely Intercultural podcast is experiences gained through voluntary work. In Barcelona at the Anna Lindh Foundation forum, I was fortunate enough to meet Rachad Izzat from Morocco who has gained a huge amount of intercultural experience through his involvement in [...]
Mar 052010
Pre-amble So I’m here at the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum and waiting for the workshop on creating spaces of peace and co-existence to begin. This is my first time live-blogging and I think this is going to be mentally exhausting. What often takes a great deal of time is adding links so that may come [...]