Category: Culturally responsive teaching
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The 9 Conversations program as a BMC
The 9 Conversations project is developing a programme for refugees wishing to start a business in their new location. The central tool that will be used by the programme is the Osterwalder Business Model Canvas. Each participant will be working to build their own Business Model Canvas. The image below is an experiment in trying…
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9 Conversations at SIETAR
I was able to present the 9 Conversations project at the Belgian SIETAR Congress. What was interesting was that I was sharing a track with others who were doing similar or complementary work. 9 Conversations from Anne Fox
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Funding as a game
Having spent the last two years developing the diversophy migrant game for Denmark, I was invited by George Simons to help facilitate his pre-Congress workshop on gamification of intercultural training at the SIETAR Congress in Belgium in May. One of my slots was to describe how we got funding to develop the Danish version of…
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Presenting the diversophy migrant edition
Delegates at the IATEFL conference in Liverpool in April had the chance to try out the diversophy migrant game. It certainly led to conversation and dialogue, the prime intention of the game, when I heard comments such as the following during the game: Well I would never call my teacher by their first name so…
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diversophy® migrant-spil: Danmark
Guide til facilitering Formål I projektet “diversophy® migrant-spil – Danmark” har vi haft særligt fokus på at udvikle diversophy®dialog-spil til at skabe dialog og relationer i små danske landsbysamfund. Derfor har vi skabt nogle særlige processer omkring spillet, som beskrives her. Denne guide til facilitering skal ses som en udvidelse til diversophys®officielle Facilitation Guide. Hvor? Dette…
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Dialogue to bridge differences
What is a virtual exchange? Maybe not what you think. We dig deeper into that in this special edition of Absolutely Intercultural coming to you from Denmark. The latest show is mainly about promoting dialogue between different groups of people. So what is dialogue? And can you tell the difference between dialogue and, for example,…
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Meet your neighbour
It is a cultural feature in Denmark that it is difficult to become part of the existing social networks. On the other hand, there is a great deal of goodwill from many Danes to help, especially refugees. The problem when you are a foreigner (including refugee) is that it is difficult to get in touch…
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Managing Cultural Diversity
Some European universities are much more pro-active about internationalisation than others and I have a feeling that German universities are in general more proactive in this than HE institutions in other EU countries. The Managing Cultural Diversity seminar which I have just returned from is just one prong in a palette of events and opportunities…
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Using games in conflict resolution
This book caught my eye based on the title alone “The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration” (Big Book Series) by Mary Scannell. The book is not aimed at the adult education sector nor the intercultural communication sector. So once again, I am left wondering which…
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Don’t forget the classic tools
In the last few posts I have been exploring different facets about how to resolve conflict in the diverse adult education classroom. This mainly revolves around taking the intercultural aspects into consideration such as tolerance for ambiguity and the role of the teacher (leader) in the classroom. This post is a reminder not to forget…