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ERIC Number: ED392099
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995-Nov
Pages: 7
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The Intercultural Informant: An Experiential Learning Resource for Teacher Training.
Hinchcliff-Pelias, Mary; Elkins, Michael R.
With an increase in diverse cultures comes a responsibility for educators to become aware of their ethnocentric attitudes that influence increasingly diverse classrooms. One place to unpack attitudes about diversity in the classroom is to encourage teachers in training to become aware of their own ethnocentrism. One way for teachers to become aware of their own cultural attitudes is for them to participate in a game/simulation such as "Intercultural Informant." For this game, the class is divided into three groups; then three people, one from each group, are called forward to create, on their own, a culture, or, alternatively, to choose an existing culture they are familiar with. They then return to their group, which is given 3 minutes to interview them about the culture they have chosen to represent. Following the interview session, the game begins with questions posed by the facilitator such as the following: (1) How does the culture perceive time? (2) How does gender impact the culture? (3) Does the culture embody a religion? During each round, members of the group are given a chance to discuss the question before answering. Once they have offered an answer, the cultural informant decides, based on the degree of its accuracy, whether they should receive points or have points taken away. Instructors can use this game to test the impact of a holistic experiential learning game on their teachers in training. (Contains eight references.) (TB)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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