This project is adapted from Lawless, B. and Chen Y.W., “Teaching Social Justice: Critical Tools for the Intercultural Communication Classroom,” 2021.
This project is to develop and enhance your intercultural communication skills through critical self-assessment and reflections.
Project Requirements:
Your name should be on the project
Use of at least FOUR key terms (bold) from the textbook, Intercultural Communication by (Sorrells, K).
Use of at least TWO academic sources (peer reviewed journal articles preferred).
Look for research on intercultural relationships, communication, and praxis.
nclude specific examples and thorough explanations.
Be free of grammatical errors.
Use APA format to create a citation page.
Study the Intercultural Praxis Model
Your essay will describe, reflect, and assess your intercultural experience(s) and discuss what it means for you to exercise intercultural praxis.
Clearly describe specific incidents or interactions that illustrate (or not) your intercultural communication skills and describe/assess your own intercultural communication strengths and continued needs.
Be sure to include what you have learned throughout this quarter so far and also include additional research findings.
In essence, your project should consist of three main parts:
Describe and reflect on what kinds of intercultural communicator you are drawing from specific incidents or interactions
Assess your own intercultural communication strengths and continued needs.
Provide five to seven conclusions or key recommendations for applying intercultural praxis to everyday situations.
Overall, the discussion on Intercultural Praxis can be found in Chapter 1, pg. 19:
Intro – What is Intercultural Praxis
Main points:
Inquiry, Framing, Positioning
More about you and what you know or perceive about people from different cultures
Dialogue
Could be an interview you set up with someone you know
Could be notes you took on the week’s interactions
Reflection
Analysis of your intercultural communication
Perceptions of others
Where might you have room to grow?
How did you interpret things?
Action
Conclusions
How to proceed and be better.
