Maha Bali talks about intercultural learning on episode 124 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

By spending a lot of time with people who are different than yourself, you get to know yourself even better.
–Maha Bali

When you leave your culture and go to live somewhere else it helps you question your values, what you take for granted, and your assumptions.
–Maha Bali

You need deep, sustained interaction with a person or a group of people to be able to understand their culture.
–Maha Bali

Resources Mentioned

• Maha’s PhD Thesis: Critical Thinking in Context: Practice at an American Liberal Arts University in Egypt
• Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice* by Michael Byram, Adam Nichols, and David Stevens
• The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language by Caryl Emerson
• Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Milton J. Bennett
• Hannah and the Talking Tree by Elke Weiss
• The Lion Guard song: We Are the Same
• Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space Theory
• Edward Said

 

Yolanda Flores Niemann dialogs about being presumed incompetent in academia on episode #123 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

Quotes from the episode

Only about 20% of faculty are people of color.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann

No matter how you think of yourself, you cease to be the independent scholar … and you become what the environment needs you to be because you are one of the few people of color.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann

We need to mentor women to not be afraid to negotiate.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann

The millennials are …  one of our most social-justice and equality-minded generations.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann

The responsibility for knowing about issues of race, class, and gender identity, and being able to mentor students around these issues, is a responsibility that needs to be shared.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann

Resources Mentioned

• The Making of a Token by Yolanda Flores Niemann
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• “They Forgot Mammy Had a Brain” by Sherrée Wilson, a chapter in Presumed Incompetent
• Meg Urry on Teaching in Higher Ed #069, talks at one point about negotiation
• Inclusive Teaching in the STEM Classroom, a video series by Vanderbilt’s Center for Faculty Development

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