Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, Understanding

In this course, participants will explore the foundational disposition of cultural humility, which enables educators and students to approach intercultural relationships through a reflective and humble stance. Cultural humility is a new concept in the field of education that has many contributions to offer to the areas of global and cultural competence, intercultural learning, multicultural education and culturally responsive pedagogy. Cultural humility requires that individuals engage humbly in a lifelong commitment to self-reflection and self-critique; address power imbalances that exist in communication; and develop mutually caring, respectful, and trusting intercultural relationships (Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998; Hodgin, 2014). This course will share key findings from a qualitative research study exploring the dimensions of cultural humility in an urban public school setting with secondary school teachers and students building relationships across racial and cultural differences (Hodgin, 2014). In addition, participants will reflect on and discuss the elements of cultural humility and the implications for their own work and educational settings.