Northern Institute
Intercultural communication for knowledge generation, sharing and application
| Presenter | Dr Jessica Ball, Professor, University of Victoria, Canada | |
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In-Person & Online via Zoom Savanna Room (Building Yellow 1, Level 1, Room 48) Northern Institute, CDU Casuarina Campus |
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Program
10-11 am (Seminar)
11-11:30 am (Q&A Session)
11:30 am -12 pm (Opportunity for tea/coffee and informal discussion on the topic)
Abstract
This presentation will share lessons learned about intercultural communication over the course of multiple intercultural partnerships for research, post-secondary education, and early childhood intervention in Canada, Greenland, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The presentation suggests that we start where life begins – with relationships. The presentation describes the generative potential of entering into working relationships empty-handed and open-eared rather than with a recitation of credentials or promoting a pre-determined agenda. Yet the presentation also encourages participants in intercultural partnerships to bring their authentic selves - including their pre-committed values, beliefs, needs and goals - which can be made explicit while remaining flexible about how to proceed and open to new learning. Working in an ethical space between or among cultural and community-based ways of knowing, doing and being can generate new knowledge and forge new pathways for all partners. Behaviours promoting cultural safety will be described with reference to five principles to guide practice.
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Dr Jessica Ball is a Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada, and a consultant on a range of research, training, and evaluation projects in the areas of early childhood care and development, early family formation, languages in education, forced migrant youth and the children of transnational labour migrants. |
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