Fwd: RE: Cross-Cultural Diversity Teaching and Assessment

[mahafan at ksu.edu]

I've done workshops for faculty as well as for off-campus groups
(policemen, for example) but have never done assessments.

You're right that basic cross-cultural examples from ling anth are great
to use.  Lots of examples as well as an introductory (five-ten minutes)
mini-lecture (at least for some off-campus groups) on why one would
want to be sensitive to issues of diversity these days.  Examples from
personal experience are especially good to use (I ended up including as
many of these as I could as sidebars in my textbook as students seem to
gravitate to them too), plus I have found that Michael Agar's
Rich-Points concept (in his 'Language Shock' book) is relatively easy
for most folks to grasp and work with.

Harriet Ottenheimer
Anthropology & American Ethnic Studies
Kansas State University
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~mahafah

Quoting Leila Monaghan <monaghan at indiana.edu>:

> Hi, does anyone have specific information on the kind of thing a
> cross-cultural diversity teaching and assessment workshop might have?
> Offhand the Ebonics controversy and basic cross-cultural material
> from
> ling anth comes to mind but was wondering if anybody had done this
> sort
> of work.
>
> all best, and please reply to Shirley Maase at shirley at friend.ly.net
>
> Leila
>
> ----- Forwarded message from rivie at indiana.edu -----
>     Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:23:05 -0400
>     From: "Ivie, Robert L." <rivie at indiana.edu>
> Reply-To: "Ivie, Robert L." <rivie at indiana.edu>
> Subject: RE: Cross-Cultural Diversity Teaching and Assessment
>       To: Shirley Maase <shirley at friend.ly.net>, "Goodman, Jane E."
> <janegood at indiana.edu>, "Monaghan, Leila" <monaghan at indiana.edu>
>
> I do not have an answer to your question, but I am copying this to
> Jane
> Goodman and Leila Monaghan here at Indiana University who may.  Best,
> Bob
>
> Robert L. Ivie, Professor
> Rhetoric and Public Culture
> Department of Communication & Culture
> Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
> http://www.indiana.edu/~ivieweb/
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Shirley Maase [mailto:shirley at friend.ly.net]
> Sent: Wed 6/21/2006 10:42 AM
> To: Ivie, Robert L.
> Subject: Cross-Cultural Diversity Teaching and Assessment
>
>
> Our two-year school  (Chesapeake College, on the Eastern Shore of
> Maryland) is planning a teaching and assessing cultural diversity
> workshop for our faculty late August.  You Do you know where we might
> access what other schools have done along these lines?
> Thanks for any help that you may give.
> Dr. Shirley Maase
> Professor, Communication
> Chesapeake College
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
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> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Communication and Culture
> Indiana University
> Ashton Mottier Hall
> 1760 E. 10th Street
> Bloomington, IN 47405-9700
> (812) 855-4607
> monaghan at indiana.edu
>
>