Intercultural Learning: Critical preparation for international student travel

Abstract

The ability to recognise and understand your own cultural context is a prerequisite to understanding and interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. An intercultural learning approach encourages us to develop an understanding of culture and cultural difference, through reflecting on our own context and experience.

The Effect of Russian Colonialism on Ukrainian Cultural Identity

“…To understand what constitutes a cultural identity, one must first examine what culture is. Culture as a singular definition is contested; what is agreed upon is the fluidity of culture and that it is multifaceted in the ways it can be explored (Jones et al, 2018). There are visible aspects of culture that are easily identifiable.…”

Global mobility in music higher education: Reflections on how intercultural music-making can enhance students’ musical practices and identities

“…Research on mobility programs in music indicate that music can be "a particularly democratic medium" for learning, and that music-making has the ability to "transcend other communication methods and involve a wordless knowing of others that [become] a basis for relations and interactions" (Adkins et al, 2012, p. 203). This is perhaps particularly true of intercultural mobility programs -that is, mobility programs where the learning is situated in contexts of cultural difference, involving understanding and interacting with people from cultural backgrounds other than one's own (Jones, Miles & Gopalkrishnan, 2018). This paper explores the question: how can music-making in the context of intercultural mobility programs affect students' musical practices and identities?…”