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- Title
Toward a New Cartography of Intercultural Communication: Mapping Bias, Business, and Diversity.
- Authors
Munshi, Debashish; McKie, David
- Abstract
Courses in intercultural communication often put non-Western students at a disadvantage. In developing a course with a majority of non-Western participants at The University of Waikato, we adapted critical pedagogy to address the Western biases in the texts and approaches of intercultural communication. We selected both mainstream and alternative readings that allowed students to connect the field's neo-colonial business present with its colonialist past, to question the ethics and efficacy of an often skewed territorialisation of knowledge, and to redress traditional distortions by introducing perspectives from a range of critical and post-colonial theorists. The readings were reinforced by student presentations of their own experiences crossing cultural borders. These experiences were then assessed in class, so that we didn't rely on the simulated experiences recorded in the conventional texts.
- Subjects
CROSS-cultural communication; CRITICAL pedagogy; MULTICULTURAL education; BUSINESS education; UNIVERSITY of Waikato; BUSINESS communication; ETHNICITY; CULTURE; IMPERIALISM; DIVERSITY in education; PREJUDICES; CROSS-cultural orientation
- Publication
Business Communication Quarterly, 2001, Vol 64, Issue 3, p9
- ISSN
1080-5699
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/108056990106400302