Monthly Archives: March 2013

Intercultural U Pecha Kucha (Mar. 22, 2013)

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We successfully presented at the Intercultural U Pecha Kucha Night last Friday, Mar. 22, 2013. We were well-received and pleasantly surprised with the amount of audience participation during the activity portion. More information about the presentation are below:

Event Information:

Presentation Information:

  • Name: Intentional Learning Space as an Alternative Model of Education
  • Presenters:
    • Hanae Tsukada
    • Amy Perreault
    • Judy Chan
    • Zack Lee
    • Shaya Golparian
  • Description: We will question some of the institutional debates on intercultural understanding at UBC and propose the creation of an “intentional learning space” as an alterna- tive approach. Based on our experience, we will illustrate how we design and facilitate the learning space to engage students in discussing socially contentious issues.
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The other files associated with the presentation are available in the Media Gallery.

Meeting Minutes – March 14, 2013

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1. We looked at and refined our mission statement and we agreed on the following:

Based on the lived/living experiences of the collective the group will develop strategies to integrate intercultural intention, awareness and embodiment towards transformative teaching and learning spaces.

  •  We looked at and defined the following words:

Embodiment: Practice; Values; Model; Style; Situated learning; Being; Deep understanding; Lived experience (the role of the body in shaping the mind)
Intention: Purpose; and Hanae and Judy’s not so positive definition for the word intention
Awareness: as leading to awakening
Transformative Learning: Implies a need for change or transformation; implies that there is a gap of lack of understanding; It’s a process (a full circle that starts with providing support); It involves critical engagement
We also looked at reflective teaching as an on going process of reflecting on an engagement with intercultural intentions, awareness and embodiment.

Amy highlighted intention, awareness, and embodiment as stages of learning.
We debated whether intention should come before awareness.

2. We decided on the name for our group:

 Intercultural Working Group

We debated whether we need to use a word that includes other forms of diversities.
*We decided to define culture broadly

3. Now what? Action Plans

*Invite new members to join our group.

  • Staff meeting-on March 27
  • Do our Pecha Kucha presentation at the Staff meeting

*Take forward how CTLT engages with the TRC event (deadline Sept 18, 2013)
*Our next meeting is on April 11
*We are starting a Word Press blog 🙂