Adopting Cultural Humility
In order to successfully work with racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations, it is vital to not only learn about the identity and culture of the population, but it is also important to examine one's own culture and identity. Interacting with your international student populations while demonstrating cultural humility is central to moving toward the goal of developing an equitable society and an inclusive community. The resources found on this page can be used to both deepen your own knowledge on the topic, and to be built into trainings for faculty, staff, student workers, and communities, in order to improve campus experiences and relations.
What is Cultural Humility?
Cultural humility is an attitude; an approach to interacting with others that involves curiosity, interest, and humility. Many educators are familiar with the term cultural competence, which while important, seems to infer an achievable endpoint - an expertise, rather than an authentic curiosity.
Cultural Humility is demonstrated in "a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process" (Cultural Humility, Definition & Example, 2017).
Reflections on Cultural Humility
Video Resources
Cultural Humility: People, Principles, and Practices
Cultural Humility: People, Principles and Practices," is a documentary by San Francisco State professor Vivian Chávez, that mixes poetry with music, interviews, archival footage, and images of community, nature and dance to explain what Cultural Humility is and why we need it. The film describes a set of principles that guide the thinking, behavior and actions of individuals and institutions to positively affect interpersonal relationships as well as systems change. These principles are:
• Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection
• Recognizing and changing power imbalances
• Developing institutional accountability
Think. Speak. Do. Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competency [Webinar]
This is part one of the Stephens College webinar series, Think. Speak. Do., an educational exploration of social justice foundation concepts, community, identity and empathy. Guided by Shaashawn Dial '98, inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Cultural Humility on TedX
Dr. Juliana Mosley has been an educator for nearly twenty-five years. She seeks to teach and inspire her students and her community to embrace and celebrate those are are different from us. By examining and unpacking our unconscious biases about culture and difference, Dr. Mosley urges us to make the "unconscious conscious" in order to propel us into a more equitable society.
News Articles
This Overlooked Trait is the Key to True Allyship (Forge - two (2) free stories available without a membership)
Understanding Cultural Humility During the Coronavirus Pandemic (University of the Pacific Newsroom)
Podcasts
Practice: Cultural Humility with Chinese Progressive Association (from Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast))
Bonus Episode: Cultural Humility (from SHERO Hotline Podcast)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
MOOCs are free, online courses that are available for anyone to enroll. Popular platforms include Coursera, edX, and FutureLearn, among many others. They provide untethered opportunities to grow competencies with regard to intercultural communication, cultural humility, and more!
Project Implicit
What are your implicit biases?
Checking in with your own implicit biases is an important area of development for those that work with [international] students. This resource provides the user with the opportunity to asses their conscious and unconscious biases for more than 90 different topics. From sports teams and music styles to ethnic groups and political issues, this tool will help you test how your biases may impact your decisions and interactions with a diverse group of individuals.
Note: A simple preview of the Project Implicit website is embedded here in the ISSR. If you are interested in using the tool, please visit the full webpage hosted at www.implicit.harvard.edu.
Intercultural Learning Hub
HubICL is a repository or "hub" of resources for intercultural learning. The Toolbox contains over 500 intercultural learning tools, which include experiential activities, reflections, media, curricula, and assessments. In the Research Repository, you can upload open access publications, works in progress, reports/white papers, blogs/editorials, and presentations.
Explore HubICL using this link!
References
(2012). Cultural humility: People principles and practices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaSHLbS1V4w&ab_channel=VivianChavez.
Bailey, K., & Calahan, E. (Hosts). (2020, June 19). Bonus episode: Cultural humility. SHERO Hotline. [Audio podcast]. https://anchor.fm/sherohotline/episodes/Bonus-Episode-Cultural-Humility-efkuru
Borgmann, L., & Fox, A. (Hosts). (2006-present). absolutely intercultural! [Audio podcast]. https://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/
Cultural humility: Definition & example. (2017). Retrieved August 26, 2020, from https://study.com/academy/lesson/cultural-humility-definition-example.html
FutureLearn. Intercultural Competence - Online course. FutureLearn. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intercultural-competence.
Gallardo, M.E. (Host). (n.d.). Cultural humility podcast [Audio podcast]. https://drgallardo.com/cultural-humility-podcast/
Greene-Moton, E., & Minkler, M. (2019). Cultural competence or cultural humility? Moving beyond the debate. Health Promotion Practice, 21(1), 142–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839919884912
Harvard University. (2011). Project implicit. Project Implicit. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.
Hohman, M. (2013, September 13). Cultural humility: A lifelong practice. "IN SITU" - the Blog of the SDSU School of Social Work. https://socialwork.sdsu.edu/insitu/diversity/cultural-humility-a-lifelong-practice/.
Intercultural Competency in Education. edX. https://www.edx.org/course/intercultural-competency-in-education. \
Intercultural Learning Hub. (2018). https://hubicl.org/.
Lentfer, J. (2019, October 1). Serving with cultural humility. How Matters. http://www.how-matters.org/2019/10/01/serving-with-cultural-humility/.
Stephens College Webinar Series. (2020). Think. Speak. Do. Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADhqzt2bFU&ab_channel=stephenscollege.
Sufrin, J. (2019, November 5). 3 things to know: Cultural humility. https://hogg.utexas.edu/3-things-to-know-cultural-humility.
Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom. edX. https://www.edx.org/course/teaching-learning-in-the-diverse-classroom.
TEDxWestChester. (2017). Cultural Humility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww_ml21L7Ns&ab_channel=TEDxTalks.
Wardell-Ghiraduzzi, M. J. (2020, July 21). Understanding cultural humility during the coronavirus pandemic. Pacific Newsroom. https://www.pacific.edu/pacific-newsroom/understanding-cultural-humility-during-coronavirus-pandemic.
Waters, A., & Asbill, L. (2013, August). Reflections on cultural humility. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2013/08/cultural-humility.
Wong, E., & Nguyen, C. (Hosts). (2019, November 5). Practice: Cultural humility with Chinese progressive association. Irresistible (fka healing justice podcast). [Audio podcast]. https://irresistible.org/podcast/generation2p