The SAGE encyclopedia of intercultural competence
This encyclopedia explores what a culture is, what barriers block successful communication between different cultures, and how those barriers can be understood and navigated to enhance intercultural understanding.
"The Reader's Guide organizes the range of headwords into the following 20 themes: Adaptation -- Applications of intercultural competence -- Culture -- Culture change -- Diversity and inclusion -- Education -- Ethics -- Globalization -- Identity development -- Intercultural comm…
Social class is a pervasive facet of all lives, regardless of one's own social class and status. One would think its ubiquity would make it necessary for all helping professionals to understand social class and discuss it in therapy and research. Yet social class and classism ar…
For HR directors, corporate trainers, college administrators, diversity trainers and study abroad educators, this book provides a cutting-edge framework and an innovative collection of ready-to-use tools and activities to help build cultural competence -- from the basics of unde…
"Building Cultural Competence presents the latest work in the intercultural field and provides step-by-step instructions for how to effectively work with the new models, frameworks, and exercises for building learners' cultural competence. Featuring fresh activities and tools fr…
This book takes a new approach to teaching students to think and learn about issues of race and diversity. Aiming to break down traditional categorisations of racial groupings such as African Americans, it focuses on teaching students to think and learn in a multidimensional, ra…