Principles Essay: Critical Refection & Application
Length: 900-1000 words (2 x 450-500 word response)
Learning Outcomes for this Assessment:
- Cultural Contexts: Apply understandings of culture and concepts of a cultural self to develop a framework for understanding cultural contexts of interactions and subsequent analysis of personal attitudes and actions.
- Power Relations: Critique the role of power in intercultural interactions and relations
Task details: Answer both questions in 450-500 words.
Use the TEEL structure for your paragraphs, critically reflecting with at least one example from your observations or experience and an in-text reference;
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- Topic sentence,
- Explanation and Example,
- Evidence (reference) and
- Link back to main idea of the paragraph.
Draw on your IAT results and own experiences and reference the key points made in the readings with in-text references
- (450-500 words) Complete the IAT test (Australia)for one or two of the following categories (Gender, Race, Sexuality, and/or Skin Tone), then consider your results and why they were, what they were (select test results that show a bias)…
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- Which of Kandola’s (2013) 3 ways of holding bias is most applicable to your results?
- Where/how do you think this bias may have developed in your life?
- How could/has this bias created a “coercive” power relation (Cummins, 2009) for others in your present and future professional life?
- How can you make your power relations more collaborative (Cummins, 2009)?
- (450-500 words) Using the texts by McIntosh (1988), Gorski (2016), Bali (2016), and Cummins (2009) as well as either Fong or Schimmel address the following…
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- How does privilege result in unearned power?
- According to Cummins (2009), how is this power exercised by dominant groups against other groups? Connect this explanation of the use of power by a dominant group to the examples discussed by Fong (2018) or Schimmel (2005).
- How does power/privilege influence our understanding of diversity and inclusion?
- How can unearned power/privilege be used to promote equity and equity-literacy?
This first question of your paper should cite Kandola (2013) and Cummins (2009), the second question of your paper should cite the first 4 authors named in #2, and then either Fong or Schimmel as a 5th author.
- Submit both answers in ONE word document with your name, unit and assignment number
- 12 point font, 1.5 spacing, Arial / Calibri / Times New Roman font style, ‘Normal’ margin setting in word ( 2.54 cm).