In this activity, participants will discuss differing perspectives with the goal of mutual understanding rather than persuasion.

This scholarly article is the original proposal of invitational rhetoric by Sonja Foss and Cindy Griffin.

This resource provides possible debate topics to practice using invitational rhetoric rather than debate.

This YouTube video from Kris Knutson is a 12-minute introduction to Invitational Rhetoric. 

• The trouble with ‘microaggressions’, an article
• We Need to Retire the Term “Microaggressions," an article
• The Problem with Research on Microaggressions, an article
• Unmasking Racial Microaggressions, an article

• Language Matters: Considering Microaggressions in Science, a publication
• Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life, a publication
• “Treat Them Like Human Beings”: Black Children’s Experiences with Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19, an publication

Although not research, the Global Studies Curriculum is aligned with the constructs behind the BEVI assessment tool; thus, it might be of interest to those perusing this Collection. For more information, please go to A Customizable Learning Experience That Prepares Students For An Interconnected World – CoreCollaborative International.

• Questions Across Cultures, an activity
• Addressing Microaggressions, an activity
• Counter-Storytelling, an activity
• Identity-Based Rejection Sensitivity, an activity
• Five D's of Bystander Intervention Training, a resource and discussion guide

• HubICL Professional Development Zone Courses: A self-guided learning module on Recognizing and Addressing Microaggression, a free online course
• Myth of whiteness #2: Silent = Neutral, an article
• Understanding Microaggressions: What They are and How They Affect the Workplace, an article
• When and How to Respond to Microaggressions, an article
• Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School, an article
• Nine Out of Ten Teachers Want Anti-Racism Training, says New Research from Centre for Mental Health and Not So Micro Campaign, an article
• How bystanders can shut down microaggressions, an article
• Anti-Racism Action Guide: Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions, a guide
• Portable Intercultural Module (PIM): Tricky Communication: Intent vs. Impact, an online embeddable learning modul

• Global Science Partnerships Learning Community: The First Six Years
• Interaction of empathy and culture: a review

Buntain, L. (2021). Intercultural contact, competence, and conviviality: A proposal for campus engagement and belonging (Publication No. 30506429) [Doctoral dissertation, Purdue University]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2838333849?sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of intercultural learning modules introduced to a faculty and staff study abroad program.

Buntain, L. (2023, April). Anything students can learn, staff and faculty can learn too: Intercultural learning in staff and faculty study abroad. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 35(1). https://frontiersjournal.org/index.php/Frontiers/article/view/738

In Sherlock Holmes, participants are given objects and asked to be detectives by making conclusions about the individual to whom the items belong. In this activity, participants seek to understand the importance of the constant self-reflection needed to be interculturally competent, explore how each of us sees the world around us and how we make meanings, and appreciate that we have multiple cultural identities and that combinations of identities work together in different contexts" (Rao, 2012, p. 179). 

Rao, N. (2012). Sherlock Holmes. In K. Berardo & D. K. Deardorff (Eds.), In Building cultural competence: Innovative activities and models (pp. 179-182). Stylus Publishing.

In this activity, participants discuss how culture affects who gets commemorated and how that commemoration occurs, identify global sources of knowledge, and seek to understand multiple worldviews related to social justice issues in education.

In this activity, participants learn to recognize points of correspondence between monuments and the controversies that they generate, recognize disparities between monumental structures, and develop an appreciation for difference, without reducing materials to a hierarchical ranking of better and worse. 

In this activity, participants learn to articulate how cultural values, beliefs, and assumptions inform educational systems, develop self-awareness of their own cultural values, beliefs, and assumptions, and "appreciate rather than judge cultural differences and create more inclusive learning spaces" (Harvey, 2018).

Harvey, T. (2018, February 26). Examining the syllabus as cultural artifact. True North Intercultural. https://www.truenorthintercultural.com/blog/examining-the-syllabus-as-cultural-artifact

This is the virtual version of Cultural Artifact (Show and Tell) in which participants analyze and discuss culture based on objects of cultural significance. 

In this activity, participants analyze and discuss culture based on objects of cultural significance. 

This podcast episode is from Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History. 

"Birmingham, 1963. The image of a police dog viciously attacking a young black protester shocks the nation. The picture, taken in the midst of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous marches, might be the most iconic photograph of the civil rights movement. But few have ever bothered to ask the people in the famous photograph what they think happened that day. It’s more complicated than it looks" (Gladwell, 2017).

Gladwell, M. (Executive Producer and Host). (2017, July 6). The foot soldier of Birmingham. In Revisionist history. Pushkin. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-foot-soldier-of-birmingham

Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) are small learning units focused on a single element of intercultural competence (one construct from the American Association of Colleges & Universities VALUE rubric for Intercultural Knowledge and Competence). PIM are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors who don't see themselves as experts in intercultural learning. They are meant to be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated systematically throughout a program of study to support students' development of intercultural competence over a longer period of time.

This self-guided online course presents a helpful orientation to instructors utilizing one or more of the three PIM that focus on interactions across cultural difference where the potential gap between intent and impact makes it difficult to navigate relational dynamics successfully. The course provides a general introduction to PIM, explores the theoretical constructs taught in the Tricky Communication PIM, exemplifies a range of implementation options from more basic to more engaged, and offers suggestions for facilitation. Questions about PIM can be directed to CILMAR at cilmar@purdue.edu.

This document outlines some helpful technical information for instructors who are embedding one or more Portable Intercultural Modules into their course or program.

"When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of 'multi-local' people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. 'How can I come from a country?' she asks. 'How can a human being come from a concept?'"

Selasi, T. [TED]. Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local | TED [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6E