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Intercultural Learning Activities

  • Inclusion Competencies Inventory (20 minutes)
    The Inclusion Competencies Inventory is a proprietary, online, research-validated survey instrument which measures Openness to Change, Adaptability, Connecting with Others, Reading Others, Valuing Different Perspectives and Power Sensitivity.
  • Creating an Inclusive Classroom (30 minutes)
    This activity encourages participants to identify the challenges faced by students from various backgrounds in an academic setting and develop strategies to promote inclusion.
  • Crafting an Inclusion Philosophy (2 hours)
    In this activity, participants will learn to differentiate between the terms diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), identify their cultural or personal beliefs, values, and priorities related to DEI, craft a DEI statement that reflects their team’s identity, and apply DEI strategies in real-world, professional contexts.
  • Diversity Inclusivity Framework (1 hour)
    This assessment measures the extent to which the following elements of a course foster diversity and inclusion: purpose/goals, content, foundations/perspectives, learners, instructors, pedagogy, environment, assessment/evaluation, and adjustment.
  • Label Activity (15 minutes)
    In this activity, participants "experience the effects of inclusion and exclusion in a simulated activity" (Penn State Extension, 2017). 
  • Inclusion/Exclusion (45 minutes)
    In this activity, participants explore the "different ways people are made to feel 'included' in and 'excluded' from the learning process" (Gorski, n.d.). 
  • Building a House for Diversity (45 minutes)
    In this activity, participants read a fable and identify feelings of inclusion/exclusion as dependent on context, recognize that structural exclusion can exist, and analyze the inclusive and exclusive ways that people and organizations typically respond to diversity.
  • For Whom the Cowbell Tolls (45 minutes)
    In this activity, participants listen to a podcast and discuss the process of naturalization, discover how individualism, collectivism, assimilation, and xenophobia factor into naturalization, and learn to explain the idea of "belonging" to a place and outline their own sense of "belonging."
  • Self-Care 101 (1 hour)
    In this activity, participants develop self-care guides and assess inclusivity for individuals with differing backgrounds.
  • Ritual (10 minutes)
    In this activity, participants experience and discuss feelings of inclusion and exclusion and practice watching and assessing the behavior of others.
  • Free Time (10 minutes)
    In this activity, participants explain and critique exclusion and how it feels to be excluded, and describe their emotions related to exclusion and inclusion.
  • Exclusion (15 minutes)
    Thiagi's jolt, Exclusion, asks participants to describe their emotions of exclusion and inclusion in a team scenario.
  • DOTS--Version 2 (30 minutes)
    This activity, from the Transformer, examines how we silently convey group identification and how we feel belonging or exclusion.

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Jane Elliott's Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes

Jane Elliott first piloted the Blue eyes-Brown eyes exercise on April 6, 1968, the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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