Comfort with Ambiguity

These intercultural learning resources provide ways to assess tolerance for ambiguity, as well as introduces activities to introduce tolerance for ambiguity through navigating destabilizing situations. 

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Cultural Humility

This collection provides activities, assessments, and other resources for exploring cultural humility, a concept originally introduced by Drs. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia in 1998, detailing "a practice that incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-physician dynamic, and to developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic clinical and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations" (p. 117). The term has been emphasized in more recent years as a complement and/or alternative to cultural competence.

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Diving into Identity: Activities and Resources Exploring Identity

This collection includes activities, courses, and other resources exploring identity.

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Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM): Tricky Communication

This collection provides self-directed training resources on embedding portable intercultural learning modules (PIM), small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion, into your curriculum. In this case, the specific topic of intercultural competence is tricky communication, integrating the intercultural competency of communication.

PIM are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace. The Tricky Communication PIM is also offered through Moodle and Canvas. 

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Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM): Teaming

This collection provides self-directed training resources on embedding portable intercultural learning modules (PIM), small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion, into your curriculum. In this case, the specific topic of intercultural competence is teaming, integrating the intercultural competencies of communication and self and other awareness.

PIM are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace. Teaming PIM are also offered through Moodle and Canvas. 

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Intercultural Learning in the Language Classroom

This collection includes activities and curriculum that can be embedded into the language-learning classroom, as well as research and publications on the topic.

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Videos that teach the Intercultural Development Continuum Stages

This collection provides video resources to teach and discuss the intercultural development continuum stages. 

  1. IDC

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Proxemics

This collection provides activities, videos, and articles that pertain to proxemics, the study of how we use communicate with and organize around space.

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Teamwork

This collection provides teamwork activities and assessments for multicultural teams to build team effectiveness.

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History of Intercultural Learning

This collection provides resources the detail the history of intercultural learning.

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Goal-setting Across Cultures

This collection includes activities for setting intercultural learning goals, as well as articles and publications on goal-setting across cultures. 

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The Limits and Potentials of Rhetoric

This collection explores the concept of invitational rhetoric, with activities that encourage participants to practice invitational rhetoric, while also providing common critiques to the method.

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Perspectives on Microaggressions

This collection provides activities, resources, a free online course, and research publications on Microaggression. 

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Cultural Expression Through Artifacts and Monuments

This collection includes activities that use artifacts, objects, and monuments to foster self- and other-awareness. 

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PIM Tricky Communication

This collection provides resources from Purdue CILMAR's Portable Intercultural Module entitled, "Tricky Communication."

Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) are small learning units focused on one or two elements of intercultural competence and/or diversity and inclusion. They are turnkey solutions that address the needs of instructors or co-curricular leaders who don't see themselves as experts in these areas. PIM can be embedded within disciplinary course content, and multiple PIM can be integrated throughout a program of study to support learners' development of intercultural competence more systematically.

CILMAR offers all Portable Intercultural Modules (PIM) through Brightspace and a selection through Moodle and Canvas. Self-directed training is also available to support instructors who wish to use the selected PIM.

Learn more about PIM here

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A Place to Call Home

This collection includes activities and resources around the theme of "home."

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All Things Empathy

This collection offers activities and resources for defining, assessing, and developing empathy while exploring the nuances of empathy in how it is enacted, its benefits and its limitations.

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Assessing and Fostering Networks, Connectedness, and Belonging

This collection provides activities and resources to bring awareness to personal networks and explore and foster sense of belonging.

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Exploring Etiquette Across Cultures

This collection provides activities to introduce and explore differences in performing etiquette across cultures in addition to articles that address issues of etiquette. 

*While engaging with this collection, it is important to remember that like culture, etiquette practices evolve and change over time. In one resource, you might see a caution against talking about money in a particular area of the world, for example, and in another resource, you might see that talking about money in that same area of the world is appropriate. All this to say, perceptions, practices, values, behaviors, and more vary across cultures and individuals. We encouraging refraining from essentialism which can lead to stereotyping and using these resources to bring self and other awareness as even though etiquette rules may evolve over time, the concept of etiquette exists across cultures. 

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Diversophy Games

This collection provides a list of diversophy games by world language. 

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Ethnography and Intercultural Learning

This collection provides intercultural learning activities and scholarly articles related to ethnographies. 

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Dynamic Exercises to Shift Debriefing Time from Mundane to Transformative, Pre-conference workshop, WISE Conference, February 8, 2024, 10am – 3pm

This pre-conference workshop was delivered by Annette Benson, Alankrita Chhikara and Kelsey Patton, CILMAR/Purdue University.

Are you looking for ways to re-energize your debriefs? Join us to discover how to make debriefing experiential, transformative and effective — whether face-to-face or virtual — and facilitate a more inclusive conversation with the entire group rather than a few dominant voices. This workshop offers a variety of techniques for adding new energy to debriefing in different contexts and with different audiences. Appropriate for all levels of facilitation experience.

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Forum 2021: Special Issue on Assessment as Pedagogy in Education Abroad + Author Interviews

This collection includes articles from the 2021 Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad's Special Issue on Assessment as Pedagogy in Education Abroad, in addition to brief interviews with several of the authors. 

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Music and Intercultural Learning

The language of music is a window into the soul and a lens through which to see the world, making it an excellent avenue to develop intercultural learning. This collection includes intercultural learning activities, stories, songs, and articles pertaining to the power of music. 

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Intercultural Learning Activities and Icebreakers for Exploring Multiple Identities

This collection is a compilation of activities that encourage participants to explore their various personal and social identities.

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Resources for Storytelling to Build Connection and Understand Injustice

This collection brings together theoretical and practical resources that use storytelling to connect and shed light on injustices in the world. 

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