Cultural Question Jar

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

1 hour

External Cost

No

Lesson Plan

Source

Created by Virginia Cabrera, Assistant Director of Orientation Programs, Student Success Programs, Purdue University

It is helpful to know where the student is on the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC) and frame conversations according to their Developmental Orientation. Note this is a good activity to do one-on-one after you have done a social identity profile activity (e.g. Circles of My Multicultural Self) with the larger group and have broken down different social identities. Additionally, it helps to have built some level of rapport with the student before doing this activity. Feel free to create your own questions based on your students’ needs. Some of these are specific to the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) experience, but this could be a standalone activity if adapted. Additionally, it is helpful to have a definition sheet of social identities readily available if you have to define anything for the student.

This activity should be debriefed using either the Thiagi Debriefing method or the What? So what? Now what? method.

This virtual activity was submitted by Virginia Cabrera in fulfillment of the requirements of the Intercultural Pedagogy Grant program.