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Notes From the Field [electronic resource] : Learning Cultural Humility Through Critical Incidents and Central Challenges in Community-Based Participatory Research /

by Ross, Laurie.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleDescription: pp. 315-335.Subject(s): Cultural humility, experiential education, community-based participatory research, reflection, service-learningOnline resources: Click here to access full-text article In: Journal of community practice 2010, Vol. 18, No. 2-3Summary: Cultural humility is critical in the education of community development and planning graduate students because they often work with communities—geographic and/or identity based—where there is a power differential based on privileges of race, income, and education. Cultural humility requires commitment to ongoing self-reflection and self-critique, particularly identifying and examining one's own patterns of unintentional and intentional racism (Israel, Eng, Schulz, & Parker, 2005; Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998). This article describes a 2-course sequence within a community development and planning graduate program that develops students ' cultural humility by integrating community-based participatory research (CBPR) and ongoing reflection. Recommendations for instruction and assessing graduate students ' development of cultural humility emerge from this analysis.
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Cultural humility is critical in the education of community development and planning graduate students because they often work with communities—geographic and/or identity based—where there is a power differential based on privileges of race, income, and education. Cultural humility requires commitment to ongoing self-reflection and self-critique, particularly identifying and examining one's own patterns of unintentional and intentional racism (Israel, Eng, Schulz, & Parker, 2005; Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998). This article describes a 2-course sequence within a community development and planning graduate program that develops students ' cultural humility by integrating community-based participatory research (CBPR) and ongoing reflection. Recommendations for instruction and assessing graduate students ' development of cultural humility emerge from this analysis.

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