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Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom

Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom
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Author(s): Maria S. Plakhotnik (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 28
Source title: Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Grisel María García-Pérez (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada)and Constanza Rojas-Primus (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch006

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how instructors could use autoethnography as a course assignment to help students understand their cultural identities and build their intercultural communication competences in higher education classroom. Autoethnography is a qualitative research method that helps people examine their relationship with a group or a culture. The chapter provides an overview of literature relevant to intercultural communication competences, social identity, and autoethnography and then describes the author's use of autoethnography in an undergraduate course “Social and Cultural Foundations of Education” taught at a large public university in the United States. In her class, the author uses this method to help students examine their cultural identity, or relationship with groups based on their religion, culture, nationality, ethnicity, or other groups relevant to the course.

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