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Using the Medicine Wheel for Curriculum Design in Intercultural Communication: Rethinking Learning Outcomes

Using the Medicine Wheel for Curriculum Design in Intercultural Communication: Rethinking Learning Outcomes
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Author(s): Marcella LaFever (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 32
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.ch007

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Abstract

In December 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its calls to action for reconciliation related to the oppressive legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Required actions include increased teaching of intercultural competencies and incorporation of indigenous ways of knowing and learning. Intercultural Communication as a discipline has primarily been developed from euro-centric traditions based in three domains of learning referred to as Bloom's taxonomy. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly identified problems in the way that intercultural competency is taught. The decolonization of education is implicated in finding solutions to those problems. Indigenization of education is one such effort. This chapter posits the Medicine Wheel, a teaching/learning framework that has widespread use in indigenous communities, for use in instructing intercultural communication. Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains, is missing the fourth quadrant of the Medicine Wheel, spiritual. Examples of the spiritual quadrant are offered.

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