75.038 - Moving Beyond Cultural Competency: Supporting Teachers to Build Cultural Humility

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Whereas developing cultural competence can be limited to a specific set of skills that are mastered and is often focused on the “other” rather than the self, cultural humility moves beyond this to develop a lifelong commitment to engagement in deep self-reflection and self-critique, interrogation of power dynamics, and the development of mutually beneficial partnerships with students, families, and communities (Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998). In this session, the presenters will draw on a range of qualitative research studies with teachers and students in diverse settings in order to draw new and unique connections between cultural humility and the field of teacher education and highlight the importance of teachers developing cultural humility in the early phases of their careers.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 4: Multicultural, Inclusive, and Social Justice Frameworks for Teaching and Teacher Education in PK-16+ Settings

Chair

• Erica Hodgin, Mills College

Papers

• In-Service Teachers Draw on Cultural Humility to Build Effective Learning Relationships With Students Across Difference - Erica Hodgin, Mills College

• Designing Service-Learning to Foster Cultural Humility Among Preservice Teachers - Darren E. Lund, University of Calgary; Lianne Lee, University of Calgary

• Nurturing Cultural Humility and Self-Reflexivity in Preservice Teachers Through Short-Term Community Service-Learning Projects - Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, The University of British Columbia; Kari Grain, University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Alan Scott Tinkler, The University of Vermont