Embargo Period
5-2-2018
Degree Name
MA in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management
First Advisor
Ryland White
Second Advisor
Mokhtar Bouba
Abstract
This Course-Linked Capstone in Training focuses on intercultural competency development, both of the practitioner’s own life journey and through the lens of study abroad, highlighting a Case Study with SIT Study Abroad in Morocco. This Capstone weaves together theory and practice of intercultural competence, experiential learning, social justice training, and study abroad. The practitioner’s self-analysis includes reflection of her Practicum time, as well as a timeline of her intercultural competency development, including growth areas in five categories: knowledge, skills, attitudes, awareness and language. This Capstone also reflects the journey of the practitioner’s growth as a social justice trainer and experiential educator throughout her time at SIT Graduate Institute. The Case Study offers data from a needs assessment of intercultural competency development from the perspective of all stakeholders involved in the study abroad process: students, program staff and host families. This analysis offers program suggestions and training ideas for SIT Study Abroad to be implemented in Morocco. The core research question was: how can SIT Study Abroad in Morocco & the Center for Cross Cultural Learning (CCCL) connect the three major stakeholders of the study abroad experience to co-create increased intentional intercultural competency development for study abroad students, faculty and host families? Enjoy learning about the personal and organizational developmental stories of intercultural competency development of Study Abroad, through the eyes of a social justice trainer!
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication | Higher Education | Human Geography | International and Comparative Education | International and Intercultural Communication | Interpersonal and Small Group Communication | Tourism and Travel
Recommended Citation
Leap Miller, Amy, "Intercultural Competency Development: A Case Study with SIT Study Abroad in Morocco, From a Trainers Lens" (2018). Capstone Collection. 3074.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/3074
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Higher Education Commons, Human Geography Commons, International and Comparative Education Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons, Tourism and Travel Commons