Tag: global pandemic

Maintaining ICGC in Higher Education through Virtual Exchanges

Posted Yovana S. VeerasamyLeave a commentPosted in Intercultural Connector Blog, Special Series: Inclusivity and ICC in Online Spaces, Working Groups

As a member of the ICC Virtual Working Group, I would like to share how Intercultural & Global Competence (ICGC) maintained traction as a learning outcome in higher education during the pandemic. In the past two decades, U.S.-based institutions have placed more importance on international institutional partnerships between U.S. institutions and foreign counterparts, but the 2020 global pandemic unleashed restrictions which hampered physical mobility between nation states. In response to this and other challenges to ICGC in curricula, institutions adopted innovative solutions in the form of Virtual Exchanges and Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (VE/COIL) to maintain global partnerships and serve […]

Transnational online space(s) for intercultural educators: How to maintain a critical self-reflection practice during a pandemic

Posted Amy McHugh and Aiko MinematsuLeave a commentPosted in Intercultural Connector Blog, Special Series: Inclusivity and ICC in Online Spaces

When the pandemic became a worldwide issue in 2020, online spaces became a necessary tool for continuing personal and professional intercultural competence journeys. Over the course of four weeks (12 hours overall) in January/February 2021, four researchers from around the world came together online to explicate 20+ readings. These conversations engaged us in defining interculturality, reading through and discussing a range of research studies. They also led us to regularly consider our own identities as intercultural researchers studying the field of interculturality and education. Living and working in various parts of the world (New York, Massachusetts, Tokyo, and Sydney) meant that […]