Developing Intercultural Action Competence with Social Software

ITHET 07, Japan 10. -13.07.2007

Dipl. Hdl. Frederik G. Pferdt

Developing Intercultural Action Competence With Social Software and Individual and

Collaborative Broadcasting Tools


ITHET 20078th International Conference on

Information Technology Based Higher Education and TrainingKKR Hotel Kumamoto, 3-31 Chibajyo-machi, Kumamoto, Japan

Kumamoto, Japan, 10 – 13 July 2007

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Cultural Differences?!

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Intercultural requirements of our society!?

Competence:Competence can be seen as the capability of an individual to act adequately at the required level in a given situation.

Intercultural competence: It becomes apparent in the capability of understanding, respecting and effectively using the cultural relativity of perception and judgment of oneself and other people.

Thomas (2003)

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Seufert (2007), Tully (2004)

Technological innovations

- New technologies, new media

(Weblogs, Wikis, Podcasts)

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ICT and society

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What ICT are people using?

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Information research (not for school)Listening music

Information research (educational purposes)News

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Multi-User-Games

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Basis: Internetuser, n=1088 JIM, 2006. In Percentage

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From consuming to producing..

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Combining two approaches

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Intercultural Action Competence

Learning with Social Software

How can intercultural action competence be developed using social software?

Social Software =

Social Software fosters the human communication, interaction and collaboration. It´s not about the tools, it´s more about an attitude or a philosophy.


= The capability and disposition of

an individual to act in intercultural situations at a

required level of the domain, personally elaborated and in a

social responsible way. That means, goal-oriented solving of

intercultural problems, based on the own knowledge and

experience as well as solving them through own ideas, evaluating the

solutions and developing the individual capability to act

InformationmanagementTools to organise and produce content and information

IdentitymanagementExpression and presentation of yourself via the www

RelationshipmanagementTools for sharing knowledge and building communities

Reinmann (2006), Kerres (2006) und Schmidt (2006)

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1. Domain and methodical / learning competence:Realizing and solving Asian business and economics problems

2. Personal and methodical / learning competence:Thinking and reflecting about oneself and one´s own abilites

3. Group and methodical / learning competence:Learning and working in Asian teams and analyzing the group processes. Application and revision of intercultural communication methods

4. Domain and language / textual competence:Reading and writing of Asian business and economic texts

5. Personal and language / textual competence:Writing and communicating own intercultural experiences and abilities

6. Group and language / textual competence:Knowledge of Asian communication and group processes. Writing and communicating about them.

7. Domain and ethical competence:Asian Business ethics and ethics of the Asian economic systems

8. Personal and ethical competence:Self-responsibility, readiness to assume risk, independence

9. Group and ethical competence:Social responsibility, tolerance, solidarity.

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Refinement of problems, solutions and methods

Own Culture Foreign Culture

Interculture


ASBE - Asian Studies in Business and Economics

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Literature Circle

Podcasting

Individual Weblogs

Phase 1

1 Modul

(10 ECTS) in PB

ASBE I

Phase 2

2 Module

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ASBE III und IV

Phase 3

1 Modul

(10 ECTS) in PB

ASBE II

with the focus on ICT...

Sharing / Tagging Pictures

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Literature circle with Weblogs

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Individual Weblogs

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„In your reflection diary you should document your intercultural key experiences and reflect these on the basis of questions and further thoughts.“

Questions to think about...

• What is central and new in the situation? • How can the key situation be described? (when, where, why, who?) • How do the culture-specific opinions of the involved differ in the situation? • How did I behave concerning my cultural background in the situation?• How could another person behave with a different cultural background? • From which perspectives can I observe the situation? • How were the impressions before and how afterwards? • What kind of values do the participants in the situation have? • Why did an intercultural conflict evolve? • What are alternatives to behave in the specific situation? • Which stereotypes existed before? • Which role did communication problems play? • What can be marked as „typically “ in the situation? • ...

• Documentation of Intercultural Situations• Communication about Intercultural Situations• Feedback of acting in Intercultural Situations• Reflection about Intercultural Situations

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Individual Weblogs

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Individual and collaborative podcasting

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Sharing Impressions

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See you on the ITHET dinner event...

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Thank you!

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ありがとう!Contact:

Dipl. Hdl. Frederik G. PferdtDepartment for Business and Human Resource Education

University of Paderborn, Germany

[email protected]

www.pferdt.de

Vielen Dank!

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