Maha Bali talks about intercultural learning on episode 124 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

By spending a lot of time with people who are different than yourself, you get to know yourself even better.

When you leave your culture and go to live somewhere else it helps you question your values, what you take for granted, and your assumptions.

You need deep, sustained interaction with a person or a group of people to be able to understand their culture.

Resources Mentioned

• Maha’s PhD Thesis: Critical Thinking in Context: Practice at an American Liberal Arts University in Egypt
• Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice* by Michael Byram, Adam Nichols, and David Stevens
• The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language by Caryl Emerson
• Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Milton J. Bennett
• Hannah and the Talking Tree by Elke Weiss
• The Lion Guard song: We Are the Same
• Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space Theory
• Edward Said