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Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom

Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom

Maria S. Plakhotnik
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781522517320|ISBN10: 1522517324|EISBN13: 9781522517344
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch006
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Plakhotnik, Maria S. "Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom." Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education, edited by Grisel María García-Pérez and Constanza Rojas-Primus, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 140-167. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch006

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Plakhotnik, M. S. (2017). Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom. In G. García-Pérez & C. Rojas-Primus (Eds.), Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education (pp. 140-167). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch006

Chicago

Plakhotnik, Maria S. "Understanding Social Identity through Autoethography: Building Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education Classroom." In Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education, edited by Grisel María García-Pérez and Constanza Rojas-Primus, 140-167. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch006

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how instructors could use autoethnography as a course assignment to help students understand their cultural identities and build their intercultural communication competences in higher education classroom. Autoethnography is a qualitative research method that helps people examine their relationship with a group or a culture. The chapter provides an overview of literature relevant to intercultural communication competences, social identity, and autoethnography and then describes the author's use of autoethnography in an undergraduate course “Social and Cultural Foundations of Education” taught at a large public university in the United States. In her class, the author uses this method to help students examine their cultural identity, or relationship with groups based on their religion, culture, nationality, ethnicity, or other groups relevant to the course.

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