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Self-Exploration to Understand Third Spaces in Intercultural Critical Incidents: An Experience in Higher Education

Self-Exploration to Understand Third Spaces in Intercultural Critical Incidents: An Experience in Higher Education

Beatriz Peña Dix
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781668484029|ISBN10: 1668484021|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668484067|EISBN13: 9781668484036
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8402-9.ch002
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Dix, Beatriz Peña. "Self-Exploration to Understand Third Spaces in Intercultural Critical Incidents: An Experience in Higher Education." Third-Space Exploration in Education, edited by Candace Kaye and Jeanette Haynes Writer, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 19-41. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8402-9.ch002

APA

Dix, B. P. (2023). Self-Exploration to Understand Third Spaces in Intercultural Critical Incidents: An Experience in Higher Education. In C. Kaye & J. Haynes Writer (Eds.), Third-Space Exploration in Education (pp. 19-41). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8402-9.ch002

Chicago

Dix, Beatriz Peña. "Self-Exploration to Understand Third Spaces in Intercultural Critical Incidents: An Experience in Higher Education." In Third-Space Exploration in Education, edited by Candace Kaye and Jeanette Haynes Writer, 19-41. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8402-9.ch002

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Abstract

This empirically based chapter investigates how higher education students from a Colombian university explore the meaning and construction of third spaces in the development of their intercultural awareness and competence. Based on a narrative, critical-incident approach, a group of 14 undergraduates analyzed their real intercultural encounters. These narratives and subsequent semi-structured interviews led to important findings. For the most part, when confronted with critical incidents, students opted for proactive participation and engagement in third spaces. Some frequent strategies addressed unveiling conflict, establishing dialogue, valuing knowledge co-production, propitiating active listening, (re)accommodating power relations, and revisiting how one's cultural identity and that of others are (re)shaped in a transitory relationship that could lead to the strengthening of intercultural competence. Students advocate for critical incident analysis and how it can be applied as extended knowledge in future intercultural encounters and in their own intercultural growth.

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