Learning Cultural Humility Through Stories and Global Service-Learning

Service-learning experiences are often utilized by nursing programs in efforts to increase the cultural competence of nursing students. Through the use of sharing story, the concepts of cultural competence and cultural humility can be explained for students preparing for upcoming intercultural experiences. This case study describes the experience of nursing students and university faculty on their first service-learning trip to rural Kenya and how the intercultural issues were navigated there as students developed characteristics of cultural humility. This story is now being shared in preparations for subsequent international trips with nursing students and can be a model for programs wanting to prepare for service-learning experiences

Is Reasoning Gendered?

The relevance of feminism for argumentation has been the subject of lively debates recently. I explore the viability of applying feminist categories to argumentation with a focus on the relevance of gender in reasoning and rationality. Arguing from the view that particular practices of reasoning are gendered, as operating within a gendered socio-political context, I examine the implications of conditioned reasoning for a conception of reason. Are reasoning and rationality in some fundamental sense conditioned, e.g., gendered? I argue for a conceptualization of reason as a structural complex whose character can be conditioned yet is non-relativistic

Getting creative in the languages classroom

The following principles are central to the work of ‘Linguistic Creativity in Language Learning’, a research strand of Creative Multilingualism: We create language every day. Language diversity facilitates creative diversity. Linguistic diversity nurtures diverse expression of feelings, thoughts and identities, and diverse ways of knowing and seeing the world. In this chapter we outline how they might be considered in relation to classroom language learning. One of the authors of this chapter..

PALMA Proyecto Avance: Latino Mentoring Association Literacy Project

PALMA is a tutoring organization that pairs U-M students with Latino families from the Ann Arbor area. U-M Library's Mini-Grant allowed us to provide a number of much-needed resources to tutors and students electronically as well through physical workbooks.University Library's Student Engagement ProgramPALMA Proyecto Avance: Latino Mentoring AssociationCristhian Espinoza-Pinohttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/122845/1/Fisher_Grace_FinalReport_Poster.pdfDescription of Fisher_Grace_FinalReport_Poster.pdf : Symposium presentation poste