Teachers in academic institutions
meet every day with students who represent the wide variety of multiple
identities. Some are more familiar to us and some less so. With some we feel
more comfortable and with some less.
Getting to know other identities
that represent different cultures, perceptions, sexual/gender orientation,
variety of lifestyle and so on, is necessary and important. However, it is not
sufficient. A multicultural encounter is a dynamic meeting of emotional and
cognitive events that take place in several intersubjectively integrated axes.
It is an emotional and social fabric of closeness and distance,
identification/alienation, shame/pride, rejection/acceptance, anxiety/courage,
dependence/independence and more.
Therefore, working in an
environment of multiple identities requires the creation of a personal
awareness of how our emotional mechanisms, those that are expressed in the
encounter with "the other", may influence and shape the professional
functioning. That is, the thinking, the feelings and the professional behavior
towards everything different in the daily interaction in the classroom.
Through experiential sessions, we
will explore the way our personal and cultural life environments may shape our
personal and professional functioning.
Nilly Venezia is the author of the book “The Mirror's Maze – on
Multicultural
education in Israel" (Pardes,
2007), an International Campus Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at
Goethe University, and a part-time lecturer at the Ono Academic College with
four decades of teaching experience in a variety of settings and internationally.
Organisation und Ansprechperson: Prof Dr. Catherine
Whittaker, whittaker@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Datum und Uhrzeit: 06.11.2024, 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Ort: Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Nebengebäude NG 701
Anmerkungen: Der Workshop ist auf
max. 20 Personen begrenzt. Bitte um Anmeldung bei Julia Remy per E-Mail an j.remy@em.uni-frankfurt.de
