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EDU4354 Assignment: Cross-Cultural Interview and Written Report Due: Student’s Choice: Week 7 or Week 9, see CSI for standard late penalties

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EDU4354 Assignment: Cross-Cultural Interview and Written Report Due: Student’s Choice: Week 7 or Week 9, see CSI for standard late penalties. Context: In our EDU4354, we explore the interplay between cultures, and we strive to develop knowledge of cultural differences and similarities, and their impact on attitudes, behaviour, and our professional work. A multicultural individual (a person with a dual-cultural, bicultural, or multicultural identity), identifies with more than one culture. In our work as early childhood professionals and community developers we will work in a context impacted by globalization and immigration, and we will consistently communicate with “people who have grown up with a multicultural identity. Examples include people with a mixed-race background, an immigrant background or people that have spent their formative years living outside their passport or country that they were born in” (Lau, 2019). A person with cross-cultural competence has the ability to understand people from different cultures and engage with them effectively. Assignment Objectives: Conduct a 30-60 minute interview with an interview participant who is from another culture and is currently living in Canada. Design the interview questions first, by preparing an Interview Guide, conduct the interview, and then write a report on your findings and experience. Demonstrate curiosity, emerging skills related to cross-cultural competence, attention to detail, thoughtful analysis, connections to our course content, and communication skills. Assignment Expectations: For this assignment, you will interview an individual who has had an intercultural experience. You will then examine and apply what the interview reveals about the immigration adaptation process, culture shock, perceptions, differences in communication style, and any other relevant intercultural concepts uncovered. You will select an interview participant who is geographically from another culture (not Canada), and currently living in Canada. You should choose someone who has lived in Canada for at least five years and moved here as an adult (16+ years old). Before meeting your interview participant, develop questions you would like to ask. Engage in planning, and develop an Interview Guide. Ask important questions – questions about love, relationships, birth, family, passion, cultural stories, culture shock, motivations, work, values, vocation, etc. It can be helpful to engage in some initial research, before the interview, about your subject’s culture of origin. 2 IMPORTANT: As a matter of policy, the person you interview must sign a consent form before you begin the interview, and you must submit this signed form as the final page in your assignment. Plan to spend 30 to 60 minutes with your interview participant, asking questions about their culture and listening to their story as it unfolds. Frame your questions within the context of being a witness: what did they see/hear/experience/feel. Immediately following the interview, capture your listening and learning experience while your memory is fresh. These initial reflective notes will be important when you write your paper. You will not submit your notes for grading, however, will submit your Interview Guide and Consent Form as appendix items within your report. Instructions: 1. Choose an interview subject and request an interview. Plan a meeting and allocate 30 to 60 minutes of time to the actual interview. 2. Develop an Interview Guide document. Plan 30-60 minutes worth of questions. See rubric for details on best practice: form questions that are logical, nuanced, and connected to our course learning. Questions and prompts should provoke conversation, and include follow-ups where applicable. 20 main questions, when carefully crafted, should provide a good framework for an interview (with many questions leading to follow-up prompts). 3. Have your interview subject sign the consent form. 4. Interview your subject. Engage in thoughtful questioning, and careful listening. 5. Immediately write post-interview notes to reflect on the answers you received. 6. Examine the rubric for this assignment and develop a written report with these essential components: a. Title Page b. Overview/Introduction: Establish context for your paper. Share your experience of interviewing your subject. What was the purpose of the interview? What was it like for you to formulate your questions and conduct the interview? How easy or difficult was it to relate to the person you were interviewing? What time did the interview start and end? Where did you meet, and was the chosen space conducive to a sensitive interview? Did you feel comfortable or awkward as an interviewer? How do you think your interview subject felt? c. Analysis: Write an analysis about what you learned about yourself and your cultural competence, based on your conversation with your interview subject. In this section, demonstrate coherent analysis, not a listing or mechanical record of the answers to your questions. What do the answers provided by your interview subject reveal to you or make you 3 consider? Besides learning about another person’s culture, what did you learn about the challenges of being an informed, culturally competent individual? Be as specific in this section of your paper, citing examples of when you used the various cultural competency skills (for example, what did you learn about your subject’s traditions, worldview, enculturation process, culture shock experience – were you able, with sensitivity, to engage in exploration of less visible aspects of Edward T. Hall’s cultural iceberg model, etc.) d. Reflection: Overall, what did you learn from this interview about being a multicultural individual? What aspect of your cross-cultural competency experience will stay with you as an important aspect of communication across cultures? What most surprised you about your interview? Did this experience give you a better understanding of the person’s culture? Were there questions, in hindsight, that you wished you had asked? How might this interview experience influence your learning in the future as a multicultural communicator? e. References (APA 7 standards) f. Appendix items: Interview Guide and Consent 7. Carefully proofread your report. Work towards: cogency, clarity, attention to spelling, grammar and conventions of language. Engage help from the AC writing coaches as needed. Your report should be title page + 3 pages of writing + references + appendix items. 8. Submit your report on Brightspace. Your Interview guide will be assessed /6 and your report will be assessed /9 for a total of 15 marks (worth 15% of your grade in this class.