scholarly journals Cultural Humility: The Bias Checker

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 123-123
Author(s):  
Natalie Moore-Bembry
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Institutional Accountability ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Individual Accountability

Abstract Historically we have been taught to understand and embrace cultural competency, however, this focus has often led to a superficial understanding of others and seldom required one to better understand themselves. Cultural humility is based on one’s ability to engage in individual accountability and institutional accountability. Individual accountability is based on critical self-reflection and critique, lifelong learning, and the challenging of power imbalances. Institutional accountability requires one to challenge structural power. This session will: (1) explore ways to engage in critical self-reflection and critique; (2) describe how values and beliefs impact the interactions of our personal and professional lives; and (3) strategize ways to collectively model and practice in cultural humility in one’s personal and professional life.

scholarly journals Culture, humility and the law: Towards a more transformative teaching framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Author(s):  
Evan Hamman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
Work Health ◽  
The Law

Cultural competency has proven less effective than its proponents had envisioned. Disciplines outside of the law (social work, health and psychology) have turned to the more powerful theory of ‘cultural humility’ – a framework for lifelong learning and self-reflection. Cultural humility contends that one can never really ‘master’ another’s culture, but that we ought to remain respectful and reflective in our approach. In this article I make the case for teaching cultural humility in Australian law schools.

scholarly journals Cultural Humility: An Open Door for Planners to Locate Themselves and Decolonize Planning Theory, Education, and Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Open Door ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
History Of

Cultural humility can help planning faculty, students, and practitioners commit to ongoing self-reflection and critique of their social, cultural, racial, gendered, and other identities in an effort to identify how they are implicated in inequity, especially in relation to working in communities of color. While cultural competence has become an increasingly popular way to encourage more equitable relationships between professionals and communities, the author suggests that the colonial underpinnings of its logic make it not only less desirable than cultural humility but also a potential facilitator of inequity in planning work. Drawing from her experience as a planning theorist and faculty member, the author shows how the philosophical origins of Western colonial thinking have influenced planning. She also outlines concrete ways journal editors can relinquish their status as experts and gatekeepers of accepted knowledge, thereby decolonizing planning theory and the canon more generally. Finally, by describing two reflection activities—“What?/So What?/Now What?” and “Locating Oneself”—the author provides tools that planning educators can use to guide and reinforce reflection on students’ social, cultural, gendered, and racial identities, and to highlight injustices committed by planners. By injecting cultural humility, as opposed to cultural competency, into planning theory literature, and education, planning practice could be transformed, preventing the often-destructive history of planning practices in communities of color from being repeated.

Cultural Humility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carissa Cabán-Alemán
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Treatment Practices ◽  
Institutional Accountability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Political Economic

The importance of culture in mental health is widely recognized. It plays a key role in defining the predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating, and protective factors that mediate the development of an illness. It is the lens that colors provider–patient interactions, as well as the social, political, economic, and climatological systems that sustain these interactions. This chapter uses a case example to illustrate the principles of cultural humility and how this concept provides a general framework to address health disparities and recognize the systemic imbalances that influence illnesses. The chapter discusses how health care systems and providers can develop respectful partnerships with their patients and communities using critical self-reflection, implement institutional accountability, and address power dynamics related to health in order to improve treatment practices and sustain efforts to address the structural inequities that predispose and potentiate illnesses.

Book Review: Writing for Academic Journals Second Edition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Asrifan ◽  
Abd Ghofur
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Writing For Publication ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

Anyone who wants to get ahead in academic or professional life today knows that it’s a question of publish or perish. This applies to colleges, universities, and even hospital Trusts. Yet writing for publication is one of the many skills which isn’t formally taught. Once beyond undergraduate level, it’s normally assumed that you will pick up the necessary skills as you go along.Writing for Academic Journalsseeks to rectify this omission. Rowena Murray is an experienced writer on the subject (author of How to Write a Thesis and How to Survive Your Viva) and she is well aware of the time pressures people are under in their professional lives. What she has to say should be encouraging for those people in ‘new’ universities, people working in disciplines which have only recently been considered academic, and those in professions such as the health service which are under pressure to become more academic.

scholarly journals A reflexive exercise to promote cultural humility among doctoral nursing students

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Mastel-Smith ◽  
Susan Yarbrough
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Transcultural Nursing ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Conducting Research

Background: The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse; however, nursing remains a predominantly Caucasian profession. To promote positive outcomes among diverse patients, nurses must rely on rigorous transcultural research. When conducting research with people different from oneself, knowledge of one’s own values and beliefs is a necessary first step. In Transcultural Nursing Research, a required doctoral course, the first assignment is a reflexive exercise followed by online discussion about one’s personal culture and the origins of values and beliefs. Objectives: To (a) examine students’ responses to a reflexive exercise for evidence of cultural self-awareness, cultural humility, and insights gained and (b) assess the effectiveness of the teaching method.Methods: The setting was online within the Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard. Participants: The sample consisted of twelve doctoral students enrolled in Transcultural Nursing Research. Methods: Student consent was obtained after course grades were submitted. Data was extracted from the LMS, de-identified, coded, categorized and collapsed into themes.Results: Four themes emerged from the data: “different versus familiar”, “cultural experiences”, “memories” and “reflections and implications”.Conclusions: Posts reflected insight into cultural awareness, values and humility. Students identified growth opportunities for themselves and their children. Suggestions for future education and research are presented.

Cultural Humility as a Path to Equity in Higher Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 262-280
Author(s):  
Veronica A. Keiffer-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Achievement Gaps ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Closing Achievement Gaps

Achieving equity in higher education involves more than just closing achievement gaps and mitigating the impact of historic oppression and underrepresentation. In this chapter, the author presents a framework for cultural humility as a pathway to equity for institutions of education, as well as an approach for the professional development of cultural humility practitioners. The cultural humility framework comprises four core principles as well as five transformational skills (i.e., dialogue, inquiry, self-reflection, conflict transformation, and identity negotiation). The chapter concludes with a discussion about how to implement this framework at both the classroom and institutional levels, as well as the implications of such training for achieving greater equity in higher education.

A Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Culturally Humble Educational Practitioners

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Veronica Keiffer-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Diversity Training ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Self Reflection

Although diversity training has become an institutional norm for businesses, schools, and organizations, the full extent of its impact remains unclear. This chapter reports on research aimed as more fully understanding the transformational journeys of diversity practitioners and discovering how they deepen their sense of cultural humility. Following a review of the evolution of diversity training, the chapter presents a theoretical framework featuring five interrelated transformational processes: dialogue, inquiry, self-reflection, conflict transformation, and identity negotiation. The chapter concludes with a discussion about how these processes can be applied to enhance the development of cultural humility and consequently better achieve the desired outcomes of diversity training. It argues for a multi-year model for the training of diversity practitioners and others committed to personal development and social change as well as a lifelong approach that supports the process of moving more deeply into a culturally humble way of being.

Lifelong Learning

2003 ◽  
Vol os10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N Brigden ◽  
Brian Grieveson
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Professional Life

This article looks at the theory behind lifelong learning as a concept and applies it to many aspects of the dentist's professional life.

scholarly journals Cultural humility in libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-555
Author(s):  
David A. Hurley ◽  
Sarah R. Kostelecky ◽  
Lori Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Competence Models

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the idea of cultural humility, distinguish it from cultural competence and explore how it fits within librarianship. Design/methodology/approach The authors use an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of humility to understand what cultural humility means and how it differs from cultural competence and other approaches to intercultural communication in libraries. Findings Despite some reservations with the term itself, the authors find that a practice of cultural humility is more appropriate to front-line interactions in library contexts than cultural competence models. Practical implications Libraries looking to address issues in intercultural communication and services to multicultural populations will find an approach that may be better suited to their contexts than prevailing models of cultural competency. Social implications Librarians need to commit to redressing the power imbalances and other structural issues that interfere with library service, for the benefit of the patrons, the library and librarians themselves. Originality/value While cultural humility is increasingly being used in librarianship, there has not been a systematic exploration of the concept and how it applies to library contexts.

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