Cultural Fluency, Mindlessness, and Gullibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Oyserman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Fluency

scholarly journals Implications of the GC-HARMS Fishermen’s Citizen Science Network: Issues Raised, Lessons Learned, and Next Steps for the Network and Citizen Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sullivan ◽  
Sharon Croisant ◽  
Marilyn Howarth ◽  
Wilma Subra ◽  
Marylee Orr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Participatory Science ◽  
Cultural Fluency ◽  
Political Economic

This paper is intended to complement our extended documentation and analysis of the activities of the Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks related to the Macondo Spill project Community Outreach and Dissemination Core entitled, “Building and maintaining a citizen science network with fishermen and fishing communities after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach.” We discuss nuances of CBPR practice, including trust-building, clarification of stakeholder expectations, balancing timelines and agendas, cultural fluency, and the importance of regional history—political-economic context, regulatory practices, and cultural life-ways—in creating social dynamics that overarch and underpin the entire process. We examine the unique role of knowledge-making hybrid structures like the project’s Fishermen’s citizen science network and compare/contrast this structure with other models of participatory science or deliberation. Finally, we reiterate the importance of environmental health literacy efforts, summarize project outcomes, and offer thoughts on the future roles of collaborative efforts among communities and institutional science in environmental public health.

Cultural Fluency and Orientation Scales

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Constantine ◽  
Todd H. Rockwood ◽  
Barbara A. Schillo ◽  
Jose William Castellanos ◽  
Steven S. Foldes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Fluency

Religious Studies and the Values of Critical Humanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-302
Author(s):  
Richard B. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Cultural Fluency

This chapter proposes that a proper telos for the study of religion is Critical Humanism. Drawing on Aristotle and Charles Taylor, it explains how Critical Humanism provides a theoretical framework for studying religion and describes its mobile, liberal, dialogical, and inclusive aspects. Building on the ideas of Felski, Walzer, Rorty, and the environmental humanities, it notes how Critical Humanism places a premium on expanding the moral imagination and examines the connections between that idea and humanistic scholarship. That discussion leads into an account of four values to which the study of religion can be connected: post-critical reasoning, social criticism, cross-cultural fluency, and environmental responsibility. The chapter then describes four works in the study of religion that exemplify these values. Lastly, it summarizes the chapter’s arguments in response to the challenges posed by Weber’s view of science and Welch’s reckoning with the field’s “identity crisis” as described in chapters 1 and 2.

Consequences of Cultural Fluency

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Mourey ◽  
Ben C. P. Lam ◽  
Daphna Oyserman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Fluency

Cultural Fluency: Results from a UK and Irish Survey

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Collin Randlesome ◽  
Andrew Myers
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Fluency

The importance of being fluent in a foreign language has been well docu mented and highlighted in academic texts. So has the importance of being fluent in another culture, a need documented as early as the 1950s. How have organizations in the UK and Ireland responded to these needs?A survey of members of ALECS (Association of Language Excellence Centres) in the UK and language training providers in Ireland assessed the level of language and cultural awareness. The results indicate that the percentage of British and Irish companies carrying out an internal foreign language audit is disturb ingly low. The number of companies wishing to become culturally fluent is even lower. Companies as well as training organizations are thus overlooking a number of opportunities.

Facilitating Supervisee Cultural Fluency for a Multicultural Society

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Staub
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Supervisory Process ◽  
Cultural Fluency

Abstract Multiculturalism has been, and will only continue to become more of a fact in our society and professional practice. Because of this, supervisors have both a practical reason and ethical responsibility for facilitating their supervisees' cultural fluency. This article explores multiculturalism, offering a working definition, emphasizing the dynamic nature of the concept, and reasserting its need for inclusion in the supervisory process. The development of cultural fluency is presented, primarily as a process predicated upon the supervisee's attainment of self-awareness as a means of establishing responsive, reciprocal, and respectful relationships. Supervisor facilitation of cultural fluency is addressed in the context of modeling relevant skills for the supervisee in the clinical setting. Indicators for assessing supervisor performance as multicultural clinic educators are presented, as are criteria for evaluating the supervisee's progression toward becoming a culturally fluent practitioner and individual.

Using Culture to Enhance Mental Health in a Northern Canadian Aboriginal Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S228-S229
Author(s):  
B. Mainguy ◽  
L. Mehl-Madrona
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Cultural Fluency ◽  
Community Projects

IntroductionWe present three community case studies for how community development and cultural enhancement affected mental health as an epiphenomenon.MethodsAn initiative was undertaken in 3 Northern Canadian aboriginal communities to enhance spiritual and cultural fluency and to provide opportunities to healthy interaction among community members. We began each process with a narrative investigation of the community by eliciting stories about perceived problems in the community. We collected further narratives at the end of the intervention about how it had affected people personally. We reviewed the narratives for commonalities and themes using modified grounded theory and dimensional analysis. We measured numbers of patients presenting to behavioral health services with mental health diagnoses, number of people sent to hospital for mental health treatment, and number of suicide attempts. We collected quality of life data using the My Medical Outcome Profile 2.ResultsCommunity development and cultural enhancement efforts reduced all of the variables we were tracking. Follow-up interviews revealed common themes of people becoming more present-centered, feeling higher quality in their relationships; feeling more connected to god, creator, nature, or higher power; feeling more peaceful; feeling more accepting of death and change; and having a greater sense of meaning and purpose. As an interesting side effect, people began to eat more traditional diets and to be more active.ConclusionsCreating opportunities for community interaction and shared community projects and enhancing interactions with spiritual elders resulted in improvement in indices of mental health in three indigenous communities in Northern Canada.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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