1. 4 x Focus groups ‘Connecting Cultures’ (May-June 2016)
- Postgraduates who teach
- PG Cert participants/early career, pre-pilot
- PG Cert participants/early career, post-pilot
- Experienced academic colleagues
Intercultural Colloquium (August 2016)
Created a desire for interdisciplinary,
cross-institutional module on embedding
interculturalism in the curriculum
Pilot of Module 1 of PCLTHE (Autumn 2016)
Interculturalism as pedagogical ethos
Pilot of Programme Leader toolkit
(Spring 2017)
Developed by undergraduate student on placement
Module with Academic Development

3. Pilot of IoC in our PG Cert Module 1

4. The danger of a single story
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

5. Interculturalism in this context is a pedagogical approach that actively and explicitly encourages the individual teacher (and student) to become aware of their own assumptions and to begin the process of unravelling these assumptions through a constructive but potentially provocative interaction with different perspectives and ‘tools’ of sorts. Difference here is taken in the active sense of the word ‘diversity’ which is currently defined in the EEDC model (Hanesworth, 2015). These differences can be interdisciplinary, linguistic, cultural, physical, and indeed anything that differentiates one individual from another.

6. Making IoC sustainable
Define terms in context and using literature
e.g. what does interculturalism mean at the UoS and
who is responsible for it? What is the link between interculturalism
and internationalisation.
Link to the Stirling community i.e. the importance of interculturalism in
creating a UoS community both on-campus and in the digital world;
the role of the informal curriculum.
Create a set of principles for embedding interculturalism in the curriculum in a language that is meaningful
and that can effect change.
Explore possibility of an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional module on embedding interculturalism in the curriculum.
Harness the student voice