Principles Essay: Critical Refection & Application

Learning Outcomes for this Assessment:
1. Cultural Contexts: Apply understandings of culture and concepts of a cultural self to develop a
framework for understanding cultural contexts of interactions and subsequent analysis of personal attitudes and actions.
2. Power Relations: Critique the role of power in intercultural interactions and relations
Task details: Answer both questions
Use the TEEL structure for your paragraphs, critically reflecting with at least one example from your observations or experience and an in-text reference;
Topic sentence,
Explanation and Example,
Evidence (reference) and
Link back to main idea of the paragraph.
Draw on your IAT results and own experiences and reference the key points made in the readings with intext references
1.Complete the IAT test (Australia)for one or two of the following categories
(Gender, Race, Sexuality, and/or Skin Tone), then consider your results and why they were, what they were (select test results that show a bias)…
1. Which of Kandola’s (2013) 3 ways of holding bias is most applicable to your results?
Where/how do you think this bias may have developed in your life?
How could/has this bias created a “coercive” power relation (Cummins, 2009) for others in your present and future professional life?
How can you make your power relations more collaborative (Cummins, 2009)?
2.Using the texts by McIntosh (1988), Gorski (2016), Bali (2016), and Cummins
(2009) as well as either Fong or Schimmel address the following…
1. How does privilege result in unearned power?
According to Cummins (2009), how is this power exercised by dominant groups against other groups? Connect this explanation of the use of power by a dominant group to the examples discussed by Fong (2018) or Schimmel (2005).
How does power/privilege influence our understanding of diversity and inclusion?
How can unearned power/privilege be used to promote equity and equity-literacy?