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CI-CD Centre for Inter-cultural Development
from cultural
orientation to inter-cultural competence
CI-CD Services for
For
helping tutors, pastoral staff and administrators to develop cultural
responsiveness and communication skills to meet the needs of international students,
we have supplied at 96 universities
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Customised
workshops for tutors in interviewing overseas-born applicants, and adapting
teaching methods to culturally different learning styles of international
students
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Cross-cultural
communication skills for pastoral and counselling support staff; for library
and technical staff; for ‘front-line’ administrators, for avoiding
misunderstandings/irritation in interactions with international students
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Custom-made
training DVDs and/or e-learning courses for tutors and staff
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Induction
sessions for international students arriving at
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Induction
sessions for Chinese students in particular.
For our experience of teaching Chinese students and of training
university staff, see
à Attracting Chinese international
students, and helping adaptation to UK
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Visiting
Lecturer inputs on Intercultural Communication for Modules of courses in
Linguistics or International Management
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For Faculties of Education, initial teacher-training
workshops on multicultural approaches
in both overt and hidden curricula. We have been visiting lecturer to
125 PGCE, RSA, and other initial and in-service courses.
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For courses in Media Studies
and/or Journalism we offer undergraduate
and in-service workshops on Stereotypical
image-making of minorities on TV and other media. CI-CD director John Twitchin is author of the most widely used handbook for
study of racism and television: “The
Black and White Media Book” (see Publications via Home page); visiting
lecturer at 32 universities, and tutor of full undergraduate course at Leeds
University Institute of Communication Studies on Reporting of Racial issues on
TV; producer of five training
documentaries for BBC TV on image-making effects of News, Drama, Comedy (see
under ‘Portrayal’ in Diversity Works DVDs/Videos full list).
We can provide on request a
university client list, plus full data evaluation reports from all tutor/staff
workshops, and from induction sessions for international students.
Contact us if you’d like to read ‘Staff Development in Multicultural Practice’, the CI-CD
paper on the critical need for cross-cultural communication skills, published
in ‘Towards a Multicultural University’ by