The Use of Cultural Maps in Developing Intercultural Sensitivity: From Culture-Centrism to Culture-Relativism

Kleschina A.
2020 KnE Social Sciences  
The paper describes an experience of teaching intercultural communications to undergraduate students using a cultural mapping method. Students were asked to draw cultural-specific maps that reflected their own idea of the world and then to compare them with similar maps drawn by people from different countries. In the process of drawing, presenting, comparing and discussing the maps, students were forced to confront their own cultural preconceptions as well as to become aware of the extent to
more » ... ich their picture of the world is culturally determined. Keywords: intercultural communications, intercultural sensitivity, cultural maps, pedagogy, cultural relativism
doi:10.18502/kss.v4i5.6536 fatcat:fdkbx6gsgfel5jm26h3fomjjoe