This article draws on and contributes to the body of knowledge on the development of cultural competence and study abroad experiences. The study program has been well established for several years and blends a 12-day intercultural immersion experience with preparatory classroom teaching and relevant assessment. This study builds on an earlier…

Apartheid-designed higher education institutions continue to have a major influence on students and higher educators in South Africa. There is a need for innovative approaches for engaging with difference in higher education. One means of doing this could be through innovative pedagogical approaches. The Community, Self and Identity project…

Describes a classroom activity to enhance understanding of how major theorists differ in their conceptualization and treatment of a client's problems. Participants either watched a dramatized play in which prominent clinicians discuss a case, or attended a comparable lecture. Results of a quiz indicate that students who watched the play…

Discusses the importance of stories as teaching/learning tools. Claims that stories can illustrate concepts, honor cultural diversity, introduce new goals and directions in student thinking, and provide transitions within a class. Connections are drawn to work in social constructionism regarding the making of meaning. (RJM)

Compared effect of workshop presenter personal self-disclosures with hypothetical examples used to convey the same didactic material. Sixty-nine students watched a videotaped workshop presentation in self-disclosure or hypothetical example condition. Found that perceptions of presenters who used self-disclosures did not differ from those who used…

Human service educators constantly struggle with how to best teach students the communication skills required of entry-level human service professionals. While teaching such skills is easier in a traditional face-to-face environment, teaching communication skills via distance learning presents its own challenges. Developing interactive web-based…