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Antioch University AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive Student & Alumni Scholarship, including Dissertations & Theses Dissertations & Theses 2016 Intercultural Competence Development through Civic Engagement Ruta Shah-Gordon Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and Change Follow this and additional works at:http://aura.antioch.edu/etds Part of theBilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons,Educational Leadership Commons,Higher Education Commons, and theLeadership Studies Commons Recommended Citation Shah-Gordon, Ruta, "Intercultural Competence Development through Civic Engagement" (2016).Dissertations & Theses. 273. http://aura.antioch.edu/etds/273 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student & Alumni Scholarship, including Dissertations & Theses at AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations & Theses by an authorized administrator of AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive. For more information, please [email protected], [email protected]. INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT RUTA SHAH-GORDON A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change Program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy June, 2016 This is to certify that the Dissertation entitled: INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT prepared by Ruta Shah-Gordon is approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership and Change. Approved by: Alan Guskin, Ph.D., Chair May 14, 2016 Jon Wergin, Ph.D., Committee Member May 14, 2016 Janet Bennett, Ph.D., Committee Member May 14, 2016 Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, Ph.D., Ed.D., External Reader May 14, 2016 Copyright 2016 Ruta Shah-Gordon All rights reserved Acknowledgments It is often remarked that it takes a village to raise a child and so it does, but it also takes a village to complete a dissertation. I have benefitted from having such a strong village that includes wonderful, supportive family, friends, colleagues, faculty, mentors, and cohort members. I would like to thank my dissertation committee for their encouragement, constructive feedback, and mentoring. Throughout my time in the program, my chair, Dr. Alan Guskin provided unwavering support, communication, and ideas; Dr. Jon Wergin, was continuously available to think through concepts, methods and possibilities, and Dr. Janet Bennett, from my individual learning achievements to dissertation, was a source of inspiration and insight. I would also like to thank Deb Baldwin, librarian extraordinaire for her assistance with copyrights as well as a whole myriad of questions. And of course, appreciation to all the faculty and staff at the Antioch Leadership and Change program for the conversations, learning, and support throughout my time. Wagner College played a huge role in the completion of this dissertation from my colleagues who encouraged, listened, and gave feedback to the professors and students who participated in my study and helped me think through the results, thank you. You helped to deepen my learning and pushed me to think outside of the box. To my Antioch family, who checked in and encouraged me, thank you. It was a privilege to be part of Cohort 11! To my mom and dad and my family, thank you for believing in me and giving me the confidence to pursue my education. To our friends, thanks for pitching in with the kids or understanding when we couldn’t do something because we were “dissertating!” i And last, but not least, enormous gratitude and love to my husband, David, and our girls, Anjali and Kavita, for making the process attainable with their patience, feedback, and assistance. Your involvement along the way; the family study time, talking stats, laughing at awkward sentences and writing together made the journey a sustainable, memorable one. Thank you to my village! ii Abstract Today, the field of intercultural communication is becoming even more important. People are increasingly interacting more with others from around the globe, whether for work or recreation. Globalization is creating an increased interdependency between nations; it is critical that institutions of higher education develop leaders who are competent in cross-cultural awareness and practice, have a solid understanding of cultural differences and their effects on leadership performance, and are culturally sensitive to different perspectives (Northouse, 2010). Since many studies of intercultural competence development focus on study abroad experiences, this dissertation focuses on developing intercultural competence in college-aged students through civic engagement experiences. Through a mixed methods approach using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and action research in collaboration with Wagner College students and faculty, this study examined four learning communities as well as a group of mentors over the course of a semester to determine the salient aspects of an intervention. The findings indicate that with the right amount of challenge and support, sustained and meaningful interaction, reflection, content knowledge, and mentoring, interventions allow for more pronounced development of intercultural competence. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/etd Keywords: intercultural competence, civic engagement, Intercultural development inventory (IDI), mentoring, reflection, training. iii Table of Contents Abstract .......................................................................................................................................... iii List of Tables ................................................................................................................................ vii List of Figures ............................................................................................................................. viii Chapter I: Introduction .....................................................................................................................1 Background of the Problem ......................................................................................................1 Theoretical Conceptual Framework .........................................................................................4 Rational for Study .....................................................................................................................7 Statement of Purpose ................................................................................................................8 Research Questions ...................................................................................................................9 Definition of Terms ................................................................................................................10 Rsearcher’s Positionality ........................................................................................................11 Scope .......................................................................................................................................12 Summary of Introduction ........................................................................................................13 Summary of Subsequent Chapters ..........................................................................................14 Chapter II: Literature Review ........................................................................................................15 History and Underpinnings of Intercultural Communication .................................................16 Models of Intercultural Competence/Sensitivity ....................................................................17 Synthesis of Intercultural Models With College Students Development Theory ...................27 Definition of Intercultural Competence ..................................................................................28 Study Abroad and Intercultural Competence .........................................................................30 Civic Engagement and Intercultural Competence ..................................................................33 Experiential Learning and Intercultural Competence .............................................................39 iv Relationship Between Intercultural Competence, Experiential Learning, Study Abroad and Civic Engagement .....................................................................................41 Summary .................................................................................................................................47 Chapter III: Methods ......................................................................................................................49 Reasoning for Mixed Methods ...............................................................................................49 Instruments and Research Questions ......................................................................................58 Participants .............................................................................................................................65 Recruitment .............................................................................................................................65 Procedures ...............................................................................................................................69 Data Analysis ..........................................................................................................................72 Limitations and Delimitations ................................................................................................73 Risks .......................................................................................................................................73 Confidentiality ........................................................................................................................74 Chapter IV: Results ........................................................................................................................76 Descriptive Statistics ..............................................................................................................79 Summary .................................................................................................................................94 Chapter V: Discussion ...................................................................................................................96 Interpretation of Findings .......................................................................................................97 Praxis of Support and Challenge ..........................................................................................101 Learning Practices for Intercultural Development and Civic Engagement Growth .............103 Reflection on Improving Practice .........................................................................................108 Personal Experience ..............................................................................................................113 Implications for Future Action and Research .......................................................................115 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................117 v Appendix ......................................................................................................................................121 Appendix A: Copyright Permisions .............................................................................................122 References ....................................................................................................................................129 vi
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