Intellectual and Cultural Humility in the Context of Intercultural Dialogue
Presentation Summary
Intercultural dialogue is crucial to address the complex problems we face today. In this presentation we ask the question how intellectual humility (owning the limitations of one’s knowledge) and cultural humility (which has been applied in Health Sciences) can support different aspects of intercultural dialogue.
Primary Presenter
Manuela Wagner, University of Connecticut
State (if in the U.S.)
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Professional Biography
Manuela Wagner, Professor at the University of Connecticut, investigates the integration of intercultural dialogue and citizenship in education with the goal of fostering an environment in which students can sustain different parts of their identities. She is particularly interested in the interplay of theory and practice.
Secondary Presenters
José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, Universidad del Valle
State (if in the U.S.)
Country
Colombia
Professional Biography
José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, PhD, is Professor at the School of Language Sciences and the chair of the Major in ELT Education in the Interinstitutional Doctoral Program at Universidad del Valle. His research interests include critical intercultural education and decolonial theory, multimodal communication, multimodal pedagogies, and multilingualism.