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Socrates:. I CANNOT TEACH ANYONE ANYTHING I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK. DEALING WITH DIVERSITY ISSUES IN SUPERVISION. Dijkhuizen & Gaspar, 2011. Sensitivity for diversity Dealing with diversity Managing diversity.
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Socrates: I CANNOT TEACH ANYONE ANYTHING I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK...
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY ISSUES IN SUPERVISION Dijkhuizen & Gaspar, 2011
Sensitivity for diversity • Dealing with diversity • Managing diversity
Module:DEALING WITH DIVERSITY & INTERCULTURALITY AS A SUPERVISOR
Module links: • Experiences • Feedback • Reflection • Theory • As a foundation for learning and teaching
KEY QUESTION…. WHY SHOULD WE DEAL WITH DIVERSITY IN SUPERVISION?
CORE COMPETENCES for supervisors and coaches dealing with diversity:
SENSITIVITY FOR DIVERSITY • Knowledge of your own baggage • Developed sensibility for diversity • Willingness to investigate in your own affirmative introspection
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY • Knowledge of views/opinions in other cultures • Insight into one’s own norms and values and those of ‘others’ and the capacity to make interventions based on this insight • Capacity to act free from imposing norms • Capacity to switch perspectives or codes
MANAGING DIVERSITY • Knowing how to define roles and how to structure them • Capacity of recognizing exclusion/unequal treatment and engage in dialogue about this • Capacity to intervene in case of discrimination
PROCESS ASPECTS Ability to: • deal with different ways of communication • deal with power and dominance when diversity is under discussion • create space and time for ‘not knowing’ • manage conflicts well • turn friction into brilliance
Part of the Grundtvig Group in 2009 Amersfoort the Netherlands We ended up safe and sound……although some of us were not so experienced…..in riding a bike….!