DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE

DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE

• What is cultural competence
• CulturaL competence is the ability to work with people from other cultures in an effective and sensitive way, it combines:
• knowledge of other culture
• experience of mixing with other
• attitude that derive toward inter-cultural understanding
• behaviours that enable good interactions.
• Developing cultural competence refers to the process of acquiring the knowledege,skills,and attitude necessary to interact effectively with peoplefrom diverse cultural background. It also involves understanding and appreciating the cultural differences and similarities that shape individle and group behaviours, values and beliefs.

DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE

• STUDING IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY
• Higher education enables a lively global traffic in ideas, people, and knowledge. You can expect to find students and teachers from many countries at Oxford. Both the current class and the university staff are brought together internationally.
• You may encounter people from both home and away whose educational, social, and cultural backgrounds are different from your own, with life experiences, habits, modes of speech, looks, intellectual abilities or styles that you have never seen or understood before (Complete University Guide, 2018). You can also work and study with colleagues drawn from various foreign countries.