In last week's episode, we heard Summer about intercultural exchange in higher education. Today, Yuto will share his perspective on the importance of intercultural competencies, motivated by a personal experience, with us. In education, we teach (factual) knowledge, skills, and attitudes. But how can we teach these attitudes, or values? Yuto found out how difficult it is to teach intercultural literacy (as defined by UNESCO) and decided to search for ways to teach intercultural competencies. For example, through experiential and vicarious learning or high impact practices. Will teaching intercultural literacy become as normal as teaching literacy, as reading and writing? How can we use education to work towards an accepting society, a critical society, and towards a collective?

Our conversation was inspired by another podcast episode  by FreshEd, called ''What are intercultural competencies?'' with researcher Darla Deardorff. 

The book Yuto was talking about during the quick-fire questions, is called ''The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia'' by Michael Booth.

ps. Pro tip from Yuto: listen to the episodes before going to bed. Yuto has never finished an episode because he falls asleep before they end.

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