2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Developing cultural competence
Learning in diverse and international contexts
Author: Stella Cottrell
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
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The Study Skills Handbook
Cultural competence is the ability to work with people from other cultures in an eff ective and sensitive way. It involves a strong awareness of our own cultural expectations, values and beliefs, so that we are confi dent in our cultural identity and clear when we are drawing on our own particular cultural norms.