Notes From the Field: Learning Cultural Humility Through Critical Incidents and Central Challenges in Community-Based Participatory Research

Authors

Laurie Ross, Clark University

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Cultural humility is critical in the education of community development and planning graduate students because they often work with communities-geographic and/or identity based-where there is a power differential based on privileges of race, income, and education. Cultural humility requires commitment to ongoing self-reflection and self-critique, particularly identifying and examining one's own patterns of unintentional and intentional racism (Israel, Eng, Schulz, & Parker, 2005; Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998). This article describes a 2-course sequence within a community development and planning graduate program that develops students' cultural humility by integrating community-based participatory research (CBPR) and ongoing reflection. Recommendations for instruction and assessing graduate students' development of cultural humility emerge from this analysis. © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Title

Journal of Community Practice

Publication Date

8-30-2010

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

315

Last Page

335

ISSN

1070-5422

DOI

10.1080/10705422.2010.490161

Keywords

community-based participatory research, cultural humility, experiential education, reflection, service-learning

Repository Citation

Ross, Laurie, "Notes From the Field: Learning Cultural Humility Through Critical Incidents and Central Challenges in Community-Based Participatory Research" (2010). Sustainability and Social Justice. 329.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/329