Global Readiness

At the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, March 2013

"To be successful in today's business world, you must be culturally aware."  It is a refrain heard often, both in business and in academia.  Is global readiness something that can be taught in a classroom, or is a cultural sensitivity that must be engendered through a more kinesthetic, experiential learning process?

Learning Kalidescope

As an assignment in AOD 5403: Facilitating Adult Learning, we were instructed to write introspective papers using the professor's own "kaleidoscope" model.  The idea is that a kaleidoscope shades or colors our view of the world as we look through it, and the kaleidoscope changes the view as we change our orientation around it.  This model allows for personal growth and development to change one's perspective.