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Title: Building Empathy through a Comparative Study of Popular Cultures in Caracas, Venezuela, and Albany, United States
Language: English
Authors: Jiménez, José Luis (ORCID 0000-0001-6640-0515), Kressner, Ilka (ORCID 0000-0003-0207-1040)
Source: Research-publishing.net. 2021.
Availability: Research-publishing.net. La Grange des Noyes, 25110 Voillans, France. e-mail: info@research-publishing.net; Web site: http://research-publishing.net
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Empathy, Student Projects, Popular Culture, Cultural Differences, Teamwork, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Cooperative Learning, College Students, International Cooperation, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Collaborative Writing, Video Technology
Geographic Terms: Venezuela, New York (Albany)
Abstract: During our six-week Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module (Oct.-Nov. 2019), 58 students jointly developed task-based projects on expressions of popular culture in Albany (USA) and Caracas (Venezuela). In teams of seven to eight participants, learners from both countries reflected on variations of popular culture through assignments to be resolved in teams that included summaries and critical assessments of readings, contextualization of theoretical concepts, the drafting of a joint video script, and finally creation of a ten-minute video that focused on popular expressions in both cities. All learners were native, fluent, or near-native speakers of Spanish. We experienced the topic of popular culture to be exceptionally well poised to help students engage with each other from the beginning, represent everyday realities and build empathy and transcultural understanding through written reflections and joint creative final projects in the form of documentaries that included slices of life from the two different realities. The small-scale, everyday popular cultural productions allowed for a connection beyond cultural divides, helped students discover novel terrain within their own contexts, and vice versa, find common ground in the new context, thus fostering empathy toward transcultural awareness and equitable collaboration. In their exchange students actively created a shared 'third' culture of collaboration. [For the complete volume, "Virtual Exchange: Towards Digital Equity in Internationalisation," see ED614868.]
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