Global and Cultural Understanding Rubric

The ability to critically analyze and engage with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies — natural, physical, social, cultural, economic, and political — and their implications for our lives and the Earth.

Description

Global and Cultural Understanding focuses on diversity among the perspectives, practices, and beliefs found within a given culture and across cultures, with particular attention to global perspectives. By actively exploring and critiquing our own perspectives and our interactions with different people, we develop an appreciation of how our own and others’ lived experiences are shaped by global and cultural factors, including environment, economic status, age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion, among others, enabling collaboration across the different scales of human organization.

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Cultural Self-Awareness

Builds upon analysis of one’s own positionality by analyzing actions from multiple perspectives, and modifying one’s approach to new encounters based on this analysis. Positions this knowledge and experiences reflexively in approaches to new situations. Actively seeks to change one’s own self-position and relationships to others in more open and equitable directions.

Analyzes one’s own and similar cultures’ perspectives, practices, and beliefs. Actively considers how one’s positionality affects one’s relationship to others who are different, and how those relationships can change

Describes one’s own, and similar cultures’ perspectives, practices, and beliefs. Differentiates own perspectives, practices and beliefs from those of others.

Aware of one’s own perspectives, practices, and beliefs as perspectives.

Unaware of one’s own perspectives as perspectives.

Context

Displays a curiosity and willingness to unpack unfamiliar contexts and cultures before taking action.  Interacts with and questions the concept of “authenticity”.

Recognizes and deeply inquires into the complex and intrinsic values of unfamiliar cultures, and their historical and social-cultural bases.

Recognizes and appreciates

unfamiliar cultures. Partially describes  the historical and social bases of other cultures.

Accepts unfamiliar  cultures, without exploring their historical and social bases.

Rejects unfamiliar cultures.

Scale

Analyzes complexity of issue(s) across multiple different scales and extends analysis to incorporate self-reflection on positionality; integrates analysis that engages with ethical and moral contradictions, while accepting ambiguity and the open-endedness of inquiry beyond the specific project.

Analyzes complexity of issue(s) across multiple scales, illustrates how issue(s) manifest and are interconnected across different levels (local, regional, global) and domains (social-cultural, political, economic, etc.) of analysis.

Analyzes issue(s) in a comparative manner across two places and scales; illustrates relationships between the two to add breadth and depth going beyond the descriptive.

Analyzes issue(s) at a single level of scale but does not add additional scales or dimensions; analysis is surface-level and descriptive.

No analysis provided.

Intercultural Interaction

Initiates and develops interactions with culturally different others in deep and sustained ways, while also shifting one’s behavioral and relational frameworks in response. Adaptive, able to navigate commonalities and differences with grace.

Initiates and develops interactions with culturally different others with openness and suspended judgment. Takes into account how one’s actions impact others.

Interacts and exchanges views with culturally different others.

Indicates willingness to interact with culturally different others. Awareness of the value of interaction across cultural difference.

Unwilling to interact with others.