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Coaching And Critical Intercultural Learning:Towards A New Approach For Global Education​

Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania April 8-9, 2025

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
April 8-9, 2025

“Coaching & Critical Intercultural Learning: Towards a New Approach for Global Education” takes a deep dive around how coaching can further our commitments to intercultural learning. Our goal is to create a space for thinking about how SIOs might amplify campus initiatives for intercultural learning by shifting their focus from a learning to a coaching culture through various points of entry. We will explore how coaching can further students’ development as intercultural learners and global citizens in a world characterized by difference, complexity and fast change.

Participants will discuss how coaching can support the evolution of global learning towards:

• Increased belonging whether for international students, students studying away from our home campuses, or constituents on campus
• More reflective intercultural learning for our constituents engaged in global learning
• Deeper leadership capacities for ourselves new ways to work with others as well as a means to continue development and avoid stagnation/burnout
• The creation of intentional work cultures that also include staff who may not always see themselves as fully part of the larger educational project, as well as
• ​Ongoing attunement to difference as our stakeholders become more diverse and our work unfolds in contexts of fast, often unexpected change, another form of difference

We will talk about both concepts and practicalities. The format will include 6 speakers and varying modalities for discussions. Participants will leave with specific takeaways about how they might engage the presented ideas and what emerges from the collective discussions in their own practice.

REGISTER

Registration fee $100
*For more detailed information on this event, please click the flyer below or visit ​https://global.lehigh.edu/AIEA2024.

“Coaching & Critical Intercultural Learning: Towards a New Approach for Global Education” takes a deep dive around how coaching can further our commitments to intercultural learning. Our goal is to create a space for thinking about how SIOs might amplify campus initiatives for intercultural learning by shifting their focus from a learning to a coaching culture through various points of entry. We will explore how coaching can further students’ development as intercultural learners and global citizens in a world characterized by difference, complexity and fast change.

Participants will discuss how coaching can support the evolution of global learning towards:

• Increased belonging whether for international students, students studying away from our home campuses, or constituents on campus
• More reflective intercultural learning for our constituents engaged in global learning
• Deeper leadership capacities for ourselves new ways to work with others as well as a means to continue development and avoid stagnation/burnout
• The creation of intentional work cultures that also include staff who may not always see themselves as fully part of the larger educational project, as well as
• ​Ongoing attunement to difference as our stakeholders become more diverse and our work unfolds in contexts of fast, often unexpected change, another form of difference

We will talk about both concepts and practicalities. The format will include 6 speakers and varying modalities for discussions. Participants will leave with specific takeaways about how they might engage the presented ideas and what emerges from the collective discussions in their own practice.

REGISTER

Registration fee $100
*For more detailed information on this event, please click the flyer below or visit ​https://global.lehigh.edu/AIEA2024.