Understanding each other through Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.
Target Audience: People working in multicultural environments - aka: everybody at OIST
When: Friday, October 27, 14:00 -15:30
Where: Lab2, C600b
Facilitator: Justin Charles Foster Sutherland, English language section
Session Format: Interactive workshop. Some activities will require internet access. If possible, please bring your lap top or a smart phone.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the workshop you will understand ...
- That cultural differences play a big role in our lives in a multicultural society;
- Cultural differences can be measured to some degree;
- Measuring cultures may be useful for understanding the differences.
About the Facilitator
Justin Foster-Sutherland is an English instructor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School. He was previously a foreign language teacher at Kaiho Senior High School. Justin has an undergraduate degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is currently a MEd TESOL candidate at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK where he is specialising in English for academic purposes.
In addition, Justin has worked in numerous multi-cultural environments in South Africa, Malaysia and Japan. In Okinawa he taught cross cultural understanding for 3 years.
