I remember well that as Master students in Cultural Anthropology, we devoured Nigel Barley’s book The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut* right before doing our own fieldwork.
As a young anthropologist Barley traveled to Cameroon in 1981 to conduct a field study on the until then relatively unknown Dowayo peoples.
In February 2015 I conducted two webinars for Sietar Europe on ‘Tacit knowledge, culture and informal learning’. Watch the recording above.
Tacit knowledge can be defined as implicit, non-conscious and unacknowledged knowledge. It is silently acquired through practice, socialization and habits. Routines are a form of this non-conscious knowledge, as are cultural values and norms. Tacit knowledge was formulated by philosopher Polyani. “We know more
This is the videoclip of the IRC train-the-trainer workshop by Ursula Brinkmann, Juanita Wijnands and Yvonne van der Pol in June 2014. The participating trainers learned how to develop and design training courses based on the competences assessed by the Intercultural Readiness Check©. The highly interactive program with new concepts and ideas, exercises and activities supported trainers to design and deliver training courses based on the Intercultural Readiness approach for intercultural effectiveness. Thanks to by Sirous Kavehercy who produced the videoclip.
“We are citizens of space and stewards of Earth. We need to take actions to build a global climate alliance in order to protect our environment” — Soichi Noguchi, Japanese astronaut
