ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some core principles for teaching across cultural frameworks. Applying these core principles will strengthen students opportunity to achieve rewards. As teaching is itself a challenging and sometimes risky endeavor, no matter the pedagogical approach, the chapter considers some common dilemmas and hazards teachers may encounter when balancing integrated and individuated cultural frameworks in their teaching. Students who lean toward an integrated approach to the role of the teacher may prefer a variety of interactions with the instructor, including personable and informal as well as formal interactions. The teaching and learning journey inherently creates vulnerability in both teacher and learner. Addressing culture may feel like it challenges relativistic thinking; what appear to be oppositional cultural frameworks and learning styles are actually on a relative continuum, though they sometimes seem dualistic. Diversifying teaching allows each individual to learn within a diversity of pedagogies, learning experiences, interactions, and relationships, hopefully finding their own natural learning processes somewhere in the mix.
