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Towards Culturally Inclusive Dialogue in Online Learning

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Understanding of values, beliefs, and linguistic differences within and across cultures is a worthy goal to foster community, equity, and social justice. Capitalizing on diversity requires prioritizing inclusivity. Given the importance of dialogue in learning, attention is needed to the design and facilitation of culturally inclusive dialogue. In this chapter, we examine goals for culturally inclusive dialogue, interrelationships of language and culture, and facilitation strategies for building community. The chapter concludes with the Culturally Inclusive Dialogue Design Matrix (CIDDM), a tool which instructional designers and educators across content domains can use to design culturally inclusive dialogue. Instructional designers and educators across content domains would likely benefit from a practical, comprehensive, and widely available tool for designing culturally inclusive dialogue. This chapter culminates with such a design tool: the Culturally Inclusive Dialogue Design Matrix (CIDDM).

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  1. School of Education, Northcentral University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Barbara M. Hall

  2. College of Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

    Nandita Gurjar

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  1. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

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  2. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Marisa Exter

  3. College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Matthew M. Schmidt

  4. College of Education, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

    Andrew A. Tawfik

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Hall, B.M., Gurjar, N. (2023). Towards Culturally Inclusive Dialogue in Online Learning. In: Hokanson, B., Exter, M., Schmidt, M.M., Tawfik, A.A. (eds) Toward Inclusive Learning Design. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37697-9_7

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