Cultivating a Cross-Cultural Disposition - Hardcover

Crooks, Rory A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1025058003 ISBN 13: 9781025058009

Publisher: Hutson Street Press, 2025

Synopsis

The U.S. Army has taken cues from those within and outside of the military profession to focus more effort toward understanding culture and its impacts on operations. The institutional Army has consequently committed resources toward incorporating knowledge of specific cultures and toward enhancing language skills into its professional military education (PME) curricula. While this knowledge and these skills are clearly needed, possessing them does little to shape dispositions of military students. Developing patience and inclination to work with dramatically different cultures requires PME to shift focus from the primarily cognitive domain of educational objectives to the affective domain. PME must examine the foundations of its educational philosophy and seek more creative approaches possessing the emotive impact to change dispositions, such as self-directed learning and transformative learning. Such approaches generate "buy-in" of the student and allow critical reflection upon one's cultural assumptions and biases. This, in turn, enables military students to become more effective in understanding all cultures rather than only those of current operational importance.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutson Street Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1025058003
• ISBN 13: 9781025058009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 90