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Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

Teaching Cross-Culturally is a challenging consideration of what it means to be a Christian educator in a culture other than your own. Chapters include discussions about how to uncover cultural biases, how to address intelligence and learning styles, and teaching for biblical transformation. Teaching Cross-Culturally is ideal for the western-trained educator or missionary who plans to work in a...

The second step is self-awareness—learning who we are, what we value, and what social game preferences we hold. When Chinchen began to take the patron-client game of his African students seriously, he recognized his desire for independence, his resistance to indebtedness, and his reluctance to take on a “big man” role. He preferred to be a facilitator of learners and to have students as peer novices rather than as clients. He became aware that these were selfish interests that allowed him to remain
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