Multiculturality in the Student-Supervisor-Teacher Relationship

Authors

  • Herbert Anderson

Abstract

Individualism and the invisibility of monoculturalism and whiteness interpenetrate and collude, making it difficult for the white clinical pastoral education (CPE) supervisor to effectively supervise international students and students of color from
within the United States. Individualism is a central organizing cultural assumption that underlies clinical pastoral education. Many international students and students of color from the United States live out of a more sociocentric worldview. Most
CPE supervisors are white. Although race is deeply encoded into the lives of everyone in our society, the dynamic of white privilege is such that most whites are not reflective about their/our race. Whiteness is experienced as “norm, as
transparency, as national/natural state of being.”2 Unreflective whiteness intensifies individualism in the supervisory process, making it very difficult for the supervisor to understand the experience and behavior of the student who is culturally different
from the supervisor.

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Volume 22 Multiculturality in Student-Supervisor/Teacher Relationships - 2002

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Volume 22 The Complete Journal

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