This public lecture held on March 5, 2018 is one of the programs in Prof. Harder’s visitation schedule to our faculty. Prof. Harder is a senior professor in the field of Critical Psychology from Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany. He will be in the faculty for a month, until March 25, and had started his visitation on February 24. During his visit, Prof. Harder will participate in various activities with lecturers and students through public lectures and discussions.
The lecture on March 5th was held in G100. Students and lecturers attended this lecture. The theme he presented was intercultural competence. The lecture started with giving out the key to understand intercultural competence, which is the challenge of the intersection between culture, relevance, professional fields, competence, cross-cultural studies, and disciplines of science. The lecture went with a deductive pattern, in which after ‘the key of intercultural competence’ was explained in the beginning, it was continued with the explanation of intercultural competence’s definition. The next part of the lecture was about the three parts of intercultural competence: cognitive competence, affective competence, and pragmatic & communicative competence. The fields of use of intercultural competence was explained as well.
Then, Prof. Harder explained about culture and touched on the collective construction of reality. Cultural Standardization was explained afterwards, and is explained as a construction of what is ‘standard culture’ through collective bias. Prof. Harder also played a video titled “Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes Racism Experiment”. The video depicts Jane Elliot’s radical exercise she created for children in her class to understand racism. The lecture ended with a question and answer session. [Hanggara]