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“Try Walking In Our Shoes”: Teaching Acculturation And Related Cultural Adjustment Processes Through Role-Play, Byron L. Zamboanga, Lindsay S. Ham, Cara C. Tomaso, Shannon Audley, Nnamdi Pole

Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications

In this article, we describe several role-playing exercises on acculturation and relevant cultural adjustment processes that we incorporated into Tomcho and Foel’s classroom activity on acculturation, and we report data that examine subsequent changes in students’ responses on pretest and posttest measures shortly after the activity and present qualitative themes derived from students’ reflections taken from an assignment at the end of the semester. We found no increases in students’ perceptions that role-playing can help them gain a better understanding of acculturation. However, there were increases in students’ awareness that acculturation is a real-world phenomenon, their understanding of how acculturation …