The School’s Internationalisation-at-Home team (IaH), led by Dr E Angela Chan, [Associate Professor & Associate Head (Undergraduate Education)] have been selected to receive the Faculty Award (team award) in Teaching in recognition of their outstanding achievement in 2021. Members of the team includes Dr Arkers Wong, Assistant Professor; Dr Betty Chung, Teaching Fellow; and Mr Timothy Lai, Clinical Associate.
Since 2017, tremendous efforts have been made by the team to nurture student intercultural awareness and sensitivity through Internationalisation of our curricula and the (IaH) activities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The School has been collaborating with Malmo University, Sweden; and La Trobe University, Australia to expand student learning experience. National University of Ireland, Galway; and National University of Singapore, have added to our list of collaborators in 2022 for enriching the postgraduate learning experience.
At the undergraduate level, the team have been fostering inter-cultural learning in the subject Nursing Therapeutic II. Through student-led group webinars and group reflection sessions, students are equipped with an ability to solve complex local and global clinical situations.
To enhance visual learning and students’ understanding of non-verbal interactions with cultural sensitivity, since September 2021, the School has been implementing the IaH activity through student created video-based simulated scenarios. The videos have captured the nuances of clinical interactions among nursing students in three different places/cultures and shown how the students used their gestures and facial expressions to interact and communicate with the ‘patients’ (role-played) and performed nursing tasks. This teaching and learning strategy enables students to learn from each other in various clinical practices across different cultural contexts and helps them enhance skills on teamwork, communication, decision and leadership.
At the postgraduate level, the IaH course Cultural Awareness in Health and Social Care Research offers a unique opportunity for PolyU students to work together with students from Malmo and La Trobe universities to explore complex ethical issues. The course aims to help students integrate international and intercultural dimensions into their research knowledge and skills. It includes five international research student webinars, led by faculty members of the School and our partnering universities. Ethical/cultural dilemmas associated with nursing professional or research practices are presented to students in each webinar for discussion and reflection.
Until now, seven articles were published by the team and their papers were presented at four conferences. The team hopes that their research findings will contribute to the continuous refinement of local or international undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Student-created and video-based simulated scenarios help undergraduate students learn in various clinical practices across different cultural contexts and develop an ability to solve complex local and global clinical situations.
Led by the faculty members, postgraduate students discussed and reflected various ethical/cultural dilemmas associated with nursing professional or research practices at the international research student webinars.
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