Critical Reflection
Example:
- Promising:
- “When my homestay mother insisted that I change my outfit before heading out, I thought through the situation from her cultural perspective and complied. Later that evening, I asked her to share more about why she’d asked me to do that, and we had one of the most interesting conversations of my time in Indonesia.”
- Promising:
- “I noticed that the local people were not at all interested in my research on local wildlife. I discovered through dialogue that their view of natural resources differed significantly from mine.”
- Good start but needs more thought:
- “People in my host community were not as welcoming to strangers as I thought they would be.”
- Good start but needs more thought:
- “I celebrated Ramadan for the first time with my host family.”