Research Essay 1600 words

Length: 1500 words

Task Overview

Introduction: It has been argued that cultural capabilities are fundamental to operating effectively in the workplace, community and the university. Cultural capabilities are required for creating safe work and learning spaces. So, to complete this task you will be drawing together all of the learning from the unit to show understanding of strategies to create safe spaces.

Main Task: Write a formal report to observe and analyse whether characters in the given video are showing effective cultural capabilities and maintaining a culturally safe space. Also, recommend how effective cultural capabilities of the people involved could be improved.

Video Link:S

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/Racism-coronavirus-asians.html

Visual cues to look for:

1. Safe atmosphere (safe from physical, emotional or psychological harm?)

1. Body language, eye contact, hand placement, stance, proximity

1. Verbal communication (what and how)

How does cultural empathy relate to safe spaces?

1. How does cultural empathy help create effective work or social, settings?

1. How would you recognise that cultural empathy is occurring [or not] in any setting.

Task details

The report should:

1. Summarise and describe observations of the interactions related to aspects of cultural capabilities in the interaction.

1. Analyse (with formal references) the safe and unsafe aspects of the interaction, including the physical location and interactions between people.

1. Provide recommendations for creating or sustaining this interaction as a culturally safe space.

Be written in a formal tone - avoid personal language, contractions and slang.

use this outline:

1. Introduction (approx. 200 words): Briefly explain background, aim and scope of this report. Include the following sub-sections in the introduction.

1.1 Background An orientation to the topic of cultural capability and safe spaces.

1.2 Aim Tell the reader what the report aims to do – i.e. It will provide a summary, description and analysis of an example of a safe or unsafe space and will recommend improvements to improve the safety of the space where appropriate.

1.3 Scope Explain what the report will focus on, including concepts and capabilities you will analyse for.

1. Summary and Observations (Approx. 350- 400 words): This section will include two sub-sections.

2.1 Summary of the interaction: needs to include:

1. a brief plot line of the events you are analysing

1. the setting with a general overview of the scene

1. any relevant background information to understand the scene

1. identification of the key people involved

2.2 Observations: Identify the behaviours that are evidence of the cultural safety issues and cultural capability. These observations should confirm your statement in the introduction about whether the space is safe or unsafe.  Some of the things to look for and describe are: physical factors (size and layout of space, position of people in the space), communication factors (body language, voice, words), signs of inclusion or exclusion, and displays of or lack of cultural intelligence. It is a good idea to include a Table to set out your observations. Word count is included in the ‘summary and observations” quota, so don’t ‘spend’ all your words here.

If you use a table, remember that it will need to be introduced, and a number and title provided, as per below. (Note replace highlighted instructions with your own words):

Table 1 Title of table here

Scene description event or sections of event	Category  eg Signs of bias, cultural border crossing,	Category eg subculture, cultural safety	Category eg collaborative or coercive relations of power	Category eg privilege, equity, diversity
				Add more rows if needed

1. Analysis: (700-800 words):

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

In this section you should demonstrate your understanding of the key concepts covered in the unit. Using relevant references, together with your observations in section 2 of elements within the interaction, analyse whether chosen scenes are a safe or an unsafe space and explain why. Support your claims about whether each scene is a safe or unsafe space with readings and definitions of the concepts that comprise cultural safety, and literature we covered during the semester relating to capabilities and how people can demonstrate their cultural intelligence.

1. Identify a specific example of cultural capability from the interaction

1. Integrate a definition of cultural capability, power relations and generative interactions

1. Explain how the behaviour in this example relates to the definition and the broader question of cultural capability and safe spaces for the report

Hint: As noted earlier, to improve clarity, your analysis should include numbered sub-headings to highlight and structure key issues you identified as important to whether the space represented there is safe or not safe (e.g. 3.1 Empathy, 3.2 Intercultural Communication, 3.3 Awareness of Body Language, 3.4, Etc.).

1. Recommendations (150 – 200 words): Based on your analysis section, make recommendations for how situations in the situation may be changed using cultural capabilities to make this a safer space. The recommendations that you make should tie in very closely to your analysis section. Number and subheadings for each recommendation as it relates to the analysis:

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4.4

1. Summary and Conclusion (approx. 100 words): Summarise the main ideas. What did the situation show about safe spaces, and what actions needed to be taken to make it a safe space, if anything? No new material or references should be included in the summary and conclusion.

References: This list should be on a separate page. The title, References, should be centred in the page. The reference list should follow APA Style guidelines