A.S.K Requirements

Core Competencies for Working in Diverse Communities

A.S.K

Attitudes

• empathy
• compassion
• trust
• integrity
• openness
• honesty
• collective responsibility
• respect
• humility
• confidence
• non-judgement
• commitment
• passion

Skills

• critical thinking
• conflict resolution
• collective problem-solving
• ability to acknolwedge difference
• self-monitoring (thinking before speaking)
• ability to lead and be lead
• perspective-taking

Knowledge

• social issues
• social location (self and others)
• self-knowledge (own values)
• sstems of power and privelege
• cultural competence and proficiency
• oppression frameworks, anti-oppression principles

taken in part from Teaching for diversity and social justice : a sourcebook, 1997, pp. 78-79. Great Britain : Routledge (1997).

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