Cultural Competence And Intercultural Communication

Cultural competence is about our will and actions to build understanding between people, to be respectful and open to different cultural perspectives, strengthen cultural security and work towards equality in opportunity.
Relationship building is fundamental to cultural competence and is based on the foundations of understanding each other’s expectations and attitudes, and subsequently building on the strength of each other’s knowledge, using a wide range of community members and resources to build on their understandings.
As an Educator being open to other cultures, understand their way to behave and do things, brings up many opportunities to integrate a wide range of families into the children services. Also others (Children, families and