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May 6, 2026Literacy0 citationsOpen Access

Cultivating Cultural Humility Through Art: A Creative Pedagogical Approach to Social Inclusion in Higher Education

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LZLinda ZhuTMTabitha Millett

Key Points

  • This study aims to investigate cultural humility as a framework for enhancing social inclusion in higher education.
  • Employed an arts-based participatory methodology
  • Facilitated creative workshops with undergraduate students
  • Enhanced understanding of cultural humility through multimodal expression
  • Demonstrated a shift from metric-driven assessments of inclusion
  • Amplified student voices and co-constructed knowledge through artistic inquiry
  • Argued for integrating cultural humility into creative pedagogy to promote authentic inclusion

Abstract

ABSTRACT Within UK higher education, the commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is central to creating supportive and equitable environments that enhance student well‐being. A critical yet challenging aspect of EDI is genuine cultural inclusion, which requires moving beyond mere representation to address issues of power and equity. This study investigates the potential of cultural humility, a reflective, process‐oriented practice that challenges static cultural competence, to serve as a transformative framework for social inclusion. Employing an arts‐based participatory methodology, the research facilitates creative workshops with undergraduate students to examine contemporary understandings of cultural humility. The project has two primary objectives: first, to shift away from top‐down, metric‐driven assessments of inclusion by amplifying student voices through multimodal expression; and second, to co‐construct knowledge and reimagine social realities through collaborative artistic inquiry. This study argues that integrating cultural humility with creative pedagogy can foster more authentic, reflexive inclusion.

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Zhu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fa980604f884e66b531e5chttps://doi.org/10.1111/lit.70034
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