Name: Milton Bennett
Nationality: American
Known for:
- Creator of the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
- Co-founder of the Intercultural Communication Institute and Director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute
Key Publications:
- American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Co-author 1991) ME: Intercultural Press
- Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: A reader. (Ed. 2007) ME: Intercultural Press
- Handbook of Intercultural Training (Eds. 2004) Thousand Oaks: Sage
Dr Milton Bennett has been involved in the intercultural field since 1967. He is co-founder of the Intercultural Communication Institute and Director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute. He has a PhD from the University of Minnesota in intercultural communication and sociology, an MA in psycholinguistics from San Francisco State University and a BA from Stanford University. Apart from intercultural communication his interests focus on empathy and consciousness studies.
One of Bennett’s greatest achievements was to create the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity in 1986. The model shows a progression of stages people may go through in developing intercultural competence and has been used in many cross cultural awareness training courses such as Communicaid’s Developing Global Competence.
Read our recent blog article to find out more about one of Bennett’s key intercultural theories: Cross Cultural Theory: Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
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