Ten years ago some colleagues and I designed a teaching and learning research project for fourth-year occupational therapy, social work and psychology students at the Universities of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch.

They could talk to each other about community, self and identities, concepts central to their work as professionals in a diverse society.

For our students to become the best professionals and active citizens that they could be, they needed to learn how to work and live together with people who were different from them while affirming the importance of their shared humanity.

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