Do you think that culture and environment effects the level of cognition and learning of a higher education students?
Not that any culture is so brutal to supress their community directly from being motivated or interested in challenging atcheivements, but when the single blucks of (1). cultural priorities and (2). social forbiddens (in the name of honor and Tabu) stay side by side in the whole ally of that especific geography, and then it is sumed up with the natural (3). inner indolence of human-kind, outcome would looka like a cognitive issues, but in fact it is just a combined effect of these three factors.
Hi Faranack,
It means cultural values and habits are not factors to influence any learning enviornment?
Habib
From the point of historical cultural approach and any derived from it trend, the answer is yes.
For me, it is almost obvious.
Of course, there is one consideration that could change this interpretation: what under culture is understood.
Hi Habib, I believe cultural values and habits are the factors that influence any learning environment. As mentioned by Franack - (1). cultural priorities and (2). social forbidden directly influence the culture and environment. I.E educators values and principles, policies & rules such as dress code. Some culture also emphasizing on masculine hegemonic practices & interpretation.
Bender, A., & Beller, S. (2013). Cognition is… fundamentally cultural. Behavioral Sciences, 3(1), 42-54. (http://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/3/1/42/htm)
To save space, I've only listed one example out of many, many studies on the fundamental effects of culture on cognition. So without going into socioeconomic status, the unfortunate status English has as the lingua franca in the sciences, cultural views about education, and numerous other ways in which culture could play a role, we can still say with a good deal of certainty that the answer is "yes." Why? Because if culture affects cognition fundamentally and generally, then it does when it comes to the numerous cognitive processes important for success in higher education.
May I suggest that you read Jurgen Habermas' work on cultural capital. It would seem that the academic culture instilled in higher education institutions is enabled by certain family and societal values and norms. Students' cultural backgrounds that encourage reading for leisure and time management, for example, are at an advantageous position compare to their counterparts who do not have such cultural capital in the form of exposure, experiences, habits, and models for behaviours that are promoted in higher education institutions.
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