"Culture permeates every aspect of our beings. . As a general rule, take advantage of any opportunities to talk about culture with an open mind."

"Culture permeates every aspect of our beings. . As a general rule, take advantage of any opportunities to talk about culture with an open mind."

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DEAR @Anurag Saxena, GREAT IDEAS, THANK U

Farangis Shahidzade ,

By being a role model of own culture and custom and thats why a teacher must be formal in the class with the student inside the own boundary of culture and thats world picture.

Thanks

DEAR @Md Zafar Alam Bhuiyan, great reply. best wishes

thanku Farangis Shahidzade

Culture has its roots in our family , covering total environment of our family which demands a way of behavior , total norm of discipline , & such other areas .

With this every children in the class room have a different environment & action of their life .The teacher responsibility demands a great responsibility as they have to observe & study the behavior ,& discipline of the students .

While reviewing the student in the above line teacher has to formulate his policy all the student covering the moral codes of culture irrespective of caste ,creed , & religion & with the development of policy by the teacher students enjoy an may have the chance to the friends all the member of family which may help to the student for the cultural development .

This is my personal opinion

Culture can only be undersoood by human history. Cultural history is a higher form of natural history; it is transmitted by social history. Thus, every culture has developed distinct symblos of meaning; literarcy and technical skills are the foundation of human cultural progress; every culture has a specidic coding of reality, which can be the reason for better communication or intense conflict, e.g. cultural expectations of life after death vary immensly and cannot be proven by the scientitic method. In this case, only mutual tolerance can work to eventually bear the existential tension of differing expectations.

A very good question. Cultural aspects can be incorporated with all language skills. It can be taught through short stories, writing compositions and all other skills.

dear @Rohit Manilal Parikh,@ Hazim Al Dilaimy, @ Stephen I. Ternyik

thank u for valuable replies

I recommended the following link

https://busyteacher.org/7080-top-10-ways-to-teach-culture.html

Best Regards Farangis Shahidzade

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Encourage students to work papers on the subject in order to expand their cultural information about it

In my opinion it is a valuable question because we teach normally contents whithout asking which cultural background things have.

Interesting link @osamarahil.

I would add the work on personality models to that: everyone has preferences in things like communication (e.g. facts vs emotions), expression (e.g. extrovert vs introvert), exploring options (e.g. out of the box thinkers vs adaptive thinkers). It would bring out that although people from a certain background on first glance share a lot of culture - there is still a lot of differences between them. There is no such thing as a homogeneous culture.

Dear Farangis Shahidzade

You have posted a very interesting question.

There are many ways to teach culture in our classrooms. One of them is through readings. Readings are good ways to teach people´s culture: music, body language, traditions, architecture, literature,greeting manners, etc.

You may use videos , pictures and articles in your lessons.

Best wishes,

Litart

Incorporate aspects of your students' cultural backgrounds in your classroom by having them bring in an item that they feel is representative of their culture. This way you ensure that all students can recognize their culture in your classroom. Depending on the age of the students, have them do a presentation on the item they brought in. Additionally, they can do a research and presentation project on their cultural background and history. Culturally responsive teaching fosters a sense of belonging in the classroom, which is crucial for students' emotional well-being.

Culture has many definitions - and is often referred to ethnicity or religions.

However, I take a broader approach - believing culture is a group of individuals with similar ideas - so in essence, your classroom is a culture of its own.

Cultural safety (which includes cultural humility and competence) provides a framework to ensure embracing diversity through inclusiveness - it's not needing to know everything about the other person - it's knowing how they want to be treated and respecting that

As a dealer with a foreign language, I think that the best way of teaching culture is to share it. How can this occurs? It can simply be approached via

"culture exchange." This can be done two ways. Not only do your students learn about your culture, but you can learn about theirs.

Teaching cross cultural issues might be of great use; try to avoid critical issues among cultures that might create conflict. Avoid ethical issues and support dialogue and mutual appreciation

It is of course an advantage to have grown up in several cultures. I have been through several weeks of guest stay rather in many countries than that I have got to know a country properly through years of stay. But it is possible that even after years of living in a foreign culture, certain aspects of this culture may not be fully understood, so that one believes to live on the outer skin of this culture rather than to get inside it. What is not desirable in every case, I suspect, is that one will preserve one's identity, which changes over the years and finds new balances.

Most of us in the education profession are white, middle-class, monolingual-English speakers. Increasingly, the same profile does not hold true for our students. Often, when we stand before our classrooms, the faces looking back at us do not look like our own. Many of us try to bridge this difference with an embrace of color-blindness or the Golden Rule, treating others the way we would want to be treated.

But the truth is: culture matters.

Culture isn't just a list of holidays or shared recipes, religious traditions, or language; it is a lived experience unique to each individual. As educators, it's our job to stimulate the intellectual development of children, and, in this era, it's simply not enough to operate on the axis of color-blindness.

To truly engage students, we must reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotypes we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness.

A culture is way of being of us and everything around us. Culture is not knowledge and cannot be taught, it is handed over by personal experience, including the experience of teaching and the experience of being taught. Each of us is unavoidably handing over culture in each minute of any communication with others and each of us is unavoidably establishing and carrying the culture in each minute of our life, participating in creation of culture of personal behavior, teaching, education, society, politics, culture of our nation, country, etc. Being a teacher, you have got much greater opportunity and also responsibility for culture of you students’ lives then others.

The answer to your question depends on the goals for the class. Are we talking about primary education or college level courses? Is cultural understanding a specific goal of the course? Or are you teaching about a more universal topic but want to examine how the topic might be approached from different cultural backgrounds? Are you talking about classroom dynamics and the teacher/student relationship when students come from different backgrounds? I also take the same view as Colleen that "culture" is not limited to race/ethnicity. Social class, gender, ability, religion, etc. also represent cultural contexts that impact teaching and learning.

In subjects like events and marketing, especially taught in an international classroom, tutors can create opportunities to be experts on their own geographical area, bringing their own cultural perspective to any subject that is being discussed. Helpful for the class to reflect on similarity, difference and detail.

A teacher can be the best guide of culture in the classroom. If a teacher can set different examples only by obeying some some cultural norms and setting the rules of culture only by giving some cause effectiveness of real life cultural sagacity

Agree that teaching is by definition conducted within a cultural context, even if the deliver and the leaners do not consciously consider this fact. So, culture is always part and parcel and teaching everywhere and at all times. Issue for the teacher is how to approach it consciously and productively in any teaching context, which is not a simple task, but a potentially powerful and ethical action! Requires much reading about culture in general, studying, and actual experience with cross cultural practices to develop a foundational knowledge. Fortunately, many stories in the literature exist of teachers who have embarked on this journey of reflective cultural practice which provide direction to motivated teachers on how to proceed in developing this understanding and using it meaningfully to guide instruction for all.

Dear Doctor

Here you're speaking about the Meta-Curriculum

Exactly, Nabila! Thanks for adding the technical term, so that others may come to know the technical language for what I was describing.

For the interested newcomer, every culture has positive, likeable traits as well as foreign, even repulsive traits. You should bear this in mind when you act as a cultural mediator.

Agree, Hein. That is why I made sure to state in my earlier comment, "Issue for the teacher is how to approach it consciously and productively in any teaching context, which is not a simple task, but a potentially powerful and ethical action."

Implication was that it is not a simple task due to what you have mentioned (and other issues) beyond the scope of this RG discussion. Thanks.

I can only add to this rich discussion that we as educators should also take note of the changing cultural metaphor so that we can treat with "culture" in its current context, especially in the U.S. (e.g., Refugee crisis, BlackLives Matter Movement, Intersectionality):https://www.researchgate.net/deref/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.igi-global.com%2Fsymposium%2F%3Futm_source%3DIGI%2BGlobal%2BProducts%2Band%2BPublishing%2BOpportunities%26utm_campaign%3Dc75a0f91ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_05%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_bcbd627034-c75a0f91ec-49335745

Best,

Debra

Lead by example

dear @ J. Randy McGinnis, your comments are really illuminating. thank u for sharing them

Agree with Dr.Farangis Shahidzade.

With increasing experience through visiting foreign universities, I have both told my listeners abroad about my home country and, after returning home, told my own students about my experiences abroad. In my experience, the most important thing for university lecturers is to have a close network of friendship and cooperation with colleagues from several countries for the rest of our lives. In this wonderful way, you hardly have that in any other profession.

Teaching culture varies depending on the context of teaching , the prescribed curriculum of the students and the culture itself. In fact, there are many techniques for teaching culture where the teacher can choose. But what is important here is how the teacher can be a model inside class showing the students his/ her respect to all other cultures.

Liqaa

I talked a lot about establishing an inclusive culture with my students. It may be helpful to first define what kind of culture you are targeting here to teach: is it more physical environment related or more social emotional environment focused. For both of them, the strategies to teach are quite different.

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You can take a comparative approach by comparing your culture with the target culture. Immersion, excursion, and year abroad are more effective ways of assimilating a foreign culture by a student.

You can take a comparative approach by comparing your culture with the target culture. Immersion, excursion, and year abroad are more effective ways of assimilating a foreign culture by a student.

Culture is taught through behaviours

By value-based behaviour management.

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By tradition, ethic, manner , behavior and healthy community

Due to the nature of my specialization & due to the fact that my students have been belonging to the same cultural background over 34 years, there is no chance to teach culture even with few sentences at present. I hope to see foreign students joining the science faculties here to do some cultural comparisons & contrasts.

However, when I taught in Great Britain for 2 years long time ago there was a very good chance to exchange information about a variety of cultures outside my teaching duties since my students were nearly from every continent but most of them were Europeans "especially British". It was an enriching experience.