Dear researchers,
if u want to teach culture, what methods and resources do u use?
Your valuable views are highly appreciated.
Culture can be taught through an Anthropological approach that consider history, religion, race, traditions and ethnic considerations. It is important for students to know these things as culture is the lens through witch all things are viewed.
I include culture in all my Japanese English language classes. My students must elude on 2/3 presentations for a given country. I task them with specific items, - food, sports, etc. Pres. #1, the country's leader. Most Japanese students do not have a clue about world leaders other then countries such as China, the U.S. and maybe a couple others. Pres. 2 & 3 are more country specific. For English as well as non-English majors, these presentations provide a very important base of knowledge in addition to the language that they are studying. Teacher evaluations have supported my assignments with positive feedback. The Internet has offered many opportunities for cultural and global awareness.
dear @ Harry Carley, ur practical experience is useful . thanks so much.
Culture is taught through various forms of interaction between the participant and society (whether that is physically available or electronically). Aside from being a researcher, I'm a professor and coordinator for foreign exchange students. One of my main jobs is to allow foreigners to expirement, appreciate and understand a culture that is new (and in some cases even alien) to them through readings, cultural trips (hands-on learning), open conversations and online resources such as cultural clips. What has helped me learn how to teach culture was being a cultural learner myself. Sometimes being in the receiving end (learner) can bring new insights as to what it is you need to do to help others achieve it too.
Culture can be taught through an Anthropological approach that consider history, religion, race, traditions and ethnic considerations. It is important for students to know these things as culture is the lens through witch all things are viewed.
dear @ Carmin Carmen Ludivina Montante Resendiz, ur experience-based view is the best answer. thank u
dear @ Najat Alsowayegh, ur reply is practical and advisable. thank u for sharing ur views.
Culture is a result of reaction and mixing of many sources like religion, teaching, habits, traditions and others.
I do agree with Dr.Naseer H. Hamza.
Culture is the behaviour of humans within an organization and the meaning that people attach to those behaviors. it includes vision, values, norms, systems, countries, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits. I think culture should be considered for students in the first 5-10 mins of the class .Regards
dear @ Naseer H. Hamza, Mohamed F. Al-Dawody thank u for sharing ur views.
In SLA, culture can absorbed or acquired, as pointed out by Dr. Subhi Bazlamit, through being submerged in the second language environment. In EFL contexts, however, appropriate material with targeted cultural aspects has to be introduced, perhaps with discovery learning in mind; students in pairs or groups point out the cultural difference and how it is different. That is, culture here is taught explicitly rather than implicitly.
de@ Reda Elmabruk, I could not agree more. thank u for ur great views.
Culture can be taught actually through sharing certain people their way of living experiences and trying to indulge in those habits in order to have a more comprehensible look of their culture.
Yes it is absolutely teachable, and it is important to do so or it is at risk of becoming lost. In my field there is much research into the use of music education in teaching culture. Here are two links to papers I have found interesting on the topic: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Application_of_Ivan_Galamian_Principles_for_Violin_Learning_through_Malaysian_Folk_Tunes.pdf
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-music-education/article/music-teaching-and-the-process-of-enculturation-a-cultural-dilemma/B6E24D53811AB115EAB1E41D6FE7B531
And one of my own papers on the topic:
http://mjm.upsi.edu.my/images/Vol7/MJM7-4_Daniel(1_September_2018)_Final_Upload.pdf
dear @ Daniel Lee,
thank u for ur valuable articles investigating the relation between enculturation and music teaching
Hi Farangis, You may find this of interest.
Le gach dea-ghuí/best wishes,
Kevin Williams
Article Language learning: its moral and civic remit
I believe that part of the culture can be learned through anthropology, but most of it is related to the environment of origin.
Best Regards @ Farangis Shahidzade
A philosophically accepted definition of culture can be summarized as: "the set of material and spiritual values accumulated by man in the process of his historical-social practice". This definition appears in Chesnokov D.I.
Pueblos Unidos editions. Montevideo, 1966.
The mobilization of a respectful learning, towards people who have different cultural patterns, is necessary to undertake a teaching of the values that man has created in different geographical contexts.
Culture is learned in a lifelong educational process. It is the knowledge that remains of everything that interests and has been learned from the context in which people develop.
The content of the culture are multiple knowledge that vary in extent and depth depending on the motivation and interest to learn something: example: art (music, painting, architecture, literature, etc); technology (telecommunications, internet, artificial intelligence, engineering in general, information systems, etc.) sociology, economics, science.
All this is not knowledge that is obtained in the classroom or through teaching. The only thing that could be transmitted is the taste for something providing key information and showing example; The rest to learn depends on the taste of the person and their multidisciplinary research capacity.
If you can teach others to acquire needed abilities for appreciating excellence in all of its forms, then you can teach culture inside and outside the classroom.
Yes, culture can be learned in all aspects of scientific life and it is part of the behavior of the individual in society ...
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Culture cannot be created by lessons or lectures. This is useful, but not enough. It is necessary that the family give base. Culture is absorbed in the early years with "mother's milk". Although I saw two cases when people, having got from a remote village to a university (they behaved like a real "peasant") for a few years completely changed and become indistinguishable from children from professor's families. Therefore, the environment in student's age is also important.
However, somebody remain culturally "virgin" during all their lives, despite lectures and so on. (As we say - it is easy to take out the girl from the village, but it is very difficult to take out the village from the girl ...).
In my opinion yes culture is teachable also environment effective on cultur. Best regards
Qais Khaleel
Yes, culture can be taught within the framework of courses related to anthropology.
Culture is so teachable such that some states take precautionary measures to prevent their people from getting "true & honest" knowledge about specific cultures. Some "despotic" systems may defame a certain culture by a barrage of lies to get sure that the people, under their control, will be "immune" from admiring that culture.
In my humble opinion, the best way to teach a culture is to use original sources, live illustrations, and exemplary approaches & attitudes.
It is time for adopting open minds & hearts on cultural studies globally forgetting the "unscientific" attitudes of superiority , inferiority, racism, bias, and self glorification.
Yes, it's teacheable. Through inspirational videos which are ideal
Imaginative and biographical literature is the the ideal source of access to culture.
Through literature I introduce foreigners to Irish culture and Irish students to French culture.
L2 culture in TEFL is best taught indirectly in suitable contexts and situations; in TESL, culture can be both taught and acquired.
Culture generally expresses the cultural and intellectual characteristics of a nation. It is to be noted that all different cultures converge with each other on many major issues. The difference between cultures may ultimately stimulate their encounter, People who interact with each other through learning and influence among themselves.
I afree with Nizar Matar. Culture has a lot of aspects that can be taught including heritage, anthropology, folklore, etc.
DEAR @Subhi Bazlamit, YOUR SUGGESTION IS REALLY EFFECTIVE, THANK U
u r right dear @Changarampat Theke Mini, thank u for sharing ur views
Culture is teachable by daily routines in different countries. I think teachers and textbooks tend to focus on the target culture and forget about students' source culture. For example, topics such as food can be very interesting to see how people react to different types of food aound the world. Words are very important too as the same word might have different meanings for different social groups. Finally,
ICT (e.g. the way teenagers and/or adult learners use technology in different countries) may portray some of their patterns of socialization.
@Mini and Bazlamit I agree; culture cannot be taught theoretically, it must be experienced empirically. My local church has a relational, hospitable culture that is oriented towards family. We are a varied congregation - cross cultural by anthropological definitions, yet the core group has embraced the 'culture of the house.' In an individualistic, driven, self-propagating environment like Johannesburg (Gauteng, SA), we are a rare find.
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