Learning outcome
By the end of this challenge participants will be able to...
... Understand assimilation and accommodation learning strategies as frames for understanding our reaction to the unfamiliar
... Define a culture shock
…Identify phases of the culture meeting
... Recognize different types of stereotyping as a reaction to a culture shock
Content
Challenge three contents a common exercise where the participants connect their own descriptions of culture shock to each other. The connection is psychical made by a string that ends up as a web. A short movie will illustrate how our prejudices influence out ability to judge a situation. Group work and discussions of three different education settings where the participants will identify what is familiar and what is unfamiliar.
Readings
Illeris, Knud(2004): The three dimensions of learning. Contemporary theory in the tension field between the cognitive, the emotional and the social Roskilde University Press & Nice publications. Narayana Press
Lynch, Eleanor W and Marci J. Hanson (1998), (Ed.): Developing Cross-Cultural Competence. Paul H. Brookes Publising, Baltimore, Maryland.
Product
Use the string web method as a tool to develop a common language in a group.
Action
Keep a diary of situations where your basic values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior are challenged by a different set of values beliefs and behaviors when being aboard.
Reflection
Write your answer to the challenge including relevant materials, e.g. your own readings, actions and products as possible examples.
Possible key concepts
Diversity, multicultural, convention, attitude, learning encounters, inquiry, creativity, awareness, approach, model, curriculum, cultural contribution, antibias
Visitor
Links
A multicultural school in London: http://www.teachers.tv/videos/ks1-ks2-english-the-multilingual-school
Litteratur
Burke, Peter (2009): Cultural Hybridity Cambridge: Polity
Cohen, Robin & Paul Kennedy 2007): Global Sociology New York: Palgrave
Macmillan
De Meléndez, Wilma Robles & Vesna Beck
(2010): Teaching Children in the
Multicultural Classroooms – Issues, Concepts, and Strategies Wadsworth
Giddens, Anthony (2002): Runaway World – How Globalisation is Reshaping our Lives London: Profile Books
Jensen, Iben (2007): Introduction to Cultural Understanding Roskilde:
Roskilde University Press
Kemp, Peter & Fredetik Rosén (2007): Den
nye verdensorden København: Politisk
Revy
Steger, Manfred (2009): Globalization – A Very Short Introduction Oxford: Oxford University
Press
