At the Globalisation and Professional change program this Tuesday we learned about Tolerance. We had a teacher called Marcus who taught about tools we can use to stay tolerant and how we can understand foreign culture. Beside that we also saw a film, did an exercise and discussed culture in pairs.
I thought that the game we played was really good. We had to write one word on a sheet of paper about a culture shock and explain why we had chosen that word. Meanwhile we passed on a spool of string from the person who had talked to the person who was going to talk next. The string was a bit too short so we had to work together and move together in order to have enough string for everybody to participate. In the end we could see how all the words was related to each other in one or the other way.
It was an interesting lesson and I am definitely going to use the game for teaching children when I finish school and have my own classes.
To read more about tolerance, check out my page on tolerance on the top of this blog.
Friday, 22 February 2013
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Affects of globalization
Globalization can be defined as the intensification of worldwide
social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local
happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice
versa.' (Anthony Giddens, former director of London School of
Economics)
This quote sums up the world we live in today. Globalization has become a worldwide phenomenon that affects everybody, no matter age, nationality, gender, or social status. To social anthropologists, the word culture is very much related to the word globalization. Culture is not inherited, but something you learn as you interact with your social environment during your childhood. Together culture and genes construct our personality. At least according to Hofstede's "Cultural dimensions".
With that in mind, it is easy to see how important a role globalization play in the lives of people today. And especially young people, whose minds are being formed by their surroundings.
Teachers therefore have an obligation to guide their pupils in how to benefit from the globalization, including the many sources of information that easily can be accessed through the internet. But globalization doesn't only generate nice opportunities, it also produces a lot of challenges that has to be dealt with.
The picture my group has painted illustrate the challenges that teachers face today. Among these are; multicultural classrooms where personal values may differ and where foreign language can be an obstacle.
This quote sums up the world we live in today. Globalization has become a worldwide phenomenon that affects everybody, no matter age, nationality, gender, or social status. To social anthropologists, the word culture is very much related to the word globalization. Culture is not inherited, but something you learn as you interact with your social environment during your childhood. Together culture and genes construct our personality. At least according to Hofstede's "Cultural dimensions".
With that in mind, it is easy to see how important a role globalization play in the lives of people today. And especially young people, whose minds are being formed by their surroundings.
Teachers therefore have an obligation to guide their pupils in how to benefit from the globalization, including the many sources of information that easily can be accessed through the internet. But globalization doesn't only generate nice opportunities, it also produces a lot of challenges that has to be dealt with.
The picture my group has painted illustrate the challenges that teachers face today. Among these are; multicultural classrooms where personal values may differ and where foreign language can be an obstacle.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
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