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.
It is quite interesting to see how globalization and culture are linked.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I like how you have focused on the challenges teachers are going to be dealt with, but do you really think that foreign language can be an obstacle in our future classrooms? I mean, don’t you think that is something that can enrich our students?
I think foreign languages can be an obstacle in classrooms, because there is a language barrier. There's a chance that pupils can't understand the teacher, sometimes pupils can't understand each other. Then it's difficult for children to connect with other children. A part of the communication is missing. But we have learned that we can communicate in other ways too. We need to teach the different ways of communication to our pupils so they can communicate with each other in a different way than just speaking. That's an advantage of globalisation, I think.
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