"What is your personal culture?
Is it the same as your national culture?
How does it affect your daily interactions?
How do you perceive success and failure?"
These are important questions in the educational setting.
There are many dimensions of both our personal and national culture that affect how we interact with and interpret things in our daily lives, such as how we interpret and value the following:
Gender - Hierarchy - Truth - Virtue
-Identity
One of the most important dimensions within culture is a sense of identity. Our orientations tend to be either more or less centered on the individual- the "Me"- or society at large- the "We".
Across cultures, this can be described as either Collectivism or Individualism and can impact interactions within groups and in the classroom. Learn more about the implications on the following pages, and how student learning is affected by attributional differences in their cultural background.
Is it the same as your national culture?
How does it affect your daily interactions?
How do you perceive success and failure?"
These are important questions in the educational setting.
There are many dimensions of both our personal and national culture that affect how we interact with and interpret things in our daily lives, such as how we interpret and value the following:
Gender - Hierarchy - Truth - Virtue
-Identity
One of the most important dimensions within culture is a sense of identity. Our orientations tend to be either more or less centered on the individual- the "Me"- or society at large- the "We".
Across cultures, this can be described as either Collectivism or Individualism and can impact interactions within groups and in the classroom. Learn more about the implications on the following pages, and how student learning is affected by attributional differences in their cultural background.
