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Posted by stella under: BLOGS; Eliminating Cultural Obstacles 1 .
| As a Language teacher, teaching kids, grown-ups and adults who have little or no knowledge of the English Language is not an easy task, especially when I need to fulfil my desire as a teacher. Order viagra online: in doing this to achieve a good end-result, I need not forget to always acknowledge the fact that I live in a society that is multi-culturally rich.Having this in mind, I need to be very careful and sensitive to the various cultural and social background that the pupils and students are connected with.
Parenting should not be the sole responsibility of our kids, if we may agree to this, as the responsibility lies also on others that are one way or the other having contacts with the kids or pupils, for example; care-takers, teachers and tutors as the case may be.
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We are going to be looking at cultural obstacles in education and finding a good method to avoid and eliminate them wherever they may arise.
In an attempt to succeed in eliminating any form of obstacles in cultural disparity, one will be ready to cement or bridge the gap that already exist.
If we are involved working with people or group of people with or from a diverse cultural backgrounds, it would be best for us, if we would like to enjoy and understand a very friendly working atmosphere, to understand and accept the ways in which the minds of these people or group work, in essence, cultural understanding; by doing this, we are generating a by-product, which allows us to get a rare glimpse of the strengths and weaknesses of our own system.
What are these cultural obstacles, how do they come up and how should we go about effectively eliminating them?
Obstacles always come up, especially when we are dealing with what I can call a “multi-culti entity”.This always arise because we have different cultures order viagra online, different languages, different ways of approaching and solving problems, but let us not forget too, there are various socio-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.A good example could be seen where a teacher teaches pupils from different cultural backgrounds all in one classroom.To be successful order viagra online, one must identify all the pupils or students and try to have a good knowledge of their cultural and other backgrounds.
For Cultural obstacles be successfully eliminated, there should be goodwill on both sides, because an individual´s negative reactions and evaluations cause dislike rather than like.
In part 2, we shall be looking at the various sources of cultural obstacles and how to eliminate them in education.
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Stella OMOREGIE
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4 Comments so far...
Mimi DiMello Says:
21 September 2009 at 1:16 pm.
Dear Stella,
thanks for the interesting article but I need some examples to understand clear.
You wrote:
“To be successful, one must identify all the pupils or students and try to have a good knowledge of their cultural and other backgrounds.”
This means, that teachers should know their pupils but do you relally think that they have this interest and time? And second how is it possible to know about cultural backgrounds, first where to get serious information and second how to deal with those who have more than one cultural background?
I would like to thank you in advance for sharing your experiences in interculturality here with us.
Thanks so much for the time to go through this piece of article.
It is very glaring here, that in the first place, if a teacher is not ready to know his/her pupils well enough, the teacher is bound to fail in handling issues which may be very sensitive to the pupils. If I try to know my pupils, I will be very careful to know how to go about their performances (positive/negative). A good teacher or a teacher who has the interest of his/her pupils at heart should try to have that time. Teachers traditionally are not supposed to be working just for work sake, rather than keeping and maintaining the good ethics of teaching, which is supposed to be a selfless service.
There is a saying which goes like this: the devil you know is better than the angel you do not know. That does not mean to say I represent my pupils as either angels or devils,just an analogy.
Knowing them well can be initiated from a kind of questioneer given to them to answer by their parents or guardians, in so doing, I will know how the pupil´s performance is tied to their background. I will know how to react when the are not performing well and will be very careful not to compare my pupils, because that brings about discouraging the pupil or instilling fear in them, which may cause them to start nursing fear to continue schooling. To be a good teacher, I should be very tolerance, having in mind that we are not equally intellectually gifted. Goodwill comes in by allowing rooms for re-trying after failure, rather than bullying a pupil which may scare him/her from school.
A little picture of how their parents have the time to check their school work could be seen from an answered questioneer. A parent or parents that must work much more hours to cope with bills and other financial commitment would not have that much time during the week to check or help their children learn well, except when they extra try to do so. If it happens that the parents have no interest in this area, then the pupil have only the teacher and the teacher´s care and compassion to boost his/her efforts to learn well.
Finally, a pupil that has a multi-cultural background already has a greater part solved, how, because he/she does not see much fence, because he/she does not need to read or learn from school, rather he/she will be able to site good examples when topics about multi-cultural background is being addressed. This is my view.
Tirhas Says:
22 September 2009 at 8:59 pm.
Dear Stella,
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Indeed, it’s a good strategy to be cautious when teaching in a multi-cultural environment. And I agree with the idea that parenting shouldn’t be the sole responsibility of parents as care-takers, teachers and tutors are expected to contribute to it indirectly. I would even add neighborhoods and the community/ the society as big players in educating a child. At least where I come from the proverb which says “it takes a village to raise a child” continues to guide child-parent, child-teacher, and child-community relationships.
However, I’m wondering if you could just elaborate more on the cultural obstacles in education, either from your own experiences or from a theoretical perspective? What strategies should one have in place to bridge any gap that might arise from cultural differences in education? And finally, you raised an interesting concept: goodwill. You stated for cultural obstacles to be successfully eliminated there should be goodwill on both sides. Is having goodwill really enough to solve cultural obstacles?
Looking forward to reading more of your comments and answers!
Thanks a lot!
You have actually made your questions help me generate easy answer, it becomes very much easier for me to bear, because you have just stated what I was contemplating whether or not to add and that is the extension of parenting to our neighbours, our society or community. You are right. Our environment technically parent a child and plays a very major role in parenting and molding a child´s character. A child that grows up in or around people who are well cultured and mannered have the very tendency to resemble people of his community in style and character, one way or the other.
I would suggest a constructive criticism here, this is where the goodwill plays an active role. Rather than classifying one child as a dullard or the child of uneducated which some teachers unknowingfully do, I would suggest the goodwill of accepting how a child performs, rather than blaming it on the parents or their background. I would rather try to take it up as a challenge upon myself, that until the pupil succeed, then I have failed as a teacher, because as I may wrongfully point an accusing finger to the parents on the poor performance of a pupil, the parents would also from their position point that same finger back to me as a bad teacher, they may even withdraw their child from my class or school as a whole. So if we both have an element of goodwill, I would in my part try to invite the parent of the affected pupil. This is one function of the parents-teachers-meeting, where we possibly would discuss a way to better the welfare of both our job as teachers, the parents joy and satisfaction and the pupils success.
A possible theoretical view is creating that friendly atmosphere, no matter what level of education, it is the same system, though some or much different levels. Education may be scaled on different measures, but the end result is always the same. If we tolerate and respect everyone´s opinion, not minding their social or cultural background, a very friendly atmosphere is encouraged and this means motivations are achieved from both sides.
We do have various ways of approaching and solving problems and if these various methods are not under-estimated, then a goodwill is present, otherwise a class is created and some may feel insulted and this may affect a great mass of group of people, a society, a people, culture, tradition, towns or country. Because we as humans are a social being, tolerance breed goodwill and goodwill propel team work and togetherness, rather a divide. It becomes interesting when we learn from others, directly or indirectly. It helps us as check. If these ingredients are missing, the system become boring, when this happens, if affect lives too. Yes goodwill is a paramount ingredient in checking and solving cultural obstacles. This is also applicable to all spheres or walks of life. I hope I have not digressed much? Thanks again for your precious time.
Mimi DiMello Says:
4 October 2009 at 5:48 pm.
Dear Stella, thank your for you answer. But I have another questioN.
You wrote “For Cultural obstacles be successfully eliminated, there should be goodwill on both sides, because an individual´s negative reactions and evaluations cause dislike rather than like”
I’m sure you are following the education discussion in austria and the gap between teachers, parents and policies. How ever my question is do you think that there is a cultural difference of understanding first of all about the meaning of being a teachers, the responsibility and that being a teacher is something like a purpose in life. I’m asking this because I think that the engagement of teachers is one key to success for pupils and students. So the cultural question is if you can report about experiences that teachers in your county or in Africa in general are better or more engaged?
The second thing is about students or pupils do you think that there is a difference because of the culture, that they are also the better ones in your country, that they respect teachers and education more?
Maybe my questions are simple for you but I will be thankfull to know about your experiences and to compare cultural differences just to better understand what is going on abroad and at the same time inside Austria.
Thank’s
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