Respose 5: Learning culture: flowcharts

For Institutions involve many cultural practices. A strategy for understanding institutions is to list the procedures they require through a flowchart.

For example for getting a driver´s licence in costa rica list the steps and then put them on the flowchart.

Renewing or obtaining a new license is a three step process.

1-Pay for the license in advance at any Banco de Costa Rica office. There is one near Consevi.

2-Get a physical exam and blood typing

3-Take your payment receipt, your medical exam paperwork, and other documents to the licensing offices behind ConsevI

FLOWCHART

Respose 5: Learning culture: Maps

A usefull strategy for examining the culture dimensions of places is mapping .

Excersice:

Draw a plan floor of your house and include objects in the various rooms and label them show the drawing to a partner.Explain the use and the purpose of each room.

This is the floor plan of my house:

Response 5: Teaching culture : Analyzing Artifacts:

The definition given by wikipedia says that:

anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users.However, current objects of modern or near-modern society are also cultural artifacts. For example, in an anthropological context, a 17th Century lathe or piece of faience, and a television all provide a wealth of information about the time in which they were manufactured and used. Cultural artifacts can provide knowledge about technological processes, economy and social makeup, and a host of other subjects.

In this week we did an exercise in class about artifacts, in base on the definition and examples, the professor gave us we had to create an artifact individually.

What I create was like a credit card but not a simple credit card.

My artifact is helpfull and easy to use for traveling whenever, at any time you want.

How you use it? you have to get into a cabin and slide the card into a device and in moments you will be in the destination you want any country you want faster than an airplaine (as you see in the picture below).

Where do you find this artifact?

In my company

Which people use it?

Is for all users

Reponse 2- How do your beliefs, values, and cultural upbringing influence the way you behave?

My beliefs, values and culture influence a lot in the way I behave, because I grew up practicing and learning from my parents that but also we have to remember that when we grew up we decide which values and beliefs are important to our lifes . Also I think these forms the human being, their attitudes, way to see life, the way we behave with other people, in our works, in our places of study...

How does it feel when others see you as different—or as an outsider?

We know everybody is different So for that reason we have to be tolerant with other people that have different culture and instead of giving critics try to learn and transform the negative things into positive.

Response 1 - Our first class of Culture and Society

In our first class the professor start by doing an ice breaker about our eages, we have to form a line starting with the oldest person to end with the youngest one, we continue doing activities.

Then the professor give one number to each person from one to four in order to form groups. When we got together we had to give the meaning of culture and then explain to rest of the class our beliefs. While we were discussing the term of culture the professor started monitoring each group cheking that everybody participated in the activity.

After that we saw some terms like practices, communities, perspectives and person that are related to culture. The activity was that each group have one term, in my case my group have the term products; products are: music, behavior, the way people dress, food, literary pieces, religion, interaction. Then we have to present what we believe it was products and compare with the book we were using to check if we were closer to the meaning or not. Of course we were in the right way. At the end of the class we knew what was culture about and the way other people from our class that are from other country think and belief.

Extra information about society and culture...

Society and Culture

The aim of Society and Culture is to develop a student's knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes essential to achieving social and cultural literacy by examining the interactions between persons, societies, cultures and environments across time.

Through the study of Society and Culture, students will develop:

knowledge and understanding about:

1. personal, social and cultural identity
2. cultures shared by members of societies
3. interactions of persons, societies, cultures and environments across time
4. continuity and change, personal and social futures and strategies for change
5. the role of power, authority, gender and technology in societies and cultures
6. the methodologies of social and cultural research.

skills to:

1. apply and evaluate social and cultural research
2. investigate and engage in effective evaluation, analysis and synthesis of information from a variety of sources
3. communicate information, ideas and issues in appropriate forms to different audiences in a variety of contexts.

informed and responsible values and attitudes towards:

1. a just society
2. intercultural understanding
3. informed and active citizenship
4. ethical research practices
5. lifelong learning.

Response 4- Culture in Second Language article

Learning a second Language is not only the study of grammar components, learn how to read, to write and or how to speak very well is more than that it is also to learn about the culture of the languague we are learning: their beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of thinking.

For this reasons teachers have to incorporate in their classes and in the curriculum the teaching of culture in second language. And how we do that?

Instructional Strategies for Teaching Language and Culture:

1. Authentic Materials
2. Role Plays
3. Cultural Capsules
4. The use of films
5. Students as cultural resources
6. Literature
7. Songs

To read more about this article go to:

http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0309peterson.html