Culture and Education by Mónica Yaren Cañada Alba https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy Chapter 9: Culture and Education, from “The Light in their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities” by Sonia Nieto ✳︎ Key concepts: Elements of Culture en-us 2023-09-03 17:20:24 UTC 2024-08-26 18:03:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f38e.png Introduction myaren https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682463895
  • Culture and cultural differences, including language, play a role in power relationships and identity.
  • We are both socially determined and creators of human futures.

    • The term can be problematic because it can mean different things to different people in different contexts:
    1. Culture as if it pertained only to those with formal education and privileged social status: implying activities such as attending the opera.
    2. Culture thought to be held exclusively by those different from them.
    3. Culture used interchangeably with ethnicity as if both simply were passed down constant and eternal from one generation to the next.
    4. Culture can mean the traditions one celebrates within the family: reduced to foods, dances, and holidays.
    5. The way one looks at and interacts with the world.
    ]]>     2023-09-03 18:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682463895     Definition by Sonia Nieto (1999) myaren https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682468170 Culture

    “the ever-changing values, traditions, social and political relationships, and worldview created, shared, and transformed by a group of people bound together by a combination of factors that can include a common history, geographic location, language, social class, and religion”. 

    - Sonia Nieto

    ]]>     2023-09-03 18:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682468170     Destroying the myths about culture myaren https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682471632
  • Culture cannot be reduced to holidays, foods, or dances, although these are, of course, elements of culture.
  • Everyone has a culture: all people participate in the world through social and political relationships informed by history as well as by race, ethnicity, language, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and other circumstances related to identity and experience.
  • It includes content or product (the what of culture), process (how it is created and transformed), and the agents of culture (who is responsible for creating and changing it).
  • Messy and contradictory culture in real life.
    • Romanticized and uncritical understanding of culture: 
    • Poetry cannot be considered Puerto Rican unless it is written in Spanish.

    • The sociopolitical context of culture needs to be acknowledged: It is situated in a particular historical, social, political, and economic conditions, and therefore they are influenced by issues of power.

    ]]>     2023-09-03 18:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682471632     Key Attributes to Understanding Culture myaren https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682474830 These characteristics are complementary and interconnected, so much so that it is difficult to disentangle them from one another. Culture is:
    1. Dynamic
    2. Multifaceted
    3. Embedded in context
    4. Influenced by social, economic, and political factors
    5. Socially constructed
    6. Learned
    7. Dialectical
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  • Culture is invariably influenced by the environment in which it exists.
  • Culture should not be studied with a stereotypical or ahistorical perspective. The particular tastes are actually influenced by history, economics, and power.

    • → The culture of Japanese students in Japan is of necessity different from that of Japanese immigrant students in the United States.
    → Native Americans are eternalized as either noble heroes, uncivilized savages, or a combination of both. The history of oppression, dehumanization, resistance, and struggle of the many Indigenous Nations rarely is studied

    *Image: Native American Model and Activist, Quannah Chasinghorse (Alaska)
    ]]>     2023-09-03 18:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2682476491     Dialectical a01753417 https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683767847 This parts refers to how the values and traditions of a certain culture can create an internal conflict within the people that identify with it, as their individuality and personal opinions might clash with those of a general perspective/opinion within the culture.

    This is important because it shows that "the norm" or the stereotypes that we associate with cultures or groups are never certain when looking at individuals and within the culture, these types of disconnects are important to have a more profound and complex discussion of whether what that culture believes should still be accepted as the correct thing or if a new norm might take it's place. 

    This aspect of culture is also relevant when understanding that not one culture is necessarily less or more correct when comparing it with another, but rather it helps us see the complexity of what led to it and how history has shaped the group the culture belongs to.]]>     2023-09-04 20:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683767847     Influenced by social, economic and political factors https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769075 Andrea Urquiza
    Evila Olmedo
    Luis Ceballos
    Chema Crail
    Majo Peñafiel
    Andres Romero

    Social capital consist of social obligations and networks that are convertible into economic capital.
    Cultural capital are the acquired tastes, values, languages and dialects, or the educational qualifications that mark a person as belonging to a privileged social and cultural class.
    Culture is related with economic and political privilege, which is, the tastes, values, languages, and dialects that have the greatest status are associated with the dominant social class not because all this are inherently but because they have higher social prestige as determined by the group with the greatest power.
     
    ]]>     2023-09-04 20:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769075     Culture is created and socially constructed https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769515 This chapter was about how culture isn’t predefined, is something that is in continuous evolution cause every individual is living that construction in their own ways. Since culture involves the interactions with your environment and your community. Culture goes beyond the costumes and traditions, since we are cultural agents, our behaviors and choices can influence in our own concept of culture. It is the decisions and actions that we make everyday; cause the current decisions and choices we are making, will form part of a history in the future. Culture evolves and adapts according to the environment, the situations and the necessities of people. Culture, then, is not a passive legacy, but an active operation that takes place through contact and interactions with others. Culture is a social construction because it cannot exist outside of social contact and collaboration.]]> 2023-09-04 20:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769515 Culture is learned a017537951 https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769917 Team: Mich, Isa, Emi, Euge, Alexandra, Mariana

    Culture is learned, people are not born with it, nor are they inherited. A main part of it is that the parents play a major role in what the culture of the children may be. 
    It’s usually consciously taught and learned. 
    The people around us will be a great part in determining de culture. 

    When being multicultural, our culture is defined by different aspects and is not exclusive from one another. For example, a Korean kid with European parents, the child is to automatically have traits of Korean culture, but in the end, the parent will teach the kid a lot of things from their own culture that will influence the kid.

    It's important to acknowledge the challenges that bicultural people face, not all people understand this and the quest they may have for their identity. 
    ]]>     2023-09-04 20:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683769917     Dyanmic https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683771380 1.   Cultures are not static; they do not exist outside of humans. 
    2.  Culture is like a living organism it's always changing.
    3.  The change in culture can be caused by political, social, and other modifications in the immediate environment; highlighting the dynamism of culture.
    4.  Culture is inert and permanent: Although culture changes, each person has a culture and that makes it inerit of every human being. Also there are certain aspects of the culture that do not change, for example the place you were born. 
    5.  Culture can change according to time, generations and what they’re living. 
    6.  Culture can be changed by external and internal factors, and it keeps evolving. 
    7.   Minorities also contribute to the major culture. 
    8.  Culture is part of the universe as a whole changing system. 
    9.   Culture is dynamic because cultures influence one another. 

    Elisa Trejo
    Alejandro Gracia
    Manuel Grajales
    Santiago Gutierrez 
    Alejandra Ramos 
    ]]>     2023-09-04 20:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683771380     Culture is Multifaceted a017540481 https://padlet.com/myaren/fs40h8osyqv2gqoy/wish/2683773017 General Idea: Cultural identification or identities cannot be limited only to ethnicity or race, they can be multiple, extensive, mixed and heterogeneous.

    Unequal Emphasis
    Having the same cultural identities does not mean that every individual will manifest it in the same way. Individuals prioritize their cultural identity differently.

    Influence of Interactions 
    Interaction between individuals from other cultural groups can also shape a person's culture and identity.

    For example: in urban areas, young people from diverse ethnic groups and racial backgrounds may create a new cultural category based on shared experiences. 

    Cultural diversity
    Culture cannot be reduced to ethnicity or race. It encompasses a wide variety of identities and affiliations. For example, a person can identify as Mexican American and also identify himself part of the LGBTIQ+ group simultaneously, highlighting the diversity of this person's cultural identity.

    "ethclass"
    Ethclass refers to the intersection of ethnicity and social class. This concept plays a crucial role in shaping cultural identities. It can lead to differences in how people from the same ethnic background experience and express their culture.

    Diverse culture factors
    There can be many factors that make a difference even among cultural groups such as skin color, language use, level of education, family dynamics, place of residence, etc.

    Team Members:
    Evelyn Iturri
    Rocío León Madrigal
    Claudia Estrada
    Mario Contreras
    Mayra Sánchez 
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