Culture and Communication in Culturally Diverse Educational Contexts

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Lesson Reflections
Lecture 2 (Culture)
It is impossible to expect people from different cultures to behave in predictable ways. Culture's primary notion is that people in the group have a common structural underly and a similar pattern of doing things such as greeting strangers or spending one's time.
Each culture provides individuals with a limited choice of behavior patterns different from the infinite human experiences present. Therefore, it isn't easy to communicate with people from different cultures in work and education. As such, understanding culture is essential in education to help in dealing with instances of ethnocentricity.
The concept of culture can be used to represent the identity of the classroom. Culture is learned, transmissible and dynamic; therefore, there is a chance students are open to making different ideas equitable. The dynamism of culture is essential in this as culture can be learned through diffusion and borrowing. Consequently, over time, the classroom becomes more accepting of different cultures and ideas.
Culture needs to be taught throughout the year in the classroom. Year after year, classrooms are becoming more diverse, and therefore, topics on cultural diversity are increasingly essential to maintain cohesion between all the cultures involved. The point is to identify the symbol, sounds, and non-verbal symbols core to different cultures. Therefore, it is easier to package it and transmit the ideas in a manner that all individuals understand. Application of this topic throughout the year helps the teachers and students identify and use their strengths to contribute to a diverse operating environment.
Communication in Culturally Diverse Educational Contexts
Increased diversity in nations has increased the questioning about language, culture, and its involvement in the schooling context. This is because some groups of students experience persistent and disproportionate failures in school. Canadian schools are becoming increasingly attentive to the different skills, languages, and communication styles students possess. Consequently, more effort is put into analyzing the influence of different cultural backgrounds on the learning process and selecting students' approach to school and its environment.
Children's language development is crucial to his or her ability to integrate themselves in a classroom fully. The development starts before the child comes to school and happens through conversations with the parents. Consequently, they learn a language by analyzing the regularities they hear in the speech of others. Therefore, the child should have a solid foundation of language development that allows them to deal with greater degrees of complexities in education.
Teachers and parents need to ensure children start school with the fundamental language development traits, narrative strategies, and prosodic conventions of communication. Consequently, the child's disclosure matches or is close to that of the teacher regardless of different cultural backgrounds. The standard literate style and expectations allow for a rhythmically synchronized collaboration between the teachers and students.
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