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Chapter Eight: Cultural Influences on Context: The educational setting:
教学要点：
? Education is an important social context in which cultural influences are much in evidence.
? System of formal and informal education seek to meet the perceived needs of societies.
? Schools help to fashion the individual.
? Schools are a primary means by which a culture’s history and traditions are passed from generation to generation.
Schools teach the informal knowledge of a culture.
What and how cultures teach
?Schools are the primary vehicle for teaching cultural values.
Multicultural education in the US
? Schools in the US are becoming increasingly diverse.
?Schools no longer teach only Eurocentric cultural values: instead, today schools routinely teach the experiences and values of many cultures.
? Despite improvements in multicultural education, there is still much controversy about approaches to teaching multiculturally.
Learning styles
? Learning styles are particular ways that individuals receive or process information.
? Cognitive, communication and relational, and motivational learning styles have a profound impact on classroom learning.
Language Diversity
? Language diversity is an important issue in the multicultural classroom.
? Students who are limited in their English proficiency face various obstacles in the classroom.
? Several approaches to linguistic diversity have been incorporated into the educational system.
? Teachers can do a variety of things that will assist the learning of their LEP students.
Gender, Culture, and the classr