Challenge 1
Challenge: it is a defiance, something we want achieve, something we want change and improve.
Challenge 2
Globalization: is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and goverments of different nations.
Internationalization:has been viewed as a process of increasing involvement of enterprices in international markets.
Challenge 3
Cultural shock: is the difficulty people have adjusting to a new culture that differs markedly from their own.
Open-mind: receptive to new and different ideas or the opinions of others.
Challenge 4
Culture: Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.
Culture: Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.
Concepts of culture:
- Evolutionary
- Relativistic
- Complex
Text:
- Body Ritual among The Nacirema
Challenge 5
Cultural identity: is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture.
Hybridity: something of mixed origin or composition, such as a word whose elements are derived from different languages.
Readings:
- Burke, Peter (2009): Cultureal Hybridity (Cambridge: Polity), chapter 1
- Cohen, Robin & Paul Kennedy (2007): Global Sociology (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan)
Challenge 6
Power relation:the ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority. A person, group, or nation having great influence or control over others.
Challenge 7
Third World:the economically underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America, considered as an entity with common characteristics, such as poverty, high birthrates, and economic dependence on the advanced countries.
Development: the state of being developed.
Text:
Development: the state of being developed.
Text:
- Escobar, Arturo: The making and Unmaking of The Third World
- Balslev, Marcus: Two Eritean Cases
Diversity: the fact or quality of being diverse; difference. A point or respect in which things differ.
Multicultural: of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture.
Attitude: predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation.
Creativity: creativity is the ability to improve, where by through improvement value is added.
Curriculum: all the courses of study offered by an educational institution.
Article:
- Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of Novemebre 1989. (Articles 28/29/30).
Level of curricular complexity:
- The Contributions Approach
- The Additive Approach
- The Transformation Approach
- The Social Action Approach