異文化理解シラバス
Meeting of
Multicultural Educators (MMCE)
(多文化教育学者の集まり)
Overview:
For some
people 国際理解教育 (intercultural understanding
education) entails accumulating knowledge about different countries and that this
knowledge will somehow enable the learner to live peacefully with other
cultures. Although knowledge of different countries is important, the premise
behind this course is that this superficial knowledge, although important, will
not suffice. Why? Culture is not only determined by ethnicity and nationality;
for example, men and women can differ, people from different social classes can
differ, or someone from
Let’s face it; people are
unpredictable. Thus, intercultural understanding is more than knowing the
customs and traditions of another country: it is human understanding. Human
understanding is not something that can only be developed through listening to
lectures but rather through hands-on experience. This semester, through
studying and practicing multicultural education, our object is to become better
at interacting with, understanding, learning about and accepting people who are
different from us. To do so we will pursue the following goals:
I Goals
1.
- Build a cooperative learning community so we can learn from each other and teach each other.
2. Knowledge:
- Begin to understand the practice of multicultural education
- Learn from our classmates about the cultures and countries they are studying
- Understand the daily life, traditions, history, and culture of our countries of concentration
3. Skills we hope to develop:
- the necessary skills to interact with people from other cultures (For example - the skills necessary to elicit information about a certain cultures without offending anyone)
- the ability to share your learned information with other people.
- the ability to investigate generalizations about other cultures and form your own opinions about them.
- the ability to lead discussions and cooperative learning activities.
- co-learners （対等である）
- Diverse
· We come from different backgrounds. （我々は様々の履歴を持つ）
· We have different experiences as individuals （我々は今まで体験してきたものが違う）
· We have different learning goals and different ways of learning （我々の学習のゴール及び学習の仕方が異なっている）
Examples:
·
Compare Values and Assumptions
across cultures （それぞれの文化の価値観を比較する）
·
Learn from each other （Co-learnerから覚えること）
·
Teach each other about different cultures.
·
Explore different ways of
looking at cultures. （異文化の多数の見方を体験する）
·
Meet new people
·
Think critically and investigate generalizations made about other
cultures. (他の文化について言われている一般的なことを検討するうえで、そのものの妥当性について批判的に考える。
·
Discuss new challenges for the
future. (未来のチャレンジについて論じる)
· We will learn about multicultural education (MCE) by experiencing it.
We will learn by
1. working together (Making Common Learning Groups)
2. asking questions about what we read, hear, and see.
3. listening to others.
4. writing and speaking about what we have learned and what we think.
V
Knowledge Products
1. Contributions to the MMCE On-Line Handbook of Multicultural Education
(http://www.englisheducation.iwate-u.ac.jp/MMCE/MMCE.htm)
(ア) Every CLG is expected to contribute to the on-line handbook.
① Contributions can be lesson plans, learning artifacts, reflections on the class, reflections on a learning activity you made etc.
(イ) CLGs will help maintain the site.
(ウ) This will be an on-line resource for those interested in multicultural education. It should be ready to publish by 7/27
2. Teaching Materials created from our 2 week intercultural discussion
3. A CLG mini-lesson on its country of specialty.
VI
Evaluation
- Based on the CLG’s performance （Contributions to the on-line Handbook, mini-lessons, etc..）
VII
Schedule
- Please see on-line Handbook.
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