Geert Hofstede is the author of the theory of national cultures that we learned about in MMCE. According to Hofstede, national cultures have visible features such as rituals, heroes, and symbols and invisible features such as values. Values have five dimensions with postive and negative poles, these dimensions are uncertainty avoidance vs. uncertainty tolerance, masculinity vs. femininity, long-term orientation vs. short-term orientation, high power distance vs. low power distance, and individualism vs. collectivism. Hofstede's theory is a fascinating way to examine the cultures of countries, but at the same time we also learned that it can be very hard to make generalizations about the people of a country.
The Cultural Perspectives in Education taught by Kai Ming Cheng at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was where I first learned about Hofstede and the various theories of culture I learned in this class had a strong influence on MMCE.
Both the above books are a readable introducｔions to Hofstede's theory and his IBM study.
This book is a very detailed account of Hofstede's IBM study. It is probably best to read Cultures and Organizations first, but I found this book immensely helpful for me to understand Hofstede's theory better.
In his website, he explains the different dimensions of national values and lists the national value scores of over 80 countries.
This is the website of the class on culture I took 5 years ago when I was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It contains Dr. Cheng's course power point presentations and student presentations. For anyone interested in the interaction of culture and education this is an invaluable resource.
Knowing about culture and teaching about culture are two different things; the below books are very helpful in helping you learn about the dos and don'ts for teaching about culture as well as talking about objectives.
This book gives a definition of what "Intercultural Communicative Competence" and what achievable goals might be. If you are teaching a class on culture and designing a syllabus, this book is worth reading. It was also very influential in my planning of the MMCE syllabus. Click here for more information.
This is a great chapter about the dos and don't of teaching about culture.
Gives 5 objectives for teaching about culture and talks about each objective in detail. This is another very good book to help the educator desgin her curriculum.
下記の論文には、私が実践した異文化理解に向ける学習活動が載っています。今年のMeeting 8とMeeting 9のExamining National Stereotypesディスカッションが上記の論文に由来していました。
This book is very practical and contains a lot of practical exercises in which one can learn about Hofstede's dimensions of values through hands-on learning.
The Leba and Anbura Activity(Meeting 6 ), which had both good and bad reviews, was taken from this book. Although this book is for Jr. High School students, some of the activities can be used in the university classroom to lighten the mood.
This book has quite a few good discussion activities. The discussion activity about values in Meeting 9 was based from an activity in this book.
These resources were used in Meeting 5. Material World examines the lives of 30 families in 30 countries. 地球家族 is a set of 30 pictures of the 30 families. Nothing is written about the pictures though. Learners can be divided into groups and each grouop can be divided into sub-group A and sub-group B; sub-group A is given a picture from 地球家族. They must guess where the family came from and things such as the family's most valued possession etc. Sub-group B has the description of the family from Material World. They will have to look up the information that Sub Group A is looking for. The idea to use these materials came from a workshop I attended by Yamanishi (山西）Sensei from Waseda University at the Iwate International Plaza.
国際理解や多文化教育に関わる学習アクティビティーはたくさん載っています。Meeting 15の学習活動をこのサイトからとりました。
Good chapter on how to organize group activity to get students to talk in the second language classroom.
This book has a lot of great ideas to make any class more interesting. I highly recommend it.
アイスブレーキングには、この本が非常に役立ちます。
岩手大学の職員の全員にこの本を読んでいただきたい（笑）。ディスカッションを行うためにいろいろないいアイディアが載っています。
ワークショップそのものを行いたい人にはこの本をお勧めします。私は、Meeting 8とMeeting9について振り返った時、この本が役に立ちました。私は、岩手県の教育センターで英語教員向きのワークショップを行う際、この本が非常に参考になります。
Multicultural Education is a field that has its origins in the USA. The key ingredient of multicultural education is respect for individual differences and diversity (Teidt & Teidt, p.14). Individual differences can include gender differences, race differences, cultural differences, differences in learning style, differences in social class and physical disabilities. Since multicultural education is an American concept, not all of its theories are necessarily applicable to Japan. On the other hand, I do not believe that we can ignore multicultural education either; although Japan is perhaps more homogeneous than many countries, immigration is increasing and Japan is no longer exclusively for ethnic Japanese. Below I have listed some resources about multicultural education and multiculture in Japan.
This book is written for American educators and gives a good background on multicultural education as well as on overview of the issues that multicultural education tackles such as gender differences, exceptionality, differences in social class, differences in race and school reform. I have found that some of the chapters, particularly "Culture is Society and Educational Practices" to be applicable to a variety of contexts. This is a very interesting book.
An interesting book that includes various case studies of minority children living in Japan.
This book, like Banks & Banks (2003), is written for an American audience. The first chapter is an overview of multicultural education and the rest of the book is full of multicultural education activities and resources. I think that this book can provide good ideas and resources for integrative study (総合学習) in elementary schools.
Noguchi a & Fotos (2001)のように、日本の少数民族の子供の教育を取り上げています。
上記の本は日本での多文化教育の位置づけと実践を取り上げます。私は、参考になりました。
上記のサイトは明治大学の 山脇啓造教授のブローグとホームページであります。山脇先生私は今年、国際交流プラザーで山脇先生の講義を聞きました。彼の専門が多文化共生社会の構想であり、日本に滞在している外国人について知りたい方に私は上記のサイトを勧めます。
William H. Doll wrote the book A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum and it has had a profound effect on the way I have planned my classes recently. Doll views curriculum not just as a "vehicle for transmitting knowledge" but as "a vehicle for creating and recreating ourselves and our culture."
Don Oliver has has an incredible influence on me and MMCE. Please click here for more.
Highly recommended for anyone addressing the topic of world affairs/ global education in their classes. This book has excellent facts and figures as well as graphs.
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I first learned about digital teaching portfolios through an on-line course for teachers I took about blogs. A digital teaching portfolio is "a goal-driven, organized collection of materials that demonstrates a person's expansion of knowledge and skills over time.(Kilbane & Milman, 2005, p.1)." For a more detailed description of digital teaching portfolios please click here.
私は今年の受けたオンラインブローグの授業を通して、ディジタル・ティーチングポートフォリオ（以下DTP)について覚えた。DTPとは、教師に作られるものである。DTPは教師の知識および能力がどのように進化したきたかということをみせる。DTPは、教師に整理されている授業の教材とか予習ノートや学習者の造作などからなっている。DTPのもと詳しい説明には、ここをクリックしてください。
I found this book in the Harvard Coop bookstore when I was visiting Boston in March of 2005. This book is easy to understand and helped me immensely with the whole process of creating a DTP. (日本語はこちら）
Above is just a list of a few of many resources on DTPs. If you would like to learn more, click on any one of the sites above and look at their references. (日本語はこちら）
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