MMCE Members

Welcome to the On-Line Handbook of Multicultural Education

（異文化理解)

Please evaluate your participation in MMCE for a grade. Go to Meeting 15 for Details.

.Meeting 15 will be held on August 3 at 10:30 AM in room G22. Participation is optional.

Quick links to the Meetings
Meeting Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8+9	10	11	12	13	14	15

This site will be used to keep track of our learning in the Meeting of Multicultural Educators (MMCE) and serve as a reference for practitioners interested in cross-cultural themes in education. In MMCE we will learn about multi cultural education by practicing it. We will also we can introduce some themes of multicultural education into the classroom. This handbook will be a continual work in process until MMCE has finished.
Schedule and Learning Log

Meeting 1	Building a Community (April 13, 2005)
Description:	Building a Community: In this meeting we make common learning groups (CLGs). Each CLG will focus on one of the following regions: Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. MMCE members are divided into groups by lottery. After the CLGs are created, MMCE members will also write their own profiles and introduce themselves to their CLG. Goals: 1) Create an easy-going, stress-free atmosphere conducive to discussion 2) Get MMCE members interested in their regions.
Preparation for Meeting 1	None
Artifacts	Plan (JH)	Profile Form	Maps
Resources	World Geogpraphy Quiz Has country geography quizes on all the regions we are studying.
	吉田信一郎. (2000). 会議の技法. 中公新書. Used for the idea of making a student profile.

Meeting 2	An Introduction to MMCE (April 20, 2005)
Description:	Orientation: 1) Introduce the Syllabus and explain the goals of MMCE 2) Group Presentations about countries in their regions with which they were not familiar. Goals: 1) Introduce MMCE 2) Have members practice making presentations in front of the class; group bonding should have started by assigning the groups a project.
Preparation for Meeting 2	1) Send me your profile 2) Share with other MMCE members a country in your region you were not familiar with:
Artifacts	Syllabus	Meeting Plan	Maps
Reflection	JH
Products and Resources	Below are countries that groups said they did not know well: Oceania: Fiji New Zealand ; Europe: Belgium ; Asia: Thailand ; Central America:Puerto Rico ; South America: Bolivia

Meeting 3	An Introduction to MMCE (April 27, 2005)
Description:	A Beginning to Human Understanding 1. Fishbowl: Practice how to have a group discussion. Asia will demonstrate how to have a group discussion through the Fishbowl activity. 2. Approve an Attendance Policy 3. Begin study of culture through investigating families across cultures Goals: 1) MMCE members become more comfortable having group discussions 2) Choose an Attendance Policy that will encourage MMCE members to attend the meeting.
Preparation for Meeting 2	Finish Sending your Profile
Artifacts	Fishbowl Materials				Proposals for an Attendance Policy
	Roles of Members in a Discussion Group and Useful Expressions Practice Picture used in the Fishbowl
Reflection	Asia: Fishbowl Reflection YO FishbowlRelfection MM Fishbowl Reflection KS
Products	South America Group ANSWER	Africa Group ANSWER	Oceania Group ANSWER	North America Group ANSWER	Europe Group ANSWER	Asia Group ANSWER	Central America Group ANSWER
Resources	Bejarano, Y. (1994) An Integrated Groupwork Model for the Second Language Classroom. in S. Sharan (ed.) Cooperative Learning Methods. Westport, CT: Praeger (I referenced this article for the Fishbowl Idea)

Meeting 4	Making Inferences about Other Cultures (May 11, 2005)
Description:	What is Culture? 1. Fishbowl: Practice on how to listen to a presentation and how to give feedback with presentations from North America: (Colorado, Montana) and Africa: Ghana 2. Investigating families across cultures: MMCE groups begin the following activity. Guessing and Reading Goals: 1) Practice being an active listener and asking questions when you do not understand. 2) Groups continue to consider the different countries in their region and practive making inferences about families living in different cultures through looking at photos.
Preparation for Meeting 4	Investigating Families Across Cultures (Explanation of MMCE Members' Results from Meeting 3)
Reflections	Central AmericaMI YI CT AT
Artifacts	Fishbowl			Presentations used in the fishbowl
	Useful Expressions for Active Listening			Africa: Ghana North America: Colorado Montana
Resources	Bejarano (1994)
	『地球家族』　フォトランゲージ版. 国際理解教育センター・著/発行　1995年 (Used for the Pictures)

Meeting 5	A Talk On National Cultures (May 18, 2005)
Description:	1. Presentation on Gert Hofstede's Theory of National Cultures: Symbols, Heroes, Rituals and Values. 2. For preparation., half of a CLG guesses the answers to questions about a family in the book Material World. The family comes from a country in the group's region of concentration. The other half of the CLG reads about the family and answers questions. In this meeting the "Guessing" group and the "Reading" group compare answers. Goals: 1) Learn a framework for looking at cultures. 2) Continue to practice making inferences about people from other cultures and then double-checking your inferences.
Preparation for Meeting	Guessing and Reading
Artifacts	Powerpoint Presentation (JH) - Worksheet MMCE members fill out the above worksheet while listening to JH's lecture	Brazil Guessing + Reading	Guatemala Guessing + Reading + Values		Italy Guessing + Reading + Values		China Guessing + Reading
		USA Guessing + Reading	Samoa Guessing + Reading		Ethiopia Guessing + Reading
Resources	- 『地球家族』　フォトランゲージ版. 国際理解教育センター・著/発行　1995年 (Used by the Guessing Group)
	- Menzel, P. (1994). Material World. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books (Used by the Reading Group)
	- Hofstede, G & G.J. Hofstede (2005). Cultures and Organizations Software of the Mind. New York: McGraw Hill - G.ホフステード／岩井紀子･岩井八郎訳. 1995.『多文化世界』有麦閣　 - Dr. Kai Ming Cheng Cultural Perspectives in Educational Studies Class Home Page . Harvard Graduate School of Education (The Above were Used for my Presentation on Culture)
	- Silberman, M. (1996). Active Learning 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject.. Boston: Allyn and Bacon (Has great ideas for making lectures more lively)

Meeting 6	What are Values? (May 25, 2005)
Description:	1) The Anbura and Leba Cultural Simulation Activity 2) A Talk on the 5 Dimensions of Values (Only 2 are Covered) Goals Last week my explanation on values was dififcult to understand. This was evident in the fact that many CLGs could not answer # 1 when preparing for this meeting. In this meeting, we were to further consider what values are by 1) Engaging in a Cultural Role Play where two cultures with different values must interact; 2) Learn about the 5 dimentions of national values to develop a deeper understanding of what values are.
Preparation for Meeting 6	_{Chart and Number 1}
Reflection	JH Reflection
Artifacts	Anbura and Leba Materials		Power Point Presentation of the Different Dimensions of Values	Guatemala
	Japanese	English
	Results of Anbura Leba Discussion
Resources	Kai Ming Cheng and Hofstede & Hofstede (2005)
	ウィリアム・フライドラ/ERIC国際理解教育編訳. (1994). 対立から学ぼう. (The Leba and Anbura Activity was taken from this book)

Meeting 7	Preparing for the Discussion! (June 1, 2005)
Description:	Groups make country diagrams based on the results of their survey about their guest's country.
Preparation for Meeting7	Conduct a Survey!
Artifacts	The Results of the Survey are Below
	Colombia	Kenya	Guatemala	Australia	England	USA	China

Resources	Hall, J. (2004). 多文化教育の視点を取り入れた授業の展望. Proceedings of the 58th Conference. The Tohoku Literary Scociety. http://charles.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/Proceedings58.pdf Hall, J. (2005)

Meetings 8 & 9"Examining National Stereotypes" Discussion (June 8 and June 15 2005)
Description:	The purpose of this discussion is for MMCE members to think about the difference between some of the popular images of the countries that they are studying and the reality of the citizens who live in these countries. For a description of the discussion please see the link below.
Preparation for Meeting	Plan for the Discussion! Be ready to talk!
Reflection	Discuss Reflections on the Discussion						JH Reflection
Artifacts	Predictions about what the guests will say:
	Colombia	AUS	Guatemala	Kenya	China	USA	England
	Content of the Guests' Speech and Group Conversation
	Colombia	Aus/NZ	Guatemala	Kenya	China	USA	England
Recources	ウィリアム・フライドラ. (1994) (Used for Ice Breaking Activity on June 8) ロバート　チェンバース. 野田直人（監訳）. ワークショップ入門。明治書店 (In this book there are ideas I could have used to make the icebreaking activities on June 8 better.
	太　久夫　（2001). 表現あそび. 全国児童館連合会. ( Used for the ice breaking activity on June 15.)
	エリザベス・キャリスター、ノエル・デイブィス、バーバラ・ポープ（共著）ERIC国際理解教育・資料情報センター訳 (1988). 私、あなた、そしてみんな. (This book had great discussion activities about Values)

Meeting 10	Talk About Stereotypes, Cultural Relativisim and National Cultures (June 22, 2005)
Description:	The main goal of the meeting was to learn about stereotypes and realize how difficult (and sometimes dangerous) it can be to make generalizations about different cultures. We discussed the following topics: 1) Our guest's images of Japan before they came 2) Stereotypes that other countries might have of Japan 3) Popular stereotypes of other countries 4) The stereotypes of Japanese evident in the video of an American parody of a Japanese game show parody (Somewhat shocking) 5) The stereotypes of foreigners apparent in the television show in which Japanese comedians dressed as foreigners acting foolishly. 6) Different levels of culture 7) Macro cultures and Microcultures In the next meeting we will be examining national cultures but before we do this, I thought it is important to consider the dangers of cultural relativisim and stereotypes.
Preparation for Meeting 10	Do the Reflections for Meeting 9 and write a summary of your conversation with your guest.
Reflections	What did you think of Meeting 10? Please write your reflections here: Discuss Reflections on Meeting 10
Artifacts	Powerpoint Presentation	Worksheet
Resources	明治大学商学部　山脇啓造研究室 http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~yamawaki/gmj/immigrants.htm (Information about immigrants in Japan) Video of a "Japanese Game Show" from Saturday Night Live ???

Meeting 11	Stereotypes and National Cultures and the Dimensions of Values (June 29, 2005)
Description:	The goal of this meeting was after understanding the dangers of stereotypes to become more familiar with the dimensions of values for national cultures.
Preparation for Meeting 11	Please go to Gert Hofstede's home page and look up your CLG's dimension scores. The link is here. The abbreviations for the dimensions are as follows: PDI: Power Distance; IDV: Individualism; MAS: Masculinity; Uncertainty Avoidence: UAI; Long-Term Orientation: LTO Please find out what your country's dimensional scores are. Also please consider whether your country's score is high or low compared to the scores of other countries. It is not necessary to e-mail me your answers.
Reflections	Discuss Reflections on Meeting 11
Artifacts	PowerPoint Presentation		Worksheet on the dimensions "How do you feel?" and "What would you do?"
	MSWord Version of Powerpoint Presentation (For those of you who don't have Microsoft Powerpoint)
Resources	Hoftsede (2005) G.ホフステード／岩井紀子･岩井八郎訳. 1995 Dr. Gert Hofstede's Home Page Hofstede, G.J, Pedersen, P.B & G. Hofstede. (2002). Exploring Culture Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures. Boston: Intercultural Press (The "How do you feel?"and "What would you do?" exercises were adapted from this book.)

Meeting 12	Dimensions of Values - National Values of Japan (July 6, 2005)
Description:	In this meeting we will continue talking about the dimensions of national values. We will then talk about the national values of other countries. Lastly, we will plan what we will do with the remainder of our time together!
Preparation for Meeting 12	I would like you to do the following 3 tasks: Task 1 Please finish the worksheet on the dimensions . You can also refer to my powerpoint presentation to learn about the other dimensions we did not talk about (Uncertainty Avoidance and Long-Term Orientation) for help. If your computer does not have microsoft powerpoint, you can look at the slides on this link. Task 2 Please write the options you chose for How would you feel? : "A Shabby Guitar Player", "A Welcome at the Airport" What would you do?: "The Returning Athlete" and "A Virtual Contact". (Click here for a copy of these stories) Also please answer the following two questions: a) Why did you choose your particular answers? b) Do you think that your own orientation on any of the five dimensions (Power Distance, Individualist, Masculine, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long Term Orientation) influenced your answers? Why or why not? Please e-mail me your answers to Task 2 by Tuesday, July 5. Task 3 (Optional) Please write your reflections about Meeting 11. You can write such topics as "What did you learn?" "What was difficult for you to understand?" "What would you like to do the next meeting?" "What questions do you have about meeting 11?"
Reflections	Discuss Reflection on Meeting 12
Artifacts	Japanese Students in Holland Story	Analysis of "How do you Feel?" and "What would you do?" Answers of MMCE members to "How do you Feel?" and "What would you do?" Statistics Answer by Group		Misunderstandings that occur between people with different orientations of the different dimensions.			Powerpoint Presentation
	Oceania	Colombia	Guatemala	England	USA	China	Kenya
Resources	Hofstede, G.J, Pedersen, P.B & G. Hofstede. (2002) Hofstede, G. (2001) Culture's Consequences. London: Sage Publications Top Gun

Meeting 13	Preparing for the Closing Discussion! (July 13)
Description:	We will meet in room G22 and each group will begin preparing for the final disucssion.
Preparation for Meeting 13	Start your preparation for the final discussion! Click here for details. Write your reflections of meeting 12 in the meeting 12 "Reflections"section. Here are some possible topics Do you disagree with any of the analyses of the 4 stories from "How do you feel?" or "What would you do?" What do you think are some of the benefits and dangers of examining countries' national culture? Top Gun Thoughts about the aspects of different national cultures. Thoughts about the Japanese/Dutch story.
Reflections
Artifacts
Resources

Meeting 14	A Closing Discussion (July 20)
Description:	We will hold the closing discussion on July 20. Everyone will have the opportunity to speak so be prepared!
Preparation for Meeting 14	Be ready to speak! Details of the Disucussion
	Outlines of Presentations
	England	Kenya	Guatemala	USA	China	New Zealand	Colombia
Reflections
Artifacts
Resources

Meeting 15	MMCE Recreation and Reflection (August 3) (Optional)
Description:	We will have a chance to relax and talk. The time and place is undecided.
Preparation for Meeting 15
	Please e-mail me your self-evaluation and your MMCE evaluation for a grade. To do so, please download the file here, fill out the self and MMCE evaluation, and e-mail it to me as an attached file. If you do not know how to send an attached file or are confused, please contact me and I will gladly help you. Although your grade for MMCE is subject to negotiation, I will honor most self evaluations if they are reasonable.Furthermore, your evaluation of MMCE will not affect your grade at all, I promise. The reason why I am asking you to evaluate MMCE is that I made dramatic changes to the MMCE curriculum this year and I am always looking for ways to improve it. I do not mind constructive criticism nor do I mind compliments! If you could e-mail me your self and MMCE evaluation by August 3 (or earlier), I would appreciate it.
Reflections
Artifacts
Resources