Post on 07-Aug-2015
The culture is an integrated pattern of human knowledge,
belief and behavior that depends on the society in which we are
involved.
For a long time, there has been a clash of cultures because of the differences existed between the countries in its way of thinking or its behavior.
This fact is affecting all the areas, but mostly, the educational one.
IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM
The knowledge of cultural understanding in the post-secondary education is relevant to change the reality in which we are living.
It might be accomplishing by
learning from other societies the things that make them so
successful.
The lazy practical way of thinking of Venezuelans in terms
of study, work and self-accomplishment will be reduced
in most cases.
Venezuela is a country which has all the resources and natural wonders to be one of those countries that are known around the whole world as a model example to be followed by other countries.
What we need is to be aware of our own faults and mistakes to get a personal improvement in order to understand the fact that has to be with a change in our mentality and the way that we see things.
Georgessy Barmaksoz
IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPICOur country is passing through many problems in social, political and
economic aspects and it is concerning to see how it seems to be getting worse.
Many would think this free-fall we are having as a society is due to
government issues mainly, but I think the problem we are facing now is not
external but internal.
It is our idiosyncrasy and way of thinking that leads us to the
underdevelopment.
As the author Manuel Barroso could say in his book “Self-esteem, ecology or catastrophe”, every revolution starts with an INNER
STRENGTH and that strength is what leads us to a change.
I think every Venezuelan person should wonder about the reasons of our current issues. It is not blaming others; it is finding what is wrong with us,
questioning our moral and personal growth. Our marginality is eating us away (not material poorness but mental one).
Education seems to be affected too. We see that in students’ attitudes towards studying and the lack of self-achievement.
The foundation of a country is education but and
education without good standards isn’t worthy.
Is It an important topic? Definitely!
Changing our inner strength for one with more values, moral and
personal growth will solve our problems even in the
educational field.
As future leaders we are, it is our responsibility to care for the country we
are living in. Do we want evolution for our country?
There is no evolution without personal growth. Dannally Torrealba
“We believe necessary an
approximation to other cultures’
educational backgrounds and
mentalities that allows students to discuss and
compare in order to emulate features that
encourage their academic improvement
and ultimately their self-growth”
IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPIC
The importance of our
project lies in the forming
role constituting the base for
our educational approach.
Given the intense language-learning
setting to which English major students
at U.C are exposed to on a daily basis it
is quite normal, as time goes by, to
neglect
cultural aspects as we strive to meet
more demanding levels of proficiency.
This is, without a doubt, a
negative factor when it comes to
reinforcing our trans-cultural
education with understanding
of culture itself.
Following to it, there is often
confliction between the foreign
learning methods and a
Venezuelan-culture-adjusted
mentality regarding study habits,
sometimes even interfering with
appropriate language acquisition.
Besides that, the important role of
language teachers as cultural
intermediaries is totally disregarded or
what is more, prevented from due to no
knowledge on the area.
In response to that, for the sake of students’ self-growth and a change of mentality that acknowledges accomplishment as a priority, we put forward our project proposal.Mauricio Espinoza