Week 1: Starting out
This week starts us off by questioning and re-imagining our assumptions. This lesson helps folks evaluate the mindset and ideas that lie beneath their understandings of culture. In this week we explore cultural relativism, ethnocentrism and get to compare and contrast different cultural assumptions. **** If you're one of my students, or you'll be taking this class from me, DON'T READ this lesson plan! Wait 'til we do it together in class. We're going to do some interesting stuff with it, and I don't want you to miss out on the surprise!****
These materials are designed for small group work with 1 hour of real-time conversation. Folks do individual reading, watching and writing before having a conversation with their group.
These materials are meant to be used individually: to watch, read and write, ideally 24 hours before the group conversation begins.
**** If you're one of my students, or you'll be taking this class from me, DON'T READ this lesson plan! Skip this one and take a look at the other ones. We're going to do some interesting stuff with it, and I don't want you to miss out on the surprise!****
wk1 prep- ethnocentrism.docxThis is a guideline for the 1-hour group conversation. It gives folks questions to discuss together, problems to solve, and an idea of how much time to devote to each part.
**** If you're one of my students, or you'll be taking this class from me, DON'T READ this lesson plan! Skip this one and take a look at the other ones. We're going to do some interesting stuff with it, and I don't want you to miss out on the surprise!****
wk1 conversation - ethnocentrism.docx