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“Communicating Across Cultures”

“Communicating Across Cultures”. Father Michael Oleksa. Culture can be defined in three ways…. Culture is. …the way you see the world, the beam of light you are in, the worldview. Culture is. …the game of life as you understand and play it. Culture is. …the story into which you were born.

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“Communicating Across Cultures”

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  1. “Communicating Across Cultures” Father Michael Oleksa

  2. Culture can be defined in three ways…

  3. Culture is …the way you see the world, the beam of light you are in, the worldview.

  4. Culture is …the game of life as you understand and play it.

  5. Culture is …the story into which you were born.

  6. Our Culture • The “Global Literate” Culture • American Cultural History

  7. Our Culture …the enactment of our story…human experiences on the planet earth…the story we tell ourselves. Human Experiences on Planet Earth Millions of Years

  8. Our Culture EWK(Everything Worth Knowing) Millions of Years

  9. Our Culture Millions of Years • Biology • Math • Astronomy • Cartography • History • Law • Art • Music • Religion • Ceremony • Poetry • Flora • Fauna • Medicine • Economics • _________ • _________ • _________

  10. Our Culture EWK Millions of Years Biology Art Fauna Math Music Medicine Astronomy Religion Economics Cartography Ceremony History Poetry Flora Law

  11. Our Culture EWK A Package Deal • Cities • Law • Libraries • Writing • Courts • Knowledge • History • Schools

  12. Our Culture Chronos Potential Experience

  13. Our Culture Labor < Leisure Specialized Marketable Skill Productive Citizen Global Economy

  14. Our Culture Game 7-8 Major Languages Today Chinese English French Spanish German Russian Arabic (Hindi)

  15. Global Literate “Ball Game” 7-8 Major Languages Today Global Political Power Global Economic Power Global Social Influence Global Military Domination

  16. Our Ball Game’s Fundamental Assumptions • Global-literate • Written language • Knowledge-based • Fragmented • Specialized • “Marketable skill” • Chronos time • Leisure-labor • (Play-Work • Potential-Experience • Productive (Autonomous) individual citizen • Global economy

  17. GLS Profile • Increasingly secular • Nature as resource for human benefit • Human centered and dominant

  18. Why Schools? Schooling: • Necessary for the accumulation of status and possessions • The more possessions, the more security is valued • But…Freedom vs Security remains a dilemma

  19. Global Literate Society’s Attitude Toward Time/History • Future Orientation • Knowledge to: • Predict • Control future • Literacy is key • Constant change • Development

  20. Traditional Local Culture’s Attitude Toward Time Origins/Beginnings Static Eternal Permanent The past does not change. Truth is forever the same.

  21. Basic Characteristics of Traditional Local Cultures “Pre-historic”: Non or Pre-Literature Traditional rooted in Local Ecosystems Non-literate: Oral

  22. TL Culture’s Education • Education = Schooling • Education = What we learn that is… • Useful vs Useless • Meaningful vs Meaningless • Relevent vs Irrelevant

  23. Traditional Local Educational Goals Who we/you are. Where we/you fit. How we/you relate.

  24. Curriculum Origins…Patterns…Paradigms in Sacred Stories (Myths)

  25. Traditional Educational Goals (1) Who in Alaska: The Human Beings Lingit Inuit Dene/Dineh Yup’ik Unangax Inupiaq Yuut

  26. Traditional Educational Goals (1) Who? Kairos Repetition and Remembrance Eternal Structures

  27. Traditional Educational Goals Nuna (2) Where We Fit? Qilak Imaq

  28. Traditional Educational Goals (3) How we relate to each other and the world. Myths: Sacred (origin) Story containing paradigms Legends: Mostly negative stories w/consequences for violating patters/models/paradigms

  29. Traditional Curriculum Song/Dance/Ceremony Art/Architecture Clothing/Vestments/Tools Household Utinsels/Weapons

  30. Playing the Game of Life Ritualized Behaviors: Expectant Mothers (Naken Anellrusit?) Nukalpiat First catch (Mingqeq) Table Manners (qanaqliq) Naming (Yup’ik/Lingit) Koo-eex “potlatch”

  31. Traditional Local Characteristics • Oral Language • Wisdom-based • Wholistic • Generalist • Human Being • Kairos

  32. Traditional Local cont.. • Meaningful-Meaningless • According to Paradigm/without Paradigm • Real Person/Membership • Eco-system/rural • Essentially spiritual • Nature as dominant

  33. Traditional Local cont.. • Spirit and Nature Centered • Balance and Harmony • Connection and Relationships

  34. Traditional Local cont.. Education • Who? • Where? • How?

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