THE IMPACT OF CULTURE IN

SCHOOLS

EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

•Asian Children see the world in terms of the relationship between things whereas the American Children see the world in terms of the object as distinct entities.

THREE THEORIES THAT EXPLAIN DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

AMONG DIFFERENT RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS

CULTURAL DEFICIT THEORY

• It proposes that deficiencies in the home environment result in short comings in skills, knowledge and behaviors that contribute to poor school performance.

EXPECTATION THEORY

• Focuses on how teacher treat students

• Students who experience high expectations seek to reach the level of expected behaviors and students who experience low expectations act to meet the level of behavior expected to them

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE THEORY

• It is based on the idea that students who are raised in different cultural setting may approach education and learn in different ways.

HOW CULTURAL DIFFERENCES MAY AFFECT STUDENT

PERFORMANCE

• Children in various cultures learn different rules for communicating with adults through facial expressions, body language and physical gestures. Learn how cultural differences can play out in the classroom.

“ A Picture is worth a thousand words”

•When the verbal and nonverbal message don’t match up, people pay more attention to the nonverbal message.

EYE CONTACT

• Latin American and Asian- show respect by avoiding the glance

•American Indian- “showing off”

PHYSICAL CONTACT

•Asia (Female)- hold hands

•Asia (Male)- embrace one another as they walk on down the street

• To create a positive environment for communication, your nonverbal message must closely match your verbal message.

•When a person is sensitive to these silent messages, he/she is far more likely to interact with others in a friendly, comfortable manner and to make his spoken message more understandable.

CULTURALLY FAMILIAR ANALOGIES

IN THE CLASSROOM

• Every student must have an equal opportunity to achieve his/ her full potential

• Every student must be prepared to competently participate in an increasing intercultural society

•Active teaching methods that promote student engagement

•Cultural sensitivity

•Reshaping the curriculum so that it is culturally responsive to the background of students.

•By recognizing and accepting student diversity, it communicates that all students are welcome and valued as human beings.

•By building on student’s cultural backgrounds, culturally responsive teaching communicates positive images about the students home culture.

•By being responsive to different student learning styles, culturally responsive teaching builds on student’s strengths and uses these to help students learn.

SCHOOL AS CULTURAL

INSTITUTION

• Schools has cultural functions which refer to the contribution of schools to the cultural transmission and development at different levels of society.

• School act as a place for systematic cultural transmission and reproduction of the next generation.

• In school, norms, values and beliefs of society is introduced.

• In the community and society levels, schools often serve as a cultural unit carrying the explicit norms and expectation of the local community, transmit all the important values and artifacts of society to students, integrate the diverse subcultures from different backgrounds and revitalize the strengths of the existing culture such that the society or the nation can reduce internal conflicts and wastage, and build up a unifying force for national conflicts.

RACISM

•A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

ETHNOCENTRISM

• Is the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own.

THANK YOU

GROUP 6

• Madridijo, Joan

• Montealto, Carmina

• Ramoga, Sarah

• Angco, Amie

• Calihim, Myra

• Sumalpong, Cristephen

• Gracia, Richmon Allan