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Take Home Quiz EDU 3063
Group Members: Irene Tiong, Kok Jia Xuan, Phoebe Hon, Yap Sze
Miin, Young Poh
Ping
Discuss the implications of various socio-cultural aspects (
race, structure o societ!,
socia" c"ass, be"ie s, "anguage "e#e"s, customs an$ ritua"s,
gen$er ) to ar!s teachin"
an! learnin" ( teacher, stu$ents, schoo" an$ hi$$en curricu"um
)#
The responsibility of a teacher in the classroom that consists
of various races,
structure of society, social class, beliefs, language levels,
customs and rituals and gender is
challenging but if the if the teacher understand and care for
all students, then the teacher
can create a culture friendly classroom. A teacher should teach
with dedication without
differentiating the students’ races and avoid grouping students
by race in one group toensure students of different races can
interact with each other. Apart from that, it is also
important to bear in mind that students from different social
class must be given equal
treatment. Teacher should be wise to conduct classes where
students can mix freely and
socialize without any cultural restrictions and societies so
that learning will become more
interactive and fun. In addition, teacher should ta e students!
cultures and language s ills
into consideration when developing learning ob"ectives and
instructional activities. #e aware
of cultural differences as a source of problems in learning to
read as accents and dialects
often affect a child’s ability to read and write, especially in
the early stages of these
processes. $tudents should not be interrupted during the oral
reading process% corrections
are best done after the reading is over. A teacher can always
provide opportunities for
students to share their experiences by encouraging them to spea
from their own
experiences and share information about their family’s ethnic
bac ground to increase
cultural awareness. #esides, it is crucial for teachers to show
interest in every student
regardless of their gender to increase motivation for students
to perform well academically,
while also allowing the students to realize that they are
individuals with different cultures. In
general, a teacher need to always be sure that his own behavior
does not exhibit bias or
favoritism in any way by giving all students the same amount of
respect and encouragement.
The presence of a variety of socio&cultural aspects in the
learning environment also
impacted the implementation of hidden curriculum. 'idden
curriculum refers to the
unintended or implicit values cultivated in the practices
exercised in the classroom and
educational institutions through the application of curriculum.
(or example, students can be
rewarded not only for learning their sub"ect curriculum but
appearing to do so with
enthusiasm, alertness, and deference to and respect to
authority. In this way, educationimparts not only formal education
but a range of cultural values and attitudes such as
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obedience to authority and punctuality to prepare students to
face the wider society of
different races and cultural values. Apart from that, unintended
messages about minorities,
ethnic groups, gender or wor ethics may be discussed. $tudents
learn through hidden
curriculum which comprises school culture such as the rules and
routines in school,
information of schools, students’ culture and traditions
practiced and aspiration of school. In
hidden curriculum, students’ participation in co&curricular
activities is encouraged to allow
students to observe a variety of practices and values learned in
the curriculum in the
classroom. $uch co&curricular activities usually provide an
opportunity for students to
practice the values and ey elements that form part of the moral
value.
$chool being the first place where a child formally placed in
the society, outside the
protective zone of a family, is seen as a starting point to
orientate young children of the
importance of national integration. It is a place where children
are exposed to others whothey may not have the opportunity to
mingle with, in other contexts. $chool is also a platform
to introduce the existence of other cultures, customs and
religions and to enable the children
to see those differences as part of life. The government also
introduced the concept of vision
schools to transform and propel the standard of education
towards world&class educational
system, at the same time promote racial integration. According
to the )inistry of *ducation
+ --- , vision school is a primary school complex in which two
or three schools of different
types +/ational, 0hinese and Tamil national&type schools are
placed. Ideally these three
school buildings are interconnected to facilitate interactions
among pupils from these
schools. There are four main ob"ectives of vision school which
are to create integration
among students from different ethnic and bac grounds, to
inculcate the spirit of integration
among students from different school types, to produce students
who have high tolerance
and understandings towards one another, and to promote maximal
interactions among
members of the school community through the sharing of school
facilities and
implementation of school activities. It is hoped that through
the development of vision school,
students from various socio&cultural bac ground can interact
with each other in this school
from an early age, and this will produce a multi&cultural
generation with the spirit of unity and
racial integration since childhood.
To recapitulate, the various socio&cultural aspects have a
great impact on teacher,
students, school and hidden curriculum. Teacher should
understand the bac ground of
students and their socio economic status in order to select the
appropriate system of delivery
and learning materials for their students. The hidden curriculum
encompasses all forms of
teaching that occurred as a result of implementation of
curriculum and co&curricular activities
whereas schools should be a conducive platform for students to
learn and interact with eachother.
