Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching
Overview
Teaching Cross-Culturally is a challenging consideration of what it means to be a Christian educator in a culture other than your own. Chapters include discussions about how to uncover cultural biases, how to address intelligence and learning styles, and teaching for biblical transformation. Teaching Cross-Culturally is ideal for the Western-trained educator or missionary who plans to work in a non-Western setting, as well as for those who teach in an increasingly multicultural North America.
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- Includes discussions about how to uncover cultural biases
- Explores how to address intelligence and learning styles
- Presents educators and missionaries with a foundation for teaching cross-culturally
- Teaching Cross-Culturally
- The Hidden Curriculum
- Understanding Traditional Learning Strategies
- Formal Schooling and Traditional Learning
- Intelligence and Learning Styles
- The Role of the Teacher
- Teaching for Change
- False Expectations
- Learning to Teach Cross-Culturally
Top Highlights
“The incarnational teacher is willing to give up aspects of the teacher role that fits his or her cultural background and to take on the role that fits the social and cultural world of the students.” (Page 83)
“The first variable one must seek to understand is the degree to which a society values conformity to the collective or group expectations of family and community.” (Page 73)
“The second step is self-awareness—learning who we are, what we value, and what social game preferences we hold.” (Page 83)
“When a teacher is an outsider, the focus of the role is control. The teacher must control the class to teach, while the students resist, defying the teacher’s efforts to get them to learn.” (Page 81)
“The first step for effective cross-cultural teaching is learning, becoming aware of the culture of others.” (Page 82)
Incarnational teaching is truly the strength of this book. It allows readers to reflect from both a teacher’s and a learner’s perspective. The books provides a deeper understanding of the importance, as Christian educators, of taking culture seriously. Readers will be challenged to reflect in ways that bring growth as a teacher as well as a Christian. Administrators will find that this book brings wisdom about creating an institution that includes persons from different cultures-international students as well as national ethnic groups. A book for faculty group discussions.
—Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, assistant professor of religious education, Claremont School of Theology
- Title: Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching
- Authors: Judith E. Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Educational anthropology; Multicultural education; Teachers, training of › Foreign countries; Teaching › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781441249722, 9780801026201, 1441249729, 0801026202
- Resource ID: LLS:92BB7AEA59F40463BEF6BB3DC96E54DF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T21:01:46Z
Judith E. Lingenfelter is associate professor of intercultural education at Biola University.
Sherwood G. Lingenfelter (1932–2007) was distinguished professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and previously taught at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also served as a pastor and missionary to India. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and was the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books in the fields of anthropology and missions.