socio cultural
1. SOCIO-CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING
2. Learning is influenced by social interactions, interpersonal relations, and communication with others. Learning can be enhanced when the learner has an opportunity to interact and to collaborate with others on instructional tasks. Learning settings that allow social interactions, and respect for diversity encourage flexible thinking and social competence.
3. In interactive and collaborative instructional contexts, individuals have an opportunity for perspective taking and replective thinking that may lead to higher levels of cognitive, social and moral development, as well as self-esteem. Quality personal relationships that provide stability, trust, and caring can increase the learner’s sense of belonging, self-respect and self-acceptance, and provide a positive climate for learning.
4. Family influences, positive interpersonal support and instruction in self-motivation strategies can offset factors that interfere with optimal learning such as negative beliefs about competence in a particular subject, high levels of test anxiety, negative sex role expectations, and undue pressure to perform well Positive learning climates can also help to establish the context for healthier levels of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Such contexts help learners feel safe to share ideas, actively participate in the learning process, and create a learning community.
5. Culture is a broad and encompassing concept. Often, we equate culture with race or ethnic identity but that is not always the case. Culture refers to characteristics of the individual/society or of some subgroups with the society…(it) includes values, beliefs, notions about acceptable and unacceptable behavior and other socially constructed ideas that members of the culture are taught are “true”
6. It is also defined as the shared products of a human group of society. Although culture is shared, it must be learned by each new generation, through the process of social
2. Learning is influenced by social interactions, interpersonal relations, and communication with others. Learning can be enhanced when the learner has an opportunity to interact and to collaborate with others on instructional tasks. Learning settings that allow social interactions, and respect for diversity encourage flexible thinking and social competence.
3. In interactive and collaborative instructional contexts, individuals have an opportunity for perspective taking and replective thinking that may lead to higher levels of cognitive, social and moral development, as well as self-esteem. Quality personal relationships that provide stability, trust, and caring can increase the learner’s sense of belonging, self-respect and self-acceptance, and provide a positive climate for learning.
4. Family influences, positive interpersonal support and instruction in self-motivation strategies can offset factors that interfere with optimal learning such as negative beliefs about competence in a particular subject, high levels of test anxiety, negative sex role expectations, and undue pressure to perform well Positive learning climates can also help to establish the context for healthier levels of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Such contexts help learners feel safe to share ideas, actively participate in the learning process, and create a learning community.
5. Culture is a broad and encompassing concept. Often, we equate culture with race or ethnic identity but that is not always the case. Culture refers to characteristics of the individual/society or of some subgroups with the society…(it) includes values, beliefs, notions about acceptable and unacceptable behavior and other socially constructed ideas that members of the culture are taught are “true”
6. It is also defined as the shared products of a human group of society. Although culture is shared, it must be learned by each new generation, through the process of social