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Week 6: Response to "Individualism vs. Collectivism"




2/12/19


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Individualist societies ties are loose and everyone looks out for himself or herself. on the other hand, in collectivist societies, people integrate into strong, cohesive groups; protects each other and exchanged for loyalty. Individualist students are independent, set goals for oneself, compete with others, use direct communication, and prefers to work alone. Collectivist individuals are good in establish interpersonal relationships, have a sense of belonging, develop harmony with others, self alters according to context, a hierarchy is important, and prefers working in groups. 
As ELs teachers, we need to bridging cultures and understand that the individualism prevailing in the U.S culture. Independence and individual achievement. Promoting self-expression, individual thinking, and personal choice. Egalitarian relationships & flexibility in roles are present. Physical world as knowable apart from its meaning for human life. Furthermore, individualism is associated with private property and individual ownership. On the other hand, collectivism is a representative of many immigrant cultures where interdependence and group success occur. Second, adherence to norms, respect for authority, elders groups consensus. Third, stable of hierarchical roles (dependent on gender, family, background, and race). Fourth, understanding the physical world in the context of its meaning for human life and finally, associated with share property, grown ownership. In the classroom teachers can see individualistic cultures behavior differences like the collectivistic cultures. For example individualistic can ask questions, participate and sometimes disagree. Collectivistics listen and follow the teacher, and their opinions not publicly expressed. Here the importance that teachers need to be aware of what kind of strategies could work better in their classrooms. 




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