“It is the responsibility of education to prepare people for the world in which they will be living.” (Nehrt 1993)
Cultural awareness according to Tomalin and Stempleski (1993) is comprised of three qualities:
- Awareness of your own culturally induced behaviour
- Awareness of the culturally induced behaviour of others
- Abilities to explain your cultural standpoint
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- Culture is a notoriously difficult term to define. Helen Spencer-Oatey’s What is Culture? A Compilation of Quotations covers a number of core concepts.
- Wendy Griswold, author of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, uses the 'cultural diamond' framework for investigating the connections among cultural objects, cultural creators, cultural receivers, and the social world (the four points of the cultural diamond).