Culture Clash: question and response

1.      In chapter 12, another topic that I felt was interesting was the topic of culture clash and question and response. This topic was interesting to me because of how different my teachers were with question and response in Korea, compared to my high school teachers and college professors in the U.S. In the book, it talked about how in Canada, the Inuit teacher did not verbally evaluate the child when asking questions. However, the non-Inuit teacher did verbally evaluate. These teaching methods would differ according to cultural beliefs. These cultural beliefs are seen to be a social system that changes over time.

In Korea, I remember my teachers having teaching methods, similar to those in the U.S. However, not only did the teachers verbally evaluate, I found that my classmates also evaluated each other as well. Just like in the chapter, most of my friends and I were able to feel either positive or negative effects, which would determine us being talkative or quiet students. In the U.S, some of my high school teachers verbally evaluated and some did not. Those who did not were my teachers of science and math. I think that they did not have this teaching method because they wanted the students to be able to solve problems and work hard without judgement or negativity that would stop us from trying.