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World Culture Model Consortium for Teaching Asia Pacific Studies (CTAPS) University of Hawaii 1998 World Culture Model – defining culture A pattern of behaviour that is shared by a group (sometimes defined by national borders, but more often by a shared geographical or historical experience). It consists of learned ways of thinking and acting, common to all people, which distinguishes them from other people. The products of culture such as clothing, art works, and social institutions, reflect the culture. Why address culture? interdependent world/ global world, students of the 21st Century need an understanding of the societies that populate the world in order that they may interact with them more effectively. Socially, politically and economically societies have become irreversibly interconnected. citizens of the 21st Century need the skills to understand the concept of culture, to analyse the components, which make it up, and to interpret its meaning for them personally and for the world at large. HISTORICAL CONTEXTPast Present Future GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT Location Human/Environment Interaction Region Place Movement Values and Beliefs Values and Beliefs Social Political Economic Aesthetic The World Culture Model can provide such framework. The model is not a flowchart and it is not an outline of content to be “covered”. However, the model does provide a general picture of the important issues and concepts that should be included in any cultural study (in order that none be overlooked): change vs stability interdependence communication and conflict. A framework A teacher may choose to study one culture in depth - Japan for example. In this case each one of the thematic bubbles would be included in the study through a variety of activities that would, when possible, consider the general issues of change Vs stability, interdependence, communication and conflict as they apply to the five themes,