Part 1: Teaching Culture through metaphor and comparative cosmologies ...
Most interestingly for me is the fact that in a high-context culture, like Taiwan, China, or Japan, this need to explicitly teach cultural symbols -beyond the teaching of a few national holidays -is not obvious. Educators who understand that East Asian cultures are high-context cultures know that the learning of - -high context - - nuances are only taught indirectly over time ourside of the classroom, but in school, these cultural elements are also taught explicitly. For example, Chinese moral and cultural education are taught with regular textbooks here in Taiwan.::::::::
Teaching and Contrasting Cultures using "Dust in the Wind", "Winds of Change" and "Blowin' in the Wind"
By Kevin A. Stoda , international educator in Taiwan
Over a three week period, I introduced three different songs using
the theme of "wind" to my (English) listening class students in the
local junior high school. I did this in order to help my students to
comprehend how much culture a song can embed in it. I also wanted the
students to compare and contrast their own culture to the symbols or
metaphors used in the songs. For this teaching project, I chose "wind"
because wind metaphors are common in the Chinese cosmology of elements:
Earth, wind, fire, water, and metal. I also wished to look at earth
and the song "Dust in the Wind", of course, makes that more easily
comprehensxible.
http://www.kheper.net/topics/eastern/Chinese_cosmology.html
Moreover, I had shared with the students prior to this that I was
raised (a good portion of my life) in the state of Kansas, and I am old
enough to have been in high school as the state's most famous rock band,
named Kansas, recorded and made globally famous the song, "Dust in the
Wind."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBrDssjE9v8
Kansas is also, naturally, famous for its wind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaI7VgJcAs&feature=related
Just think of Dorothy's tornado, which took her to OZ in one of Frank Baum's classic novel.
http://www.stormtrack.org/library/fringe/oz.htm
In addition, last summer several of my junior high school students had
read an abridged version of the Wizard of Oz and, of course, had then
seen the classic movie--i.e. as part of a voluntary summer English course
here on Beigan Island (Taiwan).
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L.
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