For the third workshop we talked about classroom culture in
our different countries. This was really interesting because one member of our
group had been a teacher in Saudi Arabia. This was one area where we could all
clearly see distinctions between all of our cultures.
We talked extensively about how students interact with
teachers and how parents interact with teachers. We talked about how American
are a lot less formal with their
teachers compared with everyone else. The Americans had a lot less rules when it
came to student teacher interaction and what the expected relationship between
the two is.
One thing that surprised me was that in Saudi Arabia they
have separate collages for women. While this makes sense it was not something I
had ever though about. The role that gender plays in Saudi education is very
different from all the other cultures even the other Muslim country
Pakistan. We talked about this for a
long time because it was so different to out expectations and it was a very
interesting conversation.
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