challenge 1

What do you see as the 3 biggest challenges in the world today? How can you work on that as a Professional?  

• The wrong consumption of natural resources;

 Peoples to finish up natural resources. They are blind. Water is very important for our lifes in the natural resources. Experts said that ‘maybe water will finish and your children will not have water’ on last years. Because ıt was not raining a lot so some rivers dried. After that everyone didn’t remember and they forgot it. Barrages will can dry in the next years if peoples comsume of natural resources. I must teach the saving when ı will be a teacher. And ı will tell of the water’s import. 

• Economic crisis;

 Most of countries are in the economic crisis now. the economic crises around the world may seem like a long way. but as developing countries have become more integrated with the world economy – through trade, migration, and investment – they have also become more exposed to radical changes in the economies of the developed world. Each country has a economic crisis problem in whatever a time. I will teach ‘what is economi?’ and ‘ how can ı provide additive in country’s economi?’.

• Atheism;

 Atheism, in a broad sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. It is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist.  I think religion is very important. Because a faithless person doesn’t to obtain no support and the person to be defeated to life. Everyone should to check up all religions and choose the suitable someone for own. I want to teach about all religions in my class and they can choose which religion want to they. 

challenge 2

How can schools and learning environments for children and youth go global today?

What is the meaning of globalization and internationalization?

I think, globalization is to access to the information, recognition of the different culture, to meet the different peoples, to travel different country,  to use technology, to have a different point of view etc. on the world.

Globalization describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade.

In my opinion, internationalization is to recognized, to known by everyone. It is to be branding on the world. It’s mean is worldwide.

What is important for the children/pupils/students to learn?

• Open-minded,
• know the love,
• have respect,
• have different view points,
• learn foreign languages,
• can use technology,
• research etc.

How to become open-minded in the cultural meeting?

You should not have bias and should have different kinds of view points. You should have respect for foreign culture and values.

What are the possibilities for a teacher/social educator of today?

• Computer and internet(eTwinning, Comenius, nordplus-junior, the image of the other, participate in conferences-create networks/project partners),

• Teaching plans and programmes,
• Sharing the knowledge and understand the other culture

• International projects,

• Different teaching materials,
• Different portals,
• In-service training,
• Opportunity to research information all libraries around the world on the website etc.

How to create an international classroom a room in the kindergarden?

We can tell about the other cultures with power point presantation, pictures, games, movies, cartoons etc. and children can make drama or theatre with their friends. They can meet penfriend in the other countries on the net and they can tell their penfriend to the clasmates in the classroom. We can travel different countries with our students. I can learn traditional dances of the belonging to different countries and ı can teach them for my students. My students can showed the dances in 23 Nisan Child’s Festival in Turkey.

For Example;

challenge 3

What tools can we use to become open minded?

How to be more open-minded?

You see, from the moment we are born, our precious little minds are being filled with the thoughts and ideas of those around us. Our mannerisms, our dialect, and even our beliefs are directly and indirectly affected by our environment. Unfortunately, all of these influences often give us a false sense of understanding about the world around us!

Now the easy questions often have easy answers. Your favorite baseball team is probably directly related to where you are from or who your friends and family cheered for. That is an easy on. But what if someone asked you why you are a Christian or Jewish or Buddhist or any of the other dozens of religions out there. The answer might seem obvious to you, but is it really as obvious as you think?

Centuries ago, the greatest minds of their time believed the world was flat. Most believed this to be true, but the only reason they believed it was because someone else was telling them to. It wasn't until a few open-minded individuals were willing question that which others blindly took as fact, that the truth was brought to light!

If you could bring yourself to be more open-minded, you might find out some interesting things about this giant ball we live on. It isn't until we experience things for ourselves , that we can finally form our own ideas instead of harboring those of our influencers! So give it a try if you dare! The world as you know it may be turned upside down, but at least it will finally be right side up!

Listen to everyone, but believe no one!
It is important to listen to everything people have to say, but be sure to research things for yourself. This will not only save you from the embarassment of repeating false information, it will also expand your mind with factual information.

Don't be afraid to think upstream.
Just because everyone believes in the same thing or tells you the same stories, it does'nt hurt question it. Old wives tales are perfect examples. Going outside with wet hair does NOT make you sick, but because poeple have been told by those around them that it does, they go on believing it without any evidence to back it up.

The oldie but goodie: Put yourself in someone else's shoes.
It is easy to judge people for what they might do or what they might believe, but go ahead and try slipping their shoes on (figuritively). You might get a little insight on why they are the way they are, and that might open your mind to new ways of seeing things.

Do not take old wisdom for the truth just because it has been around for ages.
Everyday, people are discovering new things about the world. Often times, these discoveries disprove what we once thought was fact.

Try everything twice.
Don't be afraid to take risks. Try new foods, listen to new ideas, make new friends. Give everything the benefit of the doubt and try it twice, just to make sure. The more diverse your experiences, the more well-rounded you become.

What is culture shock?

It is felt when we have to adapt to a new environment usually being a foreign country. Our own values and behaviors that we usually take for granted may no longer serve us in our new environment, so we should always try to adapt to the foreign culture and within time we effectively manage culture shock

Culture shock is a normal response to immersion in an unfamiliar culture. You can overcome culture shock by taking a few positive steps and being patient with yourself as you acclimate to your changed environment

Be open minded and don't judge everything as to being wrong or negative. Hold back your judgment and try to observe and understand everything new around you.

Don't filter a behavior or a reaction to your own understanding or to your own culture. Try to understand why a comment has been used or said, it might be their way of greeting. Try to explore and give it time, you might realize after a while why something was said or done.

It's very important to get to know people from the place. The best way to overcome this culture shock is by meeting the locals. Getting to know their habits and behaviors which we might learn to live better than our own cultural ways.

It's always important to be happy and to maintain a sense of humor. Laughing and being happy will allow you to adjust quick quickly and it will certainly help you make friends faster

Learn to identify the symptoms of culture shock: difficulty sleeping; sleeping for extended periods; headaches; nausea or diarrhea; anger; apathy, irritability; feeling highly critical towards everything in a new locality.

Recognize that your feelings are a normal response to the disorientation and discomfort that comes from living in an unfamiliar environment and culture.

Create or locate a comfortable haven for yourself where you can enjoy some of the aspects of your own culture that you miss. Use this space when you need to reduce the stress of culture shock.

Learn a few phrases spoken in the local dialect and use these as frequently as possible to interact and connect with locals. Try to cultivate relationships with locals rather than isolating yourself with people from your home country.

Observe the behaviors of locals when you find yourself in a situation that feels confusing or uncomfortable. Try to figure out why an entire culture of people may have learned this way of doing things, and the possible values and assumptions behind their behaviors.

Try to imagine bringing a local into a similar situation in your own country, and showing the person how to behave in your own culturally appropriate ways. How would you explain the reasons people in your own culture behave this way? Are there both positive and negative ramifications for this behavior? What underlying values or assumptions govern these behaviors?

Write down things that seem odd or confusing to you in the new culture. Look back at your observations every few days or few weeks and see what the you-of-the-past was surprised by that the you-of-today is already acclimated to.

Remember that you'll return home with a wealth of new perspectives and understandings because you've been exposed to another culture. Think about how you might share what you have experienced with friends and family in ways that may help people understand both cultures better

When you move to, or visit, a foreign country, you will undoubtedly encounter many linguistic and cultural differences. Even when you are in another English-speaking country, there are phrases and words used in a different context that can make everyday life a challenge. While it takes time to settle into a new place, there are some things you can do to learn the local customs, shorten the learning curve and enable yourself to acclimate to your new environment.

challenge 4

How to cope with cultural dilemmas in an increasingly globalized world?

What comes to mind when say culture? Everyone said something:

   

      THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE;

      

•  individual and collective lives of a group of  people, beliefs
•  historically, all the material and spiritual values created in the process of social development
• Social heritage of the people
• the tacit knowladge, the meanings and values that we share but we do not know it beforehand
• everyone in a culture does know share the same values

     THE CONCEPT OF DILEMMAS;

• some cultures are better and more right than others
• there are many different cultures in the world
• all human cultures are essentially the same
• if you are living in another culture, you have to get used to them and do your best to adapt
• many students will encounter diverse cultures
• each teacher must go on a journey to uncover how cultures influence families, government, language and where people live
• cultural diversity among classroom members, both teachers and students, is inevitable

We read 'body ritual among the Necirema' in the class and discuss this text. About text; Nacirema culture, the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles.
And then we answered questions about; 'What would you do if you were in such a case' and we discussed with our group mates.


     QUESTIONS PREPARED BY THE TEACHER
ü  Why is it important to be aware of and have knowledge about the concept of culture when working as a social worker or teacher?

A teacher should be aware that national culture and must teach students. In other words, the teacher must  teach the national and spiritual values. Also In most educational contexts around the world, cultural diversity among classroom members, both teachers and students, is inevitable.

ü  What challenges do you see in the concept of culture?

The educational outcomes of such differences may be lower self-esteem, misbehavior or academic underachievement. It is possible for cultural differences to interfere with his/her effectiveness as a teacher.

ü Is the concept usefull when we talk about human differences?

If yes why? If nı why?

Yes, because culturel differences can cause human differences.

ü How is the concept used within your profession?

School cultures determine the way teachers and student communicate, the rules for talking, how much open discussion there is in class, how students feel, and how critical thinking is respected.

challenge 5

What is identity, belonging and cultural hybridity? And how are these concepts important for Professional pedagogical work?

We draw a own pie chart and discuss about ‘why did you do that?’ with group mates. We compared each other pie chart.

My pie chart:

In my opinion about ‘why did you organized these parts?’ :

Family/Friends:

I caught up the largest part of this. Because I love very much my family and friends. I think too highly of persons. My family and friends to be always by my side. Especially our family protects us always. We overcome the our life with our family and friends. It is very good feeling.

Nationality:

Our first goal should be good citizen. Our country maintenance to us. We should like our nation. We should to stand our nation in good. So my nationality become than my family and friends for me.

Ethnic/Languages/Religion:

Religion is very important for me. Because a faithless person doesn’t to obtain no support and the person to be defeated to life. Everyone to check up all religions and choose the suitable someone for own. My religion is islam and I organized my life according to quran.

To learn a foreign language is very nice. A language = a human

You can talk with very much humans in the different country when you have foreign languages. In this way you to be knowledgeable about the other cultures. This is a good thing form me.

Work/study:

Human must work for to maintain own life. We can have a good job if we study so study is important for our life. We must study for to have knowledge. We understand everything in this world when we study.

Cosmopolitan:

Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community. The idea is not important for me than the other parts.

Diaspora and multi-level religions group:

I caught up the smallest parts of these. Because to be group is not important for me. I think everyone should know all religions and they should respect each other’s religion.

And than our teacher gave a list of concepts. We check the list and we made a group concept map with group mates and discuss about this map.

Our map:

List of my personal choice:

• Identity; each human has got a identity. We recognize humans with their identities. It is very important for a person.
• Social solidarity; ıt must be in among peoples. Peoples must help to each other everytime.
• Appearance; we do not understand person’s identity when we look at his/her appearance. We must not be prejudiced to person’s appearance.
• Consciousness; we should have knowledge in every issue. In this way we can be consciousness.
• Bilingual/multilingual; ı have got multilingual friends. I think they are very lucky.

                          MY CV

PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname:	Erkan	Gender:	Female
First Names:	Cansu	Nationality:	Turkish
Date of Birth:	02 Oct 1989

KEY SKILLS/COMPETENCIES A good listener Patient Helpful Disciplined Open to criticism

EDUCATION

From-To (Feb 24 - June 1 /2011)		Educational Institution (name and location) Professionshojskolen UCC Blaagard/Kdas Denmark  I am studying as an Erasmus-exchange student in UCC College. This is my third year as a university student. I following these subjects; English, Danish, religion, globlazation course, teaching practice.
From-To (Sep 8/2008- June 4 2012) (Sep 4/2004 June 8/2008) (Sep 4/1996- June 14/2004)	Educational Institution (name and location) Afyon Kocatepe University in Afyonkarahisar/Turkey:  My department is elementary teaching. I wiil be primary school’s teacher (ages of group 7-11) one year later. I have got all subjects(mathematics, Turkish, life science, history, first riding and writing, music, physical education, art, drama) in this school. I have been learning ‘how do you teach?’ Buca Betontaş High School İzmir/Turkey Tütün İhracatçıları Birliği Primary School İzmir/Turkey

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From-To (July 1 – Sep 16 /2010)	Employer name & type1 Side Corolla Hotel Antalya/Turkey   Job Title (Full-time/part-time) Waitress  (Full time)

 

OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

·         I was Project Manager in TOG (Society Voluntary Foundation) (Sep 8/2008 – June 1/2009)

·         I did  voluntary teaching in Protection Society (Oct 1/2008 – May 20/2009)

·         I was a voluntary tutor in Private Course (Sep 28/2008­ – June 20/2010)

·         I have got a folk-dance licence by in-service course

INTERESTS

• To look around
• Read book
• listen to melody of religious
• cooking
• children
• to try new something
• travel