Culture from the Bottom Up

Autor/inn/en	Atkinson, Dwight; Sohn, Jija
Titel	Culture from the Bottom Up
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 47 (2013) 4, S.669-693 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
DOI	10.1002/tesq.104
Schlagwörter	Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Teaching Methods; Cultural Awareness; Educational Research; Case Studies; Criticism; Self Concept; Participant Characteristics; Educational Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Kritik; Selbstkonzept; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung
Abstract	The culture concept has been severely criticized for its top-down nature in TESOL, leading arguably to its falling out of favor in the field. But what of the fact that people do "live culturally" (Ingold, 1994)? This article describes a case study of culture from the bottom up--culture as understood and enacted by its individual users. Findings suggest that culture is an emergent phenomenon for the research participant, who actively interprets, resists, and strategically appropriates the cultural materials at her disposal to fashion a cultural identity--actions reflecting both the individual nature of culture and the cultural nature of the individual. The researchers briefly discuss the implications of this bottom-up approach to culture for TESOL research and teaching and offer the approach as one solution to the dilemma of being either "for" or "against" culture in TESOL. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10