Hi Masaryk, we will be sending more info about our next discussion but to date we would like to discuss government post-1980 in China; communism in Cuba -the good bits; 01% chance of Japan becoming Communist; last 50 years of communist politicians in France. Aber
sorry that I have written only one line but I wanted to try out if I have access to the blog. It's me Kathharina writing and I just wanted to say goodbye because I will leave Aberystwyth and go home to Germany on monday. It was nice to talk to you via video conference. So maybe i will keep on writing to the blog from time to time though. nice Greetings Kathy
I think I should put something here about what Adrian Holliday has to say about small cultures which could also be described as a group.
There is a need to distinguish two paradigms of 'culture' in applied linguistics. What has become the default notion of 'culture' refers to prescribed ethnic, national and international entities. This large culture paradigm is by its nature vulnerable to a culturist reduction of 'foreign' students, teachers and their educational contexts. In contrast, a small culture paradigm attaches 'culture' to small social groupings or activities wherever there is cohesive behaviour, and thus avoids culturist ethnic, national or international stereotyping. Ethnography uses small cultures as the location for research, as an interpretive device for understanding emergent behaviour, rather than seeking to explain prescribed ethnic, national or international difference.
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Hi Everyone from Masaryk and Aber. I hope you are prepared for tomorrow's VC session. I am looking forward to meeting you
Janice
Hi Masaryk,
We have been discussing Communism and socialism. What are your thoughts?
Aber
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Hi Masaryk,
we will be sending more info about our next discussion but to date we would like to discuss government post-1980 in China; communism in Cuba -the good bits; 01% chance of Japan becoming Communist; last 50 years of communist politicians in France.
Aber
Libor, I was hoping someone would want to discuss 'fear of communism' in 1950s America. does anyone have any ideas?
Aber
Hi people from Mazaryk
sorry that I have written only one line but I wanted to try out if I have access to the blog.
It's me Kathharina writing and I just wanted to say goodbye because I will leave Aberystwyth and go home to Germany on monday.
It was nice to talk to you via video conference.
So maybe i will keep on writing to the blog from time to time though.
nice Greetings Kathy
I think I should put something here about what Adrian Holliday has to say about small cultures which could also be described as a group.
There is a need to distinguish two paradigms of 'culture' in applied linguistics. What has become the default notion of 'culture' refers to prescribed ethnic, national and international entities. This large culture paradigm is by its nature vulnerable to a culturist reduction of 'foreign' students, teachers and their educational contexts. In contrast, a small culture paradigm attaches 'culture' to small social groupings or activities wherever there is cohesive behaviour, and thus avoids culturist ethnic, national or international stereotyping. Ethnography uses small cultures as the location for research, as an interpretive device for understanding emergent behaviour, rather than seeking to explain prescribed ethnic, national or international difference.
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