Montag, 10. August 2009

Culture in School is a Must!!!

Why does culture matter in school?
School is one of four institutions which helps to raise our children and our future. My personal attitude is, that children have to identify themselves with their culture, with their language, and with their religion (as far as they belong to any religion). Otherwise a student would never really know to which group he belongs. He might feel a foreigner in his "home culture" and also in his "school culture"; because he is living between two worlds and might make him to an outsider in both cultures.
That is something I feel in Germany where I was born and raised. I feel like a foreigner because I don´t think that I really belong to them, and even for Germans I am "different". Back in Morocco where my roots are I am also treated like someone who is "different". In order to improve we have to build a bridge between the home culture and the school so that everyone knows where they belong and how to identify themselves.
A classroom is probably the only place in which we will find a huge diversity and that is the best opportunity to educate students towards equality and justice. In addition we should, resting on Amin Ahmads´ philosophy, focus on what we have in common in our cultures rather than pointing out the differences. That makes us aware of being equal and being different at the same time.

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