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To explore a student’s cultures and communites of practice

Aim

To explore a student's cultures and communities of practice.

Evidence and reflection

Select a student in your class. Think through a typical school day, in the life of this student. Consider who the student interacts with at each stage of the day and how you can characterise the culture, practices, and shared values of each of these social groups. The items in the first column are included to give you a rough guideline as to how to divide the day into chunks of social interaction. You will probably want to adapt these to suit the individual. For example during the evening the student may go to an out of a school club, visit relatives or hang out with mates in the local playground. You will also find you can develop a much more detailed list of time chunks than the one presented here. For example during lessons students may be working in groups, pairs, or as whole class.  In the right-hand column you can add information about the cultural activities, practices, shared phrases, and highly prized artefacts, that characterise this particular social group during this period of time.

Name of pupil

Times of the day

Names of individuals interacting with the student during this period of time.

Description of the culture of this social group during this period of time

At home. Getting up in the morning

 

 

'Breakfast' time

 

 

Travelling to school

 

 

Arriving at school

 

 

Registration time

 

 

Early am lessons

 

 

Mid am break

 

 

Late am lessons

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Playground

 

 

Registration

 

 

Early pm lessons

 

 

Mid pm break

 

 

Late pm lessons

 

 

Travelling home

 

 

Early evening.

 

 

Evening meal

 

 

Late evening

 

 

Extension

Repeat this activity with another student - deliberately selecting one that you consider to exist in very different cultures compared with your first student.


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