1. KUVEMPU UNIVERSITY
Department of P.G Studies and Research in Education
Jnanasahyadri Shankaraghatta.
A
Seminar on
4.3.3Encultutation and Education
4.3.4 Acculturation and Education
Submitted To,
Mrs.ROOPA .M Submitted by,
Lecturer SHARATH KUMAR T.M
Dept. of Education I semester
Kuvempu University Roll.no-20
Shankaraghatta Dept. of Education
Kuvempu University
2011-12
5. Enculturation:
INTRODUCTION:
Change is the law of nature
and an essential ingredient of
man’s evolutionary process. Man
is both conservative as well as
dynamic. human takes birth in
society and lives in the society till
the death. So many factors will
affect on human and society it’s a
continuous process this process is
two dimensional here a single
person may bring change in total
group of society or vice versa.
Like wise human being acquires
new cultures in his life leads to
Enculturation.
6. WHAT IS CULTURE?
Accoding to Edgar Schein
“culture is the deeper level of
basic assumptions and belifs
that are shared by memders of
an organization, that operate
unconsciously and define in a
basic taken for granted fashion
an organization’s view of its self
and its environment”.
A simpler definition:
A simple way of defining culture
is a system for differntiating
between in-group and out-
group people.
Culture is what keeps
people together so you could
even say culture is social glue.
7. MEANING:
Enculturation is the process by which a person
learns the requirements of the web by which he or she
is surrounded and acquires values and behaviors that
are appropriate or recesory in that culture.
DEFINATIONS:
According to mary elan godon
“Enculturation is a process of transformation of
culture to the young.”
According to E.Adamson Hoebel-
“Enculturation both a conscious and an
unconscious conditions process where by man,
as child and adult, achieves competence in his
culture, internalizes his culture and become
thoroughly encultured.
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9. CHARACTERISHICS OF ENCULTURATION
1.It is the process in which the adoption of the behavior
patterns of the surrounding culture.
2.it includes the socialization of child learn to the norms
of their culture.
3.the process of learning to become a responsible adult
member of a society.
4.the process of enculturation is related to socialication.
5.Enculturation can be conscious or unconscious process.
6.Enculturation helps mold a person in to an acceptable
member of society.
7.Enculturation is a lifelong process that helps unity
people.
10. ENCULTURATION AND EDUCATION:
Sociologist Talcott parson spoke of the birth of new
generations of childrens as a recurrent barbarian invasion.
Education plays important role in enculturation as the process by
which individuals acquire the knowledge,skills,attitudes and
values that enable them to become functioning members of their
societies.
NATURE AND IMP ORTANCE:
Enculturation is the product of learning enculturation is
not a static it is dynamic process. Enculturation is takes place
through conscious or unconscious mode. Enculturation is called as
acculturation some time it means exchange of culture from one
generation to another generation. Enculturation begins before
birth and continues untill death.
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12. EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS:
•Helps in developing new cultural habits and languages.
•Helps in adopting good values.
•It helps in understand individuals and society.
•It helps in the adjustment of new environments.
•It helps in developing technologies and skills new innovations and
research.
•It plays role in development of individual and society will takes
place.
•Helps in understanding different discipline of various cultures and
traditions.
•Helps in development of self awareness and language abilities.
•Helps in judgment capacities about other different cultures.
•Helps in developing unity, international brotherhood etc.
•Helps in developing international understanding, national
integration.
•It helps in developing desirable culture in the persons himself and
in society.
13. CONCLUSION:
Enculturation helps mold a person into an
acceptable member of society. Culture influences
everything that a person does, whether they are aware of
it or not. Enculturation is a lifelong process that helps
unify people. Enculturation plays a significant role in
discipling and educating young generation. For the
enrichment of knowledge and technology enculturation
is very important process it helps to get information
regarding universal culture and languages it plays an
very important role in the growth of the community.
14. Acculturation:
INTRODUCTION:
Acculturation is a process in
which members of one cultural
group adopt the beliefs and
behaviors of another group.
Although acculturation is usually
in the direction of a minority
group adopting habits and
language patterns of the
dominant group, acculturation
can be reciprocal that is, the
dominant group also adopts
patterns typical of the minority
group. Assimilation of one
cultural group into another may
be evidenced by changes in
language preference, adoption of
common attitudes and values,
members hip in common social
groups and institutions.
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16. MEANING :
Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that
results when groups of individuals having different cultures come
into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of
either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain
distinct.
DEFINITION’S:
1 .acculturation – means “A cultural unit(an idea or
value or pattern of behavor) that is passed from one
person to another by non genetic means(as by
imitation)”
2 .acculturation – means the adoption of the behavor
patterns of the surrounding culture
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18. NATURE OF ACCULTURATION:
Acculturation can be conceived to be the process of cultural
learning imposed upon minorities by the fact of being minorities. If
enculturation is first culture learning then acculturation is second
culture learning. This has often been conceived to be a
unidirectional, zero seem cultural conflict in which the minorities
culture is displaced by the dominant group’s culture in a process.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ACCULTURATION:
•Acculturation is entails two way process of change research and
theory have contained with a focus on the adjustment and changes
experenced by minorities response to their contact with dominent
mejorities .
•Acculturation is a unidirection process .
•Acculturation is a second culture learning .
•Acculturation is the learning of appropriate behavior of one’s host
culture.
•Acclturation and assimilation differ in degree of adaption to new with
in content of Acclturation.
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21. Education implications:
•Helps in selecting of the culture and values
•Helps in the leading co operation attitude and relationship with
society
•Development aquairing knowledge and skills
•Development of technical and scientfic skils
•Helps in social adjustment and assimilation
•Helps in selfawareness and and personal growth also growth of
society
•Helps in acquiring new knowledge of new knowledges and
languages.
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23. Concusion:
Acculturation plays significant role in exchange
of cultural features Acculturation is a process in which
members of one culture group adapt the believes and
behavior of another group that brings adoption and
assimilation is the more extreme process it comes
from the realization that one will never turn to the
society of origin. Marriage brings together
representatives of two separate sub cultures schools
bring together representative of different local
cultures.
24. Reference :
•Education and society by Janardan prasad
•Social aspects of education by Muniruddin qureshi
•Johnson, Harry. M: “Sociology, A systematic Introduction”-Allied publishers
Ltd., New Delhi
•S.K Murthy: “Philosophical and sociological Foundation of Education”
•Yogesh Kumar Singh: The Philosophical and Sociological Foundation of
Education
Webliography :
•The sociology of education by Ivor morrish 1978 page 308
•En.wikipedia.org/wiki /enculturation
•www.thefreedictoniry.com
•www.en. Wikipedia.org/wiki/acculturation.
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•academic.cuesta.edu/research/reports/pai.ppt
•www.projectsparadise.com/enculturation-acculturation-television-asia...
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•www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21574693
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