Building and Enhancing New

Literacies Across the Curriculum

6th Lecture

Globalization, Cultural and

Multicultural Literacies
 Globalization

• Aim: Understand globalization – its nature and

effects
• Activity: Difference between the globalization in
our day compared with the globalization during
the past history (increased reach, speed, means
of communication and breadth of content;
inescapable)
 Globalization
• Analysis: Globalization
1. Interaction and integration between people,
businesses, governments and cultures; money,
languages and mannerisms, food, clothing,
entertainment, education, technology, manufacturing,
ways of doing business, ideas and worldviews
 Globalization
2. Dependence and interdependence of nations (political,
military, economic); expanded flow of individuals (socio-
economic migration, political expulsion, travel/tourism);
interdependence and flow of expressive culture (language,
music, arts) and instrumental culture (models, ways or
systems of thinking, doing things – human rights, education,
social progress).
 Globalization

• Application: How should we best deal

or prepare ourselves for globalization?
• Assessment: Give the major effects of
globalization.
 Cultural Literacy

• Aim: Understand cultural literacy

• Activity: How do you deal with “Doña
Victorina Syndrome” (cultural
inferiority) among many Filipinos?
 Cultural Literacy
• Analysis: Cultural Literacy
1. Cultural literacy means being able to understand the
traditions, regular activities and history of a group of people
from a given culture. It also means being able to engage with
these traditions, activities and history in cultural spaces like
museums, galleries and performances. Culture is how a group
of people lives. It includes their language, arts, science,
beliefs and practices, and their understanding of their
environment.
 Cultural Literacy
2. National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) –
tasked with the documentation, preservation and
dissemination of Philippine culture, locally and globally.
3. Philippine Cultural Education Program (PCEP) (RA 10066,
2010) – make cultural education accessible to all sectors of
Philippine society; designated to formulate the cultural
heritage program for local and overseas Filipinos
 Cultural Literacy
4. Challenges for Cultural Literacy in the Philippines
a. What kinds of knowledge constitute cultural literacy?
b. Should it be a goal of education?
c. Whose culture must we be literate in to be considered
‘culturally literate’?
d. How is cultural literacy to be assessed and evaluated?
 Cultural Literacy
• Application: How do we overcome these cultural challenges:
Amor Propio, Hiya or Social Propriety, Utang na Loob, High
Context Communications & Filipino Time.
• Assessment: What are the threats (unavoidable,
negative and external damaging acts or state) from
Philippine culture that makes us remain in poverty or
in slow development?
 Multicultural Literacy

• Aim: Understand multicultural literacies –

its nature and skills
• Activity: Identify reasons why conflicts
among groups of people (identity, values,
worldviews)
 Multicultural Literacy
• Analysis: Multicultural Literacy
1. Knowledge and skills necessary to ensure that communication with a
different culture is clear, productive and respectful and any
differences is celebrated and not demeaned or treated as inferior. In
America, the key is to identify the origin of knowledge to foster
equality, diversity and social justice. In Europe, the key is
intercultural communication competence for clear and productive
communication with other cultures. There is an increasing demand
for multicultural sensitivity, inclusion and diversity in order to attain
peace.
 Multicultural Literacy
2. Issue of Peace: Conflict of Territory, Search for
Inclusion or Maintain Identity?, Discrimination (racial,
religious, tribal, cultural, etc.), Root of Hatred.
3. Skills Needed for Multicultural Literacy: Be selfless;
good and useful things come from others; willingness to
compromise; accept limits; we cannot be friend with
everyone.
 Multicultural Literacy

4. Multicultural Pedagogies: Learn about other

cultures, Familiarize yourself with how
discrimination/prejudice appear in your own
culture, As you are so you will behave, Model
more and tell more
 Multicultural Literacy

• Application: Why should you respect

and value people who are different from
you?
• Assessment: What is multicultural
literacy? What is globalization? What is