Before I start to give my vision about high and low context, I will shortly tell you what it is.
High context: Less verbally explicit communication, less written/formal information. Knowledge is situational, relational. More like habits. This kind of context you will find in the east of the world.
Low context: Rule oriented, people play by external rules. More knowledge is codified, public, external and accessible. more interporsonal connection of shorter duration. task-centred. decisions and activities focus around what needs to be done, division of responisbilities. This kind of context you will find in the western cultures.
We live in a Low context country because in everything we do we follow rules. The law, school regulations, trafic rules. For everything we do we have them. Handy, because whitout it we would be lost. We would al do our thing but without thinking about the consequences. But at the same point we also are at High context. If somebody is sick we will go and visited of we will help them. No ware this rules is writen we just do it. So that is an example of our country.
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I think it is fantastisch that we do things, without being obliged to do this. We just know that we need to do some things.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenLike standing up on the bus for a pregnant woman or standing up for older people.
Then again, there are so many people that don't do such things.
I suppose that we, as teachers, need to give attention to those "need to do" things. I certainly will.
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BeantwoordenVerwijderenLike standing up on the bus for a pregnant woman or standing up for older people.
Then again, there are so many people that don't do such things.
Indeed, these days so many youngsters do not even stand up for older people. Well, neither do I always. Sometimes there is still so much place in the bus but they want your seat. And then I just keep sitting where I sit :p
But of course, when the bus is full, I will stand up.
It is very nice to see that we are able to go from a low context to a high context so fast. But sometimes this takes time to adapt ourselves.
Yes indeed, I do not always give my place away...
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWe really can change directly form high to low context, thats good, we need it.