Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] constructivist models
From: Gilberte Furstenberg (gfursten@MIT.EDU)
Date: Fri 30 May 2003 - 11:00:13 MEST
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:00:13 +0200 From: Gilberte Furstenberg <gfursten@MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] constructivist models
Hello,
This is my first posting on this discussion and I am responding to
the request for constructivist models.
If I may, I would like to suggest you look at a Web-based course,
entitled Cultura, we designed at MIT in order to develop students'
in-depth understanding of a foreign culture and that uses a
constructivist approach.
You will find below a short description of the project, but here is
an article you might be interested in reading:
http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num1/furstenberg/default.html
Address of the Cultura site itself
http://web.mit.edu/french/culturaNEH
I would be happy to respond to particular queries.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Gilberte Furstenberg
Brief description: Cultura is Web-based project that allows students
of different cultures to gradually construct, through a collaborative
process, a deeper understanding of each other's attitudes, values,
cultural representations and frames of references. Using a
comparative approach, students analyze a series of textual and visual
materials from their respective cultures and then, via on-line
discussion forums, exchange - each in their own language -
viewpoints about these materials in order to gain an insider's view
of each other's culture.
Cultura provides a new teaching methodology - whereby students, with
the help of their transatlantic partners and the skillful guidance of
their teacher, will constantly refine and expand their knowledge and
understanding of the other culture as well as their own.
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