Enseigner la culture de l’autre: la tentation culturaliste

• Main Authors: Machart, Regis Christian, Chin, Sin Zi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université Abderrahmane Mira – Bejaia 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37473/1/Enseigner%20la%20culture%20de%20l%E2%80%99autre%20la%20tentation%20culturaliste.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37473/; http://www.univ-bejaia.dz/archivesmultilingue
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

The Didactics of culture and interculturality often follows a solid approach, ignoring the fundamental diversity of each culture. Lecturers are confronted with a dilemma: How to teach the ‘culture’ of the Other without falling into the trap of stereotyping? This contribution analyses the discourse of French lecturers in Malaysia, a multicultural and multilingual country, and questions their theoretical framework of culture. It appears that more teaching material which takes into account agreater sense of diversity is needed for the classroom.