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WD40
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| What this thread has become a discussion not just of specific gulf material but also material suitable for the Gulf. If you confine materials only to the Gulf you are limiting students to the world at large similar to many books that seem to limit themselves to a western, christian world. The global perspective with emphasis on the Gulf allows our students to celebrate their culture and tradtions and to compare and contrast these with other ways of life. Students who enter the job market need to be increasingly aware and familiar with the world and not just limited to their backyard |
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fweewodewick
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| The global perspective with emphasis on the Gulf allows our students to celebrate their culture and traditions and to compare and contrast these with other ways of life. |
Exactly!!! All that needs to happen now is for someone to come along and write these materials - ones that truly have a global perspective with that essential emphasis on the Gulf.
The books cited earlier merely have a token reference to something or someone Muslim, amid a sea of Western and Christian influence. None of them are written with Gulf students primarily in mind, which I think is what the originator of this thread was aiming at, rather than a one-size-fits-all-as-long-as-you-make-a-passing-reference-to-a-few-non-western-and-non-christian-cultures approach.
I think this thread can now move on from the globally-oriented Headway Academic and its few references to non-Western life and onto the issue at hand - creating materials solely for Gulf students - i.e. issues that they can relate to from their own cultures, that can be compared with other cultures and traditions. |
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