Cultural Based Approach Investigates the ways in which
Cultural Based Approach Investigates the ways in which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power. • Explores culture, power, and identity. • Researchers concentrate on how particular cultural practices relate to systems of power associated with or operating through ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexuality and/or gender, rather than merely describing cultural practices.
Why Cultural Approach? Allen Carey-Webb (2001) Cultural studies is interested in ethical, moral, and social questions. Fosters critical thinking and activism as it wrestles with how we see ourselves and others in the process of understanding and acting in society.
Ziauddin Sardar(1994) Cultural Studies attempt to expose and reconcile the division of knowledge, to overcome the split between implicit forms of knowledge (cultural) and objective forms of knowledge (universal). Cultural Studies has a commitment to an ethical evaluation of modern society and to a radical line of political action. Focus: To examine cultural practices and their relation to power To understand culture in all its complex forms and of analyzing the social and political context in which culture manifests itself Cultural studies also often converges with studies and critiques of nationalism and (post)colonial hegemoniesa
Rationale of using the approach in lessons To teach the students about the important of understanding the culture of the literature (enhance students’ comprehension of the literature). Students will be able to understand experienced other culture. To show that learning literature is not just about reading but also the details of the literature
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