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Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

Teaching Cross-Culturally is a challenging consideration of what it means to be a Christian educator in a culture other than your own. Chapters include discussions about how to uncover cultural biases, how to address intelligence and learning styles, and teaching for biblical transformation. Teaching Cross-Culturally is ideal for the western-trained educator or missionary who plans to work in a...

that help speed up this process and focus on the specific aspects of culture essential to the teaching task. Because schools are public, part of a wider community, and children come from family contexts to schools, the logical place to begin is to seek to understand the nature of family and community for students. In my (Sherwood’s) earlier work (Lingenfelter 1996, 1998), I developed research tools that one can employ to discover the essential elements of family and community. Here we will use the
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