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A pattern of behaviour that is shared by a group (sometimes defined by national borders, but more often shared by a geographical or historical experience). Culture consists of learned ways of thinking and acting, common to all people, which distinguishes them from other people. The products of culture such as clothing, art works and social institutions reflect the culture. Why address culture? Interdependent world/ global world, students of the 21st Century need an understanding of the societies that populate the world in order that they may interact with them more effectively. Socially, politically and economically societies have become irreversibly interconnected. Citizens of the 21st Century need the skills to understand the concept of culture, to analyse the components, which make it up, and to interpret its meaning for them personally and for the world at large. Explanation of key terms used in the World Culture Model Additional models of culture are referred to as part of the SOSE Scope and Sequence units of work pp36 - 38 See below. These models can also be used to engage students with developing visual representations of a country's culture. || The WCM is a visual diagram of how the elements of a societies culture (social, political, economic and aesthetic are intertwined). [|Download Outline of World Culture Model]
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The [|World Culture Model] was presented as part of the Consortium for Teaching Asia Pacific Studies (CTAPS) at the East West Centre, University of Hawaii in 1998. All reasonable attempts to locate copyright of this model have been explored. ||