| Abstrakt: |
The article presents a teaching strategy that aims to help students understand how social interactions and representations are used to create and maintain family culture. This exercise uses the shrine/altar concept in communicating about family culture. The shrine assignment explores how families are created and maintained through complex symbolic actions, interactions and representations. Based on the traditions of many cultures and religions, a shrine is an ordered arrangement of objects with symbolic meaning. In this activity, students create a shrine/altar to their family members using objects such as photographs and mementos. The article says that this type of exercise could be a valuable medium for learning about family communication. |
