Review: Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching
Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching by Judith E. Lingenfelter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Summary: As a Western teacher teaching non-Western people, you need to become a 150% person: you'll never make it to 200%, but at least you can make an effort to understand and work within another culture's very subtle customs. Quick review: Very worthwhile. The author (Judith wrote most of the book) has a keen eye for stories and real insight in revealing their...
Another Bibles International Story
Some Bibles International consultants have used an interview format to help teach certain skills to native translators. One team of national believers prepares a set of interview questions for a particular Bible character and another prepares to be interviewed as that Bible character. Only one representative of each group gets up in front of the whole assembly. But when they did this in the African country of Chad, everybody in the audience started shouting out the answers to the questions....
Dogba Story
One of the translation consultants at Bibles International just related a funny story. One African tribal group, the Dogba, had the grandest time hearing the American consultant mispronounce their language. They would give her Dogba words, ask her to repeat them, then laugh uproariously. No outsider had ever tried to speak their language. Thankfully, Christ’s representatives were the first.
Cleveland Park Bible Church’s New Website (Pastor Ken Casillas)
Check out the new website I made for Dr. Ken Casillas and the friendly folks at Cleveland Park Bible Church. And watch the video I created with the help of a Nikon D3100, a Zoom H2, Adobe LightRoom, and Final Cut Pro X:
Professional Development
I’m at Bibles International for a week to hear Glenn Kerr talk about Hebrew discourse analysis and Bill Smallman talk about cross-cultural communication. I’m reading a very interesting book on the latter topic, Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching, by Christian educators Judy and Sherwood Lingenfelter. The book is full of stories about cultural clashes—especially between Western teachers and non-Western students—and subsequent wise reflection on the...