The Cultural Plunge: Cultural Immersion as a Means of Promoting Self-Awareness and Cultural Sensitivity among Student Teachers

The plunge is an empirical, meaningful, interesting, rewarding, fostering confidence, promoting growth and rewarding education for most students. They are an important means for students to understand and accept other people better and to increase self recognition; therefore they are viable educational in various academic, commercial and government training programs It has great potential as an approach. Given that teacher training faces many challenges in preparing future teachers for increasingly diverse students from now on, cultural violence is a social and cultural reality, their own value Students in the classroom of today and tomorrow will be helpful to increase the sensitivity of student teachers to view and prejudice. Over the years, several professors at San Diego State University have used cultural immersion campaign called "Cultural Plunge". As explained in this article, they used this activity for sociology programs, counselor education, and recently teacher education. Since 1989, writers have taken cultural orientation of teacher training into the subject curriculum, but now some other teacher training universities use it. Teachers using cultural orientation also tend to do so in a similar way, but there are some differences between these methods. In this article, I will explain how the author processes this activity. (1 table included)

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Some authors strongly encourage the use of empirical learning in teacher education. And that is often a means of enhancing cultural sensitivity. Mio (1989) describes at Southern California University a graduate student project to cultural exchange with immigrant refugee students. Experience has strengthened or challenged the general stereotypes of the focus group. The last article in this article is a conclusion derived from the investigation of "the influence of my career". The last part is particularly important. Because students often ignore the impact of plunging experiences on classrooms and other work environments.

Given that teacher education faces many challenges in preparing future teachers for increasingly diverse students, cultural violence is a phenomenon in which students are often exposed to social and cultural reality, It will provide a means to help you recognize the value and prejudice of. And today and tomorrow's students

Cultural immersion activities are called cultural sharp falls. They used this activity in the process of sociology (Gillette, 1990), counselor education (Cook, 1990; Malcolm, 1990) and recent teacher education. Since 1989, writers have taken cultural orientation of teacher training into the subject curriculum, but now some other teacher training universities use it. Teachers using cultural orientation also tend to do so in a similar way, but there are some differences between these methods. In this article I will explain how he deals with this activity.