Module Six: Politics and Education
This module will help global learners to master how to perform in Uzbek professionally. Authentic texts from Uzbek media will help learners how to comprehend complex texts.
Target Standards
Communication: Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics. Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Set Goals and Objectives
David is a diplomat. He works at the Embassy of United States in Uzbekistan.Sometimes he reads news in Uzbek. Elisabeth also works at the embassy. She works at the Information Resource Center. She informs students and scholars about the educational institutions in the USA. Elisabeth also informs people about the educational exchange programs. She wants to interview people in Uzbek.
- Uzbekistan is a new independent state
- Education in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan and international relationship
- Oriental Studies in Uzbekistan
- International conferences in Uzbekistan
Expand Your Knowledge
Fierman, William. "Perceptions of Threats from 'Alien Faiths:" An Analysis of Reactions in the Kazakh-Language Press," in Andrea Strasser et al. (eds.) Central Asia and Islam, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut (2002), pp 159-171 "Changing Urban Demography and the Prospects of Nationalism in Kazakhstan," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, XXVII, Nos. 1-2 (2000), 7-20
Fierman, William. "Political Development in Uzbekistan: Democratization?" in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.) Conflict, Cleabage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp 360-408
Fierman, William. Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Experience. Mouton Press, 1991.
Fierman, William. "Political Development in Uzbekistan: Democratization?" in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.) Conflict, Cleabage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp 360-408
Fierman, William. Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Experience. Mouton Press, 1991.