Enseigner la culture de l’autre : la tentation culturaliste

Abstract

The Didactics of culture and interculturality often follows a solid approach, ignoring the fundamental diversity of each culture. Lecturers are confronted with a dilemma : How to teach the ‘culture’ of the Other without falling into the trap of stereotyping ? This contribution analyzes the discourse of French lecturers in Malaysia, a multicultural and multilingual country, and questions their theoretical framework of culture. It appears that more teaching material which takes into account agreater sense of diversity is needed for the classroom.

Keywords

• stereotypes
• fluid interculturality
• didactics of culture
• Malaysia