Reference no: EM133190453

Culture & Human Development

Cultural Heritage Project

Goal

• To diagram your Cultural Heritage Family Tree
• To compose a report that:
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• identifies cultural patterns across generations in your family
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• relates cultural patterns identified to ideas discussed in Rogoff's (2003) Chapter 3
• To describe your cultural identity/background in relation to your family tree

Diagram a Cultural Heritage Family Tree that identifies family members and cultural information about them from the two generations prior to your own – that is, your parents’ and grandparents’ generations (include step-parents, etc., as appropriate given your family structure). If you'd like to, you may go further back in history (as far back as you have information). Include your parents’ and grandparents’ siblings in each generation. Include only information you feel comfortable sharing with the class that is relevant to understanding your family’s cultural history

If you were raised in your birth family, then your tree reflects the cultural heritage of your family’s past generations; if not, then it should reflect past generations of the family that raised you — adapt the structure to fit your own circumstances. The diagram of your cultural family tree may be in whatever form fits your heritage best, but please make it so that it can be easily folded.

For each ancestor:

1.) Identify their relation to you (their name is optional)

2.) Provide the following information:

a.) their gender

b.) approximately what year they were born (and died, if relevant),

c.) what country they were born in and theirethnicity,

d.) whether they migrated to another country,

e.) the number of children they had,

f.) their occupation, and

g.) how far they went in school (if attended school)

If appropriate for characterizing your family’s cultural heritage, you may include additional information, such as:

• region of a country,
• religion,
• something else that describes the cultural community/ies in a way that you think is important,
• key historical events in your family’s history (e.g., war; the holocaust; famine; arrival to US via Ellis Island, etc.).

If you don't have information on a particular ancestor, try to get more information by asking relatives. If no more information is available, just say so.

If information on an individual or branch of your heritage is private and you'd rather not write it down, please just indicate that.

Yourself: Provide relevant details based on list above (i.e., a through g)

Your Written Report (2- to 3-pages, double-spaced): Draw on a sociocultural perspective to inform your analysis of the cultural patterns in your family’s history over the course of generations. Then, identify these cultural patterns and discuss how they relate to the themes presented in Rogoff’s (2003) chapter three: “Individuals, generations, and dynamic cultural communities.”

The organization of your report must comprise ALL FOUR PARTS described below:

Part 1: Compose an introductory paragraph that indicates the cultural patterns you plan to discuss and the key ideas you will relate them to from Rogoff’s (2003) chapter 3.

Part 2: Describe the cultural patterns you identified as emerging in your family’s history across generations, particularly in terms of years of formal education completed, number of children in a family, and types of occupation held.

Part 3: Specify explicitly and concisely how the cultural patterns you identified in your family’s history relate to the key ideas discussed in Rogoff’s (2003) Chapter 3.

Part 4: Conclude your report by briefly describing your own cultural identity/background in light of your family’s cultural history as depicted in your cultural heritage family tree.