The second question asked what “brain rules” guide my lesson design. Families are concerned with the successful progress of their children, and do not concern themselves so much with the demands of the collective group of students. At younger and younger ages, students are participating in competitive sports and extracurricular activities. We create individual education plans, depending on the individual needs of students. We don’t want one student to hold another down. At the same time, we are encouraging each student to be their personal best, and set personal goals. We are constantly striving within a classroom setting to establish a classroom community, teaching the social norms of working together for the good of all, We encourage collaborative group work and interdependence upon one another for sharing of ideas.
It is obvious within the school setting that “individualism and collectivism exist on a continuum” (p. I believe that as students progress through the grades, they become more and more dominant in the individualistic archetype.
Among my students, I would agree that individualism is the cultural archetype that dominates.
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