ABSTRACT
School staff need to be sensitive to cultural differences in adapting the global core curriculum to local communities. People have different ways of seeing and understanding the world. In chapter 1, I discussed the differences between collectivist and individualist societies regarding subjective well-being. The intention of this chapter is to provide insight into holistic world views and views that divide the world into discrete parts. These views are respectively associated with collectivist and individualist cultures. How people see the world is one form of knowing, which, as I explain, varies between cultures. I cannot discuss all cultural differences. Therefore, my limited goal is to provide school staff with differing cultural frameworks to think about and use in adjusting school material to local conditions. Sometimes teachers may be educated in methods and intellectual constructs that are foreign to the communities in which they teach. School staff may assume that everyone sees the world in the same way. Therefore, teachers should understand their own cultural bias and how their education may have made their worldview different from that of the local community.
