Culture
Banks and Banks (1993) define culture as "the ideations, symbols, behaviors, values, and beliefs that are shared by a human group"; they add, "Culture can also be defined as a group's program for survival and adaptation to its environment [natural and social]" (p. 357).
Given this two-pronged definition, one's culture can include but is not limited to the following: ethnicity or race, religion, socioeconomic class, region, gender, profession, age or generation, disability, and sexual orientation.
For further information on culture, refer to Element 1: Preservice education students are helped to develop a clearer sense of their own ethnic and cultural identities.
