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Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: The Environmental Context
1. How does the information load of your classrooms change throughout the semester?
2. How does your perception of time (i.e., monochronic or polychronic) affect your daily life? Your study
schedule? Your free time?
3. How do you go about securing privacy when you need it? How does your culture facilitate or hinder
privacy?
4. How does your physical environment restrict and enhance your sensation; that is, how does it affect
what you see, hear, taste, touch, and smell? Give examples.
5. Is your home organized based on a monospatial or polyspatical orientation? Give examples.
ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT
Below are some situations for your students to consider that take into account concepts from
Chapter Four.
1. Upon graduation, you’ve decided to spend a year in the Peace Corps. Your first assignment is to
southern provinces of Sri Lanka, where a flood has left thousands homeless. Upon your arrival at the
humanitarian aid station, you are stunned to find men attacking displaced women. No one seems to be
helping. Do you intervene?
2. You’ve just finished a semester at college where your grades were not as good as you would have
liked. When you arrive home for break, you learn that your college has mailed your grades to your
parents and they have seen them. What do you do now? Was it fair of your college to
mail your grades home?
3. You work for a nonprofit group that brings aid to underdeveloped counties across the world.
Presently, you are in South America helping a small tribe build a water works station to bring much-
needed fresh water to most of the townspeople. The station can be built at only one location, above a
well, and this will require that your team cut down several trees. The locals ask that you not cut down
the trees because they hold spiritual value for them. What will you do?
4. There are far more desks in your classroom than there are students. On the first day of class, a
student whom you do not know, sits in the empty desk immediately to your left. Where will you sit the
next time class meets?
