A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ETHICS ( GE8 )

Prepared by : Adrian Abad

I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the student will be able to:
a. Articulate what culture, enculturation, in culturation and acculturation mean.
b. Attributes facets of personal behavior to culture.
c. Explain how culture shapes the moral agent.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Topic: Culture: How It Defines Moral Behavior
References: Corpuz, R., Corpuz, B. (2020). Ethics . Manila, Philippines. LORIMAR Publishing,
pages 35-41
Materials: PowerPoint Presentation, Google, Laptop and Mobile Phones

III. PROCEDURE
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENT’S ACTIVITY
A. PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY

1. Greetings
Good morning, Class!
Good morning, Sir!

2. Prayer
Before we start our class, kindly stand for the
opening prayer. May I call on Austin to lead
the prayer?
Come, Holy Spirit, Divine Creator, true
source of light and fountain of wisdom! Pour
forth your brilliance upon my dense intellect,
dissipate the darkness which covers me, that
of sin and of ignorance. Grant me a
penetrating mind to understand, a retentive
 memory, method and ease in learning, the
lucidity to comprehend, and abundant grace in
expressing myself. Guide the beginning of my
work, direct its progress, and bring it to
successful completion. This I ask through
Jesus Christ, true God and true man, living
and reigning with You and the Father, forever
and ever. Amen.

3. Checking of Attendance
Mr. Secretary, is there any absent today?
There’s no absent today Sir!

Very good, I’m happy to see you all

complete. Maintain that perfect attendance.

4. Checking of Assignments
Last time, I gave you an assignment. Please
bring out and kindly past to the center then
forward. Yes Sir!

B. RECALL
Before we proceed to our new lesson, let’s
have a recall.

Did you listen carefully to our last discussion? Yes Sir!

Fantastic!
If you all remember it, what was our last topic
all about? Sir! It’s all about Freedom as Foundation for
Moral Acts

Thank you, Ethan!

So, what does it mean? Anybody? Sir!

Yes, Dey? It is a moral concept that seeks to freely apply

values for moral reasons. Kant went on to say
that good will is more of a concept than an
obligation. A will that acts out of duty is one
that overcomes obstacles to the protection of
moral law.

Good Job, Dey!

Another?
Sir!

Yes, Aaron?
In the sensible world, freedom is nothing
more than willing independently of the
determining causes; reason cannot but regard
itself as independent in this way. The concept
of freedom is inextricably linked to the
concept of autonomy, and autonomy to the
concept of universal moral law.
Excellent, Aaron!
Do you think freedom is important in our life?
Yes!
Why?
Because freedom Sir allows people to live
their lives freely and do whatever they want.
This freedom is necessary because it gives
people more freedom and allows them to care
for themselves.

Thank you, Martha!

Again,
There is no such thing as absolute freedom.
You were not free to choose whose parents
you will be born, what language you will hear
and learn first and the culture where you were
born to.

You have truly understood our previous topic

and discussion.

C. MOTIVATION
Determine what was the picture represents by
arranging all the letters I messed up.
Is it clear class? None Sir!

1.

Sir, Culture!
U L C T E U R

2.

Sir, Enculturation!

N O T N U L E T R C A I U

3.
 Sir, Inculturation!

N O T N U L I T R C A I U

4.

Sir, Acculturation!

N O T C U L A T R C A I U

Amazing class, you got all the correct answer.

Sir about different culture?

D. LESSON PROPER
Based on the picture and the answers you’ve
Sir, understanding different perspective.
got. Is there any idea about our topic today?

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay, thank you.

Our topic today is all about, Culture: How It
Defines Moral Behavior.

E. DISCUSSION Culture can be defined as all the ways of life

What is Culture? including arts, beliefs and institutions of a
May you please give your own idea what is population that are passed down from
culture? generation to generation. Culture has been
Yes, Sonia. called "the way of life for an entire society."
As such, it includes codes of manners, dress,
language, religion, rituals, art.

Very good!
According to Taylor, 1997
 It is the integrated pattern of human
knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors.
 This consists of language, ideas,
Yes Sir!
customs, morals, laws, taboos,
institutions, tools, techniques, and
works of art, rituals and other
capacities and habits acquired by a
person as a member of society."

Is it clear class?

According to Brinkerhoff, 1989

 Is passed on to the next generation by
learning not through the genes or
heredity.
 Culture is categorized into material
and non-material culture.
a) Nonmaterial culture - consists of
language, values, rules, knowledge,
and meanings shared by members of
 society.
b) Material culture - is the physical
object that a society produces: tools,
streets, homes and toys, to name a Non-material culture influences material
few. culture. Religion and faith are two examples
of non-material culture, but there are many

Now you already know the difference material items associated with religion, such
between nonmaterial and material culture, my as books of worship and places of worship.
question is. Is religion a nonmaterial culture?
Yes Toni?

Exactly, Very good Toni!

According to Kroeber, 1952
1) Includes all human phenomena which
are not purely results of human
genetics.

The Human Person and Culture

 As a moral agent you are born into a
culture, a factual reality you have not
chosen.
 You are not born nothing.
 The Aristotelico-Thomistic culture is a
Greco-Roman culture, which has
influenced and shaped the moral life
of those who have been exposed to it.
 Those who were born into this culture,
 educated under this culture, are
persuaded that there is one God, and
later on introduced Jesus as the Son of
God.
 Others with different cultures have
with their own different views of
reality and God.
o Hindus believe in so many
gods.
o Muslims believe in Allah and
the beauty of having many
wives.
o Buddhists believe in re-
incarnation.
Sir it is the process by which an individual
learns the traditional content of a culture and
Enculturation, Inculturation and
assimilates its practices and values.
Acculturation
 Cultures change or evolve by
enculturation, by inculturation and by
acculturation.
Enculturation
In your own idea, what is enculturation?
Yes Nadine?

Thank You, Nadine!

According to J.M. Herskovits Margaret
Mead
 It is the process of learning a culture
in all its uniqueness and particularity.
  It is a process of learning from infancy
till death, the components of life in
one’s culture which include both the
material and non-material culture.
 This learning takes place through
example, direct teaching and in
patterns of behavior. What is learned
becomes one’s cognitive map, term of
reference that directs one’s behavior.
Examples:
 African men (South of the Sahara)
grew up learning that they can marry
more than one woman while women
cannot.
 African women grew up learning that
they cannot share their love with other
men, while men can.
Yes Sir!
 Women in India and Muslim countries
grew up learning that they can be sold
to other men.
Sir Inculturation is the term that Catholic
leaders and theologians have used in. recent
decades to denote a process of engagement
between the Christian Gospel and a particular
culture. The term is intended conceptually
both to safeguard the integrity of the Gospel
Is it clear class?
and to encourage sensitivity to various
cultural contexts.
Inculturation
Next, another idea about Inculturation class?
Yes Amor?
Thank You, Amor!
According to Umoren, U.E. (1992)
 Refers to the "missiological process in
which the Gospel is rooted in a
particular culture and the latter is
transformed by its introduction to
Christianity."
 Is not an action but a process that
unfolds over time, one that is active
and based on mutual recognition and
dialogue, a critical mind and insight,
faithfulness and conversion,
transformation and growth, renewal
and innovation.

According to Pope John Paul II, 1985

(Redemptoris Mission, n. 52)

 It is the intimate transformation of

authentic cultural values through their
Sir for me, Acculturation can be defined as
integration in Christianity and the
the 'process of learning and incorporating the
insertion of Christianity in the various
values, beliefs, language, customs and
human cultures.
mannerisms of the new country immigrants
and their families are living in, including
 behaviors that affect health such as dietary
habits, activity levels and substance use.

Acculturation
And last, may I request Cliff to give an idea
about Acculturation.

Thank You, Cliff!

When we say Acculturation,
 It is the "cultural modification of an
individual, group, or people by
 adapting to or borrowing traits from
another culture".
 It is also explained as the merging of
cultures as a result of prolonged
contact"

Examples:
 Immigrants to the United States of
America become acculturated to
American life.
  Refugees and indigenous peoples (LP)
likewise adapt to the culture of the
dominant majority.

 There are cultural practices that should

be stopped because of the painful
harm they do.
Examples:
 Human sacrifice among the Aztecs in
ancient Mexico.
 Circumcision of women in Africa and
India.
 Cannibalism in Papua New Guinea.

How Culture Shapes the Moral Agent

 Culture definitely affects the way we
evaluate and judge things.
 Culture has a very long lasting hold on
an individual.
Examples:
 African women not as privileged as
the African men, but it is alright for
them.
 In ancient times, human sacrifice was
not wrong; today it is a criminal act. Sir!
 In some culture like Islamic culture,
and African culture (South of Sahara) Sir what do functionalists see as the functions
 having several wives is allowed. In of culture?
other cultures, it's concubinage or
adultery.
 It is alright for other tribes to avenged
their harmed of murdered family
members. In Christianity, killing is a
mortal sin.

Sir! Ivan!

What are the symbolic elements of culture?

Okay class, is there any question about our

topic today?

Yes Bida?

None Sir.
Oh, nice question. Functionalists suggest that
culture provides for continuing social order Yes Sir.
by handling down prescribed ways of
behaving in specific situations and allows
people to benefit from the achievements of
previous generations.
Who else?

Okay, yes Ivan?

Yes Sir!
A symbol is that which represents something
else. Norms and values are often transmitted
within a culture or to other cultures through
symbolic elements such as language, gesture
and stance, style of clothing, hairstyle, social
distance, time use or symbolic representation
such as flags.
Do you still have questions, class?

Is it clear now?

F. GENERALIZATION
If you truly understand our lesson, kindly
prepare one whole sheet of paper and we will
have a short quiz. I’ll divide your quiz into
two parts. Part 1 is Multiple Choices that has
5 items. While in Part 2 is Identification, that
also have 5 items.
Ready class?

I. MULTIPLE CHOICES
1. It is the "cultural modification of an
individual, group, or people by adapting to or
borrowing traits from another culture"
a. Enculturation
b. Inculturation
c. Acculturation

2. It refers to the "missiological process in

which the Gospel is rooted in a particular
culture and the latter is transformed by its
introduction to Christianity."
a. Enculturation
b. Inculturation
c. Acculturation

3. This learning takes place through example,

direct teaching and in patterns of behavior.
What is learned becomes one’s cognitive
map, term of reference that directs one’s
behavior.
a. Enculturation
b. Inculturation
c. Acculturation

4. It is the physical object that a society

produces: tools, streets, homes and toys, to
name a few.
a. Culture
b. Non-material Culture
c. Material Culture

5. It consists of language, values, rules,

knowledge, and meanings shared by members
of society.
a. Culture
b. Non-material Culture
c. Material Culture
Our lesson is all about Culture: How It
Defines Moral Behavior
II. IDENTIFICATION
1. Who said that the intimate transformation
of authentic cultural values through their
integration in Christianity and the insertion of The two kinds of culture are Nonmaterial
Christianity in the various human cultures.
 culture and Material culture.
2. Who said that the process of learning a
culture in all its uniqueness and particularity.
Sir these are the Enculturation, Inculturation
3. According to him, Inculturation is not an and Acculturation.
action but a process that unfolds over time,
one that is active and based on mutual
recognition and dialogue, a critical mind and
insight, faithfulness and conversion,
transformation and growth, renewal and
innovation.

4. He includes all human phenomena which

are not purely results of human genetics.

5. They believe in so many gods.

G. EVALUATION
What was our lesson today?

Very good!
Again what are the two kinds of culture?

And lastly, these are the process were culture

changed and evolved.

I’m happy and glad that all of you class really

listen carefully in our lesson today.
VI. EVALUATION
1. Culture affects human behavior. Is this proven in this instance when one spends so much
money for rebonding of her hair or buying an expensive Nike pair of shoes instead of using the
money to pay her tuition in school so can take the final exams (which is most urgent)?
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2. Cite two more proofs that culture influences human behavior.
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3. Cite a behavior of yours which is an influençe of your culture. Is that behavior morally right?
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4. Enculturation is the learning of first culture. Acculturation is the learning of second culture.
Are these statements correct?
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5. Faith that does not become culture is not fully accepted, nor entirely reflected upon, or
faithfully experienced" John Paul I. Does this explain inculturation? How?
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6. Is socialization a process of enculturation?
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7. Culture is learned not inherited. Is it within your power to change for the better?
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8. Does culture limit human person's freedom?
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9. Culture makes absolute freedom impossible. Discuss.
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VII. ASSIGNMENTS
Make a reflection on one cultural practice of yours. Is it moral in the sense that it makes you
more human?
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RUBRICS FOR REFLECTION
FOCUS CONTENT ORGANIZATION STYLE CONVENTIONS
The single The presence of ideas The order developed and The choice, use and Grammar, mechanics,
controlling point developed through Sustained within and arrangement of spelling, usage and
made awareness of facts, examples, across paragraphs using words and sentence sentence formation. an
task. anecdotes, details, transitional devices and structures that create about a specific topic.
opinions, statistics, including introduction tone and voice.
reasons, and/or and conclusion.
explanations.
 4
Sharp, distinct Substantial, specific, Sophisticated Precise, illustrative Evident control of
controlling point and/or illustrative arrangement of content use of a variety of grammar, mechanics,
made about a single content demonstrating with evident and/or words and sentence spelling, usage and
topic with evident strong development subtle transitions. structures to create sentence formation.
awareness of task. and sophisticated consistent writer’s
ideas. voice and tone
appropriate to
audience.
3
Apparent point Sufficiently Functional arrangement Generic use of a of a Sufficient control of
made about a single developed content of content that sustains a variety of words and grammar, mechanics,
topic with sufficient with adequate logical order with some sentence structures spelling, usage and
awareness of task. elaboration or evidence of transitions. to create consistent sentence formation.
explanation. writer’s voice and
tone appropriate to
audience.
2
No apparent point Limited content with Confused of inconsistent Limited word choice Limited control of
but evidence of a inadequate arrangement of content and control of grammar, mechanics,
specific topic. elaboration or with or without attempts sentence structures spelling, usage and
explanation. at transition. that inhibit voice and sentence formation.
tone.
1
Minimal evidence Superficial and/or Minimal control of Minimal variety in Minima control of
of a topic minimal content. content arrangement. word choice and grammar, mechanics,
minimal control of spelling, usage and
sentence structures. sentence formation.

That’s all. Thank you for your participation today, don’t forget your assignment. Goodbye.