Background/Context: Teaching, leading, and learning are inextricably connected to emotions. Yet, the significance of emotions is rarely addressed in educational settings, and when it is, the relationship between emotions and curricula is most often framed by of an overly individualistic behavior model that focuses on the management and regulation…

Describes in detail a sociocultural index developed in an effort to order and systematize cultural topics, thereby bringing an element of scientific logic to the study of culture in the foreign language class. (PM)

The paper presents a comparison of the experiences of American Indians and Negroes in the American society. The premise of this paper is that Negroes and American Indians have different backgrounds, different cultures, different aspirations, and different philosophies of life and that neither have been assimilated by the American society. As a…

Presents components of Indian pluralism and explains the forces that have divided and, at the same time, united her struggling nation. (RK)

The relative saliency of social comparison and anxiety reduction as motives for interpersonal affiliation was examined in nearly 100 Chicano and Anglo adolescents. The experiment's failure to replicate the findings of Darley and Aronson was probably due to lack of functional equivalence across cultural groups. (Author/GC)

In this study, we propose a set of concepts for conceptualizing issues of learning science related to globalization, the encounter with the (radically) foreign/strange--as this occurs as part of migration and even as part of the encounter of a learner with the unknown content that science lessons are to impart--from the perspective of the…

In two experiments we demonstrate a substantial cross-cultural difference in a mnemonic context effect, whereby a magnitude estimate of a simple stimulus such as a line or circle is biased toward the center of the distribution of previously seen instances of the same class. In support of the hypothesis that Asians are more likely than Americans to…

Work supported in part by a grant from the Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health (MH-1587601)

SYSTEMATICALLY OBSERVED, RECORDED, AND CODED INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIORS OF CHILDREN, AGES 3 TO 11, WERE EXAMINED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF CROSS-CULTURALLY CONSISTENT RELATIONS BETWEEN THEIR BEHAVIORS. THE STUDY SAMPLE CONSISTED OF OVER 130 CHILDREN FROM DIVERSE CULTURES, AND WAS SELECTED FROM COMMUNITIES IN NEW ENGLAND, MEXICO, AFRICA, INDIA, OKINAWA,…

Examines contradictions in perception and position of women in India. Although women are idealized, honored, and respected, they are also over-worked and expected to toil unceasingly for their husbands and families. Concludes that women in India are moving slowly toward liberation in a manner consistent with their values. (Author/DB)

This study dealt with the question of white versus black superiority in learning, viewing such differences in sociocultural terms. (Author)

The nature of pluralism, especially in education, is discussed. The dominant culture in the United States is compared with the African culture. The uniqueness of African Americans and the implications for pluralism are investigated. Specific examples of ways educational personnel might promote educational pluralism are presented. (CJ)

Introduces a theme issue that challenges the dominant discourse surrounding pedagogy which is predicated on individualistic accounts of achievement and solutions to enhancing achievement that rarely consider the relationships between thinking and the cultural, institutional, and historical situations in which it occurs. The articles show, through…