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Download full textLuna, Cathy – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1993
The role of personal narrative in multicultural education is examined. First, the relationship between student voice, storytelling, and the transmission of culture is discussed in the context of recent literature on those topics. The concept of voice describes the process of expressing oneself meaningfully through utterances and actions according…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Young, Bernard, Ed. – 1990
The 20 articles in this volume provide varying perspectives on the concepts of multiculturalism, multiethnicity, and global literacy and how to correct art curricula to include the diversity. The development and application of viable multiethnic curricula is a function of the interrelationship of pedagogy and social-cultural realities. The…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
King, Margaret A.; Karlson, Alfred L. – 1979
This study presents a framework for instructional programs based on four assumptions about the sociocultural background of black children: (1) black children share a common cultural heritage, a history of oppression and racial injustice in America; (2) black children grow and develop in a family environment that is historically different in…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Education, Cultural Differences
Austin, Gregory A.; And Others – 1989
This report discusses the substance use patterns and problems of Asian Americans adults and youth relative to other ethnic groups (primarily Whites). In addition, it summarizes the main explanations that have been offered for ethnic differences in use, and offers possible conclusions that may be drawn concerning prevention for Asian-American young…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Americans
Watson, Arden K.; And Others – 1986
A cross-cultural study was undertaken to examine levels of communication apprehension reported by five- to eleven-year-old subjects in the United States and Sweden. The approach was twofold: the examination of elementary age subjects and the use of their native language. The Personal Report of Communication Fear was administered to 186 males and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Communication Apprehension
McClure, Erica; And Others – 1981
The task of unscrambling and reordering the sentences for six stories was completed by 455 third, sixth, and ninth grade students from three cultural groups (black, Anglo, and Hispanic) in a study of how sociocultural differences in story schemata affect reading comprehension. The results showed that the greatest effects were for grade level and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
NOSTRAND, HOWARD LEE – 1967
EVERY CHILD SHOULD LEARN TO UNDERSTAND A SECOND CULTURE AND ITS LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO COPE WITH INTERCULTURAL CONFLICTS. THIS, HOWEVER, DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NECESSARY TO BELONG TO TWO CULTURES, SINCE INNER CONFLICT RESULTS UNLESS ONE IDENTIFIES HIMSELF WITH ONE WAY OF LIFE OR THE OTHER. THE BI-CULTURAL CURRICULUM PROPOSED IS A MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cross Cultural Training
Berry, Brewton – 1968
A review of the historical components of American Indian education (including missions, institutional histories, and tribal histories) was followed by an effort to identify in the literature specific problem areas accounting for the apparent failure of formal education systems imposed on Indians. Specific causal relationships for this failure were…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bibliographies, College Students, Cultural Differences
Steinberg, Brenda M.; Dunn, Lynne A. – 1975
This study examined the impact of culture, language, and familiarity with materials on the ability to solve traditional conservation problems. A total of 80 Tzeltal speaking children from two traditional Mexican Indian (Mayan) villages participated in the study: 5 boys and 5 girls drawn from each of four age group (6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13). The men…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Sancho, Anthony R. – 1974
The creation of a classroom that is more receptive to individual and cultural differences and the inclusion of the intangible elements of culture in the total instructional plan will increase the effectiveness of the educational process in bilingual-bicultural programs. In planning a cultural component for the bilingual-bicultural classroom, the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Cultural Awareness
Troup, Alice – 1972
Anthropology can make two major and complimentary contributions to the process of education: 1) provide basic concepts and methods which are uniquely able to help public school students understand the specialized, abstract, complex nature of their urban environment; and 2) apply concepts and methods through research in schools to identify and…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Krajnc, Ana; And Others – 1972
By concentrating on individuals' general approaches toward education, their attitudes concerning different aspects of education, and their motivation for education, we have constructed an "index of educational values." This index appeared to reflect very differently individuals' educational orientations as compared, simply, to the level…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Attitudes
Peer reviewedMcClure, Erica; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1983
Compares the performance of Black, Hispanic, and Anglo students on a story unscrambling task to determine if sociocultural differences in story schemata affect reading comprehension. Shows some effects suggesting that the three groups have somewhat different strategies for choosing initial and final sentences and for making narratives coherent.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Gustafson, Kent L. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 1996
Discussion of the field of educational media and technology focuses on external forces in society that will shape its destiny. Highlights include demographic and cultural changes; family structure; globalization; changing nature of the workplace; technological developments including digitization, communication, technical convergence, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cultural Differences, Educational Media, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedZeidner, Moshe – Higher Education, 1992
A study of sociocultural and gender differences in Arab (n=209) and Jewish (n=184) first-year college students' perceptions of major sources of academic stress, and relationship with achievement, found cultural group background the most salient background predictor of success, followed by social class and gender, with noninteractive effects. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arabs, College Freshmen, Cultural Differences
