Paper describes an experimental summer course in which teachers read the fiction of ethnic cultures, learned factual material about the cultures, and wrote about their responses in order to gain an understanding of minority/ethnic group issues. Teachers responded very positively to this consciousness raising effort. (SM)

This collection of reports on French civilization represents the efforts of several teams of students participating in the 1964 NDEA summer institute at Rennes, France. As a partial requirement for the civilization course, the groups submitted field study reports of the cultural life at Rennes and Brittany including: (1) environment and…

The 1970 curriculum guide for migrant children was developed by the Virginia Beach School System around a philosophy that exposing the elementary school child to various experiences improves self-concept and enhances the child's growth in social and academic skills, language ability, vocabulary skills, cultural background, and health and…

This final report describes achievements and activities of the Native American Science Outreach Network (NASON), a 40-month program of the University of Washington which provided 4-week summer institutes for high school and preservice science teachers of Native American students. The goal was to update the teachers' chemistry skills, and to…

This collection of language teaching ideas is the result of a four-week intensive workshop held in July and August 1976 for language teachers in the Northwest. The participants, a group of secondary teachers of French, German and Spanish, attended courses in cross-cultural communication and language-teaching methodology, in which they acquired…