An archeological field program developed at California State College in Pennsylvania has been restructured to appeal to students as an elective. Four objectives are included: primary research, scientific investigation of culture, portrayal of prehistoric and historic life styles of man, and recognition of cultural ecology. (LBH)

Folklore played an important part in the acculturation of Black Americans. Folksongs, worksongs, spirituals, and proverbs promoted racial solidarity, expressed thoughts, and served as educational and social tools. (DF)

This study of Chinese university students in Thailand is set within two contending traditions of analysis: theories of ethnic assimilation and theories of ethnic pluralism. (Author)

A framework is provided for ethnographic studies of school cultures, specifically to study the affinity between the function of education and religion in society. (Author/KM)

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

Paper delivered at the Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders Memorial Lecture on March 24, 1971 at Chatham House, London, England to members and guests of the Institute of Race Relations, London. (RJ)

Focuses on some apparently evolved features of human adolescence and their possible functions, including the pubertal growth spurt, sexual size dimorphism and bimaturism, the greater aggressiveness of males, heightened concern with one's social standing and the factors affecting it, intergenerational friction, same-sex aggregations and solidarity,…

Teachers and students who are ethnographers and who study the artifacts and "visual sign making" of their own culture will learn to value and understand the arts, as well as to produce art that matters. (Author)

Discusses the importance of uncovering the universal features of proper names and relating them to different naming systems. Suggests that this viewpoint may lead to an appreciation of proper names as a sociolinguistic universal and a cultural variable, beyond the particulars on which most of the literature has focused. (MES)

The term "educational ethnology" suggests an anthropological approach to schools. This research approach would be cumulative with regard to individual schools, would compare similarities and differences among schools, would entail the mutual participation of anthropologists and members of the schools studied, and could remedy limitations of much…

Attempts to underscore the relevance of an anthropological perspective for the study of what educators call "educational problems". Considers the area of cross-cultural studies of education and socialization in the broadest sense, the comparative study of schools as institutions within a particular socio-cultural context, school ethnography, and…

An adequate research base for mathematics learning and teaching in rural areas does not exist. According to Silver (2001), mathematics education research has virtually ignored rural context, even though approximately one third of the nation's population lives in rural areas. Mathematics education and rural education researchers seem to have little…