Describes activities of a deaf awareness week in a deaf-education program within a public elementary school. Emphasis is on exposure to deaf culture and history in age appropriate activities, involvement of the entire school and community, and a Friday night sleep-over at the school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and staff. (DB)

Ideas for teaching students with hearing impairments to appreciate other cultures include developing bulletin boards that focus on famous deaf people of diverse backgrounds, encouraging students to share features of their family's cultural background, inviting deaf adults or high school students from other cultures to visit the classroom, and…

Global education is an approach to learning that transcends national boundaries and involves the interconnection of cultural, ecological, economic, political and technological systems. This perspective promotes multicultural sensitivity that enables young people to see more clearly their own responsibilities and opportunities in today's world.…

Describes a college-level ethnic studies course which helps students understand cultural pluralism by involving them in learning activities such as interviewing immigrants, role playing, and eating an ethnic meal. For journal availability, see SO 506 393. (Author/DB)

Suggests activities to develop junior high students' capacity for perspective consciousness considered a key to an effective study of global issues. For use in geography courses, the activities help students understand why different perspectives exist on an issue and how groups share understandings among their members through communication. (RM)

Presents a learning activity in which secondary students read about and analyze the legal institutions of an African tribe called the Ibo. Students compare the Ibo's precolonial system of resolving disputes with the U.S. system. (AM)

Integrating a foreign language culture into the teaching of the language is discussed, and a list of methods is provided.

Suggests how to develop and direct learning activities of an interdisciplinary nature for immigrant students in high school social studies courses. Activities involve students in vocabulary development, class discussion, role playing, and exchange of ideas with students of other ethnic backgrounds. (Author/DB)

Presents background material and elementary and secondary activity ideas for teaching about the nineteenth-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai and the contemporary Hawaiian artist Masami Teraoka. Compares the artists' ability to synthesize aesthetic elements from the East and West to visualize human concerns that transcend time and place.…

An elementary level teaching unit that explores immigration helps boost students' thinking skills, command of history, and appreciation of the nation's diversity. The unit focuses on reasons for emigrating to America, understanding the past, immigration today, and bridging the past and present. Three reproducibles are included. (SM)

This activities-based handbook is designed to assist both mentors and mentees in colleges and universities in developing a relationship that is respectful, meaningful, and fulfilling. It defines the terms associated with the mentoring process and discusses how knowledge of self is critical to developing a successful mentor-mentee relationship. The…

This simulation exercise is designed to provide students at the intermediate and secondary education levels with an experimental or discovery exercise in cross cultural relations. The simulation is designed to be a part of a more extensive study of cultural perceptions and can be used in an exploration or one's own community as well as in more…

Developed as a study guide for teachers and students participating in the Peace Corps' World Wise Schools program, the primary purpose of this document is to enhance correspondence with a Peace Corps Volunteer and to help students gain a greater understanding of a different culture and region of the world. The activities encourage students to…

Lists some of the citations in the ERIC database dealing with teaching global studies in elementary school. Includes teaching methods, works on individual countries, curriculum suggestions, and student activities. Suggests that students need a foundation for a consciousness and acceptance of multicultural realities. (DK)

Units of study to help secondary students learn about the aging process are provided. There are five units. Major concepts taught in the first unit, "Chronological Aging," are that aging is a continual process, that generational cycles ensure survival, and that species depend on each other for survival. In the second unit, students learn…