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Peer reviewedTimm, Joan Thrower – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1999
Summarizes factors in cultural experience that affect approaches to learning and problem solving. Reviews evidence of the past 30 years on cognitive style differences in U.S. culturally diverse groups: Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans. Discusses mediating effects of gender and social class within cultural…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cognitive Style
Shade, Barbara J. Robinson, Ed. – 1997
Many students of color are not performing to their maximum potential within the current school setting, and examinations of this problem suggest significant differences between student and teacher perceptions of how one becomes educated. The underlying assumptions of this book are that culture, through the mediation of cognitive style, determines…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Black Culture
