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Obiakor, Festus E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2019
One of the critical issues in education today is how to help all students to maximize their fullest potential. Achieving this goal seems to be difficult for many people who come from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. At all levels, they endure direct and indirect disenfranchisements, disadvantages, and disillusionments,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Asian Americans, Self Concept, College Faculty
Peele, Stanton – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2006
American alcohol education and prevention efforts for youth emphasize abstinence. In support of this approach, epidemiologists conclude that early drinking by adolescents increases the lifetime likelihood of alcohol dependence and that overall drinking levels in a society are directly linked to drinking problems. At the same time, cultural,…
Descriptors: Youth, College Students, Drinking, Behavior Patterns
Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Tam, Kai Yung; Loe, Scott A.; Miranda, Antoinette H.; Lambert, Michael Charles; Kea, Cathy D.; Simmons-Reed, Evette – 2002
This monograph examines the special educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children and youth who are also diagnosed as having behavior disorders (BD). Following an introductory chapter, chapters 2 and 3 address the specific populations of Asian Americans (usually underrepresented in the BD population) and African…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Black Students
Gold, Steven J.; Tuan, Mia – 1993
Close to 250,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union have arrived in the United States since the early 1970s. In recent years, former Soviets have been the largest refugee population to enter the United States. These immigrants are generally well-equipped for adjusting to American life. They are skilled, educated, and possess urban experience.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavior Patterns
Beechy, Atlee; Beechy, Winifred – 1981
A description is given of the ten-week Goshen College Study-Service Trimester experiment at Sichuan Teachers College in China. Goshen College emphasizes international education and has a requirement in this area for all of its graduates. The trimester exchange program was developed to promote international education and world peace and prepare…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs
LaFromboise, Teresa D.; Rowe, Wayne – 1981
A skills training approach provides a conceptual framework from which human services can be provided for the personal and emotional needs of Indian people without the subtle, culturally erosive effect of traditional psychotherapy. Some 30 tribal groups and agencies participated in a cultural adaptation of an assertive coping-skills training…
Descriptors: Adults, American Indians, Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns