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Download full textBannister, Linda – 1998
A multicultural literature course at Loyola Marymount University (California) was designed to complicate ideas of culture with gender issues and explored a common but largely unexplored phenomenon--writers who write outside their own personal backgrounds and identities. The course drew from research on "women's way of knowing" and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cultural Context, Ethnicity, Fiction
McNaron, Toni A. H.; Olano, Pamela J. – 1993
Efforts at diversifying and pluralizing curricula in English departments have been under way long enough for many to realize that simply adding a few texts by writers historically omitted will not promote truly broadened learning. A course on "minority literature" (Native-American, Asian-American, African American, and Hispanic) for the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English Curriculum, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Henderson, Sarah – 1994
A first-year composition instructor designed a 3-week unit on folklore that fulfilled a requirement that students produce writing based on field research at some time during the semester. The unit begins with a discussion of the concepts of folklore, folklore genres, and the role that folklore serves in folk and ethnic groups and cultures,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Folk Culture
Reissman, Rose – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1996
Discusses the use of fortune cookie fortunes in a middle school class combined with computer graphics, desktop publishing, and word processing technology to create writing assignments, games, and discussions. Topics include cultural contexts, and students creating their own fortunes. (LRW)
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Context
Peer reviewedEnns, Carolyn Zerbe – Teaching of Psychology, 1994
Describes limitations of a Western, individualistic perspective on psychological theory. Summarizes research and theory regarding how personality may be shaped differentially by individualistic and collectivist cultures. Describes strategies for teaching about the impact of culture on personality. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Altman, Leslie J. – 1998
This packet includes the syllabus of a trimester-long senior elective course on India, designed to begin with two writers of Indian descent, Salman Rushdie and Bharati Mukherjee. The packet contains the daily assignments for the first half of the trimester, which include all of the reading assignments from Rushdie and Mukherjee, as well as the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Authors, Contemporary Literature, Course Descriptions
Peer reviewedFeldmann, Martha J. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1995
Recommends using Chinua Achebe's novel of the 19th-century conflict between African tribal culture and English colonists in a world history class. Achebe's rich narrative, written in a graceful prose, is easily accessible to high school students. The novel replaces simplistic and abstract concepts with those more complex and concrete. (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Cultural Context
