Despite the much-touted 'sexual revolution', during the 1960s-70s, at the time most Western education systems avoided sex education. This article identifies contradictory discourses about sex as manifested in two distinct cultural expressions that co-occurred in those years in the UK. The first represented mainstream social conservatism - in the…

This paper presents qualitative research examining to what extent sojourns abroad engage their participants in intercultural interactions and whether or not such experience translates into students' intercultural growth. The results of the study demonstrated that studying abroad did not provide students with ample opportunities to immerse into the…

A counter-culture opposes and seeks to change a dominant culture. This study defines whether counter-culture values are established in higher education institutions in Britain and their effect on student revolt. (Author/PG)

A counter-culture is not compatible with the dominant culture and actively opposes the dominant culture. This article reports on a study to determine whether the counter-culture theory is viable for student activism in the United Kingdom. (Author/PG)

Gives an appraisal of the status of education in Trinidad during the course of British rule, with attention focussed on curriculum development. (Author/AM)

Contains the complete text of an interview with the author of a recent short study of the plight of black (especially West Indian) students in the schools for the educationally subnormal. (JM)

Discusses racism and ways in which children learn racism. Describes five techniques teachers can use to discourage racism. (RJC)

Discusses how culture shock intrinsic in a cross-cultural student teaching experience necessitates that participants think critically and reflect about teaching. The article describes an international student teaching component at two Minnesota colleges. After 7 weeks of student teaching in the United States, participants spend 6 weeks in British…

One difficulty in decentralized school systems is that the experiences of one local educational agency which may be relevant to the work of the others are not readily shareable. To obviate this, in December 1969, the Department of Education and Science (England) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research to undertake a two to…

An ideal-typical model of multiculturalism combined with a theory of core values is applied to the development of values in Mauritius as a result of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French settlers and British colonial administrators. Another model is proposed to help explain or predict the likelihood of conflict or harmony between cultural…

Discusses the dynamics of Muslim family life and the role of family values in shaping the present experiences and future aspirations of adolescent British Muslim girls. It argues that these young women are getting ambiguous messages about freedom and that they feel ambivalent about various features of their Asian and British ethnicities. (GR)

Examines how two competing identities--one educational and the other, workplace--are negotiated by further education (FE) students and sustained through the FE provision in Britain. The article argues that the competing educational and workplace identities are constituted in the contradictions and ambiguities inherent in FE. (42 references)…

Contends that, in the past 30 years, a dramatic upsurge has taken place in activities designed to promote human rights for indigenous peoples around the world. Asserts that, in the case of Africa, attention generally has been concentrated on socioeconomic rights, such as health care, sufficient water, food, and shelter. (CFR)

Critiques a research study on ethnic and gender differences in a British secondary school physical education program. Discusses problems of small-scale research on race and gender. Concludes that Muslim values appear sexist and oppressive and that school-community cooperation can improve educational opportunities for all children. (CFR)

Reports on a study of Muslim children in physical education classes in a British secondary school. Finds areas of cultural conflict, such as physical education uniforms and regulations about showering after class. Calls for better preservice and inservice teacher education in a wider educational and societal context. (CFR)