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Download full textAustin, Ernest H., Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1965
As presently conceived and implemented, some compensatory education programs appear to be intellectually, democratically, professionally, and philosophically unsound. Some program administrators seem not to have considered the possibility that their programs amount to an imposition of a middle-class value system upon a group of people who have…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged
Solomon, Daniel – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Clements, Hubert M. – Personnel Guidance J, 1969
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship, Culture Conflict, Disadvantaged
Lackey, L. L.; Jacobs, T. O. – 1972
The study attempted to measure world-of-work values and perceptions at entry and after a period of employment of enrollees in Plan D of the Public Service Careers (PSC) Program, a Federal program designed to bring disadvantaged individuals into Federal employment. A PSC Enrollee Questionnaire, developed from a logical taxonomy of world-of-work…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Entry Workers, Federal Programs, Government Employees
Moellenberg, Wayne P. – 1967
This study investigated methods of assessing the effects of cultural deprivation in relation to school adjustment. The investigators developed new methods of assessment in areas of self-concept, (sample of 49 children) concept formation, (314 children) and value orientation, (45 children) The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (sample of 60 children)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Disadvantaged, Lower Class, Middle Class
HOBART, CHARLES W. – 1968
THE SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, AT INUVIK IN THE WESTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, ACCOMODATED 300 PUPILS DURING THE 1963-64 SCHOOL YEAR. MOST OF THE YOUNGSTERS KNEW NO ENGLISH, HAD NEVER SLEPT ALONE, AND HAD NEVER SEEN RUNNING WATER AT THE TIME OF THEIR FIRST TRIP TO INUVIK. THESE YOUNGSTERS ARE FROM TWO DISTINCT GROUPS--THE KABLOONAMIUT…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Children
Romero, Fred E. – 1966
A study of Spanish American and Anglo American culture value concepts sought to determine (through the use of a teacher awareness scale) the degree to which teachers were aware of cultural differences, and (through a student acculturation questionnaire) to determine the extent of acceptance by Spanish American students of Anglo American values.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Concept Formation, Cultural Background
Sampson, William A. – 2003
Despite a myriad of school reform efforts, inner-city schools, attended for the most part by poor and working-class Black and Latino children, are failing to prepare students for our highly complex and changing world. This book suggests that reform efforts have failed because they focused upon school-based solutions and paid scant attention to the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged, Discipline
