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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
Suwaed, Muhammad; Swaid, Faten – International Education Studies, 2015
In recent decades, the Bedouin population in Galilee, in Northern Israel, experienced significant multifaceted changes. Exposure to other cultures and other social components, with which this population had very limited interaction in the past, had affected its norms and behavior patterns and caused adaption of manners and values that had not been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Minority Groups, Qualitative Research
Berryman, Mere; Woller, Paul – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Behavioural and learning difficulties experienced by students from minoritised cultural groups often arise because their cultural beliefs, values and preferred practices differ markedly from those of their teachers and their school. Research in New Zealand has shown that if inclusive education is to have real meaning for these students and their…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Indigenous Populations
Wittner, Joe – J Int Assn Pupil Personnel Workers, 1970
Delineates misunderstandings of minority cultures at both cognitive and affect level. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences
Haberman, Paul W. – Ethnicity, 1976
Findings suggest that the consistently high rates of survey reported symptoms among Puerto Rican respondents derive primarily from culturally patterned differences in modes of expressing distress. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Mental Disorders

Myers, Vincent – Journal of Drug Education, 1977
Interviews with a nationwide sample (N=1357) of young and low-income black, chicano, and Caribbean men and women, as well as with nonminority counterparts, reveal the large majority are uninformed about the effects of licit and illicit drugs, nor do they know much about a range of other drug-related consequences. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Drug Education
Dyches, Tina Taylor; Wilder, Lynn K.; Sudweeks, Richard R.; Obiakor, Festus E.; Algozzine, Bob – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
The professional literature provides ample evidence that individuals with autism exhibit a myriad of unusual social, communication, and behavioral patterns of interactions that present challenges to their families and service providers. However, there is a dearth of quality works on multicultural issues regarding autistic spectrum disorders. In…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Autism, Cross Cultural Studies
Kochman, Thomas – 1972
This document discusses significant differences between the cultural personalities and communication patterns of non-mainstream and mainstream groups in an effort to understand the nature and cause of conflict between groups. The author seeks to identify the "combustible" features of different communication systems, to demonstrate the systematic…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Dialects, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Background

Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Reviews by Margaret A. Gibson (1988) and by Margaret A. Gibson and John U. Ogbu, Eds. (1991). These two books contribute significantly to theories of minority school success and failure in plural societies. Both distinguish between immigrant and involuntary minority groups, and attribute differing degrees of academic success to the cultural models…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis

Parekh, Bhikhu – International Migration Review, 1996
Explores how the wider society should decide which minority practices can be tolerated and which should be banned for the good of the whole society. Principles of toleration cannot be set down in advance, but should be developed through open-minded dialog aimed at reasonable consensus. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Hilliard, Asa G., III – 1976
The final report adresses the problems involved in identifying gifted minority children. Reviewed is the historical perspective of cross cultural assessment in behavioral research. Typical gross errors and misinterpretations of data in cross cultural assessment are pointed out. Among fundamental considerations listed include the use of items…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences

Siann, Gerda; And Others – Educational Studies, 1993
Reports on a study of 71 British secondary teachers about bullying in their schools. Finds that, in schools where students report high rates of bullying, teachers were more likely to perceive behavior as bullying and observe bullying. Also finds that most believe that there were typical victim personalities. (CFR)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Bullying, Cultural Differences
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
Chan, Carole – 1975
Although the Southeast Asian refugees are regularly referred to only as Vietnamese, many are Cambodians, people different from the Vietnamese. It is true that Asian people have much more in common with one another than they have in common with non-Asians. While there are many attitudes and manners which Vietnamese and Cambodians share resulting…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns, Cambodians, Cultural Differences

Frasier, Mary M.; Passow, A. Harry – 1994
This monograph presents a paradigm for identifying giftedness among all groups of young people. Section 1 presents a review and critique of traditional identification approaches and highlights the limitations that tests may have for identifying talent potential among groups currently underrepresented in gifted programs. Section 2 examines the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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