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Conroy, James C. – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
This introduction attempts to draw together the various threads which comprise this special issue and place them in the context of recent disruptions to the political order occasioned by the rise of populist politics, the resurgence of widespread racial tensions in a number of polities and the emergence of a global pandemic. Central to the…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Ethical Instruction, Political Attitudes
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Rodenborg, Nancy; Dessel, Adrienne – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
The Council on Social Work Education requires students to understand how diversity and difference shape human experience. But segregation prevents students from appreciating the circumstances of others' lives and how widely human experience differs by race, religion, and other social identities. This teaching note presents the Social Contact…
Descriptors: Social Work, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Counselor Training
Walker, Maureen – Teachers College Press, 2019
Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic census box we check and more with how we make sense of our lives--who we are and who we can become in relationships with others. Using anecdotes from her practice as a licensed psychologist and as an African American growing up in the South,…
Descriptors: Race, African Americans, Racial Relations, Racial Differences
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Sharma, Sonya; Catalano, Elena; Seetzen, Heidi; Minors, Helen Julia; Collins-Mayo, Sylvia – London Review of Education, 2019
In this article we discuss an interdisciplinary and collaborative four-year project, Taking Race Live, that explored lived experiences of race among students enrolled at an ethnically diverse university in England. Utilizing qualitative methods to evaluate the project each year, we draw on students' voices to address their experiences of race,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Racial Differences, Program Descriptions, Racial Attitudes
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Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Engberg, Mark E. – Journal of General Education, 2011
This study examines how diversity requirements differ from courses that are highly inclusive or less inclusive of diversity. Results suggest that instructor characteristics are statistically different and that highly inclusive and less inclusive diversity courses score highest and lowest, respectively, on measures of effective teaching compared…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cultural Pluralism, Courses, Comparative Analysis
Grambs, Jean – Grade Teacher, 1969
From a series on teaching Afro-American history and culture in the elementary school.
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Education, Intergroup Education, Intergroup Relations
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Damico, Sandra Bowman; Sparks, Christopher – 1984
This study contrasts interracial communication patterns among students attending two desegregated schools which differed in organizational structure (one was a middle school and one a junior high school). Both schools were similar in size, student socioeconomic profile, and percent of white and black pupils. Multiple analysis of variance indicated…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
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Slavin, Robert E. – Journal of Social Issues, 1985
Reviews research on instructional methods designed to operationalize the principal elements of Allport's contact theory of intergroup relations. These cooperative learning methods, which employ ethnically mixed learning groups who are rewarded for learning as a group, have had positive effects on intergroup relations and on the academic…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Intergroup Education
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Miller, Norman; And Others – Journal of Social Issues, 1985
Team-learning interventions may improve intergroup relations within a desegregated classroom, but their effects are lessened outside of the school setting. Research suggests that generalized outgroup acceptance will be produced by (1) an interpersonal orientation toward team members; and (2) the assignment of persons to teams on the basis of their…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Desegregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Murray, Kay C. – 1968
The Human Relations Unit, in cooperation with the Bureau of Radio and Television, WNYE-TV, televised a teacher training workshop series. The overall aim of the course was to bring to the attention of the teacher the rich and relatively untouched resources to be found in the literature of minority groups of the United States. The course was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Television, Ethnic Studies
Levine, Daniel U. – 1965
The primary objectives of the Institute were defined as (1) helping school officials understand the historical background and the social-psychological context of conditions resulting in educational disadvantage and the relation between these forces and desegregation problems in the schools, (2) helping individuals responsible for the content of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Sociology, Equal Education, Human Relations
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. – 1968
This is the fifth of seven resource units for a twelfth grade course on value conflicts and policy decisions. The topic for this unit is racial conflict in the United States. The introduction explains how this unit coincides with other units of the K-12 series which have treated intergroup relations. The objectives are listed as to…
Descriptors: American History, Civil Rights, Course Content, Curriculum Guides