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Mungo, Samuel J. – 1979
A major component of the Illinois State University (ISU) teacher education program is early field experience in a multicultural setting. The aim of this component is to enable prospective teachers to be aware of the needs of the changing school population and its cultural diversity. The ISU community-based field experience program is coordinated…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Field Experience Programs, Group Unity, Helping Relationship

Phinney, Jean S. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1996
Recommends developing a secure, positive sense of one's racial identity through questioning preexisting attitudes and examining the past and present relationships between one's own and other groups. Describes several models of positive ethnic identity development for minority and white students. Discusses the implications of this research for…
Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Relations, Ethnicity

Carrington, Bruce; Short, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 1996
Presents the results of a case study of 9- to 11-year-olds' understanding of nationalism and collective identity in Scotland. Compares the responses of mostly-white Edinburgh students with those drawn from a multiethnic cohort from English schools. Examines the policy implications of these results. (MJP)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Educational Policy