In a case study of three language-delayed and language-disordered preschoolers, children failed to demonstrate generalization of learned communicative strategies across settings until professionals recognized and accepted the established communicative signs of the child's home and began to collaborate with the mother in establishing new…

The impact of student characteristics on performance was examined in an integrative business policy capstone course that used various pedagogical techniques. Results from a covariance structure analysis of a process model with 381 subjects demonstrate the importance of individual student characteristics on student performance. (SLD)

Presents 12 principles for "brain-based" learning that can serve as guidelines for defining and selecting instructional programs and methodologies. Discussion includes implications for education, suggestions for teaching information literacy skills, individual differences in the learning process, and the use of multimedia technologies. (AEF)

Reviews five books that represent important reading for Chapter 1 teachers, compensatory education teacher, administrators of such programs, and classroom teachers who instruct at-risk youth or diverse student populations. (RS)

This article argues the importance of using an individualized approach in teaching multicultural pupil populations and illustrates this with specific applications made to meet the needs of the culturally pluralistic student population of South Africa. (DB)

Suggests a method for teaching about modern Chinese literature that attempts to avoid problems resulting from the lack of cross-cultural understanding between Western and Chinese cultures, and emphasizes ways to become aware of differences without denying one's own culture. (23 references) (CB)

Presents vignettes of Chinese elementary education as seen through the eyes of an American teaching in China and a native Chinese teacher. Notes that, although the Chinese and Western educational systems differ in many ways, a shared love of children unites the systems at the deepest level of belief and practice. (MG)

Presents a theoretical framework for using children's literature in dealing with cultural differences. Suggests classroom approaches that capitalize on the power of literature to promote intercultural and multicultural appreciation. (MG)

Advocates the analysis of student writing and improvisations as texts offering images, stories, and information about their different backgrounds, languages, histories, and cultures. Outlines how teachers can develop strategies for generating such student writing, especially through the use of improvisation. (HB)

Questions the relationship between mathematics and gender issues by focusing on Australia. Emphasizes the research, governmental policies, teaching, and attitudes related to this issue in Australia. (Author/ASK)

The "Confessions" of St. Augustine is important as a record of the process and results of the struggle between cultures of Athens and Jerusalem as a confrontation between classical and biblical learning. As such, it models an approach to the multicultural tensions of today. An example is given in cultural conflicts between Islam and Christianity.…

Presents a set of pedagogical approaches and suggested topics and materials for teaching gender issues in Asian-American psychology. Central issues are discussed under categories of gender roles, gender stereotypes, and gender differences. (SLD)

A study of 300 secondary students in Lagos State (Nigeria) evaluated Speak Out television. Found that an instructional television enhances the teaching-learning process, that students viewing educational television demonstrated greater participation and interest, and that the location of the community (urban versus rural) in which children attend…

Explored how the discourse of child-centered pedagogy both shapes and limits how teachers talk about issues of social difference in their teaching practice through the experiences of four inner-city elementary school teachers in Canada. Considers the concept of the child as a unique individual and the teacher as a neutral change agent in relation…

Compares the educational and philosophical theories of John Dewey and Paulo Friere, articulating how each deals with two key relationships: action to reflection and individual to society. Their theories of experiential learning largely overlap, but they depart on the larger ideological purposes of education, with Freire more inviting of critical…