Examines education and childhood in Portugal. Uses oral history methods in an educational context, exploring oral statements pedagogically. Considers these statements especially suitable to maintaining aspects of collective memory and social identity, reinforcing students' national and regional identities. Suggests this is very important in…

Research has shown that attributional styles are affected by the attributor's culture, inferential goals, and level of cognitive processing. This study compares the attributions made in sports articles and editorials of newspapers published in Hong Kong and the United States. Implications for the mixed model of social inference are discussed. (LSR)

Considers media ecology, the study of media environments, as a perspective that is concerned with the social, cultural, and psychological impact of media and technology. Describes this perspective and uses its principles in a critique of emerging computer-based media and their use in education. (PA)

Institutional racism has been justified by disdaining non-Western cultures such as the Maori as illiterate. Maori education is focusing on biliteracy, developing literacy in both Maori and English within contemporary Maori cultural values and practices. (SK)

Expands the conceptual framework of considerations of the self and identity in career development theory and practice. Selected advances in theoretical considerations of the self and identity emerging from fields outside of the purview of career development are presented, with a focus on the importance of the relational and cultural contexts. (RB)

Examines the relationships among perceptions of willingness to communicate, communication responsiveness, communication apprehension, introversion, and assertiveness of college students in Russia. States that comparative analyses were made with studies conducted in the United States, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Micronesia, and Puerto Rico. Finds…

Contends that experimental drama interrogates the schism between the actor's real self and her/his playing of a stage role. Explores connections between experimental theatre practice and progressive educational work, through examples of drama and performance work in two Welsh adult education contexts. Discusses some of the pedagogical and wider…

Notes that in the aftermath of September 11th there is strong motivation to improve intercultural and international relations through communication. Explains that in many interethnic and intercultural contexts, participants are not motivated to communicate well. Concludes it is crucial to understand intercultural communications as simultaneously…

Explains that Museum Theatre's goal is to teach through drama by using experiential interpretive strategies that bypass the lecture format. Outlines a production of Museum Theatre which helped a museum redefine itself. Concludes that Museum Theatre helps shift the focus of programming from simple object display to an emphasis on the human…

Investigates meanings of an innovative, reform-based curriculum (Active Physics) in various contexts. Explores how meanings of the curriculum transformed as it traveled across space and time. Discusses how aspects of the context enabled innovative science and those that constrained the potential of the curriculum. Demonstrates potential for…

Chronicles the author's experience of working with a group of Apache actors and cultural experts on the production of a feature-length narrative, "Indian Summer." Finds that, in this case, the process of cross-cultural collaboration was successful in uniting different people from different cultures in a common purpose. (PA)

Draws comparisons between the Australian education directors, Frank Tate and Jacques Henry Abendanon. Discusses educational reform issues based on racial contexts and social, political, and cultural aspects in the British colony of Victoria and the Dutch colony of Java. Concludes that, though their politcal contexts are different, their views are…

Explores dilemmas that arise as compositionists continue to develop theories and practices of mixed and alternative discourses. Focuses on how composition studies have attached spatial designations to discourses. Notes that the label "home" implies that such discourses have been protected from the onslaughts of a dynamic and changing world's…

A development project in a poor east Indian community used community development and sustainable livelihoods methods that understated the critical importance of rank, caste, and power relations. Implemented out of context, these models became obstacles to survival and development. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

An end-of-life interdisciplinary graduate seminar incorporated culture throughout the course. Cultural variability related to the life course, ethical/moral issues, and spirituality were presented by an anthropologist, nurse ethicist, and sociologist with the intention of increasing cross-cultural understanding. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)