U.S. college educator describes his experience visiting a prestigious kindergarten in Nanjing, China, noting his response to the Chinese learning style versus the Western learning style. (SM)

A major goal of a curriculum that fosters multicultural literacy should be to help students know, care, and act in ways that will develop a democratic and just society where all groups experience cultural democracy and empowerment. (SK)

It is worthwhile to develop the concepts and conventions that emerge from the child's culture in the teaching of elementary school mathematics, specifically geometry. The discussion is based on experiences with 7- to 12-year-old Navajo children in studies toward the development of a culturally relevant mathematics curriculum. (SLD)

An exploration of the nature and range of international expertise necessary for students and users of commercial French attempts to note the points where knowledge of law, politics, culture, and business practice takes over from mere accumulation of facts or linguistic competence to facilitate genuine, productive, and culturally appropriate…

Discusses education and the city and presents an annotated bibliography of 456 international sources of information that deal with education in an urban environment, including general works; urban education from the didactic perspective; urban education from the social perspective; urban education from the cultural and local development…

Defines learning environment as the physical surroundings, psychological or emotional conditions, and sociocultural influences affecting the growth and development of an adult engaged in learning. Suggests that ingrained views of learning environments can be changed by perspective transformation, paradigm shift, and personal philosophy. (SK)

This paper posits that maltreatment of children in Nigeria finds support in Nigerian cultures that permit and encourage such acts. The paper discusses sexual abuse; emotional abuse; child labor; variabilities within subcultures, social classes, and rural/urban settings; sociocultural factors precipitating abuse and neglect; and the role of adult…

Suggestions for adapting automated training materials for foreign audiences include accurate translation; culturalization; simplicity; clarity; anticipated uses, display formats, text characteristics, and software compatibility; costs; and attention to the pitfalls of jargon, cliches, acronyms, numbers, money, sports metaphors, and humor. (SK)

Field education of Latino social work students is examined for areas of potential cultural conflict affecting development and incorporation of the social work role, with special consideration given to the family's importance in the Latino culture. The need for a supportive learning environment is discussed, and cross-cultural dynamics of…

Provides analysis of the various kinds of audiences for whom technical materials are written. Describes the functions of the "watchdog" audience, who oversees the written transaction between the author and primary audience. Provides data from an ethnographic case study of engineering authors in a technical setting. (HB)

Analyzes the developing language of the author's preschool-age daughter to examine the role of language use in two different cultural contexts. Discusses code switching, and the role of narratives. (SR)

Suggests that contexts may be useful in mathematics instruction in relation to learning transfer and that the factors that determine whether a context is useful are complex. Discusses the context effect, learning in context, how well students identify with tasks taken out of an adult world, and the effects of ethnomathematics. (MDH)

Ten-year-old students (n=531) from the U.S. and Germany were studied to determine the relationships between everyday experience, domain-specific control beliefs, acquisition of science knowledge, and solving of everyday technical problems. A causal model, developed and tested through structural equation modeling, showed that domain-specific…

Claims that, in contrast to Hugh Lacey's arguments, current research in nonindustrialized nations demonstrates how a materialistic strategy of scientific understanding may be sensitive to cultural context. Concludes that differentiating ethical and scientific values is essential lest we conflate descriptive and normative processes. (Author/WRM)

Discusses some of the issues that face science educators working in developing nations. Explains that educators in the developing world should recognize existing First-World hegemony and develop their own systems, programs, and practices that are authentic and contextually relevant rather than follow the dominant order in an uncritical way. (WRM)