This first grade elementary language text, designed for children in bilingual Inupiat-English programs in the Alaskan villages of Ambler, Kobuk, Kiana, Noorvik, Selawik, and Shungnak, is a story about two children listening to various sounds and trying to identify them. Each page of text is illustrated with a black-and-white drawing. The English…

Discusses the necessity of incorporating cultural themes in the German curriculum of American colleges from the beginning level on. These themes should be contemporary, should help the student contrast the foreign culture with his own and help him see language as a system of symbols. (Text is in German.) (TL)

A medical curriculum aimed at responsiveness to public health needs of the kingdom is described. Planning focus was on health manpower resources and needs, regional developments, demographic patterns, socioeconomics and cultural factors, general education development plans, vital statistics, and health facilities. (Author/LBH)

Analyzes education in light of social structure and social change in Latin America. Identifies styles of education which are correlated with certain social conditions. Concludes that additional research should be done on education as an integral part of the social system. (Author/DB)

Explains how literary sources can help students understand the culture of other countries and give them insights into their own personalities and society. Describes an unbalanced American history course to indicate how bias can influence views of history and culture. ( Author/DB)

A study of objectives in teacher training. Several theories and methods are compared with the actual educational situation. Suggestions for developing a system by and within these countries that would be more in tune with their own culture are given. (AMH)

A description of the development and implementation of a method introduced in the Sudan that attempts to relate to Sudanese culture and to motivate students. The relationship between language teaching methods and the total educational system is discussed. (AMH)

The gloomy thesis, critized in this article, proposed that covert, socially-sanctioned messages outshout, outweigh, and outlast the overt messages of subjects. What is being taught is enculturation. (Author/RK)

The historical relationship between social structure and black leadership patterns is shown. It is suggested that since the current race relations policy is one of tolerance, social work education should prepare black leaders to operate within that social context. (Author/LBH)

Describes the oral history project (based on the Foxfire model) of a fourth grade class in Louisiana. (BR)

The linguistic and cultural needs of Chinese students should be considered in English as a second language classes. A job interview is used as a social situation for an exercise to practice sentences demonstrating correct Canadian social usage. (SW)

Examines one set of adaptive strategies used by a group of white children in school and in their neighborhood where they are a small minority. Techniques of data collecting such as participant observation, interviewing, formal language testing, mapping and conversational analysis are used. (Author/AM)

A few observations on the teaching of functional French to adult immigrants possessing varied scholastic backgrounds and ranging widely in ability. Two activities are described in detail: those centered on problem situations outside of work and those centered on a professional situation or problem. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Places media content in a broad theoretical framework by examining some determinants considered important in studying international news flow. Identifies factors that best differentiate those international events that are covered in the United States news media from those that are not. Shows that four variables contribute significantly to…

Criticizes contemporary approaches to literature instruction that inculcate passivity. Proposes a system of teaching literature that promotes cultural literacy and active, rather than passive, reading by encouraging students to discover cultural messages and make their own interpretations of the cultural infrastructure and culture-specific values…