Relates the professional experiences of a veteran newspaper adviser-English teacher in a high school (65 percent Hispanic) located in a small Texas farming community. (NKA)

In view of the opportunities made possible by the Framework Agreement between the European Space Agency and the Soviet Union, this article examines the linguistic aspects of the agreement and its implementation. Many communication problems are related to Western concepts of project management and control that are difficult to translate into…

This article examines sociocultural factors that should be considered in the overall assessment and education of students with learning disabilities who come from culturally diverse backgrounds, and the implications of these factors specific to development and usage of learning strategies and study skills in the classroom. (JDD)

Describes Sinte Gleska University's Human Services Program, which offers associate and baccalaureate programs to train midlevel human service professionals (i.e., criminal justice and mental health/social workers) within a reservation context. Describes program outcomes. Stresses the need for training to serve culturally different persons in the…

An African American professor reflects on the powerfully emotional racial attitudes and perceptions her students have brought to her class on black literature, and explains how she has adapted her teaching to make course content meaningful to them. (MSE)

Provides an overview of this issue on electronic publishing and its implications for various users. Highlights include the social relationship of publishing and culture; integrity of digital objects; global distribution of electronic publishing products; electronic publishing and people with disabilities; a model for academic publishers; and…

Uses participant observation, historical literature review, and open-ended interviewing to investigate the customs and ethical rules of Canadian Shuswap communication and to discuss what modern non-Shuswap observers can learn from them. Finds four primary values: freedom, responsibility, truthfulness, and respect. (SR)

Describes journal issue's framework and invited articles. Presents transactional approach to environmental stress, identifying and taxonomizing multilevel positive and negative outcomes experienced by elderly rural town residents. Describes contextual taxonomy, offering possible outcomes and relevance to other issues for rural psychologists and…

Considers the mutual relevance of four themes: cultural diversity, construct validity, population generalizability, and professional ethics. Addresses the expanding need for sustained efforts to articulate the complex issues and emerging implications of the new realities of human diversity. Includes a review of previous literature, an assessment…

The concept of management frameworks as institutional cultures is introduced. Implications of various decision-making styles of nations are considered, specifically for decisions about the climate and global warming. Global agreements for international environmental management may be enhanced by working with nongovernmental institutions. (SLD)

Interviews Lisa Delpit from the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. Argues that many nonmainstream children need explicit instruction in literacy conventions and strategies to gain access to the culture of power. (MG)

Describes individual, community, organizational, and college examples of efforts to promote sobriety and recovery from alcoholism among Native Americans. Discusses a sobriety movement tenet that alcoholism threatens the entire tribe and requires collective action. Highlights links with a broader movement for spiritual and cultural renewal. (DMM)

Among 1,077 Puerto Rican male adolescents in New York City, familism (values emphasizing family bonds and obligations) was a powerful contributor to the avoidance of deviance, whereas acculturation was positively associated with participation in interpersonal violence and theft and negatively associated with illicit drug use. The pattern differs…

Examined the impact of contextual factors on adults' and children's tendencies to hold individuals accountable for moral and legal transgressions. Subjects were 180 adults and children in the United States and Mysore, India. Indians more frequently absolved individuals of moral accountability for breaches performed under emotional duress or by…

Examines the role of songs in Arabic as a foreign language university courses. It is argued that songs can be effectively used to impart knowledge of, as well as about, the target language in its standard and nonstandard forms and can help to place the target language in its cultural context. (10 references) (GLR)