Reflects on the implications of the multifaceted role of an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) adult educator. Notes that adult ESL educators act as change agents, bridges to Canadian society, and student advocates, and that their pivotal role consists of developing their students' communicative competence. Emphasizes that the development of…

Criticizes the National Science Education Standards for using an example lesson that contradicts support for students engaging in scientific inquiry. Suggests a multiculturally inclusive approach engaging students in a role-playing activity as members of the University of Alexandria. Students are involved in scientific inquiry with Eratosthenes,…

Outlines three learning activities for elementary level comparative cultural studies, focusing on developing nations cultures. "School Artifacts Box" develops observation and inference skills. "Proverbs" directs students to compare/contrast African and Western proverbs. "Improvising Social Studies Media" suggests…

Investigated the relative importance of multicultural counselors' experience or training in their choice of intercultural, interpersonal, or psychopathological attributions when interpreting 20 brief multicultural critical incidents. An inverse correlation was found between experience or training and emphasis on intercultural, as opposed to…

Describes aesthetic views and shows how historical context and criticism are crucial for an understanding of aesthetic objects and experiences. Views education and art as providing a meaning for life. Suggests ways in which the author's theories and E. D. Hirsch's provide meaning for Sisyphus's life. (KM)

Reviews research on psychocultural teaching and learning processes, which are influenced by variables such as social organization, sociolinguistics, cognition, and motivation. Culturally compatible education seems to be effective. Discusses implications for general educational reform, and directions for future research. (Author/BJV)

Discusses the integration of American Indian cultural perspectives within counseling and mental health services. Outlines several issues illustrating cultural lessons for clinical practices: family and social structure, ritual, cultural values and conflict, sense of time and self, communication styles, anger, and traditionalism. Contains 47…

Examines key issues of creative drama among English-speaking children, Alberta Indians, and Australian aboriginal societies (second article in a series examining children's creativity in different cultures; see CS736752). (MM)

A technique for teaching cultural awareness that uses comparisons of French films and American remakes is described. It is argued that the technique provides an appealing context for exploring cultural differences in terms of taboos regarding sex, death, and the body. (13 references) (Author/MSE)

Examines the implications of process writing and peer review in one class of argumentative writing. Classroom consensus reflected the group's sociocultural organization and discouraged the writing of one marginalized student. The instructor and the powerful students legitimated biased critique and suppressed the less powerful student. (12…

Examined the influence of mother-child conversation about child's social relationship on the development of children's interpersonal competence. Found that children's relationships with others were an integral part of mother-children conversations. The types of relationships discussed and the elaborateness with which they were discussed varied as…

Observes that time in many cultures is viewed as cyclical in nature, and is perpetualized in rituals and the art forms that surround them. Argues that, if art education aims to promote understanding among cultures, it must consider works of art, techniques, and meanings not only in geographic and racial contexts but in temporal ones as well. (KM)

Considers the effects of educational technology on eastern European countries. Highlights include the relationships among organizations, technology, human resources, and social environment; technological education and society; information systems and the evolution of political, economic, and cultural structures; and the use of free time and the…

Considers ways in which technology such as computer networks may affect the future development of education in Turkey. A historical-cultural perspective of Turkish education is provided; education as an agent for transmitting cultural values is discussed; computerized information networks are described; and obstacles are considered. (eight…

Describes an approach to college teaching in which anthropology contributes to constructing a problem-posing pedagogy. The following distinctive aspects of teaching anthropology are examined: (1) the teacher's anthropological stance; (2) ethnographic methods; (3) investigation of ethnographies; and (4) examination of interpretive theories of…