This paper reports on the "diversity curriculum infusion" course design process as applied within a Film/Video Directing class at the University of Missouri in Kansas City during the Spring 2006 semester. By custom, film directing has been grounded in aesthetic principles originating in Western European craft and art traditions. While…

Approaches to intercultural communication competence display such diversity in method and perspective that the term "paradigm" can be used to describe them. There is evidence that a shift is occurring from "old" perspectives of intercultural communication in general and intercultural communication specifically, characterized by…

This research brief summarizes a study that investigated whether the diverse cultural makeup of many communities requires the criminal justice system to modify its approach, particularly in handling immigrants. The study examined whether immigrant victims have more difficulty than other victims in dealing with the police and courts because of…

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on who the children of immigrants are, considering historical and contemporary social attitudes, opportunities, and barriers they encounter. It examines the psychosocial experiences of immigration and considers how these factors interact in ways that lead to divergent pathways of adaptation and…

Most counselors have had very little experience with indigenous methods of healing. Indigenous healing can be defined as helping beliefs and practices that originate over extended time within a culture that are not transported from other regions, and that are designed for treating the inhabitants of a given group. Most counselors would find great…

Compares Israeli-Kibbutz and modern western families with emphasis on the special features of the Kibbutz, changes in family status, parent-child relationships and parental influence. (DP)

This article discusses many topics concerning cultural pluralism: that ethnic studies in a sense perpetuate ethnic stereotypes; that educators use cultural pluralism as an excuse for student failure; finally, that cultural pluralism cannot exist without educational power being widely diffused among American people. (JA)

An examination of Livingston College at Rutgers as an example of some of the difficulties and successes in the implementation of the "No One Model American" statement. (JA)

This reply refers to PS 502 443. (CB)

The focus of this paper is on strategies to re-develop college and university curriculum programs and classroom instructional approaches in order to make them relevant and desirable to the culturally different college student. (Author)

Author's attitude toward the adaptation of Sesame Street in foreign countries is that it is worth doing, if done well, but the project should be approached critically and warily. (Author/MB)

Historically determined regional cultures continue to have significant influence in this country on both minimal and higher educational levels. (Author)