Considers how in the contemporary world, queer theory mediates in culture between normative ideologies and material practices, between intellectual inquiry and social activism, between text and context, between teaching and learning. Presents an introduction for this special issue, noting that the essays collected represent pedagogical…

Investigated children's perceptions of bullying and coping with bullying in Japan and England. Surveys of secondary school students indicated that respondents had definite ideas about the best coping strategies for different types of bullying. They considered problem-focused coping skills more useful than emotional-focused skills. Most victims and…

Describes St. Christopher House Health Action Theatre by Seniors in Toronto, which uses interactive theater to address such issues as elder abuse, mental health, substance abuse, and other health care issues. Includes information about the lack of appropriate culturally sensitive healthcare and home care support services. (JOW)

Argues that cultural diversity can be advantageous or detrimental for organizations depending on organization members' communication. Introduces three forms of communication (ethnocentric, modernistic and cosmopolitan) explored by W. Barnett Pearce, each of which differs in deeply held assumptions. Overviews the implications of cosmopolitan…

To guide organizational administration in an unfamiliar culture, the administrator must respond to the new environment and initiate appropriate practices. Traditional cultural dominance models must yield to exchanges depending on mutual understanding and acceptance. Cultural synergy is an interactive model combining two or more cultures…

Administered Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery (WLPB) to 18 learning-disabled adolescents from culturally variant population in rural southern Louisiana and to matched group of normal achievers. Found group status to have significant effect on cluster scores. Results suggest that WLPB may be useful for culturally diverse students when…

Summarizes Riki Levinson's "Watch the Stars Come Out," and Ted Conover's "Coyotes," two novels which capture recent American immigrant experiences. (RS)

Presents the work of Bronfenbrenner as providing a framework within which the subject matter of human development can be organized and applied. The relevance of Bronfenbrenner's ecological perspective, and implications of adoption of that perspective with reference to studies of families and learning environments, are discussed. (PCB)

Discusses the quality of the heroines' beauty in several folktales from various cultures. Notes that, unlike Western cultures that equate physical beauty with virtue, in many cultures, beauty is viewed as spiritual and emotional as well as physical. (MM)

Describes the career and professional accomplishments of Siegfried Ramler, from his job as translator at the Nuremberg trials to his current role as administrator at Punahou School in Hawaii. The most powerful expression of Ramler's internationalism is the 20-year-old Pan Pacific Program, now firmly rooted in Hawaiian educational life. (MLH)

Examines cross-cultural counseling (especially Western counselor-Eastern client) within a transpersonal psychological framework. Presents meta-model that allows counselors to adopt attitudes that transcend cultural differences. Notes that benefit of such a model to counselors would be superordinate framework in which various, specific counseling…

Describes the Alaska Sister Schools Network, formed in 1985 to create opportunities for Alaskan students to experience more directly the cultural and economic perspectives of their Pacific Rim neighbors. Network organizers go beyond the "pen-pal" approach to encourage three partnership levels: initial acquaintance, curriculum…

Discusses the impact of the increasing heterogeneity of the American workforce on corporate performance technology trainers, and examines nine pairs of seemingly contradictory advice to people working in a multicultural setting. (CLB)

Suggests that the increasingly globalized United States society is composed of numerous speech communities. Discusses how instructors of international and intercultural communication can use the sociolinguistic concept of speech community and its concomitant six aspects to organize their curricula and classroom activities efficiently and…

Looks at the problems faced by non-English-speaking refugees who come to the United States. In addition to the language barrier, they face cultural differences such as never having thought about seeking a job (those from the former Soviet Union and Cuba), limited education, and legal problems. Describes services available to assist them in the…