Describes and explains the significance of an African collage selected for this issue's journal cover which represents how dead ancestors look over and guide their living relatives. (TB)

Locates postcolonial pedagogy within the context of institutional circuits of production and consumption, finding that instead of expanding the student's experience with difference and diversity, it contains them through a managed encounter with otherness. (TB)

Discussion of diversity in higher education focuses on a comparison of Stanford University and UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) libraries' responses to increasingly diverse student populations from 1960 to 1990. Historical backgrounds are given and recommendations for promoting diversity are considered. Contains 70 notes. (LRW)

Addresses issues concerned with the investigation of creativity across various human cultures, including data collection from a limited cultural base, a three-level approach to cross-cultural studies of creativity, identification of basic cultural paradigms characteristic of a specific culture, and barriers to mature cross-cultural relativism. (DB)

Demonstrates that the first-year composition class can be a particularly important contact zone in that it can serve as an arena for exploring the pedagogical value of several types of first contacts that new students experience in the other contact zones of the university. Analyzes student papers to illustrate how students discover the social…

Presents brief annotations of 44 children's books, organized in five groupings: Creatures and Characters, Time Periods, Curricular Connections, Cultures, and Nonsense and Such. (SR)

Considers the need to make Web sites accessible to foreign users, by localizing it for another country or globalizing it for users from many countries or cultures. Discusses online images; customer support issues; language translation, including quality control; and using Global English, which avoids jargon, includes useful headings, and proper…

Provides ways of developing students' awareness of cultural patterns among the different cultures of the world. Describes a lesson in which students learn about basic attitudes different cultures have toward three cultural value dimensions: the role of the individual in society, power distance, and time orientation. (Author/VWL)

Addresses the role that artists might have in the process of preparing teachers of drama in the United Kingdom. Suggests that initial teacher education has a role to play in this process and draws upon a small-scale research project, which proposes a conscious engagement of particular kinds of artistic practice in Initial Teacher Training. (SG)

Frames a rhetoric of "cool" by describing how temporal events in the respective fields of writing, technology, and cultural studies seen in juxtaposition provide a model for electronic research. Examines how students working with hypertext, drawing from these works and juxtapositions, are able to not only write about cool, but are able…

Addresses well-being of grandmothers raising grandchildren in coparenting and custodial households in a sample of African American, Latino, and White grandmothers. Results suggest that the cultural lens through which grandparenthood is viewed has a marked impact on the adaptation to custodial or coparenting family structures. (Contains 52…

Compared priorities given to various value orientations by Quebec secondary school physical educators and their U.S. counterparts. Surveys of 266 teachers indicated that overall, Quebec teachers prioritized value orientations differently than did U.S. teachers, giving high priority to subject matter and low priority to social skills. The opposite…

Considers students' views on the need to bridge the gap between current undergraduate curricular content and the international and multi(inter)cultural complexities of today's industry. Indicates that students are far from apathetic about multicultural and international learning. Cites certain curricular and structural impediments to expanding…

Notes that the process of creating a poem not only demonstrates the inherent characteristics of the imaginative experience, but when it is written and shared in a supportive group, it validates diverse student voices and establishes the foundation for a classroom community. Presents three techniques that are important and valuable methods to…

Introduces several articles exemplifying various ways that critical race theory (CRT) and Latino/a critical theory shape educational research and enable scholars to analyze how presumed race-neutral structures in education actually reinforce race boundaries. Affirms the value of this application of theory to the educational experiences of minority…