Community agencies must first understand the cultures for which they are programing, critique their current endeavors for learning style and point of view, and plan for inclusion of the culture(s) of their constituencies. (SK)

Six factors may account for lack of minority participation in adult education: unequal access to workplace training, stigma transference, ethnic typecasting, cultural assimilation, hopeless attitudes toward innercity problems, and negative effects of instrumental individualism. (SK)

Offers classroom activities for instructing middle school students about religious diversity in the United States. Incorporates a poster that invites student speculation about the Amish lifestyle. Suggests having students examine what they know about U.S. religions and what life would be like without religious freedom. (SG)

Suggests that (after a brief survey of social science and educational journals) the issue of cultural diversity is a topic of considerable importance and difficulty, not admitting of ready solutions. (SR)

Examines prevailing cultural attitudes toward sexual activity and procreation in sub-Saharan African or Black Africa that create obstacles to the prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Concludes that use of indigenous healers may be beneficial in offering unique opportunities in prevention and treatment aspects of AIDS in…

Diversity implies differences in people based on their identifications with various groups and is also a process of acknowledging differences through action. Those organizations that have welcomed diversity are more productive and have a competitive advantage. Diversity training can be awareness based (cognitive) or skill based (behavioral). (JOW)

A discussion of cultural stereotypes and civilization instruction focuses on means of sensitizing language students to their own and other cultures. Exercises are offered in seeing the Italians as seen by the French, the French as seen by Italians, and the French as they view themselves. (MSE)

Describes the complex meanings of the term "tradition," and relates these meanings to the search for the traditions of composition theory and teaching. Illustrates the constitution and revision of traditions by examining the work of theorists William E. Coles Jr. and David Bartholomae and the reception of their work. (HB)

Describes "Common Ground: A Forum for Intercultural Communication," a program developed in Lafayette, Indiana, to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding diverse community. It represents a community's cooperative effort toward understanding, appreciating, and interacting effectively with other people. (JOW)

Reviews the autobiography of Eva Hoffman, "Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language" (Dutton, 1989). Hoffman, whose family left Poland in the 1950s, offers a consciously bicultural view of the immigrant experience, in contrast to many autobiographies of those who forsake the old world for the new. (DM)

Discusses the importance of encouraging students to read books from and about other countries for them to see commonality instead of differences. (MG)

Managing diversity is about coping with unassimilated differences, about building systems and a culture that unite different people in a common pursuit without undermining their diversity. The goal of diversity training is a high performance organization rather than a climate in which no one's feathers are ruffled. (SK)

Promotes culture-specific counseling approach, which starts with the culture and its people and searches out natural helping styles. Uses case model drawn from African-Igbo culture and applies anthropological constructs that seek to discover more culturally sensitive approach to counseling theory, to training in counseling skills and knowledge,…

Administrators can create a climate of caring in today's schools despite negative characterizations toward education. This article describes attempts to improve school climate at an inner-city school in Durham, North Carolina. Cooperative learning, increased community participation, and action research facilitated by a partnership with the…

Presents a comparison of counselor training programs in 16 countries with relation to issues such as occupational choice or career development, professionals or technicians, labor utilization or career satisfaction, and information or relationship. Uses examples from the various countries to provide possible responses to these issues, and outlines…