The article examines communicative processes underlying performance in classrooms and analyzes the effects of cultural differences on classroom interaction and learning. The importance of practice using literate discourse strategies is emphasized, and examples are provided of teacher/child collaboration at sharing time. Effects of teachers'…

The current educational debate in Quebec results not only from language, religious, and political differences between English- and French-speaking Quebeckers but also from cultural differences between the Gallic tradition of rationalism, codifed law, and centralism and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of empiricism, common law, and localism. (SB)

Outlines the crisis-engendering tensions and the main stages of youth identity formation through the history of Israel. Details the historical, political, and psychological origins of identity crises among Israeli youth and the coping styles they have developed. (RDN)

Surveyed 216 English and French college students and found that females used psychotropes and males used alcohol, tobacco, and nonmedical drugs. English students used nonmedical drugs and French students used alcohol, tobacco, and psychotropes. Masculine sex role was associated with tobacco and alcohol use. (Author/JAC)

Guidelines are offered for choosing assessment materials and testing Indochinese students in listening comprehension, reading, arithmetic, and educational experience. (CL)

Americans doing business in international trade must be aware of social and cultural differences to be successful. (JOW)

Discusses tribal differences in Native American suicidal behavior. Similarities among these studies are noted, including data sources, the concentration of suicide among the young, intratribal group heterogeneity with respect to suicide, suicide methods employed, and alcohol involvement. The implications of obtaining figures from official agencies…

Concludes that cultural identity does not seem to differentiate newspaper readership or time spent with newspapers among Hispanics. (FL)

Gives an appraisal of the status of education in Trinidad during the course of British rule, with attention focussed on curriculum development. (Author/AM)

This study was designed to parallel Muthard and Salomone's (1969) study of American rehabilitation counselors. The participants took a de-Americanized version of the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) and the Careers Officer Task Inventory (COTI), which was designed for this study. The results suggested that role conflict is almost…

This paper analyzes a school district conference panel discussion to illustrate how culture is an interactionally emergent construct and identity is performatively achieved through struggles to position the self and other in socially meaningful ways. In the interaction between the panel of Asian American teens and the audience of teachers,…

Every day that passes presents massive change to students and instructors at all levels of education. Nowhere are these changes more evident than in the area of instructional technology, especially at the postsecondary level. This scenario is doubly complex when the participants are from countries other than where they were born and raised.…

This guidebook was developed to assist in the creation of partnerships. It discusses some of the best practices and lessons learned in the program's first year, and gives novice community-based organizers a sense of how effective partnerships can be formed. The guidebook will help the more experienced organizers of National Park Service employees…

This paper speaks in terms of "globalism" rather than "globalization," of a "culture of difference" rather than of cultural difference, of an "industry of knowledge" rather than of knowing. The paper first considers the argument that new communications technologies and systems are bringing cultures together…

Identity and diversity in its forms present major challenges to countries seeking to best equip citizens with the skills to participate effectively in their diverse societies. An exploratory study was conducted using the search conference methodology to explore the extent to which government and non-government education programs promote and…