Teletraining is a human performance system that integrates telecommunications into planning, designing, and delivering training programs. For international teletraining, the instructor must be aware of cultural diversity and training in the country in question. (JOW)

Investigates a visa interview process involving applicants from a West African country and interviewers from a Western culture to examine the effects of intercultural factors on communication distortion. Examines speech pattern, body posture, and eye contact, along with information disclosure and verbal aggression. Suggests that different cultures…

Distinguishes between voluntary minorities or immigrants and involuntary minorities who came to another culture against their will or as refugees. Also distinguishes between primary cultural differences that existed before two cultures met and secondary differences that arose after contact. Argues that involuntary minorities have difficulty with…

Offers suggestions for multicultural media monitoring in Europe. Argues that besides practical suggestions, a new theoretical framework needs to elaborated about the forms and functions of news and other media messages so that practical recommendations, critique, and monitoring will have the desired effects. (SR)

Explains from the standpoint of a teacher who is a member of the religious right why the schools today are a difficult place for those with strong religious views. Maintains that certain prejudicial positions that educators assume make communication with the religious right difficult, but suggests that language arts teachers may be uniquely…

Describes theological views about written texts, related attitudes exhibited by current protestors, and problems such views and attitudes create for English language arts teachers. Suggests that such an awareness of the religious perspective might help to lead to more constructive outcomes to conflicts between teachers and individual students and…

An examination of Polish compliments and compliment responses collected in natural settings found a distinction between procedural and relational solidarity in compliment behavior. It also found that Poles do not insist on establishing solidarity with each other by relying on formulaic speech patterns in the same degree that Americans do. (58…

A survey of a French business school with multinational branch campuses received 123 usable responses supporting the proposition that cross-cultural differences exist within each of Kolb's learning cycle stages. National profiles of learning preferences were developed for French, German, Spanish, Anglo-Irish, and Eastern European learners. (SK)

Describes three conceptual models that have been used to explain the relationship between cultural factors and the counseling process. Offers a fourth model of conceptualizing the role of ethnicity or class in the counseling process. An example of how the model can be used as a guide for school counselors is also given. (CH)

Examines the vast differences that exist between mainstream expectations and the cultural values of Native American youth in what is referred to as cultural discontinuity. Cultural conflict in the school setting is discussed and suggestions for dealing with cultural discontinuity are offered. (CH)

Discusses the importance of establishing early with a new class the routines and associated rules that the teacher wants to use. Discusses attending to cultural differences, and the consequences of inadequately established routines. (SR)

Describes an experience during classroom discussion of Alice Walker's "Roselily" that led a teacher to revise her understanding of multiculturalism. Defines three problematic yet popular approaches to understanding the differences in culture in the United States and then presents a fourth approach that encourages students to see themselves and…

Gives brief overview of multicultural theory (racial identity development, counselor racial consciousness development, and implications) and practice (specific multicultural issues and techniques) that could be included in a group leader training course. Includes a section providing some general suggestions for instructors teaching students to…

Encourages counselors and other human development professionals to provide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) prevention programing that is sensitive to social and cultural contexts of groups being addressed. Focuses on women, gay and bisexual men, African Americans, and Latinos. Provides necessary…

Presents an overview of the sociocultural differences between U.S. and Asian Indian cultures, the implications of those differences, and suggestions for counseling techniques and approaches for working with Asian Indian immigrants. Discusses immigration pattern and history of Asian Indians, looks at cultural orientation of Asian Indians, and…