Describes an educational exchange program between Russia and the United States that provides an unparalleled learning experience for students from Lyceum 1511 (a high school near Moscow) and Mountain Crest High School (Utah). Notes the most important differences were the highly structured school day of Lyceum 1511 compared with the flexibility and…

Intentions about the type of English to be taught may be expressed, and curriculum requirements may specify the variety of English required of students in a given context. However, teachers, learners, and the setting may be at odds with the learner's exposure to English Suggests this is one of the areas where there is a failure to come to grips…

Investigated self and social categorization of Puerto Rican returning migrants (Nuyoricans). Surveys indicated that migrant and non-migrant high school students evaluated Nuyorican adolescents as significantly different from adolescents raised in Puerto Rico. Student evaluations of adolescents differing in salience of Nuyorican attributes…

Describes the journalism sister school links established between Davenport Central High School (Iowa) and the American International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the Fredrico Jorge Logemann School in Brazil. (RS)

Contains 130 reviews of works of interest to the multi-cultural educator or anyone interested in cultural awareness arranged under broad subject categories of humanities, biography, history, social sciences, reference, juvenile works, and nonprint materials. Includes fiction and nonfiction. (SLD)

Assessed the effects of student religious commitment on the academic achievement of Black and Hispanic children using data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey(1998-1992). Religiously committed students performed better than their less religious counterparts. Discusses the significance of these results. (SLD)

Describes cultural therapy as a process of bringing one's own culture to a level of awareness that permits one to perceive it as a potential bias in social interaction and in the acquisition or transmission of skills and knowledge. Discusses knowledge categories necessary for cultural therapy and the role of cultural therapy in teacher training.…

Investigated attitudes toward diversity held by professionals at Pennsylvania and Michigan Cooperative Extension. Surveys of Extension personnel indicated that respondents in both states had positive attitudes toward equality of gender, were comfortable with people different from themselves, preferred cultural diversity and pluralism to…

Describes results of study of a 45-item scale developed to measure the construct and administered to four separate samples. The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale significantly correlated in theoretically predicted ways with measures of racial identity, empathy, health narcissism, feminism, androgyny, homophobia, and dogmatism (the last…

Reviews Archer's and Thorp's ideas about the most frequently encountered culture bumps or "confused encounters," and offers alternative ways of perceiving and handling them. Also stresses that the fundamental values of a nation should be considered in dealing with these cultural variations and suggests six principles for perceiving and handling…

Reviews seven books on immigration, discussing what recent scholarship tells about the ways that successive waves of immigrants affect people already living in the United States. The books examine: the arrival of Indians from North Asia, the case against immigration, immigration policy and U.S. economics, the U.S. experience with international…

Investigates a view of multiculturalism that could help analyze problems regarding governance in socially excluded neighborhoods, summarizing results from previous research on social dynamics in socially excluded neighborhoods. Uses Parekh's theory of multiculturalism to outline the major components of a multicultural perspective, suggesting that…

Examines Asian American children's literature. Suggests that four representations of memory in Asian American children's literature (memory as recovery, as cultural change, as catharsis, and as border crossing) compose an empowering discourse for Asian and Asian American students negotiating competing cultural and economic motives in American…

Examines the child protagonists of "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" as they move within their own culture. Concludes that what could be a novel of understanding and acceptance turns out to be a terrific adventure story, but rather typical in that any culture that is not the protagonist's own is dangerous and inferior. (SG)

Describes how the authors developed a course in intercultural communication and, with a majority of non-Western students, adapted critical pedagogy to address the Western biases in the text. Discusses how the course textbook portrays ethnic specimens and subaltern cultures, and built information basis for commercial gain. Notes how other readings…