Presented are papers by keynote speakers and workshop session leaders from a 1977 conference on Creativity and the Gifted/Talented Child. Following a copy of the conference program are entries with the following titles and authors: "Creative Potential and Educational Experience--A Rationale for Creative Education Programs" (S. Parnes);…

This annotated bibliography lists 70 documents dealing with cultural differences and cross-cultural educational problems on the elementary-secondary-collegiate level and does not include material on the economically disadvantaged or inner city problems as such. The first section reports citations drawn from Research in Education and the…

The construction of self-administered, programed, culture training manuals, called "Culture Assimilators," is described here. These programs provide an apparently effective method for assisting members of one culture to interact and adjust successfully with members of another culture. Culture assimilators have been constructed for the…

To examine the effect of various activities and interactions on the attitudes of members of co-cultures toward each other was the purpose of this study. The research was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, semantic differential scales were developed for the measurement of attitudes toward co-cultures. Each of five sets of scales was used…

This paper analyzes changes in seven value areas where there is sharp conflict between the prevailing culture and the counter-culture and where the conflict is of considerable significance to the counselor: (1) response to authority; (2) the value of the past experience of adults; (3) status of women; (4) work and leisure; (5) sexual dimensions of…

This paper describes an approach for preparing teacher education students to teach culturally different students in a creative and effective mode. The approach consists of four components: knowledge, values, practicum, and seminar. The knowledge component recommends that teacher education students learn about cultural styles, specific learning…

In the study and analysis of cultures we must first examine our ways of thinking about things and formulate the assumptions on which we are working, because many of our results may come to us as direct implications from the assumptions that we make. In theorizing about language, culture, and human behavior, the following hypotheses are examined:…

The possible existence and stability of different national patterns of career-values in nine locations (Brazil, Mexico, England, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Chicago, Austin, and Japan) was tested by administering an Occupational Values Inventory to 6,400 urban children in seven of the locations in 1965, and to a new sample of 3,600 in 1969. The…

Programed instruction can be applied fruitfully in teaching about music within and outside Western culture. The content of such study could include cognitive material, such as the social role of music in various cultures, the history of music, the visual identification of instruments, and perhaps notational skills; performance skills, dealing with…

A survey of research on the peer society of American Indians reveals that little is known about this topic. American Indian populations, especially peer societies of young Indians, constitute one of the most difficult groups on whom to conduct research. Although Indian students respond docilely to self-administered questionnaires, such instruments…

The participants for the Institute consisted of well-experienced classroom teachers from representative secondary schools in Georgia and South Carolina. There were a total of 40 teachers and counselors. It was felt that these teachers would experience, for the first time, the need to concern themselves with the socio-cultural backgrounds of…

As a plausible explanation of Negro academic underachievement, culture conflict has been ignored by educators and social scientists to a degree not indicated by the wide range of evidence which points to its importance as a contributing factor. Reasons suggested for this theoretical imbalance can be summarized by saying that it has been…

Educators and psychologists whose concern is to understand why a student does not succeed in school have held the view that speakers of nonstandard English are either nonverbal and, if verbal, highly ungrammatical, or so verbally destitute as to impair intellectual functioning. Linguists, on the other hand, view the language of subculture groups…

This handbook was prepared to acquaint American teachers with Vietnamese students' background and way of life. It describes the history, culture, language, and educational system of these students and addresses the following areas: cultural differences, curriculum, classroom schedules, and family mores. The booklet is freely adapted from…

Notes that one of the greatest dangers for Canadian television in general is to take American psychological reality as a model for Canadian reality, and to try to build programs around it, instead of around programs that are indigenous to Canadian context. (Author/AM)