The changing aspects of knowledge and attitudes affecting the culturally different gifted are reviewed, and a framework of six significant concepts in learning about these groups, derived from recent literature, is provided. (BD)

Accurate interpretation of visual images involves the learning of methods for representing three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface. There are many instances where a given culture exercises its iconic expression. Discussion and comparison of cultural differences is presented and illustrated. (Author/JEG)

The author, a Canadian teacher, worked regularly last year in a London comprehensive while pursuing his postgraduate studies. Explains how he found the system compared to his own. (Editor/RK)

The complexity of the cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy encounter is examined, with particular reference to four prominent variables: (1) views of mental health; (2) goals of counseling; (3) roles of counseling participants; and (4) counseling strategies. (Author/MJB)

This article studies the pattern of gaze direction in communication between blacks and whites and demonstrates the use of the natural history method in discerning such patterns of nonverbal communication. (Author/AM)

Presents a review of the burgeoning field of Canadian political socialization research as it applies to children and youth, and considers some implications of recent findings for the Canadian studies curriculum. (Editor)

Attempts to delineate an area where comparative education can help inform policy, namely the interaction of educational systems in multi-national contexts, seeking to relate the discussion to the theme of the Third World Congress of Comparative Education, and paying particular attention to the oddly-neglected case of the various national systems…

The following topics are discussed: How do nutritious diets develop? What is the antiquity of nutritional disease? Why do humans consume nonfood items? What impact do religious prohibitions and practices have on nutritional status? And why are some toxic plants and animals consumed and desired by man? (Author/BB)

Presents a teacher-developed handout intended to serve as a vehicle for discussion and the primary means of teaching the concept of ethnocentrism. The handout describes a fictitious foreign culture. (Author/AV)

Examines contradictions in perception and position of women in India. Although women are idealized, honored, and respected, they are also over-worked and expected to toil unceasingly for their husbands and families. Concludes that women in India are moving slowly toward liberation in a manner consistent with their values. (Author/DB)

A comparison of the responses of Anglos and Mexican Americans to interview items designed to measure fatalism and familism shows a moderate ethnic difference in fatalism and a larger difference in familism. (Author/JC)

Investigated geographic differences in Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) results by comparing 60 Hawaiian and 60 mainland United States psychiatric outpatients. The influence of pidgin English led to expectations that Hawaiian subjects would have significantly lower WAIS Verbal scores than mainland subjects. Data verified these…

Artists in Quebec are numerous; their songs reveal much about the people and the things which shape their lives and destiny, the snow and long winters for example. There is a bibliography of reference material, addresses and records. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Using recent survey data from Sweden and Norway and life table techniques, examined rate at which women formed second unions and type of union they chose (marriage or cohabitation) as well as how this process has changed over time. The results showed that nonmarital cohabitation was preferred type of second union in both Sweden and Norway.…