Explores the relationship among religious participation, spirituality, Africultural coping styles, and religious problem-solving styles in a sample of African American college students. Results reveal that religious participation and spirituality accounted for significant variance in aspects of Africultural coping styles and religious…

Discusses how children move from personal to social narratives in writing workshops to create stories as tools for social action, addressing inequities in their school lives. Considers how social narratives can be used as tools for constructing and analyzing shared social worlds. (SG)

Approaches teaching Sherman Alexie's Short Story "Special Delivery" through mythology and history. Considers how expanding cultural awareness is necessary and educators need to attempt to offer not only a diversity of authors, but a diversity of cultural views as well. (SG)

Focuses on the challenges and opportunities for international public relations practice. Looks at current United States-Arab relations issues in international crisis communication. Discusses those issues, especially the role of culture and media. Proposes strategies including a case study that teachers can use to help students become effective…

This article describes a focus group interview conducted with a group of therapists in a large-scale, comprehensive family service agency in an Arab American community. The interview format was semistructured, and the results confirmed what little was already known about the population and supplemented that body of knowledge with updated…

Measured individualism/collectivism, gender attitudes, and the relationship between these constructs among Ukrainian and U.S. American women. Surveys of 55 U.S. female college students and 50 Ukrainian female college students indicated that Ukrainians were more individualistic and held more traditional gender attitudes than Americans. There was a…

A study of 19 small and medium-sized Spanish companies that established international cooperation agreements during 1997-1998 demonstrated that organizational cultures, company size, and national cultures significantly influence the learning that occurs. Negative influences include different work attitudes, languages, and communication systems. A…

Participant observations of two youth organizations identified more than 400 communications in which aggression served prosocial functions. Misinterpretation of these cultural communication codes could lead to overidentification of African American males in special education and, ultimately, correctional facilities. (Contains 41 references.) (JOW)

Study examines differences in adolescents' use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs by racial and ethnic groups. Results show significant differences by racial and ethnic groups, and indicate that these differences have changed over time. Future research should examine these differences and seek to identify the sources and consequences of the…

This paper synthesizes literature on person centered planning and Asian American families who have children with disabilities. It finds that some values of person centered planning are not explicitly consistent with Asian-American cultural values. Guidelines and suggestions for modification and implementation address establishing a relationship,…

This research will compare conceptual frameworks underpinning Scottish, French, and English preservice teacher education programs, using data from analysis of national policy documents and interviews with teacher educators and student teachers to examine the extent to which conceptual frameworks are reflected or implemented in national structural…

Examines "la ronda," a common event in Spanish schools in which children present oral narratives of non-school experiences. Suggests that la ronda's goal is to help children and teachers build a sense of themselves as a moral community. Despite parallels in organization and content between la ronda and sharing time in U.S. schools, there…

Notes that both texts tell the story of a young Puerto Rican girl who moves to the mainland United States. Discuss methods for facilitating personal connections. Offers suggested discussion questions and essay topics in relation to each major theme discussed. Concludes that these two texts are also ideal vehicles for introducing Puerto Rican…

Uses student essays to illustrate the linguistic variations that many basic writing students bring to the academy and then offers some insights from second language acquisition and literacy studies that may help writing specialists enhance pedagogical practice to better serve these students. (SG)

Considers why ethnically diverse students' test performance belie their intellectual capacity. Notes that much can be done at the classroom level to eradicate this achievement gap and customize "one size fits all" standards-based instruction. Interviews two teachers who work in states where high-stakes testing dominates the educational debate. (SG)