A study was conducted to determine whether there was a linguistic correlation between a financially good year and a bad year as expressed in the annual reports of company presidents to their shareholders. Specifically the study tested the "Pollyanna Principle," which states (1) that regardless of whether the year was financially good or bad, the…

The goal of this paper is to describe the black cultural style and to demonstrate its relationship to the cognitive development of black children. Children raised within a black cultural environment tend to develop a relational cognitive style rather than the more analytic style required in American schools. Children's cognitive styles are based…

Tracing Individual Ethnic Sources (Project TIES) offers students a chance to explore the area of ethnicity by first examining their own family and cultural heritage and then comparing their history to that of others in the hope of reinforcing the universality of culture, promoting the acceptance of ethnic diversity, and restraining cultural…

Reasoning from recent psycholinguistic research, it was predicted that discrimination between two monochromatic stimuli would be poorer when they belong to the same color category, better when they belong to different color categories in the language of the observer. Accordingly, it was predicted that hue discrimination functions vary…

This study examined similarities and differences in the affective meaning of emotions and sentiments, using Osgood's data for American, German, Iranian, Japanese, and Mexican language communities. Analyses indicated that the cultures differed significantly in 30% of their judgments; the fewest divergences were for the most important dimension…

In developing tests for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) survey, methodological problems arose in three areas: curriculum, communication, and culture. Efforts to identify the core of common objectives and the penumbra of distinctive, sometimes partly shared but sometimes unique, goals operated…

Some considerations for revising the curriculum to meet the educational needs of the disadvantaged are discussed. It is suggested that the lack of language development is basic to most reading problems at all school levels, particularly for the bilingual students. Therefore, a systematic and continuous language-development program from…

This exploratory paper is in the form of questions posed by ERIC, and answers from three educators at Arizona State University and one from the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory. The topics discussed include current conditions in Indian education and some of the improvements which have taken place during the past decade; the need to…

The purpose of this study was to discover: (1) whether or not adults can discriminate between the babbling of babies learning different languages, and (2) the approximate age at which discrimination is possible. There were two tests involved in the experiment. The identification test consisted of 20 babbling samples, each of which was 15 seconds…

This paper presents preliminary explorations of the nature of differences in first-name stereotypes among three ethnic groups. A total of 147 white, black, and Spanish teachers were divided into five subgroups determined by their geographic location (Miami, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia) and ethnic grouping. Each subject was asked to rate his or her…

What styles of action do boys learn to use in tackling work problems? How are these different from what girls do? What particular coping styles are preferred in different cultures? What differences are there between working class and upper-middle class in their dominant coping styles? Such choices of strategies in dealing with tasks are related to…

Some of the problems involved in the use of intelligence and achievement tests with bicultural students are discussed. Some tests are "fair" to bicultural groups. The Arthur Performance Scale and the Goodenough Draw-A-Man-Test are fair to certain Hopi and Navajo Indian Groups. The use of these tests has been limited because they have not…

With emphasis on Canadian Indians, approximately 180 articles, books, research documents, films, newspapers, and periodicals are cited in this bibliography of resource materials for teachers of American Indian children. The 4 major categories represented by the materials are Indian education (background), cultural differences, history and…

"Eskimo Boy Today" provides the reader with an account of what it is like to be a young Eskimo boy living in Barrow, Alaska, today. Accounts of his life at school depict the typical curriculum and learning activities, while accounts of his home life depict typical foods, clothing, and housing. The natural resources and their relationship to the…

THIS DOCUMENT SUGGESTS CONCEPTS TO USE IN COUNSELING INDIAN YOUTHS AND ADULTS, AND RECOMMENDS WAYS TO UTILIZE THOSE CONCEPTS. CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIALIZATION ARE DISCUSSED. EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON HELPING THE INDIAN TO UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN CULTURE AND GUIDING HIM TOWARD A VOCATION. (CL)