Provides a personal account of the author's experiences teaching English in the People's Republic of China. Discusses Chinese students' interests concerning American students, vocabulary and language, US life and customs, comparisons between Chinese and US life, and the author's life and attitudes, as revealed through the questions they asked.…

Summarizes and interprets Wole Soyinka's play "Death and the King's Horseman," clarifying some of the shared misunderstandings dividing African and European cultures. Relates the play's theme to the creative acts of teaching and learning. (DMM)

Moves beyond the dual perspective model and beyond medical and ecological systems models to suggest a sociocultural approach and presents a three-stage model for practice with minority clients. Suggests that practice with minorities focus on the degree and kind of dislocation--social, cultural, or sociocultural--suffered by individual clients.…

Investigates the effects of selected features of family and kinship structures on wives' power in marriage. Residence and descent practices are particularly important predictors of wives' power on the cross-cultural level. Organizational resources may be at least as important as material resources in the determination of conjugal power structures.…

Gives examples of classroom organization and instructional techniques that use, rather than ignore, subcultural differences in learning styles in order to increase minorities' achievement in mathematics. (GC)

Discusses the Eurocentric nature of the United States social reality, and investigates psychological and mental health implications for the African-American community. Outlines the basic themes, emphases and criteria of Euro-American cosmology and describes how it can come to dominate the Afro-American's self-consciousness. Suggests ways to…

Responding to an article by James Gaddy and Linda Kelly in the September 1983 "Bulletin," the author describes the unique quality of the American educational system and reminds educators that the direction of the system is the responsibility of society. (MD)

New directions are suggested for cultural education that provide more than information about foreign culture; emphasis is placed on student acquisition of an interpretive framework for comparing his/her own culture with that under study. (MSE)

Compared scores of Argentines and North Americans on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (revised version). Americans were found to perform significantly better in Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Similarities, and Digit Symbol subtests (perhaps related to their higher average school level), but no cultural differences in factor structures were found.…

Reports findings of a study suggesting that there is some truth in the claim that the news Third World countries receive from the American wire services is biased toward the West. Reports, however, that there is more Asian news on the Asia wire services of the American agencies than news of any other region. (FL)

Rationales for multicultural education as an important aspect of art education are discussed. Multicultural education should show that we all are cultural individuals who use art as a communication system, and that people make different aesthetic choices and have varying value systems and lifestyles. (RM)

Discusses the problems Indochinese refugees encounter in learning English, especially stress and cultural differences. The Monitor Model of adult second-language development is explored. Suggestions are made for an English-as-a-second-language program that would increase active involvement by Indochinese refugees. (CT)

The author examines claims that the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) is less culturally biased than other standard tests of intelligence. He concludes that the diminished Black-White difference for the K-ABC is largely the result of psychometric and statistical artifacts. Implications for future test construction are noted.…

Distinguishes between functional and elective illiterates and attempts to explain the extent and causes of elective illiteracy in Canada. Describes a model of reading activity that confirms expected bivariate associations between elective illiteracy and education, settlement type, language, age, and occupation but reveals three complicating higher…

An American student reports on her studies at Peking University, where students do not expect, and do not receive, much luxury in their education. Two modes of education in China, the academic learning of the university students and the mental conditioning of the workers, are discussed. (MLW)