An Afro-American multicultural education professor explains how struggle has accompanied her academic pursuits and lifelong experiences. She traces her sharecropper family's history, demonstrating the intergenerational effects of undemocratic class, race, and gender relations and showing how her learning experiences have shaped her beliefs as a…

This article highlights the importance of parent-professional relationships to the academic and social development of special needs students and considers the impact of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity on the establishment of these partnerships. (Author/DB)

Examined attachments that children form with the same caregiver and those that two caregivers form with a child in communal sleeping and family sleeping kibbutzim. Found concordance among relationships between two caregivers and the same child, as the caregivers model behaviors for each other. Found congruence in two infants' relationships to…

The role of education in the development of an Eritrean cultural identity is explored against the background of a review of relevant educational provisions in pluralist societies. Multicultural education in Eritrea offers access to a common culture and also to a variety of specific cultures. (SLD)

Argues that if educational institutions wish to achieve the goal of cultural diversity, they must go beyond curricula that transmit culture (that is, the core curriculum) or transform culture (that is, multiculturalism) and embrace a curriculum that enhances individual differences. Maintains that institutions should affirm students' individual…

Applied developmental science (ADS) represents a theoretical and methodological approach to university-community collaborations that emphasizes commitment, asset building, individual differences, and reciprocity of knowledge application and generation. ADS as it has emerged at Michigan State University includes youth-oriented educational,…

Discusses the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (WAC) and its contribution to the Allied war effort. Numerous quotes from veteran WACs illustrate various aspects of their service, including camaraderie, wartime conditions, and racial and sexual discrimination. Concludes with a brief look at the veterans' postwar experiences. (MJP)

Argues for the inclusion of considerations of sexual identity in art education. Maintains that sexual identity is an integral part of the contextual understanding of a work of art. Asserts that a dominant heterosexual ideology has created innate biases reflected in supposedly objective criteria. (MJP)

Focuses on the self-perception of Native Americans and the perception of the views of non-Native Americans about them. The article presents results from a collection of oral interviews with 16 Native Americans of various tribes. Interviewees point to the Bureau of Indian Affairs policies and practices holding them back from full participation in…

This survey of nine journals identified two distinct cultures in mental retardation research: classification by level of retardation (usually by psychologists and special educators) or etiology (usually by geneticists and psychiatric researchers). The paper discusses varied effects that genetic etiology may have on behavior, issues in reconciling…

Examines the sociolinguistic aspects of Saudi greeting rituals, discussing the phraseology and nonverbal signals employed by greeter and greetee in various situations. Also explores the communication problems that Saudis and Americans have when communicating in each other's language and culture. (MDM)

Decreased motivation in 13 female and 9 male tertiary-level Tamil students in an English for general purposes course was contradicted by verbal affirmations of their motivation. The contradiction reflects conflict between cultural integrity and socioeconomic mobility and leads to an ambivalent state with elements of accommodation and opposition in…

Explores the implications of sibling relationships literature for the foster care placement of young children. Discusses attachments, kinship, socialization, caretaking, and cultural diversity issues along with both intentional and unintentional sibling segregation concerns. (DR)

This paper provides a historical account of the involvement of overseas students in United Kingdom universities and reviews the literature on student attitudes to their stay, relating this to the contemporary experiences of 11 overseas graduates of the University of Hull's master of arts program in social work. (MDM)

The Princeton Peer Leadership Program, which evolved from Sharon Rose Powells' doctoral research in the 1970s, trains seniors to serve as mentors to high school freshmen. The program involves the freshmen in school life and with students outside their social cliques, breaks down social and cultural barriers, and exposes the universality of many…