This is a curriculum guide for the study of the city of Newark, New Jersey, in grade 3 social studies classes. Included are suggested lessons plans, curriculum resources, and instructional activities designed to provide information on the city's growth and development and to increase children's understanding of people's relation to their…

Interviews with Japanese American women revealed that they developed an Asian American identity by resolving initial identity conflicts, and that the process occurred in five stages. In the first stage, the individuals' interaction with family and friends led to ethnic awareness, or a consciousness of their Japanese descent. In the second stage,…

The second of five modules is designed to acquaint preservice teachers with the issue and plight of culturally diverse and handicapped students in the public education system. An initial section offers guidelines for a presession and describes organizational structure of the module. Three sessions, to be presented in 50 minute classes, cover…

The Social Skills Development Program (SSDP) is a prevention program for inner-city primary-age school children. The services provided by SSDP are for children experiencing moderate school maladjustment. Included are descriptions of program rationale and operations, staffing, prescriptive early intervention, preventive health interventions and…

This guide examines the problem of providing orientation for foreign students attending U.S. universities. Ideas and suggestions for the design and conduct of orientation programs are provided. Inherent constraints that may impair program success are enumerated, including erratic student arrival times, lack of motivation to participate in…

Sojourners, people who stay for a period of time in countries of which they are not natives, sometimes may encounter communication situations for which they are not prepared. A program seems necessary whereby people living in nonfamiliar cultures can learn to interpret cultural idiosyncrasies inherent in communication patterns and to function as…

This document highlights points made in papers presented in the two scheduled sessions devoted to issues in mathematics education affecting minority students at the 1980 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) conference. The first meeting was part of the official NCTM conference program. The second meeting was sponsored by the National…

Culture is a powerful force that may affect the reception and acceptance of communication. To determine if culture has an effect on perceived speaker effectiveness, students in one introductory speech communication class in a Florida university and a variety of courses in a university in the Bahamas, were given an 80-item questionnaire that was…

Pseudoscience, or the process of persuasion by establishing a pretense of scientific discovery, is examined in this book in an effort to dispel false notions about the validity of various measures of intelligence and the correlations of genetics to mental ability. The history and development of concepts related to hereditary intelligence and…

The data analysis and findings of the first panel study of adolescents and pre-adolescents in Canada are described. This longitudinal study was designed to (1) gather data on television viewing of heroes and heroines in series in the home environment; (2) analyze verbal responses about television programs to determine values perceived and the…

Schools can no longer be responsible for only the cognitive domain of the child. They must also expand to include the affective domain. When it comes to the corporal punishment or discipline of a disruptive black child, the child's cultural history and history of alienation must be considered. And, because it is the teacher who controls rewards…

Although formal recognition of the educational and economic problems of rural America came with the establishment of federal assistance programs during the 1960s and 1970s, the level of knowledge and expertise has not kept pace with the desire to help. If educators, researchers, and government personnel expect to have any success in dealing with…

After describing scenes that reveal a pattern in which whites regard blacks' speech behavior as threatening, aggressive, or hostile, and in which blacks disagree with their interpretation, this paper explores differences between black and white cultural assumptions, values, and conventions of aggressive behavior to account for the different…

This bibliography consists of documents in the ERIC system which deal, in total or in part, with the topics of intercultural communication, which is defined as the communication of two people or a group of people across cultural barriers either within one nation or between members of two nations. Documents included address theoretical or practical…

Comprehension of the current condition of rural education is essential to national education policy and program considerations, yet rural schools go unnoticed at the federal level because of a paucity of national rural data. The changing nature of rural population, the national mandate for equal educational opportunity, and the need for a timely…