Provides evidence challenging the notions that education produces liberation from intergroup negativism or a superficial democratic commitment. Instead, suggests that the well educated are but one step ahead of their peers in developing a defense of their interests resting on qualification, individualism, obfuscation, and symbolic concessions.…

Why some children become biased and the conditions behind such biases are explored in this paper. The focus is on developmental patterns associated with race and gender attitudes during the preschool period and the factors that predict bias. The study examined children who were six months old and followed them and their families (N=210) until the…

Factors that theory and research in social psychology suggest are important in structuring racially and ethnically mixed environments in ways that foster positive relations and minimize negative relations are reviewed. It is important to avoid resegregation, but avoiding resegregation is not enough in itself. Policies and practices must be…

Describes the problems and progress toward cultural understanding between professionals and community persons in operating the Watts Health Center. (DM)

This article discusses educational policies and practices as they relate to a typology of intergroup relations. Its purpose is to provide a framework which will enable a more careful analysis of the interaction of cultural difference and social stratification and their impact on educational policy. (Author/SJL)

Describes the design of a workshop intended to resolve teacher-administrator conflicts at the building level. (Author/IRT)

Examines language policy in the Baltic states since they regained their independence from the Soviet Union. The article argues that each Baltic state has substantially realized its language policy aims and that the favorable response to language requirements at the group and individual level signals the extraordinary reversal of a colonial…

Argues that the future of America's global prosperity is linked to the commitment of higher education to prepare students comprehensively to live and work in a multicultural world community. Suggests that student portfolios are incomplete without an international and intercultural learning toolkit, including language training and a focus on…

Recommends ways of increasing social diversity at residential camps. Suggests incorporating multiethnic, multicultural purpose into camp statements, staff training, and daily program. Describes multicultural activities for campers. Emphasizes value of role modeling and discussion of sensitive issues. (TES)

Briefly reviews children's literature on the themes of cooperative learning, community cooperation, interdependence, and putting the social back into social studies. Summarizes three books for primary readers, four for intermediate grades, and three for young adults. Covers a wide variety of cooperative learning situations. (CH)

Examines the effects of group membership on group members' concerns about justice. Two types of effects are hypothesized to exist: inclusionary and exclusionary. Inclusionary effects involve the relationship between groups and their members. Exclusionary effects involve the relationship of groups to nonmembers. Data indicate that inclusionary…

Describes a British outdoor program in which 11- and 12-year-old students were placed in mixed groups containing several ethnic groups and hearing and deaf children. Includes children's comments on outdoor activities, their relationships with other children, and communication problems and their resolution. An adjacent page illustrates 12 British…

The socially constructed binary of "First Nations" and "non-First Nations" (with various related names and labels) is concerned with issues of belonging, entitlement, representation, and autonomy. Although necessary to explain longstanding geopolitical, spiritual, and economic injustices, the binary obscures nuanced…