If the neighborhoods' movement faces up to the implications of one of its important claims, namely, that by preserving communities, a city can promote better values than by destroying them, then it must determine how the process of political education and organizing can foster better attitudes throughout the community. (Author/EB)

This article stresses the importance of cross cultural education for university students and suggests that foreign language departments provide it. A course in cross cultural communication at Miami University in Ohio is described. (CFM)

Discusses pedagogical and technical aspects of making films of native speakers of French conversing with the aid of gestures. (AM)

Appeals for ethnic pluralism have a long history in education. However, an ideological commitment to cultural homogeneity has created a bureaucratic administrative structure which has made public education highly resistant to ethnic pluralism. (Author/EB)

Discusses certain issues of international cooperation in educational research and presents recommendations on its the future development, pointing out that its development as a viable scientific discipline is a prerequisite for its successful utilization as an instrument of educational policy-making. (Author/RK)

Spanish and English versions of a values assessment instrument were administered to a group of second language students of junior and senior high school age in an attempt to provide current, site-specific information for use by an educational program in a multi-cultural/multilingual environment. (Author/RM)

English-language Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI's) were administered to 40 bilingual Mexican-American and 109 Anglo-American psychiatric patients in a community mental health center. With K corrections, Mexican-American subjects scored higher on the L and K scales, but no significant differences were found on clinical scales…

Haitians have been found to respond well to client-centered group counseling and to be able to use that structure to deal with personal, social, and vocational difficulties. Counseling with Haitians can be particularly gratifying because of their motivation for self-help and their willingness to become involved in counseling. (Author)

There is a need to systematically look at racial and ethnic differences as related to the counselor's own approach and values and the various schools of counseling. One way to do this is to analyze the actual counseling process and the goals the counselor holds as important for the client. (Author)

This article touches upon the cultural and linguistic factors important to the development of a Saamish standard language. The Swedish Saamis, and the status standard Saamish has among them, are dealt with in particular. (CFM)

Narrates experiences concerning the differences between black cultural norms related to maintaining eye contact during conversations and white majority norms. Discusses several psychological studies of norms regulating the use of eyes during communication. The educational implications for differences in communication norms are discussed,…

School integration efforts in recent decades have highlighted the prevalence of racial friction in the public schools. A mental health consultation project developed in Pittsburgh confronted the issue of racial and cultural differences head-on in an attempt to effect social change in the schools. (Author)

Contends that, as publishers integrate international issues into professional writing textbooks, analysis is necessary about how curricular globalization is presented to students. Examines textbooks that position international students as clients, consumers, and exotics who present barriers to effective communication; most contain catalogs of…

Assessed 300 prospective teachers to determine their attitudes and beliefs concerning cultural diversity. Results show additional emphasis on multicultural education is needed in teacher education, and a variety of experiences are needed to bring preservice teachers into contact with cultural groups different from their own. These experiences…

Discusses the traditional Native American understanding that all things in nature are connected, and explores how this is similar to, and perhaps helped to shape, the Western scientific understanding of the science of ecology. Some relationships in nature described in Native stories are just now being "discovered" to be true by Western…