This monograph attempts to explore and explain communication between different racial groups within the scope of existing communication theory. The question of race and culture as variables in effective verbal interaction is again raised. No solutions are presented but basic problems are pointed out. An account of some characteristics of…

The conflict of cultures in the classroom is the urgent educational issue to which this paper is addressed. School cultures are sub-sets of the culture of organized institutions in which they are formed. In our ethnically pluralistic society the school run and staffed by white middle class educators (as most are) fails to make a cultural match…

Documents on the subject of American Indian education which have been indexed and abstracted in "Research In Education" through August 1969 have been compiled in this bibliography. One hundred and forty-eight publications are cited, all but 3 of which were published since 1960. The citations include a wide variety of resource materials (research…

This report provides a summary of the research to date on the semantics of interpersonal verbs and the applications of the information obtained to cross-cultural studies of interpersonal norms and behaviors. A theory of interpersonal perception and behavior in relation to the meanings of interpersonal verbs in the language is presented. Intuitive…

This study was designed to determine if the Cooperative School and College Ability Test (SCAT) can predict future college academic success of Negro college students with the same degree of accuracy as it does for white college students and to discover if the sex factor need be considered in making predictions. The sample consisted of 180 Negroes…

This paper discusses competencies needed for teaching culturally different children. First, competencies are discussed that enable the teacher to gain community support and maneuver within the students' environment in the community. Proficiencies needed for teaching language, history, and religion are described. Second, a preservice instructional…

The English speaker learning French tends to interpret the sound characteristics of the second language according to English conventions. The term "sound characteristics" as used here refers to the phonetic aspects, the rhythm, and the intonation of French. A number of examples are given to support the theory that insufficient knowledge of these…

This study sought to: (1) determine the opinions, attitudes, and group opinions of different curricular groups; (2) determine the student's reaction to college policies and practices in an effort to determine whether or not the student's perceived needs were being met and/or whether they perceived changes which they felt needed to be made; and (3)…

Intonation patterns of Black English were studied and compared with those occurring in White English and formal Black English. It was found that: (1) the Black English corpus was characterized by a wider pitch range, extending into higher pitch levels than either the White vernacular or the formal Black English of the adult information; (2) a…

The study investigated the relationship of selected situational attitudes toward food to the subcultural variables of religious locality, race, and age of homemakers in 2 Louisiana communities. A systematic random sample of 362 homemakers from an Anglo-Saxon Protestant community and a French Catholic community was used. Communities were selected…

This document reports on a cross-cultural study of mother-infant interactions. Focus is on the issue of variance and invariance in these interactions across cultures. American and Yugoslavia mother-infant pairs were observed over long periods of time in a naturalistic setting. Also, available data on Dutch, Zambian, and Sengalese mothers and…

This text seeks to sensitize teachers and administrators to the language problems faced by culturally different children, to sharpen and broaden their perspectives regarding the relationship between language and culture, and to help them devise effective strategies for teaching language skills. The text is divided into three major sections. Part…

The purpose of this study was to increase awareness of the special needs of the Appalachians migrating to Columbus, Ohio. The study revealed that the majority of migrants from Appalachia rapidly became an economically and socially viable force in the community. Many, however, find the move difficult. Their skills are inadequate in a modern…

This publication consists of papers presented at w workshop held at Arizona State University in Tempe to discuss problems concerned with both inservice and preservice training of teachers to work with American Indian children. Discussions centered around two major areas: the problems involved in proper training of the teachers and suggested…

The process of national integration does not necessarily require monolingualism. The western, post-Versailles, intellectual heritage prompts contemporary sociologists to assume that cultural and linguistic differences automatically tend toward demands for nation formation and language recognition. Countries like India prove otherwise. Not all…