Explores the impact of various types of sponsorship on the likelihood of Indochinese refugee participation in the labor force and identifies four variables affecting employment potential: (1) age, (2) education level, (3) fluency in English, and (4) sex. Many refugees have obtained good jobs and furthered their education. (GC)

Focuses on the education of migrant workers' children originating primarily from Turkey, Italy, Greece, and Yugoslavia. Discusses problems of how to unite integration and cultural identity as educational core values. Presents the educational response at the Federal Republic level and the Laender (State) level. (SA)

This paper describes a two-year project designed to test the effectiveness of a family-based health behavior change intervention in 206 Anglo or Mexican-American families. Methodology and results to date are presented. (MT)

Comments on a preceding discussion of control in Japanese and American cultures by Weisz et al. Discusses forms and modes of control, the context-boundedness of interpersonal relations, and concept of self in Japan. (KH)

How four components of the fertility process--(1) the likelihood of being childless, (2) age at first birth, (3) length of birth intervals, and (4) age at termination of childbearing--contribute to the relationship among race, education, and fertility is examined. (Author/RM)

Illustrates some of the cultural differences that cause problems for Americans working with foreigners, here or abroad. The author urges that comprehensive cross-cultural training should be considered for employees assigned to European and English-speaking countries, where differences are great, though subtle. (CT)

Two teachers, one English, one American, from the International School of Brussels, Belgium, describe the benefits and drawbacks of teaching overseas, discussing the flexibility, the cultural advantages, and the professional drawbacks. (EL)

Describes problems teaching English to mixed classes of native English speakers and nonnative speakers. Discusses problems in vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage, as well as problems involving the concept of bilingual education and cultural differences in the knowledge and expected roles of students. (EL)

Examines pastoral care, the welfare dimension of English secondary schools, in light of North American school counselling and guidance practices. The discipline/control emphasis of pastoral care does not correspond to North American practices in guidance and counselling. However, some commonalities in the academic/curricular and pastoral/welfare…

Argues that a culture's rhetoric constitutes an interface where the prescriptions of the language meet the practices of the culture. Attempts to identify and suggest some of the differences between Chinese and Western rhetoric that confront an American writing teacher in China. (EL)

Analyzes a number of articles and advertisements in 16 magazines and concludes that the ads neither set nor followed the country-western trend of the late l970s and early l980s. (FL)

A cross-cultural, international perspective on art in education constitutes a humanistic activity that must allow for recognition of human commonalities and at the same time a respect for human differences. (RM)

A scheme was developed for discovering what "moral" means among a given group so that moral incidents used to investigate their moral development would conform to their own meaning. Based on this scheme, an instrument was developed and field-tested with Haitian and U.S. American respondents. (BW)

Based on a survey of 180 Northeastern Indian families, describes differences in American Indian and White life styles and values regarding property ownership, competition, consistency of household membership, friendship, and neighboring patterns. Notes that the cultural differences can affect the relationship between American Indians and educators…

A series of articles examines the problem of racism from various perspectives: a historical overview, Swedish children's attitudes toward immigrants, working-class racism, redefinition of racism, Turkish nationalism, multiculturalism, anti-Semitism in France, genetic manipulation, and racist political ideology. (SK)