Examined are differential treatments of minority students by middle school science teachers both in and out of the classroom. Treatments include instructional content, teaching strategies, and citizenship policies in relation to outdoor science activities. (KR)

Examines differences among five assignments written by both Hong Kong and United States business communication students, focusing on reader orientation, writing objective, organization, grammar, syntax, usage, and format. Finds distinct differences between students of the different cultures using the same language and performing similar…

Describes the methods of two teachers who placed students in collaborative writing groups and asked students to assess their writing groups in personnel assessment memos to the instructors. Examines selected examples of these memos with regard to collaborative processes and the skills used most frequently by students. (HB)

Defining community politically (as a flexible arena for debating perspectives and achieving purpose) provides different ways to consider diversity. Diversity becomes not an anomaly but an integral part of the community process; conflict is legitimized as appropriate and inevitable in achieving school purposes. Administrators must mediate conflict,…

Describes the Navajo reservation in Arizona, its inhabitants, and the inservice workshop given there by consultants of the National Writing Project. Relates personal anecdotes. Claims that life and education on the reservation are much like they are everywhere else. (HB)

Considers the benefits of a multicultural anthology entitled "Braided Lives." Outlines how one ninth-grade English teacher used the anthology to develop student personal writing concerning the texts read. Uses student responses in journals to generate essays on multicultural topics. (HB)

How to get young people to find status and prestige within a law-abiding society presents the most promising, although most difficult, solution to crime. It continues to be the most ignored and underfunded dimension within the political-legal-therapeutic process that attempts to prevent and control delinquent and criminal behavior. (SLD)

Asserts that central goal of sociology is to provide students with sociological perspective or the ability to reflect on their own society from a distance. Argues that ethnocentricism can be affected by an "insider's bias" and an "outsider's bias." Describes the use of Horace Miner's "Body Ritual of the Nacirema" as a…

An analysis of the responses of 1,614 adult subjects from 10 cultures show that the Leung-Bond procedure provides ways of extracting both strong and weak etics relevant to individualism and weak etics relevant to collectivism. The most complete picture is obtained when both etics and emics are examined. (SLD)

Explores one vision of a multifaceted classroom community (comprised of teachers, an intern, cross-age tutors, students, and parent volunteers, all from a variety of language and ethnic backgrounds) in a classroom where authentic discourse and language diversity flourish as children develop many electronic and non-electronic literacies. Notes that…

Discusses the many issues faced by Arab students studying English in U.S. English-as-a-Second-Language classrooms, explaining hurdles they face due to cultural differences, describing the cultural sensitivity that school staff must develop in order to best serve Arab students, and investigating challenges that may occur in classrooms that include…

The implementation of a multicultural program for African-American and Hispanic students in an urban high school is presented. Increased intergroup tensions relating them to the students' concepts of culture and race are discussed. Suggestions are offered for ensuring positive experiences for all students in such a program. (MMU)

Explores how a critical multiculturalism, by encouraging greater cultural diversity in a widening participation in higher education, has the potential to change British universities. Showing how institutions discriminate against black people makes clear where power lies and how decisions are made. (SLD)

Argues that teachers must shine the brightest light they can onto ignorance. Discusses reasons why gay and lesbian issues need to be addressed in the curriculum. Describes helpful resources (including Web sites, a video, and nonfiction and fiction books) for raising teachers' own awareness, and for use in both preservice and regular classrooms.…

Discusses how school leaders are increasingly torn between pressures for conformity and for diversity, arguing that pressure toward conformity undermines schools' ability to respond to diversity and suggesting that school leaders challenge the confines of sameness while exploring conceptions of leadership that value differences. Four strategies…