Pinpointing specific recommendations for higher educational reform, the paper advocates changes in the recruitment, admittance, retention, and commitment to Mexican Americans. Investigating these areas, the report finds: (1) College admissions offices often recruit from other institutions, bypassing local "barrios", (2) Unrealistic grade…

In the title, "Five Points on Site Teacher Education," the "On Site" refers to the transfer of education courses from academic settings to public secondary school locations; the "five points," to a specific geographic design through varied racial or ethnic areas. Theory and practice are consistently interrelated, and…

The purpose of this selective bibliography of approximately 350 works is to draw the various materials on Mexican American culture together for use by students at different age levels. The materials are separated into lists for preschool and primary, intermediate, and advanced students. The reading selections provide information in the following…

This paper focusses on problems involved in adopting the newer modes of social science and professionalism. The complexities which precede these problems are recognized. It is mentioned that many recent entrants to these fields have made value commitments in their professionalism without very long detention at the portals of objectivity or…

The objective of the study was to offer general and comprehensive information on American Indian education as it pertains to Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in Arizona. The primary vehicle used for collecting information was the focus interview--a technique used to gather in-depth information on opinions and preferences.…

Intended for teachers, the document offers 10 articles on educating the disadvantaged gifted student. Included are the following titles: "Four Promising Practices for Teaching Gifted Disadvantaged Students" (which describes a workshop with problem solving and creative expressive activities) by E. Paul Torrance; "Cultural Diversity and the…

The purpose of this study was to compare performances by Japanese and American children on the Matching Familiar Figures Test, the primary measure of cognitive tempo. Data on more than 3400 Japanese and American children (approximately half male, half female) were used. Factorial analyses of variance revealed significant age x nationality…

Suggests that until some meaning of innate capacity is included, the word intelligence has little precision separate from its use in a social or cultural context. The culture that evolves its definition of intelligence will identify the tasks that fulfill that definition. (Author/AM)

One of the most important variables influencing student learning in the classroom setting is the quality of teacher-pupil interaction. This study investigated whether differences exist in elementary school children's perceptions of nonverbal behavior of teachers. The study specifically investigated effects of race, sex and age. (NG)

Discusses the necessity of incorporating cultural themes in the German curriculum of American colleges from the beginning level on. These themes should be contemporary, should help the student contrast the foreign culture with his own and help him see language as a system of symbols. (Text is in German.) (TL)

In this study wordless picture books were used to assess cultural differences in three groups of children. (MKM)

The literature in the area of cultural diversity in art is reviewed, and suggestions are made for an interface art program. "Interface" is described as a good blend of Anglo-conformity (total annihilation of a culture other than White Anglo Saxon Protestant) and separatism (loss of cultural identity) in art education. (KC)

In the education of American Indian children, two contrasting learning styles are involved, that of the school and that of the community. The native teacher emerges as a critical factor in synthesizing the different culturally based styles. (JD)