The Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University collected and synthesized existing data on cross-cultural broadcasting throughout the world. In their report, details are provided about four types of effects resulting from cross-cultural broadcasting: (1) cultural effects with emphasis on the trend of research in radio, television,…

The social orientation of 60 American and 60 Philippine mothers representing two levels of social class was assessed through the verbal regulatory appeal strategies which they employed in five hypothetical everyday situations involving their 4-year-old children. Social orientation was assessed through the mothers' responses to the Bearison and…

This booklet contains information about what is happening in the field of in-service training in a multi-racial society in England at the present time, as gathered by means of discussions with teachers and with those concerned with the provision of courses. A rationale for in-service training in the context of the under-achievement of children…

A brief historical resume outlining the relationship between economics, racism, and intellectual justification for racism begins this paper, which notes that the I.Q. argument is a racist ideology in exactly the same way that Christianity, Darwinism, and Equality have been systems of justifications for America's racism. It fits the definition of…

Traditional Japanese are bred with a strong sense of dependency and presumption on the benevolence of family, boss, work group, and nation. Ideally, one should blend selfessly into a system of "other directedness." One must give indiscriminate devotion to his colleagues, for it is immature and divisive to like certain group members more…

Ther are several reasons for studying the ethnic European influence in American literature. First, with the exception of American's native Indians, we are all immigrants who have come to America to seek a better life. Secondly, every American should know something about the heritage of his fellow Americans. Thirdly, by not knowing the ethnic…

Reviewed are research and literature related to language development in culturally different children, and reported are results from a study of the written language of 120 fifth grade students randomly selected from four schools that varied in racial populations. It is explained that Ss came from schools which were 96% Black, 62% Black, 30% Black,…

Cultural attitudes and values are a widely acknowledged category of psychological variables with special relevance to intercultural communication, interaction, and training tasks. Associative Group Analysis (AGA) is an inferential, indirect approach using free verbal associations for assessing cultural meanings, an underlying assumption being that…

This article is the result of interviews with 20 members of the Puerto Rican intellectual elite in New York City, including singers, poets, artists, journalists, scholars and organizational leaders. One of the chief purposes of these interviews was to discover in which group of minority group intellectuals the Puerto Ricans can be placed: those…

Brief descriptions of the historical and cultural background of the Navajo, Apache, Hopi, Pima, Papago, Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Cocopah, Havasupai, Hualapai, Yavapai, and Paiute Indian tribes of Arizona are presented. Further information is given concerning the educational, housing, employment, and economic development taking place on the…

The basic point to be considered in establishing a curriculum for elementary and secondary schools in the arid areas of the world is relevancy. Usually, the educational system of an area reflects the dominant culture of the political power in control. However, the educational system of the dominant culture might not be relevant to the people of…

The bibliography presents 275 citations (some with annotations) dealing with Mexican Americans in a migrant labor setting. Dates of the bibliographic entries range from 1928 to 1967. Materials are grouped under 9 subject categories. These include cultural characteristics, education, employment, health, migrant farm labor, minorities (minority…

Research was undertaken to determine what informal education practices lend themselves to the precocity in sensorimotor development noted among Bagandan infants in Uganda, relative to their American white and black counterparts. With the assistance of a Muganda midwife/nurse a prenatal questionnaire was answered by women visiting antenatal clinics…

Described is a proposed graduate program to train nursery school, kindergarten, and primary grade educational personnel in a pluralistic social context for the purpose of reducing the number of children in need of special educational services. Program assumptions include causes of behavior such as the interaction of the internalized sets of…

The Indian Teacher Training Project in Secondary Social Science Education (University of Georgia) was funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 2 years (August 1971--June 1973) to train American Indian students as social science educators to teach Indian students. These students, recruited from the Southeastern and Southwestern United States,…