This paper discusses the treatment of minority group children in the public schools. Noting that the school's approach to the child's first language may determine where the child is "afforded great opportunity or faced with formidable problems," the author states: "The opportunity comes when the school works to build upon and…

Brief descriptions of the historical and cultural background of the Eskimo, Aleut, Athapascan, Tlingit, and Haida Indian groups of Alaska are presented. Further information is given concerning the educational, health, employment, and economic opportunities available to the natives today. A list is included of activities and points of interest in…

The study tried to identify assumptions and intentions that Anglo teachers, children, and parents, and Chicano children and parents hold of each other, their perceptions of each other, the extent to which these perceptions are realistic, and the implications of cultural differences and similarities in the education of Chicanos. The sample used for…

Traditional academic approaches to the study of rhetoric must be modified by those who explore the rhetoric of black Americans. Black rhetoric is inherently interactive, combining verbal, tonal, musical, and physical behaviors, whereas traditional white-oriented rhetoric can be viewed in terms of standard verbal and literary aspects of…

The American educational system has failed to recognize and respect the "native" oral communication skills of students from backgrounds culturally different from white, middle-class students' backgrounds. The cuturally different students are not necessarily culturally disadvantaged. For example, black youths'"natural" oral expression is quite…

This survey examines current programs available for teaching English as a second language to prospective teachers who are already professionally qualified in their own countries but are not equipped to work in a classroom with English-speaking children. The areas concerned are: London, Bradford, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry, and Wolverhampton;…

Every school system in the country seeks a way to evaluate its educational effectiveness as well as the academic success and failres of its students. A majority of schools assume that intelligence, and therefore academic success, can be measured. Accordingly, standardized tests are used to determine intellectual capacity and level, and test…

In a discussion of the problems of American Indian education in the United States, the U.S. Commissioner of Education points out that inadequacies of the present public educational system have resulted in a deplorable situation for the First Americans. Of concern is the need for development of a multilingual, cross-cultural approach to teaching in…

The 3 major papers of a symposium are included. Primary emphases are on: (1) problems of conceptualizing and measuring coping behavior in 8 cultures; (2) the effect of socio-cultural premises on coping behavior; and (3) the influence of social class on coping behavior. The first report discusses the steps involved in empirically determining…

The three studies involved attempt to assess the nature of cooperative and competitive behavior of young children in different socioeconomic classes. In the first study, 36 pairs of Head Start children, representing Mexican-American, Negro and Caucasian ethnic groups, were investigated concerning their cooperative-competitive behavior in relation…

Problems in the measurement of communicative competence of American Indian children are discussed in this position paper. Problems include the failure of traditional observations and measurements, and judgments by educators based on non-Indian experiences and expectations. Some trends in contemporary research concerned with these problems are…

General information on the studies currently underway by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory (SECEL) is presented in this report. Module A is concerned with investigating the relationships between a variety of cultural-psychological factors and language development in grade 1. Testing and home interviews play a major part in this…

The norms of behavior and the expectations of a child's primary groupings were examined to determine if they were consistent with those of the larger, more impersonal society. If the norms and expectations were consistent, then primary socialization was likely to be important in shaping the child's sense of nationality. Thus, the school could be…

Instructional materials generated at the November 1971, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Pre-Conference Workshop on Culture compiled in this publication include papers for teachers of French, German, Spanish, and English-as-a-second-language. This compilation is intended to help secondary school teachers broaden their approach…

This manual contains selected materials and ideas generated during the multicultural program implementation at Fremont Elementary School in 1974-75 which was funded under ESEA Title I. The program included: (1) the consecutive concentrated study of five individual cultures and (2) a comparative multicultural approach built around five basic…