This article draws from the experiences of a European American classroom teacher, her African American teacher educator, the classroom teacher's interactions with an African American family, and her conversations with her African American aide. It answers the call to speak to the everyday experiences of teachers who seek to acknowledge and address…

A comparative cross-national study investigating the level of experience with community interpersonal violence, level of psychological distress, and the relationship between exposure and distress among adolescents is presented. Participants were 617 first-year college students comprising African Americans and Jamaican Americans living in New York…

This book is based on the simple premise that good teaching and multicultural teaching are indistinguishable. This premise is based on the belief that multicultural education is not a fringe or radical movement designed to threaten the basic mainstream of educational thought and practice. The child is the meaning-maker and that the teacher's task…

The growth of international television distribution has resulted in easy access to news, information, and entertainment programs originating in foreign countries. At the same time it has caused some concerns about the spread of values alien to a country's culture or simply irrelevant. The research reported here attempts to quantify the actual use…

This paper describes a culturally competent inservice training program for home visit personnel. The program is designed to help home visit personnel become more aware of their own beliefs and values, and develop an appreciation and respect for others' differences. The program is divided into three sections. Each section offers various activities…

In 1991, the Platte Campus of Central Community College (CCC) in Columbus, Nebraska, received a Beacon Grant to work with nine other colleges to promote cultural/work force diversity at the colleges and produce measurable results. The goals of the project were to expand programs to accommodate leadership diversity, design innovative staff…

This training manual was developed to assist special education teachers in California who are receiving increased numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse students in their classes. It focuses on effective instructional strategies and modifications of these strategies to accommodate the culture, language level, and ability level of each…

The selection and use of instructional materials to develop technical writing skills in limited-English-proficient foreign students are discussed. Focus is on the influence of cultural differences in second language learning and the need for instructional materials that accommodate these differences. The first section examines American…

This study examined freshman college students' attitudes about date rape and how such attitudes changed over the course of their college experience. It is based on a subset of data from the 1990 annual national survey of freshmen and a follow-up study in 1994 collected by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) survey, namely 10,155…

This volume presents observations and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines about parental cultural belief systems. The chapters are concerned with the sources and consequences of parental ethnotheories in a number of societies. The following chapters are included: (1) "Introduction" (Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super); (2)…

This book is used as a two-day workshop for teachers in how to use the "History Alive!" program. The three premises of the program include: (1) cooperative interaction; (2) multiple intelligences; and (3) the spiral curriculum. The strategies developed focus upon: (1) Interactive Slide Lectures; (2) Social Studies Skill Builders; (3)…

Earlier research on girls in a single-sex private school found that girls at adolescence tend to lose a sense of self and undergo a developmental crisis that inhibits their self-expression. This report focuses on 26 girls in grades 8 and 9 from poor and working class backgrounds. The unique concerns of these girls from different races and cultures…

An attempt was made to improve parent involvement of culturally and ethnically diverse families in an elementary school with 35 to 39 percent minority students, as well as to establish a climate of cooperation between school and home and to attempt to reduce the student mobility rate. A Welcome Committee was created to reach diverse families. This…

This study sought to determine what a group of first-year English as a Second Language (ESL) university students learned from a series of lectures in English, how the students learned what they appeared to learn, and what features of the lecturer's presentation most affected the learning of the students. Twelve international ESL business students…

It is argued that high academic achievement among Vietnamese refugee and immigrant students is, in some part, the reflection of a survival strategy that has been employed over centuries of Vietnamese confrontations with more powerful peoples. Historical circumstances have reinforced a Vietnamese belief that a causal link exists between the…