The representation of minority faculty in nursing education is inadequate to support the needs of students, faculties, and the institutions. Faculty consultation is a strategy to support the cultural diversity mission of the college. (Author)

Presents information on the economics of diversity from an individual and a business point of view. Suggests appropriate units in which to integrate diversity training in the basic business/economics curriculum. (Author)

A program in which Australian advisors provided technical assistance in Thailand demonstrated that traditional Western wisdom about the purposes of education and job training may conflict with the values of the recipient culture. Adaptation to the cultural context can obviate some of the difficulties. (SK)

Guided by First Amendment principles, Americans must agree on a shared civic framework within which to negotiate our deepest differences. A painful first step is acknowledging public education's failure to find a constitutionally permissable, educationally sound role for religion in the schools. This situation has helped convince religious…

To counter the backlash against multiculturalism, educators must create a social environment for learning that encompasses respect, civility, integrity, and care. They should take into account the increasingly complex understanding of what common culture is and how it evolved. (SK)

The concept of multiculturalism is explored and several approaches to multicultural education are discussed, drawing examples from North America, Europe, and Australia. This conceptual framework is used to describe and analyze the current state of affairs in these fields in the Netherlands. (Author/MMU)

Addresses issues in conducting research on families in different cultures: becoming familiar with the sociocultural context, gaining access to subjects, establishing collaborative relationships with local scholars, and securing translators who can convey meanings accurately. (SK)

Discusses possible intersections between feminist studies and American Indian women's studies, noting the complexity of identity politics when most contemporary Indians have mixed blood. No single authoritative Native women's position or feminist theory of Native women exists. These labels are often umbrella terms that inadequately represent those…

Discuses how societies differ in how they define illness, how they explain the lack of health, and in how they apply local values to problems of health. (Author)

Discusses the influence of culture on different immigrant groups' success or failure. Examines the politics of culture, explaining that culture in large must be disaggregated to specific variants characterizing American immigrants, who come from distinct provinces, classes, and subgroups of the large culture. Highlights the experience of Jewish…

Addresses the issue of homogeneity or heterogeneity within the older Hispanic population as revealed by the use of formal services with a sample of 2135 Hispanic elderly. Although results show the patterns of service use to reflect substantial homogeneity, there is a high degree of heterogeneity in the level of service use. (MKA)

The series editor of the "Cambridge School Shakespeare" describes how recent Shakespearean theatre productions, involving astonishing cultural transpositions of space and time, have influenced his views about teaching the bard in schools. To reach students, teachers in multicultural settings should replace the pedagogy of explication and…

Discusses problems related to the acculturation process for foreign students who are in the United States for a short time. Specifically looks at Japanese students who are involuntarily placed in schools in which they understand neither the language nor the cultural expectations. Contains 28 references. (JOW)

Proposes emerging adulthood as a new conception of development from the late teens through the twenties, presenting a theoretical background, then offering evidence supporting the idea that emerging adulthood is a distinct period demographically, subjectively, and in terms of identity exploration. Explains how emerging adulthood differs from young…

This approach to culture and cognition highlights dynamics through which cultural knowledge becomes operative in guiding the construction of meaning from a stimulus. Cognitive priming experiments simulated how bicultural people switch between cultural frames in response to culturally laden symbols. Results illuminate how cultural constructs are…