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Peer reviewedWhiteley, Alma M. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 1995
Western management literature presents a model of organizational life that may or may not be appropriate in a non-Western business context. A Hong Kong study suggests even students professing to be westernized maintain home cultural attitudes. It is argued that non-Western management teachers have the added responsibility of relating Western…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Cultural Context, Cultural Relevance, Foreign Countries
Download full textCook, Lenora, Ed.; Lodge, Helen C., Ed. – 1996
This book presents a collection of classroom practices that view the personal experiences of diverse student populations as valuable resources for instruction. It offers teachers various responses to the challenges posed by students' cultural, linguistic, and social group affiliations. The book contains essays arranged into three interwoven…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Relevance, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Peer reviewedFried, Stephen B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes a special topics course in American popular psychology. Course objectives are to trace the history of the popularization of psychology in America; discuss the efforts of William James, G. Stanley Hall, and others; and evaluate the quality of various examples of popular psychology. (MJP)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Content, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
University of North Florida, Jacksonville. Coll. of Education and Human Services. – 1995
This package contains four videotapes: "Process-Oriented Learning" (27 minutes); "Developing Cooperative Citizens" (23 minutes); "Culturally Sensitive Learning" (27 minutes); and "Technologically Competent Learning" (16 minutes). The videotapes are accompanied by a 23-page manual, "Guidelines for the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Relevance, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Raines, Rosario Torres; Albro, Ward S. III – 1992
This report describes a three-year faculty development program that successfully transculturated approximately one-third of the faculty and professional staff at Texas A&I University, a state institution in which over 50 percent of the student body is Mexican American. Transculturation entails a change process that focuses on changing the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Pluralism
Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2003
This book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture, how spirituality assists in meaning making, and how understanding the relationship between culture and spirituality can help adult educators make their students' educational experiences more transformative and culturally relevant. Particular attention is paid to spirituality's…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cultural Context
Shor, Ira – 1996
This personal report of classroom experiences at an urban commuter college relates the experiences of a teacher and a group of working-class students studying the book "Utopia," which is also the metaphor for the hoped-for learning experience. The book, illustrated by excerpts from student-submitted work, shows how pedagogical theory leads to…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Commuter Colleges, Creative Teaching
