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Peer reviewedOgbu, John U. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Attempts to define the cultural discontinuity (between schools and students) hypothesis by distinguishing between universal, primary, and secondary discontinuities. Suggests that each of these is associated with a distinct type of school problem, and that secondary cultural discontinuities commonly affect minority students in the United States.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology, Elementary Secondary Education
