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DeLoache, Judy S., Ed.; Gottlieb, Alma, Ed. – 2000
People living in different parts of the world hold diverse beliefs about the nature and the nurturing of infants. Celebrating that diversity and based on the research of anthropologists, psychologists, and historians, this book presents information on child care from seven societies around the world, past and present, illustrating how the…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Child Development, Child Rearing, Colonial History (United States)

Knowles-Borishade, Adetokunbo F. – Journal of Black Studies, 1991
Classical African rhetoric contains five elements: a caller and a chorus validating the word; spiritual entities; the word drawn from and relevant to experience; responders; and the spiritual harmony achieved when the other elements are working together. Suggests that Black English contains structural remnants of African discourse. (CJS)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Blacks, Cultural Influences

Shiman, David – Update on Law-Related Education, 1992
Presents a series of classroom activities comparing differing views of human rights in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. Includes excerpts from the African Charter on Human and People's Rights and the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (CFR)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Class Activities, Constitutional Law, Cultural Differences
Gilbert, Erik – History Teacher, 2002
In this article, the author looks closely at the recent history of the East African coast and the Swahili people who live there. In doing so he hopes to highlight the inadequacy of the area studies/continentalist approach to studying and teaching the Swahili and to propose a different way of considering their past. His contention is that one can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historical Interpretation, History Instruction, African Culture
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. School of Education. – 1991
Eight social studies educators from various African countries completed their masters degrees in education from the Indiana University School of Education during the 1990-91 school year. This report describes the program, including the selection process, the master of science in education program, specialized courses, social studies organizations,…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Culture Contact, Developing Nations, Foreign Students
Bock, Gunter, Ed.; Huttemann, Lutz, Ed. – 1987
Recommendations formulated and adopted by the participants in this seminar and summaries of discussions at the various sessions are followed by the full text of 17 papers presented at the meeting: (1) "The 'BID' Model Test of the Polytechnic of Hanover: Principles, Structures, Solutions and Problems of New Studies in the Field of…
Descriptors: Archives, Continuing Education, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development

Sudarkasa, Niara – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Describes effects of colonial rule on patterns of indigenous African education, division of labor, and social stratification. Explores changing patterns in educational and occupational sex roles in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the changing position of women. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Influences, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Mallory, Bruce L.; And Others – 1993
This monograph is based on an international survey of approximately 60 individuals/organizations concerning the nature of disability and disability awareness. The survey was part of a project of the International Exchange of Experts and Information on Rehabilitation which is attempting to make information about disability issues from other…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Attribution Theory, Beliefs
Maxwell, Margaret, Ed. – 1983
Teachers from Worcester (Massachusetts) Public Schools and the University of Massachusetts collaborated in a Teacher Corps project to publish a resource handbook on African studies to be utilized in U.S. elementary and secondary classrooms. The handbook contains selected classroom activities and resources that enable both students and teachers to…
Descriptors: African Studies, Area Studies, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Enrichment
Hewson, Mariana G.; Hamlyn, Daryl – 1983
This study examined the role played by particular intellectual and physical environments on concept formation, focusing on conceptions concerning heat in a group of non-western subjects living in the interior of southern Africa (N. Sotho and Tswana peoples). In addition, these conceptions were examined in three contexts of the subjects' cultural…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Cultural Context
Murphy, Sharon M.; Scotton, James F. – 1987
Dependency theory, often used to explain continued domination of Third World economics by Western powers, argues that the continued Western control of Third World news flow and even mass media content can be explained by looking at the structures that control mass media institutions. One of these structures, the journalism education system in…
Descriptors: African Culture, Colonialism, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Vernon, Philip E. – 1969
This book describes recent psychological theories on the nature of intelligence and the influence of environmental factors, and argues that culture and child rearing practices affect the development of abilities (linguistic, sensory motor and perceptual). Studies of intelligence, achievement, and environment in England are discussed, along with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Blacks
Taylor, Lisa – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
This article pursues two main lines of inquiry: How might postcolonial theory, feminist and postcolonial translation studies sharpen our critical understandings of the micro- and geopolitics of English language learning? What kinds of pedagogical practice might such new developments ground in order to foster our learners' critical ways of knowing…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Wagaw, Teshome G. – 1984
This study analyzes the dynamics of education and culture as modern schooling is introduced to Ethiopia, imposing on the existing religious education institutions. The first of 17 chapters presents an outline of Ethiopian history. Chapters II-IV present sections on indigenous and church education, renewed conceptions of education, and schooling…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences
Fraser, Renee White; Shani, Hadasa – 1979
Intended as a companion picce to volume 4 in the Method Series, Sociocultural Factors in Health Planning (CE 024 232), this fourth of six volumes in the International Health Planning Reference Series is a combined literature review and annotated bibliography dealing with social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of delivering, planning, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior, Beliefs, Cultural Influences