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ERIC Number: ED091109
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1971-May
Pages: 185
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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"Ethno-Pedagogy": A Manual in Cultural Sensitivity, with Techniques for Improving Cross-Cultural Teaching by Fitting Ethnic Patterns. Revised Edition, May 1971.
Burger, Henry G.
The document presents material and personnel to alleviate the ignorance of the nature and extent of ethnic differences in the United States through applied educational anthropology. Using the term "ethno-pedagogy" for the application of cultural anthropology to education, the chapters discuss: (1) the need for applied educational anthropology; (2) the plan of the manual; (3) the inadequacy of individualistic models for cross-cultural education; (4) how cultures make neighboring societies different; (5) how culture structures education; (6) the unpredictability of outcome when two cultures meet; (7) syncretism, the mutual compromise of cultures; (8) how industrialism patterned the U.S. and spread from factory to social life; and (9) the U.S. trend from melting pot to cultural pluralism. Chapters 10 - 17 discuss ethnic variables for: modification for cross-cultural education; domains of cognition versus affect versus psychomotion; communication; timing; space; social organization; ethics (the goodness of human nature); and causalty (the sense of environmental control). Additional chapters present: (18) the redirectability of cross-cultural education; (19) a roster of educational problems caused by ethnic differences; and (20) adapting the elements of education cross-culturally. Chapters 21-24 give educational variables for teaching methods, curricular subjects, and subject examples. The remainder of the document covers cultural patterns of, and applications for, specific cultures (including Yankees). (KM)
Publication Type: Books
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.
Authoring Institution: Southwestern Cooperative Educational Lab., Albuquerque, NM.
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Note: For related document, see ED 024 653