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Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development.

Greenfield, Patricia M., Ed.; Cocking, Rodney R., Ed. – 1994

This book explores the extent to which the development and socialization of minority children can be seen as continuous with their ancestral cultures. Whether cultural and political conditions in the United States have modified development and socialization processes, and the extent to which ancestral cultures have changed are examined in the 19…

Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies

Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences.

Harkness, Sara, Ed.; Super, Charles M., Ed. – 1996

This volume presents observations and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines about parental cultural belief systems. The chapters are concerned with the sources and consequences of parental ethnotheories in a number of societies. The following chapters are included: (1) "Introduction" (Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super); (2)…

Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies

Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.

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Sutton, Constance R., Ed.; Chaney, Elsa M., Ed. – 1987

This book comprises the following papers discussing Caribbean life in New York City: (1) The Context of Caribbean Migration (Elsa M. Chaney); (2) The Caribbeanization of New York City and the Emergence of a Transnational Socio-Cultural System (Constance R. Sutton); (3) New York City and Its People: An Historical Perspective Up to World War II…

Descriptors: Acculturation, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy.

Street, Brian, Ed. – 1993

A collection of essays on cross-cultural aspects of literacy education includes: "Conceptions and Uses of Literacy in a Papua New Guinea Village" (Don Kulick, Christopher Stroud); "Literacy and Feelings: The Encoding of Affect in Nukulaelae Letters" (Niko Besnier); "The Uses of Schooling and Literacy in a Zamfimaniry…

Descriptors: Arabic, Code Switching (Language), Cooperative Learning, Cross Cultural Studies

Women in Cross-Cultural Transitions.

Bystydzienski, Jill M., Ed.; Resnik, Estelle P., Ed. – 1994

This series of 14 essays focuses on experiences of women who have made cross-cultural transitions. Cross-cultural transitions refer to moving across cultures, usually from one country to another or across subcultures within one society. The essays document what individual women perceived, how they felt when in the process of moving from one…

Descriptors: Biculturalism, Civil Rights, Comparative Analysis, Consciousness Raising

Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph Series Volume 5.

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Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1994

This volume on pragmatics and language learning includes the following: "'Cultural Scripts': A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication" (Anna Wierzbicka); "Issues in Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" (Ayo Bamgbose); "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research and the…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Counseling