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Williams, Byron, Ed. – 1980
This collection of conference papers examines various policy issues significant to the education of California's ethnic minority students. The document supports the view that educational improvements should not be based upon compensatory programs that assume linguistic and cultural deficiencies among students, but rather should look toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Role, Cultural Pluralism, Desegregation Litigation
Liegois, Jean-Pierre – 1990
The Council of Europe's third seminar on Gypsy and migrant children's education attracted 75 educators from 6 European countries. This report provides a synopsis of each of eight plenary lectures and complete reports from four workshops. An introduction offers background information and an opening address by Jean-Pierre Liegois is given in full.…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries
Management Inst. for National Development, New York, NY. – 1974
Conference participants, reflecting the views of 15 different countries and representing both education and the broader community, gathered to discuss education about global development. The conference theme concerned educational reform in industrialized countries and the need for global awareness of the interdependence of all societies. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Awareness, Decision Making
Leurin, Marcel – 1985
This report summarizes comments of 10 researchers on topics relevant to intercultural education in Western Europe. The two-day seminar was organized by the French Commission for Culture in Brussels, the General Confederation of Teachers, and the Socio-Cultural Centre for Migrants in Brussels to bring research insights to Belgian educators involved…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships
Rey von Allmen, Micheline – 1982
A course on the intercultural training of teachers, organized by the Portuguese authorities, was a result of a Franco-Portuguese pilot project concerned with the development of intercultural training courses and teaching materials. Purposes of the course were to present the material prepared by the joint Franco-Portuguese team; to test and…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Images, Cultural Interrelationships
Basurto, Paolo – 1995
This collection of essays, condensed from papers presented at a meeting organized by UNICEF's International Child Development Centre on"Discrimination against Children and Families of Minority Groups and Indigenous Peoples," (Florence, Italy, February 1994) focuses on discriminatory situations of indigenous and minority groups.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anthropology, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bureau of Intergroup Relations. – 1977
The document summarizes proceedings from two conferences which addressed multicultural realities in American life. Intended as a means of expanding multicultural understandings of elementary and secondary teachers, the conferences encouraged exchange of ideas between parents, community members, curriculum specialists, administrators, educators,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Anagnopoulos, Cheryl, Ed.; Ochse, Roger, Ed.; Wolff, Roger, Ed. – 1997
This proceedings contains papers from a symposium conducted to promote the professional sharing of scholarly accomplishments of Black Hills State University (South Dakota) faculty and students. The symposium also provided a forum for discussion of current issues related to the presentations. The papers, representing a variety of disciplines, are…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, American Indians, Behavior Change, College Instruction