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Download full textMagee, Paul – 1972
This secondary level curriculum guide provides a program and identifies materials for the history and culture of Latin America. The primary purpose of the course is to stimulate throught and to encourage students to make valid generalizations and intelligent assessments of the forces and events that have shaped the history and culture of Latin…
Descriptors: American History, Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development
Castellano, Rita – 1977
This document presents an outline and teacher's guide for a community college-level teaching module in Mexican identification, designed for students in introductory courses in the social sciences. Although intended specifically for cultural anthropology, urban anthropology, comparative social organization and sex roles in cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
PDF pending restorationBrigham Young Univ., Provo, UT. Language Research Center. – 1976
This booklet was designed to facilitate interactions and communication with the people of Brazil by providing information about their customs, attitudes and other cultural characteristics which influence their actions and values. A brief description of Brazil is given, covering the following: its size and geography, history, language, economy,…
Descriptors: American Culture, Autoinstructional Aids, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer)
McCracken, Jarrell; Smith, Gary R., Ed. – 1976
This experimental unit on modernization will involve secondary students in researching and developing a 50-nation data bank from which they are asked to make cross-cultural comparisons and analyses. Students infer some of the consequences of economic development on social and political life in a modernizing society, apply the concept of…
Descriptors: African Culture, Asian Studies, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
Lincoln Public Schools, NE. – 1973
Cultural awareness activities for studying about the Chicano minority in the United States are provided in this curriculum guide. The units are designed to sensitize 7th grade students to Chicano contribution to American life, acquaint and motivate them to respect the Chicano culture, and inform them of Chicano social and economic problems. The…
Descriptors: American Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Switzer, Kenneth A.; Redden, Charlotte, A. – 1978
The guide was designed to assist secondary school classroom teachers in developing and implementing units on cultural diversity. The activities stress the impact of diversity globally as well as in Latin America and can be used as models for examining diversity in other geographic areas. Diversity refers to the heterogeneity of cultures and social…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Communications, Concept Formation, Conflict
