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Brown, Charles Allen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This study empirically investigated the invisibility, or symbolic annihilation, in Japanese English education of social groups at risk of marginalization. To do so, I assembled a corpus of 3746 English teaching materials selected because they involved world social group representation and because they were disseminated through the JET Program, a…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Vickers, Edward – Comparative Education, 2020
Claims regarding Western neo-colonial domination over scholarship in Comparative and International Education (CIE) have recently commanded much attention -- for example in a 2017 special issue of the journal "Comparative Education Review" (CER) on the theme of 'contesting coloniality.' Stressing their marginal 'positionality,' the…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Cultural Influences, Western Civilization, Comparative Education
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Cebron, Neva – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents the core aims and objectives of the teaching materials developed within the IEREST (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers) project, and shows how the innovative approach adopted for these activities can be implemented in the classroom. The IEREST teaching modules are innovative in that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Harrington, Joseph; Karns, Edward – New England Journal of History, 1991
Surveys U.S. history texts to determine the coverage given to eastern European immigrants. Reports that Poland is most extensively covered and that the amount of coverage of other eastern European peoples increases with Polish coverage. Suggests a correlation between the frequency an ethnic group is cited and the size of its population in the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnocentrism, History Textbooks, Immigrants
Szabolcsi, Miklos – Prospects, 1989
Traces the history of ethnocentrism in European education, contending that ethnocentrism is on the rise. Discusses the reasons for the resurgence of nationalism, citing textbook research and public opinion surveys revealing the existence of ethnocentrism. Focuses on ethnocentrism in history and literature and concludes with a discussion of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism