Posits Walt Disney as an influential sorcerer in the process of integrating the real world into Disney's synthetic universe, and Mary Daly's work "Wickedary" as a work that constructs an alternative "magic kingdom" through an insistence on an anti-patriarchal lexicon. (NH)

This article discusses the contribution made by Joseph Conrad's fictional writing to our understanding of cultural awareness. Never comfortable with his adopted English culture, Conrad used his experiences in different parts of the world during his career in the merchant navy to explore in his writing aspects of cultural dissonance and cultural…

Argues that cultural invisibility happens to anyone who does not contribute images to the world or who does not vigorously critique pictures. Discusses the photography of Jo Spence and Judith Golden who expose the invisibility of those considered plain (old, sick, and female). Links this argument to assumptions about art education. (DSK)

Notes that it has not been easy to find a discourse to address the ways that unexamined attitudes about race, class, language, and gender perpetuate failure in schools. Describes briefly the work of the Committee on English Education's Commission on Teacher Education for Teachers of Urban, Rural, and Suburban Students of Color and the attempts to…

The purpose of the study was to examine the experiences of international graduates to find out how they perceived their new learning environment in Singapore, and to explore the strategies they employed to adjust to, manage and construct meaning out of their learning situation. A qualitative, critical incidents methodology was used in the…

Among Arab students in Israel, alienation is more closely related to their perceptions than to objective measures. Arab students, teachers, and principals from 36 schools were interviewed. The following four factors were used to measure alienation: (1) powerlessness, (2) meaninglessness, (3) misfeasance, and (4) self-estrangement. (LHW)

Discusses the problem of alienation of foreign scholars and workers in West Germany. The author concludes that traditional German racism has changed to national indifference. He proposes the formation of enclaves or circles in which foreigners of different nationalities can regularly come together with interested Germans. (AM)

Explores post-1965 South Asian American writers writing in English and the role of geography and memory and how political and societal factors of the "capitalist new world order" continue to determine the physical and metaphorical location of postcolonial writers in the diaspora. It examines South Asian American writers' compelling evocations of…

Examines two popular children's books, Enid Blyton's "The Mountain of Adventure" and Judy Blume's "Forever...." Concludes that these books actively work against achieving a sense of the "fullness of human experience," and isolate individual experiences from a broader social context. (MM)

Assessed the level of social alienation among foreign students in the United States. Foreign students (N=53) completed the social alienation subscale of the Deans Alienation Scale. Results indicated that social alienation among these students deviates significantly from normal expectation. (Author/RC)

A high percentage of Rom (Gypsy) families do not send their children to school. Most Rom in the United States are illiterate. Rom families believe that from the viewpoint of their culture, formal education is a destructive force. The strictures that govern their everyday lives influence standards of personal cleanliness, food preparation, sex…

Suggests the need for understanding refugees' characteristics, experiences, resettlement needs, and their patterns of behavior during the resettlement process. Examines consistencies which have been observed in refugee experiences and the process of adaptation to a new society. Treats specifically the conditions of Soviet Jewish and Indochinese…

Examines some examples of discourse practices among managers and employees in the customer service department of a large manufacturing firm. Shows how knowledge of the ways that language can both include and exclude people from cultural groups in the worksite can help professional communicators facilitate more effective and responsible…

Describes Sister-Friends, a counseling group implemented to help black female students cope with isolation at a predominantly white university. An evaluation reveals that this group seems to help members reduce their feelings of isolation and persist with academic studies during the semester. (Author/GCP)

When she traveled to Kansas from New York in November 1875 to join a husband who had gone west six months earlier, Sarah Anthony faced bitter disappointment. What caused Anthony's discontent, at least in part, was an unfamiliar and alien landscape, as yet untouched by the hand of domesticity. With dedication and fortitude, however, the place could…