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Vollmer, Catherine E.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Physical Educator, 2016
Research on how preservice teachers (PTs) learn to employ the teaching games for understanding (TGfU) model is in its infancy. The purpose of this study was to examine the combined effects of a package of university-based methods and the employment of the model during an early field experience (EFE) on PTs' delivery of TGfU during the teaching…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Socialization, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Lindauer, Owen; Ferguson, Deborah; Glass, Margaret; Hatfield, Virginia; McKenna, Jeanette A.; Dering, Phil – 1996
The Phoenix Indian School served as a coeducational, federal educational institution for American Indian primary and secondary students between 1891 and 1990. Covering 10 blocks and enrolling over 600 Indian children aged 8-18, this boarding school used education to assimilate students into Anglo-American culture. This monograph describes…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Smith, M. Estellie – 1977
Beginning in the 1870's mill owners in Texton, a New England industrial town of approximately 100,000 people, recruited Portugese labor. From then until 1920 many Portugese emigrated to Texton. From 1920-1960 the immigration of Portugese into America slowed as the result of the declining labor market, the war, and restrictive laws. Following the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
Burnett, Jacquetta Hill – 1974
The question of how educational failures lead to or contribute to occupational disability was studied in a youthful Puerto Rican population in an economically poor neighborhood and school district of Chicago. Anthropological field research techniques, supplemented by scheduled interviews and questionnaires, were used to collect qualitative and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Acculturation, Achievement Need, Career Choice
Hart, Roland J.; And Others – 1978
A cultural assimilator was developed to teach white junior officers about black culture in the army. Scenarios involving misunderstandings between blacks and whites in the army were presented, and respondents were asked to identify "correct" reasons for the misunderstandings. In the first of three field tests respondents showed evidence…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Armed Forces, Attitude Change, Black Culture