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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This paper investigates religion education (RE) in Mexico and Thailand -- two countries from different parts of the world with vastly different populations and cultures. We wanted to learn whether they had tackled similar problems regarding the provision of RE in their schools, particularly with respect to the matter of tolerance in diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Social Attitudes, Individual Differences
Perry, David K.; McNelly, John T. – 1988
Examining the impact of news on people's knowledge about and favorableness of opinion toward six foreign countries, a study conducted telephone interviews with 374 adult residents in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, during November 1984. The nations selected for study included three developed countries (Britain, the Soviet Union, and Japan) and three…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Effects
Zoreda, Margaret Lee – 1994
This essay proposes instances of how Anglophone popular culture can offer a place for nurturing critical encounters in the context of learning English. It delineates the theoretical bases that reveal popular culture as a fundamental indicator of society and, using Anglophone movies and stories, analyzes the pedagogical possibilities for…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cognitive Processes, Constructed Response, Context Effect