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Jensen, Kenneth D.; Jensen, Shirley – Impr Coll Univ Teaching, 1970
Workable ways to correct the lack of communication and isolation of many American Indian students on campuses. (IR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Isolation, Disadvantaged
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Covino, William A. – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 2000
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)
Descriptors: Community, Community Characteristics, Cultural Isolation, Fantasy
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Walker, George – Journal of Research in International Education, 2004
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…
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Authors
Rodriguez, Clara – New York Affairs, 1974
Discusses Puerto Rican racial history and present-day social correlates and the racial experiences and reactions of Puerto Ricans, an increasing number of whom are identifying themselves as New Yoricans or Ricans, neither white nor black. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Isolation, Minority Groups, Puerto Ricans
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White, Wesley D.; Wolfensberger, Wolf P. – Mental Retardation, 1969
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Exceptional Child Services, History, Institutional Environment
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Danigelis, Nicholas L. – Social Forces, 1977
Takes issue with the notion that black political activity can be explained either by an isolation, an indirect effects, or an ethnic community argument. Suggests, rather, that a theory of political climate, incorporating arguments from all three theories, best accounts for the variability in black political participation levels from one time and…
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Cultural Isolation, History
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Emme, Michael J. – Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1997
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)
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images, Cultural Isolation
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McCracken, Nancy Mellin – English Education, 2000
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…
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Educational Demand, English Teacher Education, Higher Education
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McClure, Joanne W. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduates, Expectation, Cultural Context
M'Bow Amadou-Mahtar – Prospects, 1974
The educational problems of the migrant worker, isolated from his home and the victim of social prejudice, are receiving attention from UNESCO. (JH)
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Economic Factors, International Education, International Programs
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Avi-Itzhak, Tamara E. – Urban Education, 1987
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)
Descriptors: Alienation, Arabs, Cultural Isolation, Ethnicity
Ho, Man Keung – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1974
Briefly describes identification, training and sueprvising of mature indigenous students as counselors to provide a network conducive to foreign student interaction and to interaction with the university community. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Counselor Role, Cultural Isolation, Foreign Students
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Schmitt, Madeline H. – Sociology and Social Research, 1972
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Concept Formation, Cultural Isolation, Identification (Psychology)
Brandon, Elizabeth – Revue de Louisiane/Louisiana Review, 1972
Texts of lyrics for 18 Louisiana French folksongs are appended. (RS)
Descriptors: American History, Black Culture, Cultural Isolation, Folk Culture
Moreno, Edward – Educ Instr Broadcasting, 1969
Descriptors: Acting, Commercial Television, Community Education, Cultural Isolation
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