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Peer reviewedHammersla, George H. – Social Science Record, 1984
A social studies teacher who took a study trip to Kenya presents ideas for teaching about that country in the form of lesson plans that other teachers can easily use. (RM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans
Download full textFoster, David, Ed.; Russell, David R., Ed. – 2002
Noting that composition studies in the United States has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts, this book presents research studies from six nations (China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, and South Africa) on academic writing development in the dominant language of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Peer reviewedLesourd, Sandra J. – Social Studies, 1986
Examines the influence of sociocultural variables on the persistence of an American cultural-heritage curriculum approach and the entrenched rote learning of content in African schools. Offers a number of explanations for the persistence of teacher-presentation and student-recitation as dominate modes of instruction. (JDH)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Educational Methods
Wright, J. Zeb – 1970
The work is a 9-11 week teaching unit on the theme of loyalties and the resolution of conflicts among these loyalties within the societies of Asian and African peoples. The unit is the outcome of a pilot study of the United States Office of Education to develop world culture courses for the West Virginia secondary schools. Emphasis is on the…
Descriptors: African Culture, Case Studies, Concept Teaching, Cross Cultural Studies
