Today in Europe, for many students, leaving secondary school does not correspond to the starting point of their working careers. Large proportions of them continue in education, experience a period of unemployment, or attend a training program. Many factors, individual and institutional, can account for differences in students' destinations. This…

The lessons in this 3-part series are intended to provide students with a basic understanding of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on multiple perspectives, conflict and cooperation, and interdependence. This curriculum unit, Part 1, examines two important historical episodes. The first episode focuses on a…

Found that American Indian youths tend to experience more serious consequences of drinking than do White youths from the same area with regard to feeling high, getting drunk, passing out, suffering loss of memory, being stopped by police, having automobile accidents, and getting into trouble with parents. (Author/BEF)

Discusses reasons why practical work is used only sporadically in lower secondary school math classes. Presents results of a comparative study between Greece and Scotland, focusing on culture as a differentiating factor of students' performance. (AIM)

Studied the perceptions of the relative importance of identity related domains for South African Afrikaans-, English-, and Xhosa-speaking secondary school students (n=1,217). Findings demonstrate the importance of considering the domains included in future research on identity formation carefully, depending on the characteristics of the research…

The report summarizes findings of 6 weeks spent in the Netherlands and Denmark to study services provided to learning disabled (LD) young adults and adults. The school to work transition for LD students is examined along with the LD adult in society, and comparisons are made between Dutch and Danish approaches. The Dutch system, highly structured…

Three experiments in auditory selective attention form the basis of this investigation of cross-cultural differences among the ethnic groups of the Ibo and Yoruba adolescents of Nigeria. A sample of 200 16-year-olds were randomly drawn from four secondary schools. Yoruba adolescents showed superior performance in a task-involving the repetition of…

The Intercultural Social Studies Project (ICSSP) newsletter, issued periodically, is designed to disseminate information about the project which is concerned with developing and field testing cultural/international study materials for secondary students. Directed toward field test teachers, ICSSP evaluators, and key people with professional…

This report compares the influences of educational practices of the British Isles and the United States on secondary pupil achievement in the basic subject matter areas at each successive grade level. The objective of the study is to test the hypotheses that: (1) significant differences will be found between students' mean achievements in the…

Two experiments were conducted to compare the effectiveness of different ways of producing the frames in a remedial self-instructional program intended to improve the ability of Nigerian secondary school students to understand spatial relationships in pictures. (Author/AM)

Describes an approach to literacy instruction for immigrant students based on two novels. Focuses on the immigrant experience and teaches both cultural and "school" literacy. (MM)

Discusses survey results polling American, Australian, and Japanese teachers' views about educational concepts. Differing cultural backgrounds probably account for varied responses concerning teacher roles, competition, teaching of moral principles, and administrator leadership roles. Effective school management requires knowledge of various…

Describes a cross-cultural study of secondary teachers in Sweden and the state of Washington that investigated the interrelationship of teacher attitudes regarding job satisfaction, professionalism, and collective negotiations. (For availability see EA 507 343) (Author/JG)

A criticism is made of introductory language courses at the secondary school level which consist of sociocultural studies or vague and general surveys of several languages and cultures. (RM)

Argues that social studies courses should prepare students to live in the world community. (RB)