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Jasper, Gigi – English Journal, 1998
Voices the lament and the anger of a lone black teacher in an all-white school district in Wyoming trying to teach the "other" while simultaneously representing the "other." (SR)
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Culture Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction

Rahme, Joseph G. – History Teacher, 1999
Evaluates the usage of five concepts in the study of Islamic and world history that serve to perpetuate the image of Islamic civilization as the Other: (1) Middle East; (2) East and West; (3) Judaic-Christian heritage; (4) Islamic fundamentalism; and (5) jihad. Argues for replacing these concepts. (CMK)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnocentrism, Higher Education, Islamic Culture

Tobin, Joseph – Child Development, 2000
Focuses on how knowledge about Japanese psychological development and culture can serve as a corrective to the ethnocentrism of Western theory. Highlights the Japanese cultural concepts of "amae" and "kejime." (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Developmental Psychology

Pyke, Karen – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2000
Based on analysis of interviews with young adults (N=73), this article examines the ways that children of Korean and Vietnamese immigrants describe growing up in their families. Findings suggest that narrow and ethnocentric images of the family promulgated throughout mainstream culture compose an ideological template that can shape the desires,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Child Rearing, Cultural Images, Ethnocentrism

Sadao, Kathleen C.; Johnsrud, Linda K. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
A study identified commonalities in the experiences of ethnic and racial minority faculty members at a predominantly white research university in Hawai'i. Despite the heterogeneity of minority faculty, common experiences include (1) the bicultural stance cultivated; (2) ethnocentrism perceived; (3) and discriminatory behavior experienced. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Faculty), Ethnic Groups
Mitchell, Candace – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2005
In this article, I address the present-day political and pedagogical implications of the imposition of one year of English only immersion on limited English proficient (LEP) students. The article also presents a case study of an inner-city community in Massachusetts during the early years -- 1968-1974 -- of transition from English only to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Limited English Speaking, English Only Movement
Yi, Sung Do; Kim, Hye Sook – Art Education, 2005
Today's art education in East Asia focuses on Western ethnocentric or European ethnocentric art education. These practices reflect the tremendous effect American and European culture has had upon the art education of East Asia, including Korea. Globalization and the information-oriented society in which we live have changed the world. Like many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnocentrism, Art Education, Cultural Background
Zorn, Jeff – 1995
This essay presents two strands of arguments against radical or critical emancipatory multiculturalism. In strand 1, "'Culture' is...whatever..." the looseness of the core concept of "culture," which can refer to anything at all concerning a social group that itself may exist only theoretically, is shown. In strand 2, "From ideology to leveling,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences

de Cid, Dolores; Smith, W. Flint – NALLD Journal, 1975
A course in Spanish-American Folklore and the Arts is offered in English at Purdue. It aims to acquaint students with development of folklore and arts in Latin America and to increase awareness of and receptivity to Latin America and its people. Procedures, instructional materials, student evaluation and results are discussed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Ethnocentrism, Hispanic American Literature

Martin, David S. – Elementary School Journal, 1975
Reports an analysis of the strength of several independent variables (sex, intelligence, dogmatism, socioeconomic status) as predictors of expressed negative reaction toward pre-Western Eskimo culture by fifth grade children. (CS)
Descriptors: Dogmatism, Elementary School Curriculum, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Culture

Newman, Arthur J. – Social Studies, 1975
In the cultivation of worldminded attitudes, the social studies teacher cannot assume that student interaction with culturally different art will necessarily enhance empathic cosmopolitan attitudes. Pitfalls to be aware of are cited in this article. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Art Education, Attitude Change, Cross Cultural Studies
Barto, Susan – Updating School Board Policies, 1990
The debate between particularism and pluralism is summarized, and multicultural education policies in six states (California; New York; Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Walled Lake, Michigan) are described. Recommendations include planning for demographic change, reviewing curriculum policies, and emphasizing staff…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Boards of Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy
Bloom, Lynn Z. – 1988
Traditional literary canons, represented by E. D. Hirsch's list in "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know" of works which every literate American "needs to know," deemphasize the cultural significance of women and minorities. An alternative and expanded model of cultural literacy, GODDESS (Gender or Diversity…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Classical Literature, Cultural Education, English Curriculum
Ansah, S. L. – 1987
This paper discusses an approach to multicultural education aimed at sensitizing teachers and teacher trainees to diverse cultural patterns. This approach, which is called "Functional Multicultural Education", uses literary writings to emphasize awareness of the levels of cultural differences, both overt and pervasive, that exist in a pluralistic…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Coward, John M. – 1989
American Indian news as reported in urban newspapers and frontier weeklies during the 1820s and 1830s was shaped by the prejudices of the age as well as by the particular historical circumstances which brought Indians into conflict with White Americans. The press portrayed a culture for which it had little abiding sympathy or understanding,…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Ethnic Stereotypes