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Williams, Wayne R. – Phylon, 1992
Examines questions of constructing a unified theory in Black Studies, and proposes a model that has explained creole language phenomena as a possible basis for such a unified theory. Explores the role of African languages in the formation of creole patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: African History, African Languages, Afrocentrism, Black Studies

Ravitch, Diane – Educational Leadership, 1991
If public schools abandon their historic common school mission to promote racial and ethnic separatism, they will forfeit their claim to public support. If they remain true to their historic role, the public schools will rightfully serve as a bulwark against ethnic chauvinism and counter the forces of social fragmentation by instilling democratic…
Descriptors: Civics, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Democratic Values

Halsey, John – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Argues that offering part of the sociology curriculum abroad enables an instructor to take advantage of the students' marginal position in foreign countries. States that the students' marginality helps achieve three goals: engaging students' interest, dealing with their ethnocentricity, and using experiential learning. Describes the State…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ethnocentrism, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries

Bommes, Michael; Radke, Frank-Olaf – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1993
Rejects the hypothesis that low achievement by migrant children is because of deficient cultural attributes or institutional ethnocentrism of schools. Suggests that schools always discriminate--positively or negatively--when, according to their institutional logic, it appears to be appropriate. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Education

Scott, Thomas J. – Social Studies, 1999
Analyzes students' perceptions of the developing world and cultural differences before and after they view photographs of India. Provides ideas for eliminating students' stereotypes and ethnocentric biases about developing countries through cooperative brainstorming activities that instill high-order thinking in students and by having students…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Ethnocentrism

Scott, Thomas J. – Social Studies, 1998
Reports that previous research showed that many individuals are ethnocentric and lack global awareness. Provides an overview of theories related to ethnocentrism; presents data illustrating attitudes experienced by Thai exchange students in the United States; and introduces a pedagogical approach to global education that minimizes ethnocentrism…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Relations, Ethnocentrism
Brinson, Jesse A. – Guidance & Counselling, 2004
This article encourages supervisors, in general, and counsellor supervisors, in particular, to engage in reflective learning as a way to identify their cultural biases. Awareness of counsellor bias has been addressed by ethical standards outlined for professional helpers. This article presents reflective learning as a potentially useful strategy…
Descriptors: Supervision, Social Bias, Racial Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes
Hamburg, David A. – 1994
The human species seems to have a virtuoso capacity for making harsh distinctions between groups and for justifying violence on whatever scale the technology of the time permits. This essay explores the possibilities associated with using education as a means to avoiding conflicts or resolving them peacefully. Focus is placed on teaching humans to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Bias, Child Development
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth – 1996
Since the 1950s the assumption that prejudice or ethnocentrism is a single entity with many causes has governed social scientific work on prejudice. The way society talks about prejudices has become an obstacle to real understanding. This book offers an alternative theory that is a claim that different prejudices are characteristic of different…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Classification, Cultural Differences, Definitions
Banker, Mark T. – 1993
This paper examines the comparable educational histories of the "Hispanos" of a mountainous area of New Mexico and the peoples of southern Appalachia. Presbyterian missionaries entered both regions following the Civil War and soon placed mountain people in the category of "exceptional populations," along with freed slaves,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Boarding Schools, Cultural Interrelationships, Educational History
Collette, Larry – 1989
The extensive television coverage of the Opening Ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games was a vital lead-in for a television network as it sought to generate audience interest over the course of the games. This coverage models an unfolding international news event in its presentation style and is analyzed from that perspective in a content…
Descriptors: Athletics, Audience Awareness, Commercial Television, Content Analysis
Wergin, Jon F. – 1989
The findings of a survey on freshmen attitudes in four areas: interest in cultural diversity, racism, ethnocentrism, and cross-cultural beliefs and values, are presented. The 81-item survey was given to 234 students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Results indicated: most freshmen express an interest in learning more about other cultures, and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, College Freshmen, College Students
Pai, Young – 1983
The new pluralism in a democratic society requires that cultural differences be regarded as differences rather than deficits; however, this view of cultural pluralism does not mean that the notion of cultural differences should be carried to such an extreme as to become separatist in orientation. Cultural differences represent various societies'…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Ampadu, Lena – 1987
Americans doing business with West Africans are limited in their ability to communicate successfully in that part of the world because of language, stereotyping, and ethnocentrism. Americans must become accustomed to British patterns of speech and writing. Stereotypes of Africa, its people, and its cultures perpetuated by the media keep Americans…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
Garza, Raymond T. – 1981
This examination addresses sociocultural, educational, and psychological implications for the planning and implementation of large-scale educational interventions such as Project Follow Through. The first part of the paper provides an overview of issues related to the educational plight of economically disadvantaged children. Particular attention…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy