The paper's focus is "The Dakar framework for action--education for all: meeting our collective commitments", which presents the UNESCO, G8, World Bank and International Monetary Fund's blueprint for the "development" of education globally by 2015. Taking a discourse analytic approach, discussion of the "Dakar framework" make two claims. The first…

Study abroad programmes for teacher education students are increasingly being evaluated to determine their effectiveness in achieving intended outcomes. There is a danger, however, that such evaluations will ignore valuable but unintended and serendipitous outcomes of such programmes. This paper investigates an example of such an outcome, the…

While many undergraduate disciplines are revising curricula to address issues of diversity more effectively, it is commonly assumed that courses in cross-cultural psychology are less in need of revision due to their inherent multi-cultural focus. The field of cross-cultural psychology, however, is not immune to Eurocentric and androcentric biases.…

Since World War II the United States has become the leader among Western industrial countries in attempting to export its own educational values to developing nations. United States policies, however, have not been based on careful consideration of the specific political, economic, and social realities of these nations. As a result, the…

This report describes a 1-week residential in-service course dealing with intercultural education and attended by European teachers from ten countries. The following presentations are reviewed: (1) "Welcoming Address" (D. Lawton); (2) "Interculturalism and the New Swedish Teacher-Training Programme" (C. Sparrman); (3)…

This report summarizes comments of 10 researchers on topics relevant to intercultural education in Western Europe. The two-day seminar was organized by the French Commission for Culture in Brussels, the General Confederation of Teachers, and the Socio-Cultural Centre for Migrants in Brussels to bring research insights to Belgian educators involved…

A course on the intercultural training of teachers, organized by the Portuguese authorities, was a result of a Franco-Portuguese pilot project concerned with the development of intercultural training courses and teaching materials. Purposes of the course were to present the material prepared by the joint Franco-Portuguese team; to test and…

This manual was prepared to assist teachers in educating students on the nature of prejudice and ethnocentrism and how to deal with both of them. By focusing on the interrelated themes of self, similarities and differences, and coping with differences, the problem of prejudice is approached. The material on self is devoted to increasing students'…

The Preschool Racial Attitude Measure (PRAM) and the Comfortable Interpersonal Distance Scale (CID) were concurrently administered in counterbalanced order to 60 black and white five and six-year olds to establish whether a relationship existed between assessed racial bias and the interpersonal distance ascribed to figures by race. No relationship…

This paper describes how the author has used children's stories, published in the People's Republic of China, to explore the ethnocentrism in American academic social psychology. The stories are read to students in the author's undergraduate classes in social psychology, who then discuss the themes of the stories. Comparisons are made with stories…

Pseudoscience, or the process of persuasion by establishing a pretense of scientific discovery, is examined in this book in an effort to dispel false notions about the validity of various measures of intelligence and the correlations of genetics to mental ability. The history and development of concepts related to hereditary intelligence and…

This teacher's manual examines the activities, attitudes, and approaches necessary for teaching about ethnic groups and provides guidelines for classwork. It is specifically designed to accompany a series of units about Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Blacks, Poles, Armenians, Scots and Scotch Irish, and Jews in Connecticut. The first section of…

This paper deals with the cultural attitudes which one either learns or inherits as a speaker of English. It is a discussion of the attitudes observed as a student of English, in the use of English as an international and auxiliary language, and in the teaching of English as a second language. As English becomes an international language,…

Examines school and university curricula in Europe and the extent of their influence on xenophobia. Considers the pluralistic nature of the European population. Discusses the role of curriculum selection and language policy in state efforts to promote nationalism. Assesses the role of curricular systems in the actual encouragement of warfare,…

Examines moral exclusion from the perspective of prejudice and stereotyping. Analyzes the causes and consequences of delegitimization. Suggests two models that describe the role of conflict in delegitimization and of ethnocentrism in delegitimization. Describes historical events that illustrate the consequences of delegitimization. (JS)