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Downing, John – School Review, 1975
Author supplied the results of some cross-national research on the influence of culture on literacy learning. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Objectives, Ethnocentrism
Adams, Charles; And Others – 1981
This paper discusses a multi-dimensional model of ethnocentrism and describes a study that tests the prediction that this multi-dimensional model is a better predictor of communicative behaviors than a single dimensional model of ethnocentrism. First, four theories of ethnocentrism are reviewed in an attempt to find common links among approaches.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Discrimination

Goldstein, Jay – Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques au Canada, 1978
In the study reported in this article, an indirect approach, in which university students judged the social standing of surnames representing thirteen groups, is used to measure ethnic prestige. The findings presented indicate that ethnic prestige rankings are directly related to an index of ethnic socioeconomic status. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Status, Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism

Lambert, Glenn E. – Social Education, 1978
Presents a teacher-developed handout intended to serve as a vehicle for discussion and the primary means of teaching the concept of ethnocentrism. The handout describes a fictitious foreign culture. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Cultural Differences, Ethnocentrism, Instructional Materials
Cronkhite, Louella – Elements: Translating Theory Into Practice, 1978
Myth used as religion has several implications for the classroom. Discusses mythology and moral education as well as how mythology can reduce the problem of ethnocentrism. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Ethnocentrism, Moral Development
Plihal, Jane – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1987
After a brief discussion of the impressions made by outsiders on natives of developing countries, recommendations are made for a culturally sensitive development worker/educator, including contacting appropriate governmental agencies; involving host country partners in planning; listening; acting ethically; being sensitive to the prevailing…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations, Ethics

Decker, Warren D.; Morello, John T. – Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1984
Argues that the "Multiple Preference System" in assigning debate judges should be discontinued because it is unfair, discriminatory, and perpetuates ethnocentric responses. Recommends a nonevaluative system of judge assignment. (PD)
Descriptors: Debate, Educational Practices, Ethnocentrism, Evaluation Criteria

Lee, Martin J. – Quest, 1985
This paper suggests that highly competitive sport encourages strong identification of fans with teams. Theories of conflict, categorization, and social competition are used to discuss some determinants of identification with teams, and implications for physical education are drawn. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Athletics, Audiences, Competition, Conflict
Steffy, D. Michael – 2002
Educators must realize that today's public schools are a specialized development out of the universal culture-process. Research anthropologists have identified cross-culturally as enculturation, the process of acquiring a culture. By virtue of being born into a specific socio-cultural group, all humans have culture, and all human groups…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Context, Educational Change, Ethnocentrism

Novak, Michael – American Scholar, 1973
Considered the social attitudes of our American culture and the need for an accurate history of our actual pluralism. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Democratic Values, Ethnocentrism, Humanities

Chown, Linda E. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1983
The work of a number of American literary critics on the novels of contemporary Spanish women are reviewed. It is argued that the criticism generally suffers from ethnocentrism and lacks insight into the reality of the lives of Spanish women. The works of Matute, Martin, Gaite, and Quiroga, among others, are discussed. (EF)
Descriptors: Authors, Cultural Differences, Ethnocentrism, Females

Rasmussen, Bonnie – English in Australia, 1982
Just as schools can teach consumerism and active criticism toward unfair advertising techniques, so too can schools teach a watchdog attitude toward prejudice through the use of multicultural reading materials in libraries and classrooms. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism, Literature

Thernstrom, Abigail M. – Public Interest, 1980
Traces the political and social factors (including Black nationalism) that have influenced Federal policy regarding bilingual education since the mid 1960s. Holds that current policy is ethnocentric and robs schools of their traditional integrative function. (GC)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Black Power, Educational Legislation

Herzfeld, Michael – Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, 1980
Considers the idiom of ethnic discrimination in one small and extremely "closed" Greek village, with the object of demonstrating the artificiality of the prejudice-xenophobia distinction in an ethnographic context. Uses a "folk taxonomy" model which examines the relativistic sense in which group stereotypes are applied.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Study, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes

Eltis, K. J. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association, 1978
Discusses the importance foreign language study should have in the Australian school curriculum. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Education, Educational Benefits, Ethnocentrism