Author supplied the results of some cross-national research on the influence of culture on literacy learning. (Editor/RK)

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.…

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)

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)

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)

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…

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)

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)

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…

Considered the social attitudes of our American culture and the need for an accurate history of our actual pluralism. (Author/RK)

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)

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)

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)

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.…

Discusses the importance foreign language study should have in the Australian school curriculum. (CFM)