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Keys, Martha M.; And Others – 1995
The video "Cultural Baggage" was created to parody stereotypes by which people are often labeled. Using comedy as the vehicle, this short video tape serves as a way to break down defenses and allow dialog to begin about how people can learn not to stereotype each other culturally or racially. The facilitator's manual is divided into four sections:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Interrelationships, Drama
Biddle, James R. – 1992
In the mid-1980s, a community college in a parochial Appalachian town became a state university. The new university was created at the behest of a powerful state politician despite the opposition of the faculty, administration, and board of the community college. A college of education was created and an interdisciplinary general education program…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict, Educational Attitudes, Educational Development
Swartz, James D. – 1994
This paper examines teachers' practical theories of teaching and ways in which individual teachers participate in a social solidarity, based on Richard Rorty's idea of solidarity as clinging to one's own ethnocentrism to understand differences between right and wrong, good and bad. Social solidarity is seen as holding people together, defining…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Washburn, David E. – 1995
This paper presents a reconceptualization of multicultural education for the 21st century through a critical analysis of the current status of multicultural education. Based on Milton M. Gordon's theory of racial and ethnic group relations and assimilation, the paper identifies three ideological systems for viewing…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Policy
Liegois, Jean-Pierre – 1990
The Council of Europe's third seminar on Gypsy and migrant children's education attracted 75 educators from 6 European countries. This report provides a synopsis of each of eight plenary lectures and complete reports from four workshops. An introduction offers background information and an opening address by Jean-Pierre Liegois is given in full.…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries
Bode, Robert A. – 1987
Much of the rhetoric used by world leaders is one of violence, based on destructive myths and images, which increases the probability of war. Such leaders attempt to persuade the public that militarism, threats, and sociopolitical superiority are effective strategies for peace, when in fact they maximize cultural and political differences. The…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Disarmament, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries
Howards, Melvin – 1989
This document sets the current literacy education movement in historical context, criticizes the actions of unprepared newcomers to field, and praises the efforts of reading professionals who use a language experience approach to teaching reading. In an overview, the faddishness of some current literacy education activity is deplored. Section 1…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Este, Robert A. – 1984
This paper introduces the concept of clinical supervision as a formative evaluation tool for "fine tuning" already familiar teaching techniques and explores the implications of ethnocentrism in using clinical supervision in Native Indian education. The underlying philosophy of clinical supervision is expressed as a strong humanistic…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnocentrism
Walsh, James A.; And Others – 1979
An attempt was made to examine authoritarian and non-authoritarian scales of social attitudes and their reversals as a function of: (1) content consistency; (2) acquiescence; and (3) a tendency to use extreme categories of response. The study questioned whether Adorno's fascism (F), dogmatism (D), ethnocentrism (E), and anti-Semitism (A-S) scales…
Descriptors: Adults, Anti Semitism, Authoritarianism, Dogmatism
Van Ness, John R. – 1973
A Spanish American village economy as influenced by changes in its land base, land rights, and the introduction of mercantile capitalism during the U.S. Territorial period in New Mexico was analyzed. Attention was given to differences in village land tenure and exploitative patterns from those imposed with the advent of Anglo American political…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Area Studies, Beliefs, Capitalism
Downs, James F. – 1970
An attempt to provide an alternative set of procedures for cross-cultural training aims at imparting skills which enable the Peace Corps Volunteer to make the necessary adjustment of his own behavioral style and to evaluate host country patterns more accurately, in order to facilitate communication across cultural barriers. The introduction…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cross Cultural Training, Culture Contact, Ethnocentrism
Henry, Jeannette, Ed. – 1972
The anthropological reader about American Indians presents 28 articles dated from 1968 to 1971. It is divided into 4 parts: the anthropologist: the man and the discipline; a giant step between 2 worlds; scientific investigation: archaeology; and early agricultural and economy: 3 studies. Also included are (1) discussion: an anthropologist as…
Descriptors: American History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Anthropology
Becker, James M. – 1973
A growing body of research literature suggests that significant relationships exist between the attitudes individuals develop toward their own and other societies and their images of international conflict and collaboration. Without some understanding of basic human behavior, a recognition that many of the important differences in behavior can be…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Developing Nations, Elementary Schools, Ethnocentrism
Krug, Mark M. – 1972
This student book, one in a series of civic education materials, focuses on white ethnic groups and how they influence the operation of the American political system. The ethnic groups which are investigated include Poles, Irish, Italians, and Jews. An ethnic person is defined as anyone who decides to identify with and live among those who share…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Ethnic Grouping, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Studies

Johnson, Donald – History Teacher, 1987
States that traditions in U.S. education inhibit construction of a genuine world history; that it uses Western norms as the basis for judging all civilizations. Recommends the comparative approach to education with the humanistic traditions outside the West included in order to teach critical thinking about specific civilizations. (GEA)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Ethnocentrism