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McLaughlin, Denis – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1996
To study the importance of acknowledging cultural factors when retraining teacher educators in developing nations, researchers examined the learning experiences of teacher educators and inservice teachers in Papua New Guinea. Results highlighted how educators handled incongruencies between their own beliefs about teaching and learning and those…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations
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Wu, I-Hwey; Chen, Kaili – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2005
The authors review 11 studies published from 1971 through the 1990s on learning and behavioral difficulties among Chinese American children. The focus of the review is on (a) quantity and quality of the studies, (b) topics examined, and (c) research findings. Results showed that limited English proficiency, delinquency and gangs, and emotional and…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Limited English Speaking, Behavior Problems, Learning Problems
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2003
In this article, I present a framework that can be used in our work with special groups of gifted students--one that recognizes the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), racism, and other limiting factors on educational achievement and provides a blueprint for interventions. This framework stems from Urie Bronfrenbrenner's ecological theory of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cultural Influences, Minority Groups, Program Development
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Jambunathan, Sai – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
This article explores beliefs of Asian Indian teachers regarding the importance of use of developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood classrooms. A total of 178 Asian Indian early childhood teachers working in various early childhood classrooms in the southern part of India participated in the study. The teachers filled out a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Parent Participation, Young Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Berge, Kjell Lars – Written Communication, 2002
The article presents the cultural background, methodological design, theory, and results of a comprehensive research project where the doxa and textual norms of the judges at the national writing exam in Norway were studied. The background of the study is the quite comprehensive reforms in Norway of the way writing is taught in the upper secondary…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Norms, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background
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Kim, Bryan S. K.; Li, Lisa C.; Liang, T. H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
Seventy-eight Asian American college students who were experiencing career uncertainty engaged in a counseling session with a European American female counselor who focused on either immediate resolution of the problem or insight attainment through exploration of the problem and who emphasized client expression of either cognition or emotion.…
Descriptors: Values, Ethnicity, Career Counseling, Asian Americans
Karabenick, Stuart A., Ed.; Newman, Richard S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Building on Karabenick's earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, this book brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current trends in the area and gives expanded attention to applications to teaching and learning. The…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Bullying, Academic Advising, Help Seeking
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Fay, Karen E.; Medway, Frederic J. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
Based on Parrot's work with college students, a six-activity acquaintance rape prevention program for first-year high school students living in a rural South Carolina community was implemented and evaluated. The program decreased students' acceptance of rape myths compared with non-participating students both on a scale developed by Burt and on…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Rape, Prevention, Dating (Social)
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Cesarone, Bernard – Childhood Education, 2006
This column presents and summarizes recent resources that discuss some problems and solutions related to elementary education in inner-city urban areas. (Contains 6 Web resources.)
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Quality
Kim, H. Heather; Valadez, James R. – 1995
This study explored the model minority stereotype by examining the differences between Asian American students and other racial groups in terms of higher education aspirations, academic achievement, and socioeconomic characteristics. It is based on subset of data from the 1988 National Education Longitudinal Study, namely 973 Asian American, 939…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Asian American Students, Asian Americans
Putkiewicz, Elzbieta – 1996
This paper describes the effect of cultural context on the content of kindergarten curriculum in Poland, chronicling the historical changes from Communist to post-Soviet, capitalist cultures. Soviet cultural influence on early childhood education from 1945 to 1989 is described as affecting a single obligatory curriculum, strict government control,…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communism
Smith, Robert William – 1994
An elective graduate course on multicultural education in a teacher education program had two main goals: (1) to develop student awareness of the ways in which race, class, and gender affect educational achievement; and (2) to encourage students to challenge social inequality and promote an acceptance of cultural diversity. A social…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Content, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Battle, Dolores E., Ed. – 1993
This text on communication disorders in multicultural populations is intended to provide a framework for speech language pathologists and audiologists in providing services to persons from different cultures and racial backgrounds. The 11 papers are grouped into 2 parts. Papers in part I provide an overview of the major cultural groups in the…
Descriptors: Adults, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1991
This technical assistance paper provides preschool planners and staff with information on developmental characteristics of preschool children relevant to planning and providing a quality preschool program. Following a case scenario underscoring the need for understanding child development, a theoretical framework concerning child development is…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Community Influence, Cultural Influences
Nieto, Sonia – 1992
This book explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education for students from all cultural backgrounds. The constant and complex interplay and interactions among personal, social, political, and educational factors in exploring the success or failure of students in schools and the benefits of multicultural education are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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