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Cronje, Franci – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
This article explores emerging patterns of communication within a multicultural school environment. South Africa consists various and different identities all sharing overlapping living spaces. Diverse cultural identities exist in public spaces, and family units are in many cases so hybrid that very few adolescents can define themselves as…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Self Concept
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Sirota, Elaine; Bailey, Lora – Childhood Education, 2009
Some research studies indicate that a content knowledge gap exists between minority and non-minority children, especially young children from poor families. One factor contributing to this problem may be that teachers expect minority children to learn subject matter at a slower rate than their counterparts. It has been found that teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Second Language Learning, Minority Group Children
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Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly; Al-Said, Khaleel; Makrakis, Vassilios; Kalogiannakis, Pella; de Baz, Theodora – Intercultural Education, 2010
The present study examined the perceptions of Jordanian and Greek pre-service teachers (N = 489) towards the "Other" as well as towards tolerance and intolerance. Frequencies, "t"-tests and one-way analysis of variance, as well as multiple regression analyses, were performed for the data analysis. The results show that although…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Leneham, Marcel – Babel, 2007
This article demonstrates that theories intended to prevent ethnocentric influence for one pair of languages may, in fact, be the catalyst for the phenomenon it purports to prevent in another pair. While it explores the issue in relation to sign language translation, the article raises the question of whether the findings can be extrapolated to…
Descriptors: Translation, Sign Language, Deafness, Linguistic Theory
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Shahjahan, Riyad Ahmed – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
There is a growing body of literature discussing evidence-based education, practice, policy, and decision-making from a critical perspective. In this article, drawing on the literature and policy documents related to evidence-based education in the USA, Britain, and Canada, I join this critique and offer an anticolonial perspective. I argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Cullinan, Beth; Dove, Tim; Estice, Robert; Lanka, Janet – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
Everybody knows how easy it is for students to react negatively to people who act or think differently from themselves. To counterbalance students' often egocentric and ethnocentric views (which are normal for this age), teaching team collaborates to integrate voices from the world across the curriculum. They want their students to be learning…
Descriptors: World History, Ethnocentrism, World Views, Curriculum Development
Root, Emily – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
Across Canada, many Aboriginal peoples and communities are actively resisting environmental destruction and communicating to settler-Canadians traditions of respect for the land. Moreover, some Indigenous scholars and educators are calling for a foregrounding of Indigenous ways of knowing in environmental education for all students. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Outdoor Education, Canada Natives
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Whitson, James Anthony – International Journal of Social Education, 2009
Criticisms of Howard Zinn's work on U.S. History are examined in the context of increasing emphasis on the idea of "American exceptionalism" in contemporary political and cultural discourse, and particularly the insertion of American exceptionalism into revised social studies standards for the state of Texas. Analysis focusing on the…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Social Change, Social Studies, History Instruction
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Lee, Mimi Miyoung – Intercultural Education, 2007
This paper presents a case study in which a series of international programs was delivered via interactive videoconferencing technology to a middle school classroom in a small rural town in the USA. Despite positive reactions to the international programs, a deeper look at the use of the programs pointed to some reason for concern regarding the…
Descriptors: International Programs, International Studies, Ethnocentrism, Video Technology
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Faas, Daniel – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
Germany has been reluctant to adapt its education systems to the growing number of minority ethnic students, and politicians and policy makers have only recently officially acknowledged that Germany is an immigration country despite decades of mass immigration. This article first provides a socio-historical analysis of the German responses to…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Educational Policy
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Brooks, D. Christopher – Journal of Political Science Education, 2008
This paper replicates an earlier project that tested the impact of comparative politics courses on students' levels of intercultural sensitivity. Using a standardized instrument, the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), I pre- and posttest students taking an on-campus East-Central European politics course taken in the fall semester and an…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Consciousness Raising, Political Science
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Boehm, Diane; Kurthen, Hermann; Aniola-Jedrzejek, Lilianna – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
Preparing students for success in a globalized world invites new approaches. Online collaboration between students from different countries via globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) is one such approach. This article presents the results of a six-semester study beginning in 2006 of international online project collaborations between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Ethnocentrism, International Education
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Philippou, Stavroula – Curriculum Journal, 2007
'Europe' has been increasingly 'invented' and 'reinvented' in discussions about education, curricula and identities over the last five decades. The 'European dimension in education' was a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote their educational policies encouraging national educational systems to endorse a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Geography, Content Analysis
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Brewer, Marilynn B. – American Psychologist, 2007
The author discusses the nature of in-group bias and the social motives that underlie ethnocentric attachment to one's own membership groups. Two common assumptions about in-group bias are challenged: that in-group positivity necessitates out-group derogation and that ingroup bias is motivated by self-enhancement. A review of relevant theory and …
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Social Influences, Motivation, Ethnocentrism
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Case, Kim A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
Many diversity courses in psychology originally aimed to reduce student racial bias and raise their awareness of racism. However, quantitative data testing the effectiveness of such courses are lacking. This study assessed a required diversity course's effectiveness in raising awareness of White privilege and racism; increasing support for…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Affirmative Action, White Students, Anxiety
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