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Hopkins, William – Foreign Language Annals, 1992
Argues that the acquisition of foreign languages by U.S. students must be established as a national priority to secure the linguistic capabilities necessary to help shape and participate in the future of the shrinking, yet increasingly complex international community. (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Objectives, English, Ethnocentrism

Stevenson, Christine – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Presents some dilemmas faced by educators in Australia and elsewhere in confronting issues related to the teaching of the arts of indigenous peoples in the classroom. The comments of two Australian Aboriginal educators and an Aboriginal artist are included. (MDM)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education

Nicholas, Ralph W. – Liberal Education, 1991
Becoming an anthropologist illustrates on a large scale how valuable examining other cultures is. Anthropology should be incorporated into the college liberal arts curriculum to help eliminate the ethnocentrism of educated people in our own society but should focus on great civilizations nearly matching ours in complexity, historical depth, and…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Curriculum, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnocentrism

Laughton, David; Ottewill, Roger – Education + Training, 2000
Identifies three aspects of cross-cultural capability: sensitivity, cross-cultural business skills, and international management competence. Suggests a strategy to shift business students' perspective from ethnocentrism to ethnodiversity and prepare them for global work. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Business Education, Cross Cultural Training, Ethnocentrism
Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
From its very beginning sports activity became--already within the framework of the modern nation-building project, establishing national ethos, and constituting effective colonization of the Other--a central element of the effort of the modern system to create, represent, and consume the modern body and soul and to create the healthy-conquering…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Athletics, Social Influences, Ethnocentrism
Crozier, Gill; Davies, Jane – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2008
This article draws on a two-year study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of South Asian parents and their children's views on the school experience (Parents, Children and the School Experience: Asian Families' Perspectives--Grant Reference: R000239671). The article focuses on an aspect of the young people's school…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Racial Segregation, Student Behavior
Meyer, Lindsay; Sherman, Lilian; MaKinster, James – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
This study examines the effects of the Japan BRIDGE Project, a global education program, on its third grade participants. Characterization of lessons and analysis of student interviews were used to investigate the nature of the curriculum and whether or not student participants were more culturally sensitive due to participation. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Asian Culture, Empathy
Patterson, Rubin – Social Forces, 2006
Based on detected correlations between the strategic collaboration of U.S.-based diasporas and their respective ancestral homelands on the one hand and the socioeconomic and technological development of those homelands on the other, this paper, which provides a conceptual foundation of the correlation, attempts to ignite a new area of research on…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Correlation, Cooperation, Socioeconomic Status
Stanford Univ., CA. Center for Research in International Studies. – 1980
This teacher's guide will help secondary teachers teach about Japan using the best selling novel or television mini-series "Shogun." In preparing the guide, it was not possible to preview the television program before going to press. Therefore the lessons are keyed to the novel. The pages referred to in the lessons are in the paperback…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Change, Cultural Differences
Witcher, William W.; Baptiste, H. Prentice, Jr. – 1974
This learning module instruction booklet provides guidelines for the use of a kit designed to teach students nondiscriminatory social attitudes and to heighten general awareness of cultural differences. Intended for use with a film followed by group discussion, the kit provides samples of attitude pretest and an attitude posttest related to the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ethnocentrism, Learning Modules, Minority Groups
Williamson, Leon E.; Cavender, Ruth R. – 1975
The Soviet position on vocabulary and the relationships among intelligence, language, and culture holds that thoughts and words have different developmental roots and that there are more differences than likenesses between them. In this United States study, 105 students grouped by their having parents in three different employment categories were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Ethnocentrism

Mangan, James – Human Development, 1978
Examines the possible effects of cultural and epistemological factors, such as mythicomagical and empiricoscientific thought, on conservation task performance. (BD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Cultural Differences

Trifonovitch, Gregory J. – Educational Perspectives, 1977
Describes some barriers to cross-cultural communication and learning and presents four stages of cultural adjustment for the benefit of teachers who must teach and develop cultural understanding in students while learning about different cultural characteristics exhibited by those students. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Stereotypes

Frideres, J. S.; Goldenberg, Sheldon – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1977
This data shows that young Western Canadians have a low ethnic identity while simultaneously holding a very high national identity and a high regional identity. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Background, Ethnic Studies

Walker, W. G. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
An invited perspective article relects on developments related to the professorship of educational administration in the United States. The originally Americocentric approach is now in decline as leaders seek to learn from abroad, widen theory bases, and observe new modes of administrator preparation. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cultural Exchange, Educational Administration, Educational Trends