Describes a program designed to explore issues of identity with English-as-Second-Language students from diverse backgrounds in an Australian classroom. (NH)

Offers craft activities that help children develop a balanced perspective of foreign cultures. Presents 15 craft activities with detailed lists of supplies and procedures for children, with appropriate ages indicated. (DLH)

Presents three justifications of the arts and arts education: the arguments of (1) individual consciousness; (2) societal self-awareness; and (3) cultural presence. Claims young people need wide experience as both makers and consumers of cultural works. (NH)

The Gullah Nation encompasses the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, taking in small adjoining swaths of North Carolina and Florida. The Gullah--or Geechee, as they are usually known in Georgia--survive and often thrive in postmodern America. But they still cherish their traditional crafts (basketweaving, storytelling, cast…

An event based on "find the rule" problems has been part of the University of Canberra Maths Day since 1985. In this paper, the authors describe the Swiss event, its context, its aims, its logistics, and gives examples of problems used in past events. The type of problems used, how they are used in an event at the maths day, and how the…

On January 18, 1803 President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to fund an expedition to the source of the Missouri River. This expedition would become known as the Corps of Discovery, which would spend twenty-eight months exploring, studying, and documenting the wonders of the western frontier. Led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,…

The village of Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills is synonymous with Christmas. Its annual Festival of Lights originated in the 1940s and now attracts over 250,000 visitors each year. In 1994, the Lobethal Lights Festival Committee took over the coordination of activities and gained serious corporate sponsorship. The formalisation of the Festival…

This paper challenges the prevailing conventional wisdom in the UK that the government is the sole architect of the education and training (E&T) system and that qualifications are the magic bullet for securing employment in the creative and cultural sector. It also argues that if policy-makers are serious about wanting to diversify the…

Current renewed interest in the epistemological, socio-cultural, and educational aspects of indigenous knowledge systems (IKSs) has also had some impact on research and practice in the area of mathematics education. Located in the intersection of culture, mathematics, and classroom learning, this position article proposes that the socio-cultural…

A "global simulation" is a class activity allowing students to encounter situations that include love, life, and death in a simulated environment. This paper describes several possible simulations. Each one can be integrated into a variety of intermediate- to advanced-level curricula such as a conversation class, a culture and civilization class,…

The last surviving, authentic, major musico-religious ceremony of the Alaskan Athabascan Indians is described. (NQ)

This paper discusses narrative as a culturally significant speech genre which can be analyzed to reveal important aspects of a culture's code, particularly its expectations for conduct. The paper argues that through an analysis of narratives an understanding of one important aspect of a culture's code, specifically, that aspect which deals with a…

If there is a dominant theme in the research on the "production of culture," it is the tension between creativity and constraint. Constraints are imposed by the structures and processes of culture-producing industries and organizations in the attempt to cope with the uncertainties of generating and marketing cultural products. Yet the…

This paper considered the popularity of museums, particularly art museums, and the problems that accompany such attention. It described, further, what the art museum is, what it does, and what it can and cannot do. (Author/RK)

The evolution of America's oldest junior college is traced from its beginnings as a cooperative agreement between the president of the University of Chicago and the principal of Joliet High School to its present plans for a Diamond Jubilee celebration, with an emphasis on responsive future goals. (NHM)