EDUCATION 41-4
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    Cultural Differences and Education
    Summer
    Session 1979.
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    Richard 0. Dalbey
    The course is designed as a seminar on the influence of
    cultural factors in school learning, focusing on the dynamics of
    majority-minority relations and their relevance for educational
    policy and practice. The aim is to explore this arena in such a
    way that we are better able tot (1) identify cultural characteristics
    and differences, (2) appreciate and respect them, and
    (3)
    learn to
    use them constructively in educational planning and school learning.
    Preferring to accent depth rather than breadth, emphasis will
    be placed on a modest number of major racial and ethnic groups
    important to Canada and the United States. Although a cross-national
    analysis comparing race and ethnic relations in a variety of
    countries around the globe is no1 the intent of the course, students
    will be asked to look at a particular aspect of minority education
    in other cultures.
    Special attention will be given to Canada and ethnic relations,
    and the reality of multiculturalism and education in Quebec, Ontario,
    and British Columbia as well as cultural, sociological, and historical
    factors influencing the education of minority groups such as
    Eskimos, Indians, Metis, Hutterites, recent immigrants, and the
    developing subcultures of the inner city; and the prevailing ideology
    in the United States with respect to cultural differences and the
    role and policies of educational institutions in community, national,
    and regional development to eliminate inequality. Emphasis will
    also be given to recent trends and issuest class structure, ethnicity,
    and regional variation as a basis for understanding social class
    biases in education; schools and cultural assimilation; educational
    aspirations as a new social force; and the social psychology of
    heterogeneous schools.
    During the course, students will be asked to concentrate on
    creative projects in the subject area and to prepare a two-page
    prospectus with annotated bibliographic entries. At the end of the
    term, each student will in turn present his research findings to
    the class in the form of an oral report.
    From time to time, members of the community representing diverse
    racial and ethnic groups will be invited to address the class.
    TEXTS: Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted
    Canadian Ethnic Studies. Special Issue: Ethnicity and
    Education,
    1976.
    Toronto Board of Education, Final Report of the Work Group
    gn Multicultural Programs,
    1976.
    Cole S. Brembeck and Walker H. Hill, Cultural Challenges
    to Education,
    1973
    (optional but highly recommended for
    further course work in the subject area).
    "On Reserve" reading list and bibliography will be handed out first
    day of class.
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    In the Library:
    Curriculum
    BANKS, J.
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    Teaching Ethnic Studies
    BANKS & JOYCE
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    Teaching Social Studies to Culturally Different
    Children
    Teaching Language Arts to Culturally Different
    Children
    Alberta Elementary Social Studies Handbook: Experiences in Decision Making
    RATHS, HARMIN, SIMON
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    Values and Teachi
    SHAFTEL, FANNY AND GEORGE
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    Role Playing for Social Values
    TABA, Hilda
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    Teaching Strategies for the Culturally
    Disadvantaged
    A Teachers' Handbook for Elementary Social
    Studies
    Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice
    BOOKS (Ordered for the Bookstore)
    ASHWORTH, Mary
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    Immigrant Children in Canadian Schools
    CAZDEN, C.
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    Functions of Language in the Classroom
    Teachers College Press
    MARTELL, George
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    Politics of the Canadian Public School
    General:
    PALMER, Howard, Ed.
    immigration and the Rise of
    MultculturalISm
    ROSENTHAL
    Pygmalion ?
    in the Classroom
    RYAN, T.
    Poverty and the Child:
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    A Canadian Study
    HODGETTS
    What Culture, What Heritage?
    KRAUTER, Joseph
    The Other Canadians:
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    Profiles
    of Si* Minorities
    MINGHI,;Julian
    Peoplof the Living Land
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    (studies of ethnic
    groups ?
    in ?
    B.C.)
    LAMBERT, W.
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    E.
    Bilingual ?
    Education: ?
    The St. ?
    Lambert Experience
    SWAIN, N.
    Bilingual
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    Schooling: ?
    Some
    Experiences In
    Canada and the U.S.
    McLEOD, ?
    N. ?
    R.
    Need Culture and Curriculum
    Educatiff g ?
    immigrants and Ethnic
    Minorities
    1969
    Canadian Teachers Federation
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    The Poor at School
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    in Canada
    1970
    MOWAT, and St. Lawrence
    New Canadian Activities:
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    Summary
    of Teachers
    Response to a Questionnaire,
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    1969
    Ontario Association for
    Curriculum Development
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    Conference
    on Multi-
    cultural ism In Education,
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    1977
    COLES and HILL
    Cultural Challenges to Education,
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    1973
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    •.....,,ded Readings (cont)
    Journals
    Canadian Ethnic Studies
    Vol. VII No. 1 1975
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    Special Issue: The Green Paper on immigration
    Vol. VIII No. 1 1976
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    Special Issue: Education and Ethnicity
    TESL Talk
    Vol. 10 No. 3 Summer 1979
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    Immigration and Multiculturalism
    Related Bibliographies Available in the Library
    Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups
    Immigration, Emigration and Migration
    Indian and Eskimo Periodicals
    Ashworth, Mary ougriant Children In Canadian
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    is.
    Aoki, T. & Dahlie,
    J.
    whose Culture? Whose Heritag? UPC Faculty of DL
    Cazden, C. Functions of Language In The
    Classrccin. ?
    aders Qllege Press.
    Martell, George. Politics of
    'the
    Canadian Public
    School.
    cper &
    PaJ.ner Issues
    In Cultural Diversity, Ontario Institute For
    Studies In
    &txatioi, 1976.
    %'blfgang , Aaron The F)iation Of linnigrant Students, OISE, 1976.
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