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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED126213 AUTHOR: Verma, Gajendra K.; Bagley, Christopher
TITLE: Race and Education Across Cultures.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 375 p.
AVAILABILITY: Greylock Publishers, 13 Spring Street,
Stamford, Connecticut 06901 ($15.95)
ABSTRACT: The various scholars who contribute in the three
broad sections in this volume orient their papers toward
revealing the diverse forms and functions of race and
education across cultures. They highlight the conditions in
analyses of Britain, Australia, and the United States. The
rationale behind the structure of the symposium provides a
forum in which readers with different biases can discuss
the issues or race relations by formulating new questions
about social situations and human acts. In light of the
variations involved in intergroup relations, one of the
criteria in organizing the material is to focus on the
possible relationships among differing racial, ethnic, and
social groups in societies of the world today. In order to
capture the diversity offered by the work of experts in
this area, a framework in the form of brief opening
passages at the beginning of each section is provided. A
selected bibliography to these issues is appended to each
introduction. The book neither pretends to deal with the
science of race relations as a whole nor claims to settle
the controversy which exists in the area of race and
education. There are three biases: toward the academic
approach of social psychology; towards empirical studies;
and toward radical conceptualizations from these studies.
The three major sections are as follows: intellect and
achievement; attitudes, personality, and behavior; and
curriculum studies. (Author/AM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Achievement; Attitudes-; Behavior
Patterns; Conferences-; Cultural-Context; Cultural
Differences; Cultural-Pluralism; Curriculum-; Educational
Policy; Educational-Principles; Educational-Problems; Equal
Education; Ethnic-Groups; Intelligence-; Minority-Group
Children; Personality-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cross-Cultural-Studies; *Cultural
Influences; *Cultural-Interrelationships; *Educational
Practices; *Racial-Factors; *Racial-Relations
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