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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED085081 AUTHOR: Lindberg, Dormalee; Swick, Kevin
TITLE: Teaching Children About Cultural Differences:
Process, Material, Activity, and Behavior.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1973
NOTE: 7 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Childhood Education International (Wichita,
Kansas, April 22-27, 1973); Not available in hard copy due
to marginal legibility of original document
ABSTRACT: This paper contains the argument that the major
focus of social learning must be on the development of
people who value a variety of cultural and subcultural life
styles. Four major concerns confront the classroom teacher
or curriculum developer: (1) valuing cultural diversity in
the classroom, (2) organizing curriculum processes to
encourage the development of diverse talents, (3) creating
materials and activities for actualizing those diverse
cultural talents, and (4) initiating teacher-adult behavior
patterns in the classroom that model the significance of
accepting and appreciating cultural diversity for children.
Several activities are described which foster appreciation
of differences. (DP)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Differences; Cultural-Pluralism;
Individual-Differences; Instructional-Materials
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Class-Activities; *Cultural-Awareness;
*Curriculum-Development; *Early-Childhood-Education;
*Educational-Objectives
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