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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED032568 AUTHOR: Frelick, John Paul
TITLE: Radical Diversity in a Global Context; Theoretical
Reflections on International Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1969
NOTE: 19 p.; Paper prepared for the American Personnel and
Guidance Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, March
30 April 3, 1969.
ABSTRACT: The author discusses the current role of the
university and its relationship to the whole of society in
a global context. To the student personnel worker a
particular problem is posed; how to encourage cultural
contact, particularly with foreign and minority students
while at the same time encouraging the conformity necessary
for effective functioning, both in society and in the
university. In our pluralistic society, we should recognize
diversity as shared opportunity but in reality we partition
society off into the "two culture" streams--the humanist
and the scientific.
Cultural pluralism tends to become cultural imperialism
whereby the dominant culture seeks to absorb the subsidiary
one to provide commonality. The role of the university is
such that it can become more relevant to the world in which
it functions by seeking cutural encounters beyond itself
rather than by merely defending the majority culture and
its
ideological rationale. (CJ)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Interrelationships;
Ethnic-Groups;
Foreign-Students; Social-Values
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Role; *Cultural-Influences;
*Cultural-Pluralism; *Educational-Philosophy;
*Social-Change
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