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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED237429 AUTHOR: Smith, Gary R.
TITLE: Cultural Sight and Insight: Dealing with Diverse
Viewpoints and Values. GPE Humanities Series.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 138 p.
AVAILABILITY: Global Perspectives in Education, Inc., 218
East 18th St., Box 76, New York, NY 10003 ($5.00).
ABSTRACT: Intended to provide students in grades 6-12 with
a global perspective, these ready-to-use activities deal
with the concept of cultural differences. The materials can
fit into courses dealing with cultures, American cultural
diversity, and human relations. There are five parts. The
activities in part 1 will help sensitize students to a
multicultural world and help them to understand that the
particular culture they live in has molded their own ways
of acting and thinking. In part 2 students explore the
ways we perceive and misperceive others. In part 3 they
learn how and why we label people in certain ways. Students
examine the cultural influences in their daily lives that
often operate on a subconscious level in the activities of
part 4, "The Power of Culture." Part 5 focuses on the roles
students play now in their own interactions with others.
Examples of activities include having students respond to
a series of statements about cultural groups, analyze
readings, judge photographs, analyze a Grimm fairy tale for
sex role stereotypes, and discuss case studies. (RM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Pluralism; Ethnic-Groups;
Ethnocentrism-; Humanities-; Human-Relations; Interaction-;
Intermediate-Grades; Learning-Activities; Multicultural
Education; Relevance-Education; Secondary-Education; Social
Bias; Social-Studies; Stereotypes-; Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Concept-Teaching; *Cultural-Differences;
*Global-Approach
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