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ERIC Number: EJ673580
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
Learning about the "Other": Building a Case for Intercultural Understanding among Minority Children.
Pattnaik, Jyotsna
Childhood Education, v79 n4 p204-11 Sum 2003
Highlights some common misunderstandings of multicultural education that impede understanding among minority children. Provides society-, school-, family-, and child-related justifications for intercultural understanding among children from different minority groups. Offers suggestions for an ideal intercultural program, focusing on schools' policies and practices and curriculum design. Includes suggestions for intergroup, issue-based, and literature-based curricula. Urges schools to address the existing omission of intercultural understanding among minority children. (KB)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Intergroup Relations, Minority Group Children, Multicultural Education, Stereotypes, Student Diversity, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cultural Sensitivity