Race Relations and Cultural Differences

Gajendra Verma, Christopher Bagley

• Introduction. Multicultural Education: Problems and Issues. Part 1: Race Relations, Cultural Differences and Ethnocentrism. 1. Race Relations and Cultural Differences: Some Ideas on a Racial Frame of Reference 2. Toward An Explanation of Ethnocentrism Versus Ethnorelativism Based Upon Reference Group Orientation. 3. Toward a Typology of Stranger-Host Relationships. Part 2: Language, Education and Minority Groups. 4. Multiculturalism and Education: Prelude to Practice. 5. Education, Language and Ethnic Groups in Britain. 6. Language, Disadvantage and Minority Education. 7. The Education of Children of Immigrant Groups: A Comparative Perspective of Britain, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. 8. Using a Multicultural Context as a Basis for a Core Curriculum: Cultural Difference as Educational Capital. 9. Children’s Books and Ethnic Minorities. 10. Second Languages in the Primary School: The Australian Experience. Part 3: Minority Group Children in Multicultural Contexts. 11. Cultural Diversity, Migration and Congnitive Styles: A Study of British, Japanese, Jamaican and Indian Children 12. The Welfare, Adaptation and Identity of Children from Intercultural Marriage 13. Native Indian and Metis Children in Canada: Victims of the Child Welfare System. 14. A Matched-Guise Methodology for Measuring Attitudes Toward Sign-Language Speakers. Indices.