Pathways to Cultural Awareness

Cultural Therapy With Teachers and Students
George Spindler - Stanford University, Center for the Study of Families and Youth
Louise Spindler - Stanford University, Center for the Study of Families and Youth
Pathways to Cultural Awareness
December 1993 | 360 pages | Corwin
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Cultural therapy is a way of helping people cope with cultural diversity and societal inequity through the mediation of the school as a central institution for cultural transmission and maintenance.

This book illustrates how cultural therapy can be applied in educational settings to promote better understanding among teachers and students. Each chapter presents a situation in which the author has been intimately involved, offering a variety of approaches to, and interpretations of, cultural therapy.

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Introduction

  • Helping Teachers and Students Understand Cultural Diversity

What is Cultural Therapy?

What is Cultural Therapy?

Looking Across Borders

  • Students' Investigations of Family, Peer, and School Worlds as Cultural Therapy

Players Along the Margin

  • Diversity and Adaptation in a Lower-Track Classroom

Studying an Accelerated School

  • Schoolwide Cultural Therapy

Students' Situated Selves

  • Ethnographic Interviewing as Cultural Therapy

Working with School Staff

  • `Reflective Cultural Analysis' in Groups

Training Among Refugee Students

  • Chicano Anthropologist as Cultural Therapist

Working on Cultural Issues with Students

  • A Counseling Psychologist's Perspective

Mentoring Elementary Students Via E-Mail

  • Crossing Cultural Borders

Youths in an Intensive At-Risk Program

  • A Critical Look at Cultural Therapy

Conclusion

  • Reflecting on Applications of Cultural Therapy

Description

Cultural therapy is a way of helping people cope with cultural diversity and societal inequity through the mediation of the school as a central institution for cultural transmission and maintenance.

This book illustrates how cultural therapy can be applied in educational settings to promote better understanding among teachers and students. Each chapter presents a situation in which the author has been intimately involved, offering a variety of approaches to, and interpretations of, cultural therapy.

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Introduction

  • Helping Teachers and Students Understand Cultural Diversity

What is Cultural Therapy?

What is Cultural Therapy?

Looking Across Borders

  • Students' Investigations of Family, Peer, and School Worlds as Cultural Therapy

Players Along the Margin

  • Diversity and Adaptation in a Lower-Track Classroom

Studying an Accelerated School

  • Schoolwide Cultural Therapy

Students' Situated Selves

  • Ethnographic Interviewing as Cultural Therapy

Working with School Staff

  • `Reflective Cultural Analysis' in Groups

Training Among Refugee Students

  • Chicano Anthropologist as Cultural Therapist

Working on Cultural Issues with Students

  • A Counseling Psychologist's Perspective

Mentoring Elementary Students Via E-Mail

  • Crossing Cultural Borders

Youths in an Intensive At-Risk Program

  • A Critical Look at Cultural Therapy

Conclusion

  • Reflecting on Applications of Cultural Therapy
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Pathways to Cultural Awareness

Cultural Therapy With Teachers and Students


December 1993 | 360 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 27/02/2023 9780803961098 $46.95

Cultural therapy is a way of helping people cope with cultural diversity and societal inequity through the mediation of the school as a central institution for cultural transmission and maintenance.

This book illustrates how cultural therapy can be applied in educational settings to promote better understanding among teachers and students. Each chapter presents a situation in which the author has been intimately involved, offering a variety of approaches to, and interpretations of, cultural therapy.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Helping Teachers and Students Understand Cultural Diversity
  • What is Cultural Therapy?
  • Looking Across Borders
  • Students' Investigations of Family, Peer, and School Worlds as Cultural Therapy
  • Players Along the Margin
  • Diversity and Adaptation in a Lower-Track Classroom
  • Studying an Accelerated School
  • Schoolwide Cultural Therapy
  • Students' Situated Selves
  • Ethnographic Interviewing as Cultural Therapy
  • Working with School Staff
  • `Reflective Cultural Analysis' in Groups
  • Training Among Refugee Students
  • Chicano Anthropologist as Cultural Therapist
  • Working on Cultural Issues with Students
  • A Counseling Psychologist's Perspective
  • Mentoring Elementary Students Via E-Mail
  • Crossing Cultural Borders
  • Youths in an Intensive At-Risk Program
  • A Critical Look at Cultural Therapy
  • Conclusion
  • Reflecting on Applications of Cultural Therapy

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