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Pathways to Cultural Awareness

Cultural Therapy With Teachers and Students

By: George Spindler, Louise Spindler

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.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780803961098
Published By: Corwin
Year: 1993
Page Count: 360
Publication date: December 14, 1993

Price: $46.95

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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.

Author(s)

George Spindler

Louise Spindler

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

Other Titles in: Cultural Competence

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