Pathways to Cultural Awareness Cultural Therapy With Teachers and Students [Paperback]

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.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.Foreword - Henry T Trueba
Introduction - George and Louise Spindler
Helping Teachers and Students Understand Cultural Diversity
What is Cultural Therapy? - George and Louise Spindler
Looking Across Borders - Patricia Phelan and Ann Locke Davidson
Students' Investigations of Family, Peer, and School Worlds as Cultural Therapy
Players Along the Margin - Tom Schram
Diversity and Adaptation in a Lower-Track Classroom
Studying an Accelerated School - Christine R Finnan
Schoolwide Cultural Therapy
Students' Situated Selves - Ann Locke Davidson
Ethnographic Interviewing as Cultural Therapy
Working with School Staff - Mary E Hauser
`Reflective Cultural Analysis' in Groups
Training Among Refugee Students - Juan Garciá-Casta&aml£8