Readings for Bridging Cultures

<p><i>Readings for Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module</i> is highly recommended for use by teacher-educators and professional development specialists who use <i>Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module.</i> It is also useful for teachers and students interested in understanding the role of culture in education. It includes five previously published articles and one book chapter each selected for a specific purpose: <br> *Bridging Cultures in Our Schools: New Approaches That Work explains the framework of individualism and collectivism the Bridging Cultures Project and the seven points of home-school conflict that are identified in the Module. <br> *Bridging Cultures With Classroom Strategies and Bridging Cultures With a Parent-Teacher Conference describe teacher home-school communication. <br> *Cross-Cultural Conflict and Harmony in the Social Construction of the Child and Conceptualizing Interpersonal Relationships in the Cultural Contexts of Individualism and Collectivism are the original research cited throughout the <i>Module</i> that provides the empirical basis for the <i>Bridging Cultures</i> framework. <br> *The introductory chapter from <i>Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development</i> portrays the constructs of independence (individualism) and interdependence (collectivism) as developmental scripts with implications for theory research and practice.</p>