The Affective and Cognitive Development of Culture Learning During the Early and Middle Childhood Curriculum

Closing what she finds to be an important gap in education research, Sposet (middle childhood education, Notre Dame College of Ohio) describes culture learning as it takes place within a foreign language program at a selected middle school. She shows how an understanding of early adolescent development, the development of ethnic identity in children, and the concept of culture learning and the middle school foreign language program can provide insight into how children will view people different from themselves, and can help educators facilitate cross-cultural learning. The text is double spaced. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR