Multiculturalism as the Normal Human Experience

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Learning from others, learning with others: The tense encounter between equality and difference

“…The cultural "propriospect" theorized by Goodenough (1976) and Wolcott (1996) aimed precisely at pointing out how di erent social, historical and political circumstances in uence learning, so that what we learn is always mediated by what we already learned (in the family, in the group, in the environment), or have had a chance to learn independently.…”

“…On the one hand, social strati cation does in uence the very process of learning and the degree and quality of things learned in di erent ways (Goodenough, 1976;Ogbu, 1996;Wolcott, 1996) as does the experience of migration and the discontinuity between the "little traditions" learned at home and within the community (Wax & Wax, 1971) and the mainstream (and majority) culture. On the other hand, the organizational, educational and cultural principles to which schools refer to, and which they enact, have increasingly attracted researchers' close and critical attention (see for instance, Florio-Ruane, 1996;van Zanten 1996van Zanten , 2003van Zanten, 2000;Gobbo, 2000;Piasere, 2004Piasere, , 2007Saletti Salza 2003Sidoti, 2007) for the negative e ects they can have on minority pupils and students.…”

"Loving thy neighbour" in times of violence: Social cohesion and collective efficacy in South Africa

“…Ethnography seeks to interpret the meanings located in particular social and cultural systems in order to develop a picture of the overall "way of life" (Goodenough, 1976: 5) of a specific community. It investigates how social relations and cohesion are understood -and produced -by social actors themselves.…”

Designing an instructor's manual for introducing cultural concepts in the medical school curriculum

“…Studies of such interethnic and intraethnic differences and their importance include: Clark (1983); Eisenberg (1977); Goodenough (1978); Kleinman (1974);and, Pelto and Pelto (1975 Berlin and Fowkes (1983), Harwood (1981:29), Kleinman et. al.…”