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Cultural sensitizing for South African pupils

M.A. (Psychology) / South Africa faces a future in which cross-cultural interactions are likely to increase in all areas of life. specifically in the area of schooling such increased interactions are ensured with the introduction of the 'open' school system. This system allows children of all races to attend public schools for the first time in South Africa's history. In order to ensure that this increased cross-cultural contact occurs peacefully and to the benefit of all, a culture sensitising drive needs to be undertaken nation-wide. such a drive will need to include the multi-culturalising of all cross-cultural sensitising programmes. implementation of One programme in and . schools and the development particular which shows great promise in this area is that of the Culture-General Assimilator. For the purposes of the thesis, a preliminary South African Culture Assimilator was developed and compared to an already existing Culture-General Assimilator. Both assimilators were run in a private multi-cultural school. Standard VI pupils made up the subjects.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:12481
Date07 October 2014
CreatorsMichalopoulos, V.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsUniversity of Johannesburg

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