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The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Social Studies programs on students' attitudes toward and beliefs about First Nations people in Canada. There were two programs: a multicultural program and an anti-racist program. The multicultural group studied examples of successful Firs...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0099184 2024-04-28T08:18:50+00:00 A comparison of the effects of multicultural and anti-racist teaching on student attitude change ... Segawa, Megumi 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0099184 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0099184 en eng University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0099184 2024-04-02T09:40:39Z The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Social Studies programs on students' attitudes toward and beliefs about First Nations people in Canada. There were two programs: a multicultural program and an anti-racist program. The multicultural group studied examples of successful First Nations people and the efforts to take responsibilities for their own affairs. The anti-racist group studied the current situation among the majority of First Nations Canadians and then examined historical relationship between the government and First Nations people. Students7 attitudes toward First Nations people were assessed by three measures of empathy (sympathy), attitude, and attribution of blame. Scores on the measure of 'belief in a just world' were used as an independent variable to examine the relationship between the just world belief and the way students in the experimental group responded to the three outcome scales. Two hundred fiftyone grade 11 students from two secondary schools in the Lower Mainland ... Text First Nations DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Social Studies programs on students' attitudes toward and beliefs about First Nations people in Canada. There were two programs: a multicultural program and an anti-racist program. The multicultural group studied examples of successful First Nations people and the efforts to take responsibilities for their own affairs. The anti-racist group studied the current situation among the majority of First Nations Canadians and then examined historical relationship between the government and First Nations people. Students7 attitudes toward First Nations people were assessed by three measures of empathy (sympathy), attitude, and attribution of blame. Scores on the measure of 'belief in a just world' were used as an independent variable to examine the relationship between the just world belief and the way students in the experimental group responded to the three outcome scales. Two hundred fiftyone grade 11 students from two secondary schools in the Lower Mainland ... |
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