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Attitude change through cultural immersion : a grade four enrichment curriculum in pre-contact Squamish longhouse life
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Attitude change in grade four children, as a result of cultural immersion, was measured qualitatively through written and oral student reports and quantitatively by Ziegler's "Preference for Social Diversity" scale. Under the guidance of a Native coordinator, four classes, comprising the experimental group, experienced, for two days, immersion in the longhouse culture of pre-contact Squamish society, as well as their regular classroom social studies unit on Native Indian culture. Four classes, comprising the control group, did not experience immersion.
After the immersion experience, responses of the experimental group revelaed respect for a valid and viable Native culture. The responses of the non-immersion group also indicated respect but to a lesser degree. Having lived in a longhouse community, experimental group students demonstrated a greater ability to understand the processes which shape human beings and to understand life experience from multiple points of view.
After the immersion experience, responses of the experimental group revelaed respect for a valid and viable Native culture. The responses of the non-immersion group also indicated respect but to a lesser degree. Having lived in a longhouse community, experimental group students demonstrated a greater ability to understand the processes which shape human beings and to understand life experience from multiple points of view.
AW.00071
June 1987
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