DOCUMENT RESUME ED 027 797 FL 001 238 By-See/ye, H. Ned. Ed. A Handbook on Latin America forTeachers: Methodology and AnnotatedBibliography. Illinois State Office of the Superintendentof Public Instruction, Springfield.;Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Spons Agency-Office of EducationWHEW/ Washington. D.C. Pub Date 68 Note- 79p. EDRS Price MF-50.50 HC-S4.05 Descriptors-Acculturation, *Annotated Bibliographies,Articulation (Program), Course Objectives,*Cross CulturalDifferences, Curriculum Development,Elementary Schools, Cultural Training. Cultural Context, Levels, *Latin Evaluation Methods, *Instructional Innovation,*Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Learning American Culture, Simulated Environment,Simulation. Social Studies, Spanish A product of a 1968 Title IIINational Defense Education ActPilot Workshop on Teaching Latin American CulturalThemes, this booklet is designed to(1) further the cause of LatinAmerican understanding inSpanish, social studies, and elementary school classes. (2) to be used infuture workshops, and (3) serve as amode; for similar handbooks involvingothercultures.Part 1 iscomposed o f seven Methodologically oriented articles inwhich developments in this areaof study are anticipated. Topics treatedare--(1) new instructional aimsfor social studies. (2) pertinency in LatinAmerican studies, (3) the culturecapsule and political simulation techniques. (4) guidelines for awell-articulated socioculturalunderstanding addition to existing language programs,(5) culture test item validationand measurement techniques. and (6) the "rationalefor -measurement of acculturationalabilities in individuals. Part 2 consists of a200-item annotated bibliography onLatin America developed by 16 scholars -representing sevenacademic disciplines. (AF) A Handbook on LatinAmerica for Teachers METHODOLOGY AND ANNOTATEDBIBLIOGRAPHY U.S. DEPARTMENT Of HEALTH, EDUCATION ILWELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION 11115 DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCEDEXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STA13 DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIALOFFICE Of EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction Ray Page, Superintendent Illinois Title III, NDEA Program Doctor Paul E. Woods, Director Derald Merriman, Assistant Director for Modern Foreign Languages edited by H. NED SEELYE Northern Illinois University De Kalb, Illinois 1968 _ A HANDBOOK ON LATINAMERICA FOR TEACHERS: METHODOLOGY AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: A PROBLEMFINDING APPROACHTO THE TEACHING OF SOCIALSTUDIES 0.P. Esteves 3 CHAPTER TWO: PERTINENCY IN LATIN AMERICANSTUDIES H. Ned Seelye 6 CHAPTER THREE: CULTURE CAPSULES _ H. Darrel Taylor, John L. Sorenson 15 CHAPTER FOUR: LEVELS OF SOCIOCULTURALUNDERSTANDING FOR LANGUAGE CLASSES Howard Lee Nostrand 19 CHAPTER FIVE: POLITICAL SIMULATION: ANINTRODUCTION John R. Parker, Clifford Neal Smith, MarshallH. Whithed 25 CHAPTER SIX: ITEM VALIDATION ANDMEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IN CULTURETESTS H. Ned Seelye 29 CHAPTER SEVEN: MEASURING THE ABILITYTO FUNCTION CROSSCULTURALLY H. Ned Seelye 34 A SELECTED, ANNOTATEDBIBLIOGRAPHY ON LATIN AMERICA Gilbert D. Bartell, C. Daniel Dillman, RolardT. Ely, Edward W. Glab, Jr., RoderickT. Groves, Jorge Armando,Gutiirrez Padilla, Benjamin Keen, Joseph A. Martellaro, E. Craig Morris, Rosendo R. Rivera, Peter A. Roman,Anthony Scaperlanda, H. Ned Seelye, Margaret G. Smith, A. ManuelVizquez-Bigi, Charles R. Wicke 44 , 71 NAMES AND ADDRESSES OFPUBLISHERS LISTED IN BIBLIOGRAPHY 75 SKETCH OF HANDBOOK CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE In-service teacher training workshopsprovide opportunities for teachers to maintain contact with other professionals toestablish educational goals anddevise methods and techniques leading toimprovement of instruction. They are an extension of the colleges anduniversitiesinthat they present the latest developments in academic research. Their structurerelates to the school classroom by giving practical suggestions on the mosteffective ways to present facts and concepts, as well as to buildskills, in the subject matter classes.It follows that workshops, sponsored by the Office ofthe Superintendent of PublicInstruction, would be those requested by schoolpersonnel to meet their specific needs. Foreign language instruction has occupied animportant place in the curriculumof schools that offer quality educational programs.Teachers and administrators have been dissatisfied with the results that haveoften been obtained. The students have not always become fluent in thelanguage studied. Many who attainedfluency often lacked the cultural insights and culturalreferents that should have been marked as prime goals of their foreign languagestudy. Teachers have lacked thebackground necessary to presentproperly curfent cultural material. Many textsfailed to furnish adequate cultural materials. A pilotworkshop titled "Teaching CulturalThemes of Latin America" was designed, throughthe cooperation of the staff ofNorthern Illinois University and this Office, to giveresourceful teachers an annotated bibliography, interdisciplinary concepts, and themethodology to further the cause of Latin American understanding inSpanish, social studies, and elementaryclasses. This handbook is designed to be used infuture workshops and to serve as amodel for handbooks involving other cultures. Ray Page Superintendent of Public Instruction INTRODUCTION This Handbook had its beginning in a Title III, "key idea," thus providing ready sources which bear NDEA Pilot Workshop on Teaching Cultural Themes upon an idea of some consequence. of Latin America which was held at Northern Illinois The fruitful collaboration of a Spanish teacher University in fie spring of 1968 for experienced with an anthropologist produced an unusually teachers of social studies and Spanish. The Office of seminal article which was published seven years ago the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State in the Modern Language Journal and is reprinted of Illinois acted as an ideal padrino to its publication; here. "Culture Capsules" presents a rather detailed while gracefully picking up the tab of expenses, it outline of aspects of Latin American culture which refrained from any and all forms of censorship. The the language teacher can develop inbrief daily opinions expressed here, then, obviously cannot lessons at the end of his regular Spanish class. The pretend to reflect the opinions or policy of the authorstress that the point of these "capsules" Illinois Department of Public Instruction. As is should be confined to one minimaldifference always ultimately the case, the person who writes the between Latin and Anglo customs. opinion is the one responsible for its soundness. This A very recentrevision and summary of the booklet is designed for NDEA workshop directors promising attempt to develop guidelines to help and participants, and teachers of Spanish and social determine which cultural data should be included at studies. the various language levels is summarized in Chapter The Handbook enjoyed the freedom which comes Four. from not having to worry about the marketability or Chapter Fiveoffers an introductioninto a commercial appeal of its contents. We took chances. controversial technique which is rapidly gaining the A few of the articles are directed to rather limited attention of socialstudies teachers:political numbers of important readers, and few readers simulation. The authors of this chapter art will find all of the articles of equal interest. Some themselves working on the frontier of knowledge in articles are meant to be suggestive in a general this area and are able to authoritatively provide a theoretical way, while others are more specific and preliminary "map" of the game. immediate in their appeal. An attempt was made to The last two chapters both concern themselves anticipate some of the developments in the pedagogy with testing cultural knowledge. The first article of Latin American studies, rather than rest safely on emphasizes the need to document the validity of the the "tried'n true." culture patterns a teacher wants to test, and a system This manual can be divided into two parts: the of evaluating the "credibility" of these patterns is first contains six articles on methodology, and the suggested. Teachers are encouraged to venture into second part consists of an annotated bibliography. uncommon test formats. The last chapter suggests The first chapter introduces recent.sources of ideas rationale which will enable a social scientist to concerning the aims of social studies instruction. The measure the degree of acculturation of a North chapter argues that subject matter content should be American living abroad by use of an objective test regarded as a means to an end, and that content which requires the North American to recognize should not be learned for its own sake. Content itself Latin American cultural forms. The prerequisites of has no intrinsic value if it does not develop new such a test are discussed in some detail. attitudes and skills. The ossence of this new approach The second half of the Handbook consists of an is not to guide students into a solution of annotated bibliography of some 200 recent teacher-presented problems, but rather to stimulate publications.Sixteen scholars representing seven students to formulate questions which can then be different academic disciplines collaborated in this brought into sharper focus through a manipulation undertaking. The reader who feels overwhelmed by of content. Dr. Esteves points out