Abstract
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.