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The political trap for Honduran teachers: compensation inequities in rural schools Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Maxie Gluckman, Katharine Summers, Nhat-Dang Do
Honduras’ progress on educational outcomes has lagged behind other Latin American countries in recent years, including educational access for marginalized populations, high school dropout, and perf...
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Two researchers’ journeys towards healing and safety doing community-engaged scholarship with immigrant and refugee populations Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Gerardo Mancilla, Phitsamay S Uy
In conducting qualitative research, scholars often grapple with positionality. Researcher positionality refers to how various social identities (i.e. gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, geogra...
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The impacts of South Asians’ parental involvement in bilingual children’s academic achievement in Southwest Florida Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Shahid Rasool, Clarisse Halpern, Burhan Ozfidan
South Asians, including Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani Americans, are considered a model minority and is one of the fastest growing in the US, financially stable, and highly educated ethnic sub...
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Cultural-linguistic diversity in Italy and Sweden? A sociomaterial analysis of policies for heritage language education Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Barbara Gross
In this paper, we critically discuss the impact of policy documents on the construction of national narratives on the provision of support for cultural-linguistic diversity in education systems in ...
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The theory of international student development Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Wei Liu, Xiaobing Lin
Current student development theories are mostly grounded in the experiences of domestic students in North America. The increasing portion of the international students in the post-secondary student...
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Representation of cultural patterns of individualism and collectivism in primary school textbooks Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Afsaneh Alizadeh, Firooz Mahmoodi, Yousef Adib
The purpose of this study is to analyse the content of primary school textbooks in Iran for their cultural values and characteristics, based on the individualism-collectivism dimension. Six primary...
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Integration of migrant children in educational systems in Spain: stakeholders’ views Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Judit Onsès-Segarra, Maria Domingo-Coscollola
This paper presents an overview of approaches and proposals to improve the integration of migrant children in schools in Spain and it is linked to the European research project Migrant Children and...
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Z. Bauman, A. Portera, Education and Intercultural Identity. A Dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Davide Zoletto
Published in Intercultural Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Roma or non-Roma: how are teachers’ and school heads’ perceptions and self-identification of Roma students related in Hungary? Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Anikó Fehérvári, Krisztián Széll
The present paper explores approaches to the classification of ethnic identity. In the framework of research on comparative classifications, we analyse the contextual factors that influence classif...
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Cultural knowledge and values in English language teaching materials: (Multimodal) representations and stakeholders Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Renol Aprico Siregar, Mila Ida Nurhidayah, Fikri Yanda
Published in Intercultural Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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AI-powered communication for intercultural education Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Fiona Passantino
Published in Intercultural Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social and Emotional Learning pedagogy and practices for children living in poverty: teacher perspectives at two Akanksha foundation schools in India Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Patricia Benitez Hemans, Rebecca S. Levine, Esmeralda Salas, Amy Bintliff, Caren Holtzman, Carolyn Huie Hofstetter, Gagandeep Kaur
As social and emotional learning (SEL) initiatives gain traction in primary and secondary schools worldwide, research is needed to understand how schools can implement SEL in culturally responsive,...
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Mapping teachers’ perspectives on culturally responsive pedagogy in mathematics: from academic achievement to insights and opportunities Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Kathleen Nolan, Constantinos Xenofontos
Following the seminal work of Gloria Ladson-Billings, research on culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) has, in recent years, expanded significantly. Ladson-Billings proposes three elements of CRP: ...
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Superdiversity in Israel: the relationship of religious and ethnic diversity and sense of belonging among boundary-crossing teachers Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Shahar Gindi, Rakefet Erlich Ron
Boundary-crossing teachers are teachers who work in schools with different cultural characteristics than their main belonging group. Fifty-six Israeli teachers who identified themselves as religiou...
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Educators’ attitudes towards refugee pupils: intergroup contact and virtuous circles Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Caitlin M. Prentice
Educators’ attitudes are a key factor in the practices they enact, their expectations for pupils, and outcomes for pupils. For newly arrived refugee and asylum-seeking children, education is known ...
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Sociopsychological principles for intercultural interventions to reduce intergroup bias in school Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Meytal Nasie
The role of educators includes promoting cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in order to create an inclusive school climate, and for this role, they need multicultural knowledge and skills...
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Performing the ‘global citizen’ in social imaginaries: the value of intercultural exchange for Australian students in Mexico Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Alice Cranney
Due to the recent increase in Australian students undertaking study abroad opportunities, an effect of a neoliberal society, there has been a plethora of literature in this area with the extant lit...
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Perspectives on multiperspectivity: self-efficacy of master’s student teachers in Belgium towards multiperspectivity in the classroom Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Tom F.H. Smits, Els Tanghe
This study investigates pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy and attitudes towards multiperspectivity in education. The sample is representative of postgraduate teacher education students in Flander...
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Translanguaging as a teaching practice for linguistically diverse students Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-26 V. Spyridonos, Z. Karanikola, N. Palaiologou
Translanguaging refers to the communicative practices that go between and beyond defined linguistic systems. In language learning, it can be applied by helping learners access their whole linguisti...
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Intercultural communication during pandemic: new ways to build intercultural dialogue and relationships Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Zala Volcic, Ilanda Tran, Vaasanthi Palepu, Rijul Baath
The article explores how intercultural relations can be fostered at the level of an undergraduate university degree during the pandemic. It offers one specific intervention within intercultural edu...
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“Arab students do not reveal their difficulties”: faculty members’ perceptions of the barriers to higher education among Arab students in Israel Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Elias Haneen, R Even-Zahav, S. Pagorek-Eshel, B. Gavriel-Fried
Minorities encounter barriers to integrating in higher education. However, only a few studies have examined these barriers from the perspective of faculty members. The present study aimed to unders...
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Competence and affect self-concepts of elementary school children – Do gender and immigration background play a role? Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Annette Lohbeck
By focusing on 179 elementary school children, the present cross-sectional questionnaire study aimed to examine gender and immigrant-native differences in competence and affect self-concepts as wel...
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Polarisation and marginalisation – discourses on Sami as L1 mother tongue instruction in syllabus, and media debate Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Åsa Bjuhr, Annbritt Palo, Lena Manderstedt
In Sweden, curricula and syllabi for education are politically determined after public consultations. Thus, these educational documents are discursive trade-offs reflecting research, traditions in ...
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Sexuality education: (re)producing ethnic boundaries in the school-migrant parents relationship Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Gabrielle Morin
In recognising sexuality education as a socially divisive topic in Canada and other national contexts, this article addresses the issues encountered at the elementary level in a multi-ethnic contex...
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Self-regulated learning and intercultural competence: examining the role of self-regulation in supporting preservice teachers’ intercultural learning outcomes Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Marissa M. Zhu, Kimberly M. Alberts, William N. Bork, David Wong
This mixed-methods study examines how 15 preservice teachers’ self-regulated learning (SRL) skills relate to their ICC development in a teacher education course. ICC was assessed using a standardis...
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Multilingual educational teaching strategy in a multi-ethnic preschool Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Mia Heikkilä, Anne Lillvist
The revised Swedish national curriculum stresses that preschools should, on the one hand, place emphasis on stimulating children’s language development in Swedish, while on the other hand help chil...
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A tug of war of emotions: experiences of principals with refugee students Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Pınar Ayyıldız, Gokhan Arastaman, Melike Aslı Baran
This study explores the experiences of 16 principals in schools in Ankara, Türkiye, who had Syrian refugee students, as well as the emotional challenges they faced while coping with the demands of ...
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“The novel has simply made me more aware of how I meet other people” – attitude awareness in intercultural education Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Camilla Häbler, Kari Spernes
To prepare student teachers for the diversity they will face in schools, they have to develop intercultural competence. This paper analyses an assignment in teacher education, where the purpose is ...
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Developing intercultural competences through participatory strategies: a multiple case study Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Auxiliadora Sales, Agostino Portera, Marta Milani
ABSTRACT The training of professionals for a global world remains a challenge for Higher Education. From an intercultural educational approach, this study describes and analyses two educational proposals in Italy and Spain, which have helped to develop students’ intercultural competences, thanks to a teaching framework based on participatory strategies. A multiple case study with a qualitative approach
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Example of Practice: Designing and teaching a course that matters: going beyond business as usual Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ribut Wahyudi
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how I design and teach an Interculturality in Language and Literary Studies (ILLS) Course. In doing this, I am very much influenced by the post-structural and post-colonial and interdisciplinary nature of my PhD study. The course itself is for sixth semester undergraduate students, after they have passed Skilled Courses, Introduction to Literature and Introduction to Linguistics
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In Other Words – a Contextualized Dictionary to Problematize Otherness: an online educational resource to challenge – and reverse – discriminatory language Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Paola Giorgis
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Questions in qualitative social justice research in multicultural contexts Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Urszula Markowska-Manista
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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Interculturalism, ethnicity, and multilingualism in upper secondary school: an analysis of social pedagogical identities during pedagogical work with newly arrived students in Sweden Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Hennie Kesak, Goran Basic
ABSTRACT The aim of the present study is to attain new knowledge about interculturalism, ethnicity, and multilingualism in the upper secondary school context in conjunction with pedagogical work with students who are newly arrived in the country. The empirical material for the study was collected in the upper secondary context in Sweden and consists of documents, field notes, and qualitative interview
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Intercultural sensitivity of instructors in Ethiopian public universities Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Tariku Gutu, Worku Tegegne
ABSTRACT Higher education institutions are a place where transformation is a guiding principle. Instructors, as major agents for change, are expected to have qualities that transcend the boundaries of one-size-fits-all. This study, therefore, examined the intercultural sensitivity of university instructors in Ethiopian public universities. It was primarily aimed at investigating their intercultural
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When Greeks learn Turkish: developing intercultural competence through learning the language of the ‘enemy’ Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Kostas Magos, Kanella Georgopapadakou
ABSTRACT Learning a foreign language is not only an interesting cognitive process. It is also a means of communication with other peoples and becoming acquainted with their cultures. Therefore, learning a foreign language can contribute to the development of intercultural competence, i.e. the competence to manage new communication conditions and situations. In this context, Turkish language learning
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‘You’re not a better person, but you look like you are.’ Hate speech and privilege: contributions from a participatory research study with teenagers Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Alba Quirós-Guindal, Noemi Laforgue-Bullido, Íñigo lorón-Díaz, Alberto Izquierdo-Montero
ABSTRACT The current expansion of hate speech in different areas of public life poses a challenge for educators committed to developing their praxis from an intercultural approach. In this sense, the social privileges enjoyed by part of the population are exploited through these discourses with political and economic objectives that are incompatible with collective justice. To delve deeper into this
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Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teachings Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Aprilia Susanti, Mohammad Fatoni
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2023)
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Towards a new multi-modality campus: unboxing Pandora’s box Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Shira Soffer-Vital, Idit Finkelstein
ABSTRACT Changing times force us to rethink our academic policies in higher education institutions. Traditional narrow views on students coming to campuses might be problematic for full inclusion. In this paper, we present an innovative model for student inclusion with the goal of producing a new framework for practice in higher education. We suggest re-examining the interactions between student characteristics
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Transforming, translanguaging, and transcending identities: developing culturally responsive educational leadership Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Ariadna Phillips, Soribel Genao
ABSTRACT This study offers a review of existing research on translanguaging, inclusion, and computational literacies. It assesses existing school statistics and a student opinion survey released by the New York City Department of Education in Spring 2019 to investigate the attitudes and experiences of students at a public secondary school in the South Bronx that incorporates translanguaging into grades
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Social skills for the educational integration of pre-adolescent and adolescent immigrants Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Christian Fernández-Leyva, Maria Tomé Fernández, José Manuel Ortiz-Marcos
ABSTRACT In this study, the variable ‘age’ was analysed in terms of its influence on the development of social skills among immigrant students enrolled in compulsory secondary education (12 to 18 years old) in the South of Spain. The social skills construct was defined with responses of N = 749 immigrant students using the Social Skill Scale for Young Immigrants (SSSYI). Six dimensions were evaluated:
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Towards multicultural, inclusive and diverse evaluation – Exploring post-Secondary students’ perceptions Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Yael Shraga-Roitman, Revital Cohen-Liverant, Shira Soffer-Vital, Idit Finkelstein, Tsfira Grebelsky-Lichtman
ABSTRACT Higher education acknowledges evaluation as a core component in pedagogy. However, K–12 institutions implement different applications of formative evaluation, and Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) still use traditional evaluation almost exclusively. Adjustments made for students with disabilities (SWDs) are often exam accommodations rather than modifications in the evaluation process itself
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Academic performance differences between Spanish and indigenous speakers in Ecuador Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ximena D. Burgin
ABSTRACT The Ecuadorian government has reported remarkable learning gains regarding the academic progress of students in the educational system. However, the academic gains for indigenous students have not been clearly demonstrated. This quantitative study aimed at understanding the progress of educational reforms in Ecuador for indigenous students. These students tend to learn an indigenous language
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The role of parenting styles for the relationship of stays abroad, self-efficacy and intercultural competence Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Petia Genkova, Henrik Schreiber, Verena Fässler
ABSTRACT Students’ development of intercultural competence during stays abroad has been subject to numerous studies due to the vital importance of intercultural interaction in the globalised world. In the present cross-sectional study, we provide and test a theoretical frame connecting self-efficacy theory of learning and intercultural learning, examining the remembered parenting style of N = 203 German
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Education and ethnicity: personal-professional identity of Mizrahi teachers Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Nissim Avissar
ABSTRACT Israel is an ethnically diverse country. This diversity is expressed among teachers and students and impacts learning, socialization, and education processes. Ethnic diversity frequently translates into a hierarchy in whose framework a certain cultural background is preferred over another. Those at the bottom of the ranking may experience silencing and erasure of parts of their identity. This
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A decolonial critique of ‘diversity’: theoretical and methodological implications for meta-intercultural education Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Michalinos Zembylas
ABSTRACT This essay puts in conversation notions of diversity, interculturalism and multiculturalism with decolonial scholarship, and then discusses the theoretical and methodological implications for meta-intercultural education – that is, a perspective that reconceptualises intercultural education anchored in critical and decolonial perspectives. It is suggested that a decolonising diversity approach
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Insights into intercultural communication from a global citizenship framework: Voices of South Korean university students Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Andrea Rakushin Lee, Farinaz Dastpish, Monique Freemon, Jalesa Parks
ABSTRACT The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore South Korean university students’ views of the importance of intercultural communication. It also sought to obtain participant recommendations on how to improve awareness of intercultural communication in their personal lives, on campus, and in society. Intercultural communicative competence is becoming increasingly important as the world
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Teacher’s perceptions of separate language learning models for students with immigrant background in Austrian schools Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Katharina Resch, Marie Gitschthaler, Susanne Schwab
ABSTRACT The majority of European educational systems regard the provision of high-quality language and learning support for students with immigrant background as the greatest challenge and consider separate language support classes as ‘the solution’ to the educational disadvantages these students face. Austria recently implemented separate language support programmes (‘German language support classes
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Inclusive excellence through digital learning: an undergraduate research experience to pilot cross-institutional collaboration between a historically black university and a predominantly white institution Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Martine Mathieu, Matilda Odera, Andrea Ofori-Boadu, Jennifer Richmond-Bryant
ABSTRACT Increasing diversity in higher education and the workforce requires undergraduate students to learn to work together effectively to address scientific and social issues. Our goal is to learn how best to facilitate teamwork among students from Historically Black Universities (HBU) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) to promote collaborative learning. We analysed the evolving knowledge
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The effects of internal migration on high school students: Teacher and student perceptions Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Muhamet Cevat Yildirim, Ahmet Gocen, Ozge Aras
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of internal migration on students from the perspective of high school teachers and students. The study employed qualitative research with a phenomenological design. The study group consisted of nine teachers and seventeen high school students from Mardin city in Turkey with a migrant experience. The researchers collected data using semi-structured interviews
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Example of best practice: ETUCE Study on Embracing diversity in education: key elements of inclusive education and training needs of education personnel Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Dominique Danau
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Safe Place International – The Dream Academy Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Jody L McBrien
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 5, 2023)
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Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Benjamin D. Scherrer
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Review of James Baldwin and the American schoolhouse Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 H. Prentice Baptiste
Published in Intercultural Education (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Worldview literacy as a part of teacher professionalism Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Anuleena Kimanen
ABSTRACT This article, based on a mixed-method study, examines which dimensions of worldview are addressed by a group (N = 134) of Finnish students and in-service educators when interpreting a written imaginary case from everyday school life. The findings are interpreted in the framework of worldview literacy, derived from the concept of religious literacy and defined as an ability to decipher situations
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Refugee “calouros” during the Covid-19 pandemic: effects on Portuguese learning in higher education in Brazil Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Bruna Ruano, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
ABSTRACT This paper reflects on the problems faced by refugee students during the COVID-19 pandemic (summer semester 2020) as calouros, i.e. freshmen during their first year, in a public university in Brazil. Through a content analysis of their personal accounts, collected electronically by their teacher of Portuguese for academic purposes (the first author), we describe how five students (a Syrian
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Children’s willingness to have contact with children from different cultures; evidence from the Tec4schools program Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Miri Shonfeld, Elaine Hoter
ABSTRACT This paper explores the factors that predict children’s willingness to have contact with those from cultures in conflict, using data collected in 2014–2015 from the TEC4Schools program which begins online and eventually includes face-to-face contact. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted on the results of the questionnaire from 577 students. The predictors were entered in four steps:
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Harnessing the benefits of sanctuary scholarship: opportunities for community enhancement, widening participation and internationalisation at home Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Silvia Colaiacomo, Ayse Gur Geden, Antonia Linehan, Anthony Manning
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the importance of Internationalisation at Home, access and support mechanisms which are provided and co-created by students and university departments to encourage sanctuary scholarship. The paper gives particular attention to activities that encourage meaningful interaction with local communities and widen international participation of marginalised groups, such as students
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The role of emotions in educational work with asylum-seeking and refugee children in culturally diverse classrooms Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Bolette Moldenhawer
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of emotions in educational work with asylum-seeking and refugee children by studying a specific case of teaching in culturally diverse classrooms. Using empirical data from various classroom contexts in Denmark based on teacher interviews and participant observations, the role of emotions is examined through a relational approach informed by, among others, Sara
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The role of colleges for advanced studies in Roma undergraduates’ adjustment to college in Hungary from a social network perspective Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Ágnes Lukács J., Tünde Szabó, Éva Huszti, Cinderella Komolafe, Zsolt Ember, Beáta Dávid
ABSTRACT Adapting to the expectations of educational institutions can be difficult for any students, but it is particularly difficult for disadvantaged, first-generation college students with a minority ethnic background. Our case study, employing a social network perspective, examines the role of small peer-communities in the academic adjustment of underrepresented minority students, namely Roma young
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Simulated field experiences and culturally responsive pedagogy among teacher candidates Intercultural Education Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Peter G. Ghazarian, Erik Kormos, Kendra Wisdom
ABSTRACT New teachers often work in culturally diverse schools after practicum at culturally homogenous schools. Simulated field experiences could ensure that they are better prepared. This study measured gains in culturally responsive pedagogy among teacher candidates after a semester of simulated field experiences. Teacher candidates completed a pre- and post-test evaluation. Findings revealed significantly