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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Cultural Competencies"”.
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The Influence of Lived Experiences on the Decision to Attend College: Reflections of Three First Generation Community College Students
Narrative analysis was used to determine how cultural competencies affected the ability of the participants' families to prepare them for college. I also sought to understand the role of cultural capital in coping with life experiences and in their ultimate decision to enroll in a community college.
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The influence of international clinical placement experiences on careers of healthcare students: graduate and employer perspectives
… education institutions. In order to enhance cultural competencies for healthcare students, provisions are made by several UK universities for students to complete a clinical placement abroad, referred to as ‘international clinical placement’ (ICP) in this thesis. Previous studies on ICP have …
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Breaking the Sound Barrier, Breaking Faith: How Some Evangelical Christians Perceive Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Film
… conversion and memorizing biblical passages are cultural competencies that are learned through the participants' evangelical social formations. Studying and meditating on the Bible as a daily practice and hearing sermons where the narrative code of conversion is explained each week are activities …
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Student success on student learning teams at Royal Roads University
… findings suggested that, among other variables, cultural diversity of student teams and the learning modality (face to face, blended) impacted student team success. Study recommendations include enhancing cross-cultural competencies, developing a learning progression for teamwork, assessing …
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Are You My Brother's Keeper: Challenging the Systemic Racism That Fosters Low Expectations for Black Males in Public Schools
… stereotypes, develop their racial consciousness, cultural competencies, and professional practices, and recognize, interrupt, and address systemic racism. Provided is a working agenda that offers recommendations for how to implement designs for action at a district level that will build networked …
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Immigrants’, refugees’ and their families’ perspectives of midwifery care in Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand; a qualitative evidence synthesis
… practices focus on autonomy, collaboration, and cultural competency to support vulnerable populations, including immigrants. This qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) investigates the perspectives of immigrant women on midwifery care. Screening 914 articles, yielded five included studies for …
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Are counselling psychology training courses developing multicultural competencies in their trainees? Comparing cultural competency in health care and counselling psychology trainees
The need for professionals to develop multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills has been recognised in literature and mental health practitioner programmes since the early 1970s. Despite the professional growth of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (DCoP), recent research still suggests …
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CULTURALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS IDENTIFIED AS LGBTQ-FRIENDLY AT MIDWESTERN, NON-URBAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTERS
… cause can be because of physicians lacking cultural competencies. LGBTQ-friendly doctors do exist, and non-heterosexual patients specifically seek them out, but scant scholarship about the progression of becoming an LGBTQ-friendly doctor is available. The researcher uses grounded theory to …
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Exploring critical issues faced by Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K
… Immigrant entrepreneurs with limited cross-cultural competencies face additional challenges (Mathews et al., 2015). Furthermore, per literature, co-ethnic enclaves can assist new immigrants by offering financial and advisory support and bringing new opportunities (Zhang et al., 2016; Zolin …
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Development and Validation of the Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators (CCPE) Scale
… (AEA) requires that evaluators develop cultural competencies, yet no measure of cultural competence currently exists in the field. Using items from cultural competence measures used in fields such as counseling and nursing, in conjunction with the creation of qualitative questions, the …
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Engineering Students' Development of Global Engineering Competencies during International Programs
… of global, technical, and professional competencies. The results indicate that the best way to impart cultural competencies are from long-term immersion in a different culture. To achieve engineering workplace skills, students need hands-on experiential learning, especially with …
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Fluid Identity And Cultural Sensitivity in Youth
This is a study on fluid identity and cultural sensitivity in youth. It is important to demonstrate how an individual’s fluid identity can help the individual understand who they are. The need for individuals today to develop cross-cultural competencies and sensitivities is becoming more necessary, …
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Cultural Competency, Recruitment, And Retention In The International School: A Symbiotic Relationship
… leaders use to integrate host country cultural competencies in the orientation and recruitment processes to acculturate new staff? Participation took place through a REDCap online survey distributed to 442 current Academy for International School Heads (AISH) members around the world, …
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Critical encounters: How some Japanese students understand and adapt to the practice of critique in the U.S. design studio
… mastery of a number of communication and cultural competencies. Crits can be challenging for students of all cultural backgrounds but may be especially difficult for international students who are adapting to a new culture and academic environment. This study examined the difficulties that …
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Speaking of rivers: demystifying foreign-born Blacks through a secondary ESL context
… language learners (ELLs) who have distinct cultural and linguistic mores that often go unnoticed. Foreign-born Blacks possess uncommon mother tongues and cultural behaviors that present struggles with salient entrenched racialization in ESL because the historical aspects of English are …
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An Exploratory Study of Cultural Competence: Examining Cross Cultural Adaptability in Peace Officers
ABSTRACTCentral to the issue of cultural competence, law enforcement administrators and sworn peace officers are assigned the task of protecting and serving members of diverse communities. In short, from a global perspective policing requires that peace officers are routinely involved in both …
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Understanding the experiences of Black boys in suburban schools: An examination of social influences on identity, achievement and school relationships
… when taught by teachers who are trained in cultural competencies who share a commitment to creating learning environments that lift up the voices, cultures, and identities of Black boys that are centered on anti-deficit expectations.</p>
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Intercultural communication in psychiatric diagnosis and psychiatric consultations in Leicester, UK
… shape diagnostic interviews, impacting intercultural clinical service delivery. Diagnostic criteria, patient information, and cultural influences affect diagnostic consultation outcomes, but barriers in intercultural contexts reveal a gap in applying intercultural knowledge with limited …
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An investigation into the influence of personality factors on cultural intelligence and the direct and moderating effects of international experience
… but also created challenges due to cultural diversity, highlighting the importance of cross-cultural competencies in becoming successful nowadays. Cultural Intelligence (CQ) has emerged as an important concept describing the individual capabilities needed to effectively interact …
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