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Showing 1 to 20 of 217 for “"culturally diverse"”.
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Teachers' perceptions of their ability to teach culturally diverse students
… that have little or no training in how to teach culturally diverse, racial, ethnic, and linguistic (DREL) student populations. The purpose of this qualitative study is to answer the question of what teachers identify as factors that contribute to their ability to teach culturally diverse …
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Social Support Networks for Literacy Engagement among Culturally Diverse Urban Adolescents
… disadvantaged urban neighborhood in a large, diverse North American city. Specifically, this study describes (1) students’ social networks and social literacy interactions; (2) the types of social support the network relationships provide for participants’ literacy; and (3) the ways in which …
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A study of culturally diverse materials in elementary school media centers
<p>Our country is more culturally diverse today than at any other time in its history, therefore there is a need for greater understanding among people and awareness of other cultures. A prime time to develop this understanding and awareness is during the elementary school years. School library …
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Consequences of Attributions for Unfair Healthcare Treatment among Culturally Diverse Patients
<p>Ethnic minority and lower SES populations report less positive healthcare encounters and worse health outcomes as compared to higher SES and mainstream populations. In Chile, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the highest in South America and among the indigenous Mapuche …
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Novice Teachers’ Preparedness Towards Successfully Interacting with Culturally Diverse Student Populations
… strategies that are responsive to the needs of a diverse student population. Novice teachers in a rural school district in eastern North Carolina participated in a study to examine the degree to which they were prepared to successfully interact with their culturally diverse student populations …
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Perceptions of elementary cooperating teachers of working with culturally diverse students
… their perceptions of how they relate to the culturally and ethnically diverse students in their classrooms. They were also asked how they incorporate issues of cultural diversity in the preservice field experiences offered through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At the …
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Teaching Respect, Inclusion, and Acceptance in Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Early Childhood Classrooms
<p>Given the increasingly diverse demographics of American public schools, it is necessary for teachers who are interested in exposing their students to concepts of inclusion, respect, and acceptance to have access to a resource guide and model for implementing a curriculum that is culturally and …
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Teachers' and Students' Experience of Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Classrooms
… study was to develop a deeper understanding of culturally diverse classrooms in Saskatchewan. This qualitative case study involved two elementary classrooms in two urban schools in Saskatchewan. The participants were two homeroom teachers and two Nepali immigrant students in those classrooms. …
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The Relationship Between Socio-Economic Status and the Academic Achievement of Culturally Diverse Students
<p>Test results have shown that culturally diverse students from both high and low socioeconomic groups have continued to underperform when compared to the dominant group.</p> <p>The study focused on high achieving minority students in order to gain deeper insight of factors that lead to high …
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Implementing Neurophysiological Research into the Lives of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse High School Students
… research-based strategies into the lives of culturally-linguistically diverse high school students can better help them strengthen essential neural learning and memory connection in their brain (Griffin, 2017; Choudhury et al., 2008). However, a research-to-practice gap, results in the lack …
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When Does Self -Efficacy Enhance Performance? Effects of Autonomous Regulation in Culturally Diverse Groups
… self-efficacy and autonomous regulation in a culturally diverse work group in order to enhance performance. Performance feedback messages loaded with cultural cues were delivered to enhance self-efficacy and autonomous regulation. Specifically, I hypothesize that self-efficacy and autonomous …
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Multicultural Connections: A Study of Intertextual Linkages and Overlaps in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
The primary purpose of this study is to address the pervasive inscription of conceptual boundaries with respect to culture by identifying and documenting process related to the inscription of overlaps. Intertextual connections among cultures have been overlooked, unrecorded and often silenced in …
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A Comparative Study on the Integration of Culturally Diverse Zimbabwean and Somali Communities in Leicester.
… best practices in managing integration of its diverse ethnic minorities. The significant influx of African Caribbeans and South Asians in the second half of the 20th century catapulted political and policy debates in the city on how best to formulate integration policies which will manage the …
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Exploring how female leaders lead a culturally diverse workforce in the South African mining industry
… identify the traits female leaders used to lead diverse teams, was based on the Social Identity Theory, according to which these leaders are the out-group. The results showed that in a male-dominated environment, female leaders were not always taken seriously, respected or accepted, but they …
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Adult community education as sites for the development of social capital in a culturally diverse society
… of social and cultural networks for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in a regional community context. Within the milieu of the Shire of Campaspe, a rural area in northern Victoria, there has emerged the issue of ‘new’ social diversity due to recent decades of …
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Theory and Methodology for Forming Creative Design Teams in a Globally Distributed and Culturally Diverse Environment
… design teams in a globally distributed and culturally diverse environment. This dissertation provides a theoretical foundation for teaming methodologies for globally distributed and culturally diverse teams. It also presents a new global collaborative and creative design team formation …
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Strategies for success: meeting the needs of children who are both culturally diverse and academically talented
… characteristics allowing children who are both culturally diverse and academically talented to be successful in a program designed for gifted children. In addition, teacher characteristics and expectations, educational programming for academically advanced children, as well as parental …
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Using a parent report measure of giftedness to identify culturally diverse preschool children : the Hope scale adapted
… of this study was to validate an adaptation of a culturally sensitive rating scale (The HOPE Scale) in response to various factors contributing to disproportionate representation of minority and low-income students in gifted programs. Parents, rather than teachers, provide open-ended responses, in …
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A Mixed Method Study of Prevent, Teach, and Reinforce for Families: The Effectiveness for Culturally Diverse Families
… explored the effectiveness of PTR-F for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families. To address this gap, the current study explored modifications that can enhance PTR-F’s cultural responsivity and examined its effectiveness on CLD families. This mixed methods study used a …
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