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Download full textGedik Bal, Nur – TESL-EJ, 2023
It is urgent to develop intercultural sensitivity (IS hereafter) for the society and especially for in-service teachers as they are the agents that help learners to acquire the intercultural competencies needed to live in a dramatically globalized world. However, few research studies focused on in-service teachers' intercultural sensitivity though…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Sensitivity Training, Inservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkNiehaus, Elizabeth – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
One of the most frequently touted benefits of higher education is the opportunity to interact with people different from oneself, yet these interactions do not automatically lead to positive outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore how one particular context for diversity interactions, service-based alternative break programs, may provide…
Descriptors: Interaction, Sensitivity Training, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Competence
Park, Sungok R. – Multicultural Education Review, 2016
Discourse among early childhood education researchers increasingly emphasizes the need for teachers to better understand and support diversity in their classrooms. As part of a larger mixed-method study, this qualitative research illuminates Korean early childhood educators' multicultural teaching competence. While Korean classrooms are in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Multicultural Education
Mellizo, Jennifer M. – Intercultural Education, 2017
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore levels of intercultural sensitivity in a sample of fourth to eighth grade students in the United States (n = 162). "Intercultural sensitivity" was conceptualised through Bennett's Developmental Model of Sensitivity, and assessed through the Adapted Intercultural Sensitivity Index.…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Multicultural Education, Sensitivity Training, Mixed Methods Research
Vera, Elizabeth; Hook, Kimberly; Daskalova, Plamena; Hill, Lincoln; Galvin, Sarah; Fritsche, Sarah; Catellier, Jessica; Haywood, Shaakira; Raziuddin, Abdul; Anderson, Bernasha; Roche, Meghan; Floro, Marissa; Mutuyemariya, Celine; Thomas, Kathryn; Heerwagen, Kathryn; Camacho, Daniel; Boots, Tonya; Gruber, Elisabeth Ondrey – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2018
This mixed-methods study examined the socioemotional experiences of 57 alumni of language support programs (i.e., English as a second language, bilingual education) to identify effects of being English learners (ELs). Findings revealed the need for multicultural sensitivity to ELs, bullying episodes, social exclusion, and not disclosing negative…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Emotional Experience, Student Experience, English Language Learners
Niehaus, Elizabeth; Rivera, Mark – Journal of College and Character, 2015
Given the ever increasing numbers of Students of Color engaging in higher education, the importance of cross-cultural interactions for all students, and the evidence that White students and Students of Color may have vastly different experiences in higher education, there is a need to further explore the types of cross-cultural experiences that…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Student Characteristics
Loes, Chad N.; Salisbury, Mark H.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on a study that explored whether diversity experiences influence students' attitudes toward literary activities during the first year of college. Interactional diversity and attending a diversity workshop had a positive net influence on the outcome measure. Exposure to curricular diversity, however, had only a chance effect on…
Descriptors: Literacy, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Outcome Measures
Agirdag, Orhan; Van Houtte, Mieke; Van Avermaet, Piet – Urban Education, 2012
The authors examine whether school segregation is related to pupils' global self-esteem and whether this association is mediated by teacher-pupil relationships. Multilevel analyses based on a survey of 2,845 pupils (aged 10 to 12) in 68 primary schools in Belgian urban areas reveal that, for native-Belgian pupils, a higher proportion of immigrants…
Descriptors: Immigrants, School Segregation, Teacher Student Relationship, Urban Areas
Pulkki-Raback, Laura; Pullmann, Helle; Hintsanen, Mirka; Alatupa, Saija; Ravaja, Niklas; Lehtimaki, Terho; Keltikangas-jarvinen, Liisa – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: Genes have been suggested to interact with predictors of school performance, but evidence is scarce. The purpose was to examine whether a hyperactive temperament leads to different school performance, depending on variability in a serotonin receptor gene (5-HTR2A). Method: The participants were a population-based sample of 909 girls…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Parsons, R. Lindsey – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2010
This research was conducted to determine whether the benefits claimed by advocates of university internationalization would be evidenced by students at two universities in the United States and one in Australia. A review of the literature of study abroad, intergroup contact theory, intercultural communication and sensitivity, worldmindedness, and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Intergroup Relations
Daniel, Beverly-Jean – Teaching Education, 2009
This paper explores the efficacy of employing the cohort model of teacher education for preparing pre-service teachers to address issues of race within an urban university setting. The results of the research indicate that the cohort facilitates a degree of familiarity and support amongst the teacher candidates, provides exposure to diverse…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Universities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Teacher Attitudes
Jayakumar, Uma M. – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Uma Jayakumar investigates the relationship between white individuals' exposure to racial diversity during college and their postcollege cross-cultural workforce competencies. Using survey data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, housed in the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Structural Equation Models, Racial Relations
Reis, Janet; Trockel, Mickey; Mulhall, Peter – Youth & Society, 2007
Hierarchical linear modeling is used to assess individual student, family, and school predictors of aggression in 111,662 students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Nine measures of problem-solving strategies, quality of family and peer interaction, and perceptions of school climate are analyzed at the individual student level. Eight measures…
Descriptors: Aggression, Educational Environment, Middle Schools, Early Adolescents
