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Direct linkSmith, Nicholas Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines what undergraduate students say they learn about engaging with difference and across cultures in the Michigan Union and the Trotter Multicultural Center at the University of Michigan, a historically white institution. The University of Michigan is a historically white institution because of its majority of white students,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedPierce, L. Marinn; Gibbons, Melinda M. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 2012
Refugees are expected to determine how to integrate past experiences into their lives in a new culture. Constructivist approaches to counseling allow refugees opportunities to determine how to integrate these experiences into their future career choices. Refugee experiences throughout the resettlement process and a constructivist career counseling…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, Career Counseling, Constructivism (Learning)
Hamdan, Amani K. – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
This case study explored the need for culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in Saudi Arabian higher education, especially when students have a cultural background that differs from that of their instructor. The study documented how expatriate teachers structured their pedagogical practices in the Saudi Arabian context. It examined how these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
Tracey, Monica W.; Unger, Kelly L. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
As the need for instructing a globalized workforce increases, instructional designers must embrace the constraints and the opportunities these projects provide in order to move the field of cross-cultural instructional design (ID) forward. Cross-cultural projects offer multiple avenues for growth in ID practice, overcoming cultural barriers, and a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Labor Force Development
Roberts, Alyce C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which high school English teachers working in urban high schools in a persistently failing school district in the Northeast exemplified teaching practices that were culturally relevant and culturally responsive to the needs of students of diverse backgrounds. Au's (1998) proposed theoretical…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Urban Education, Educational Practices
Download full textJauregi, Kristi; Canto, Silvia – Research-publishing.net, 2012
One of the key concerns of educators is to come to know what works in language teaching and under which conditions (Intercultural) Communicative Competence can be furthered. This concern is even bigger among professionals experimenting or willing to experiment with new media. Following socio-constructivist theories of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Computer Assisted Instruction
Morita, Naoko – Language and Education, 2009
Recent research has explored the complex, situated process by which students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds become socialized into academic discourses and practices. As part of a multiple case study involving seven international students, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the academic discourse socialization…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Academic Discourse, Socialization, English (Second Language)
Zhang, Zuochen; Kenny, Richard F. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
This case study explores the learning experiences of three international students who were enrolled in an online master's program offered by a large university in Canada. The aim of the study was to understand the international students' experiences with, and perspectives on, the online learning environment. Findings indicate that previous…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Cues, Distance Education
Seah, Wee Tiong – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This paper reports on a qualitative research study exploring the socialisation experiences of immigrant secondary mathematics teachers practising in Australia. Teacher perception of differences in the ways their respective home and the Australian (host) cultures value aspects of mathematics teaching and learning was observed to lead to dissonance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Immigrants, Mathematics Teachers
Barreto, Ramona Maile – 1996
This study examined California's new system of bilingual and cross cultural teacher preparation, its implementation, and teacher candidates' reception of it. The new system, referred to as (B)CLAD, consists of two credentials for preservice teachers and two certificates for inservice teachers: the Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, College Students, Constructivism (Learning)
Becher, Aslaug Andreassen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
"Minority children" experience a lot of shifts in their cultural contexts. The author's work as a professional teacher in multicultural classes enabled her to focus on the research questions presented in this article. These questions concern the need for some minority children to achieve equal opportunities in the Norwegian educational…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Context, Minority Group Students, Multicultural Education
Torraco, Richard J., Ed. – 1997
These proceedings begin with the schedule, conference committee membership lists, and detailed agenda of the 1997 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development, which explored the future of human resource development (HRD). Presented next are papers on HRD from scholars affiliated with organizations from 12 countries. The papers are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
