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Choy, Sarojni; Singh, Parlo; Li, Minglin – Education Sciences, 2017
Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in doctoral enrolments of Asian international students in Australian universities. While policies have been developed to meet the needs of these students, there seems to be some confusion around the terms internationalisation, globalisation, bi-cultural, inter-cultural, multi-cultural, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Students, Universities, Foreign Countries
Morris, John Calvin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Theological education among Latin American Baptists began during the epoch of colonial missions as a part of the long-range strategy developed by missionaries primarily from North America. Beyond translation, contextualization had little importance in those beginning stages. Over time, the seminaries were nationalized, yet today the earlier…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Clergy, Spanish, Christianity
Clark, Kelly A.; Marable, Ronica – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2017
Cultural and linguistic diversity (CLD) refers to interactions and comparisons between people within an environment, rather than specific characteristics of an individual (Barrera & Corso, 2003). Students who are typically included in this category are (1) African Americans; (2) Asian Americans; (3) Native Americans; (4) Hispanic Americans;…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Limited English Speaking, Student Diversity, Youth
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Li, Yan; Xie, Hongling; Shi, Junqi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
The present study aimed to investigate cultural construction of children's perceptions of popularity determinants using a cross-cultural approach. This study examined 327 Chinese and 312 American fifth-graders' perceptions of what individual characteristics and peer relationships would make a peer popular. Consistent with cultural emphases,…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Peer Relationship, Peer Acceptance
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Cameron, Catherine Ann; Lau, Cindy; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
This cross-cultural study of the moral judgements of Mainland Han-Chinese, Chinese-Canadian, and Euro-Canadian children aged seven to 11 examined the evaluations of narrative protagonists' modest lies and self-promoting truthful statements in situations where they had done a good deed. The story characters had thus either lied or told the truth…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Moral Values
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Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa; Middleton, Michael J.; Ciani, Keith D.; Easter, Matthew A.; O'Keefe, Paul A.; Zusho, Akane – Educational Psychologist, 2012
In current research on achievement goal theory, most researchers differentiate between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goal orientations. Evidence from prior research and from several previously published data sets is used to highlight that the correlation is often rather large, with a number of studies reporting correlations above…
Descriptors: Achievement, Theories, Educational Psychology, Goal Orientation
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Mease, Jennifer J. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2012
The business case for diversity--the practice of connecting human differences to an organization's bottom line--has been critiqued for its compromised treatment of human difference. Through a grounded in action discursive analysis of 19 interviews with diversity consultants, this research identifies three occupational demands that prompted…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Consultants, Social Change, Interviews
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Nair, Sridevi – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2014
This essay argues for new pedagogies of "women of color" courses in light of the "transnational turn" of women's, gender, and sexuality studies (WGS) departments in the U.S. The author uses the transnational turn in WGS to refer to the increased presence of scholarship about/on contexts outside the U.S.--specifically, a…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Groups, Race, Cultural Differences
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Newton, Lynn D.; Newton, Douglas P. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The 2006 UNESCO conference "Building Creative Competencies for the 21st Century" had international participants and a global reach. The Director-General's proclamation that "Creativity is our hope" captured the essence of the proceedings and participants saw the focus on creativity as offering solutions to global problems.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Practices, Creative Thinking, Cultural Differences
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Garner, Pamela W.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Brown, Elizabeth L.; Vesely, Colleen K. – Educational Psychology Review, 2014
The primary goal of this article is to situate the findings from evidence-based studies of social emotional learning (SEL) interventions into a broader social context by reframing the discussion to consider how aspects of sociocultural competence impact the development and delivery of programs. The limitations of current SEL intervention efforts…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Emotional Development, Social Development, Intervention
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Haggis, Jane; Mulholland, Monique – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
This paper aimed to problematise what is meant by 'difference' and consider what such a reinterpretation might mean for methodological interventions in sex education research. Our concern is the tendency for sex education research to treat difference as a set of categories to be "added-on", such as religious difference, cultural…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Religion
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Celik, Rasit – Education and Culture, 2014
Creating a democratic nation-state and sustaining its progress was seen by the founders of the Republic of Turkey as necessary to achieving the goal of becoming a distinguished member among developed civilizations. The founders conceived of education as a main instrument in disseminating this new ideology and ensuring the emergence of a culture of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Educational Philosophy, Educational Development
Hsin-Ling Hung; James W. Altschuld – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
The Asia-Pacific program evaluation development and challenge project in 2006-2007 was a collaboration of researchers with varied cultural backgrounds and from two different countries. It focused on the Asia-Pacific region and utilized a Delphi technique involving experts from 11 countries/areas (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Williams-Diehm, Kendra L.; Miller, Christina R.; Sinclair, Tracy E.; Wronowski, Meredith L. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2018
As technology continues to permeate our culture and society, K-12 educators search for strategies to build student capacity and engagement with technology. Although the digital divide around access to technology has been decreasing, there is still a significant gap in the utilization of technology for educational purposes by culturally diverse…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Disabilities, Cultural Differences, Student Diversity
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