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Pimmada Charoensilp – rEFLections, 2024
This study examined the relationship of teachers' intercultural sensitivity to their in-class culturally responsive teaching. A total of 168 teachers with teaching experience in multicultural classrooms in northern Thailand answered a questionnaire with two psychological scales: the intercultural sensitivity scale and the culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Sensitivity Training
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Arevalo, Irving; So, Dominicus; McNaughton-Cassill, Mary – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
In an attempt to explain the lower Latino college graduation rate, the current study focuses on collectivism in kin and nonkin helping situations. The sample comprised 60 students at a 4-year college in the southwestern United States. Results revealed significance between ethnicity and nonkin collectivism: Latino American college students were…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Graduation Rate, Collectivism
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Kato, Fumie – Cogent Education, 2016
The Collaborative Learning Project is a language exchange program in which American and Japanese university students have the opportunity to interact with native speakers over the course of a three-week period. This paper reports the outcomes of the Collaborative Learning Project in terms of its effectiveness in fulfilling student expectations and…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research, Formative Evaluation, Questionnaires
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Bohecker, Lynn; Doughty Horn, Elizabeth A. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2016
This study used the Solomon 4-group design to examine the relationship between a mindfulness experiential small group (MESG) and mindfulness skills, empathy, counseling self-efficacy, and perceived stress for counselors in training (CITs). Understanding how the MESG affects these characteristics provides essential information to inform the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Self Efficacy, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques
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Hawkins, LouAnne B.; Kaplan, Leslie G. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Recent research has empirically demonstrated that young adults today are different from prior generations in their decreased empathy, increased narcissism, and decreased civic engagement. The formative years of young adulthood are a critical period for the development of civic values and civil ideologies, a time when college-age adults need to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Refugees, Generational Differences, Honors Curriculum
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Ruiz, Nadeen Teresa; Baird, Peter J.; Torres Hernández, Pedro – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
Initial research has documented the ill treatment suffered by Mexican indigenous students in U.S. schools. Using a framework of transnational teacher education, we examined the impact of field practice in an indigenous area of Mexico on teacher candidates. Candidates showed growth in new understandings, such as their role as bilingual teachers in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Field Experience Programs
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Levine, Kenneth J.; Garland, Michelle E. – Journal of International Students, 2015
This paper examines how the study-abroad experience enhances intercultural communication competence. This study used Bennett's (1986, 1993) model of ethnorelative typology of acceptance, adaptation, and integration to explore intercultural communication competency. Central to intercultural communication competency is intercultural sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Intercultural Communication
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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
Motley, Phillip; Sturgill, Amanda – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2014
As communications students learn to tell stories, the curriculum should teach them to cover diverse groups accurately. Scholars have studied coverage of diversity in gender, nationality, ethnicity, and race. One area that has seen less attention is economic diversity, in particular, coverage of the poor. This paper examines how service-learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Service Learning, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged
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Thanh Pham, Thi Hong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
This study aimed to investigate the perceptions, interactions and behaviours of different-ability college students when they worked on different types of assessments. Two classes of 145 Vietnamese college students participated in this three-month study. The students were assigned to mixed-ability groups, each of which consisted of five students.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, High Achievement, Student Projects, Group Activities
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Bulunuz, Nermin – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2014
This study investigates noise pollution levels in two elementary schools. Also, "noise level awareness and sensitivity training" was given for reducing noise pollution, and the effects and results of this training were evaluated. "Sensitivity" training was given to 611 students and 48 teachers in a private and a public school.…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Acoustics, Sensitivity Training, Consciousness Raising
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Novak, Ashley D.; Bartelheim, Frederick J. – Current Issues in Education, 2012
Schools are becoming more inclusive and more students with special needs are accessing general education classrooms than ever. This action research study investigated general education students changing perceptions of students with special needs through the use of various interventions (e.g., classroom discussions, organized games, buddy reads,…
Descriptors: General Education, Student Attitudes, Action Research, Disabilities
Tinkler, Barri; Tinkler, Alan – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2013
In response to the increasing diversity in American public schools and concerns over inequities in opportunity and achievement, many teacher education programs are infusing multicultural topics and coursework into their programs (Akiba, 2011; Hollins & Guzman, 2005). While some programs utilize what O'Grady (2000) called the Human Relations…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Davis, Deborah Winders; Harris, Ruby Carrie; Burns, Barbara M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Even in the absence of major disabilities, children born prematurely are at high risk for academic delays and deficits. Research suggests that some differences in outcomes may relate to problems with self-regulation, especially attention regulation. Previous research has demonstrated that individual differences in attention regulation is…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Sensitivity Training, Personality, Birth
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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
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