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David Baidoo-Anu; Liu Lei; Dante Cisterna; Yi Song – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024
Drawing on a scoping-review methodology, this study aimed to map extant literature to conceptualize cultural validity in assessment. Three themes emerged from this review: (a) conceptualization of cultural validity, (b) promoting cultural validity in assessment, and (c) challenges to cultural validity in assessment. The review showed that…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Student Evaluation, Student Diversity, Evaluation Methods
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Esteban-Guitart, Moisès – Urban Education, 2023
Diversity in cultures, languages and identities is a valuable resource in urban education. There is empirical evidence to support this assertion in the existing literature on "funds of knowledge" and "funds of identity." However, the main focus of such research is on the tacit knowledge, skills, and resources that students--and…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Schools, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
Mariam Mostafa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The pursuit of higher education symbolizes a profound and transformative journey, particularly for international students who embark on the path of studying abroad. This dissertation undertakes an in-depth exploration of the well-being of Arab women pursuing their graduate studies in the United States (US), emphasizing four crucial dimensions of…
Descriptors: Arabs, Graduate Students, Females, Foreign Students
Brandi Pineda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Disparity exists in disciplinary actions taken toward Black students compared to White students in the public schools of a county school district in a Southwest U.S. state. Successful school leadership practices are needed to minimize the disproportionality of Black students being expelled, suspended, and routed to the school-to-prison pipeline.…
Descriptors: Discipline, Racial Differences, African American Students, White Students
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Sarid, Ariel; Binhas, Adi – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: This research explores the perceptions and practice of principals in schools integrating migrant and refugee children into the Israeli formal education system. The aim is to offer theoretical and methodological insights to the discourse on educational leadership. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative (phenomenological) study used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Immigrants
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Rame, Ana; Kelly-Turner, Kenna; Roze des Ordons, Amanda; de Groot, Janet; Keegan, David; Crowshoe, Lynden; Henderson, Rita; Roach, Pamela – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: To examine experiences of anti-Indigenous racism in a Canadian medical school and inform the development of critical and action-oriented Indigenous health education necessary to pave the way for reconciliation within health systems. Design: A qualitative study conducted within a constructivist paradigm which involved: (1)…
Descriptors: Racism, Medical Schools, Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Relevance
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Gooden, Mark Anthony; Devereaux, Cathryn A.; Hulse, Nia E. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2020
This article examines a culturally responsive mentoring approach, and how it is enacted and experienced by two Black women doctoral students in relation to their Black male faculty mentor. Autoethnography is used to examine these mentoring dyads. By examining, defining, and applying culturally responsive mentoring, authors reflect on meaning of…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Mentors, African American Students, Doctoral Students
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Farmer, Angela S. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2018
Native American students currently enrolled in K-12 schools across the United States face a variety of challenges unique to their ethnicity and often silenced by a majority culture which fails to recognize key, intrinsic factors critical for the students' success in academic settings. Evidences of said challenges include disciplinary statistics,…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Parent Attitudes, Tribes, Ethnicity
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Brion, Corinne – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
This teaching case study takes place in an American middle school and tells the story of Dorah, a refugee student from the Republic of Congo who experienced severe trauma. At Lincoln Middle School, the principal and her teachers encounter difficulties serving their refugee students adequately because of their lack of cultural proficiency. This…
Descriptors: Refugees, Middle School Students, Trauma, Student Needs
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Escott, Sharnee; Abraham, Quentin – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
This paper offers a first person account of an indigenous person navigating the education system to become an educational psychologist. The writing is unashamedly personal, includes cultural references, words from the first language of our country, feelings and reflections. The second author has contextualised these observations in the literary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Psychology, Psychologists
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Mead, Margaret – Childhood Education, 2017
This article is mainly concerned with how teachers can help children to value the special contributions that individuals with different home ways-that is, children whose families still practice the customs of some other cultural group-can bring to life in the schoolroom. Author Margaret Mead emphasizes that when it is possible, it would be…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Awareness, Barriers, Cultural Relevance
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Mortier, Kathleen; Brown, Isabella C.; Aramburo, Corrine M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2021
Culturally and linguistically diverse families face substantial barriers in the special education system and seek support from cultural brokers to help them navigate it. We used a qualitative design to study cultural brokering experiences among Latinx families of children with extensive support needs and cultural brokers. Through individual…
Descriptors: Special Education, Ethnic Diversity, Student Diversity, Language Usage
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Carey, Michelle – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Taking the Universities Australia report, "National best practice framework for Indigenous cultural competency in Australian universities" (2011) as the starting point for its discussion, this paper examines the applicability of cultural competence in the design and delivery of Australian Indigenous Studies. It argues that both the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Competence
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Amer, Mona M.; Bagasra, Anisah – American Psychologist, 2013
Like other minority groups in North America, Muslim Americans have been largely ignored in the psychological literature. The overwhelming pressures faced by this group, including surveillance, hate crimes, and institutional discrimination, stimulate an urgent need for psychologists to better understand and ensure the well-being of this population.…
Descriptors: North Americans, Muslims, Minority Groups, Social Science Research
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