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Decolonizing Education in Canadian Universities: An Interdisciplinary, International, Indigenous Research Project Open
Despite several decades of work on educational equity in curriculum and research and bridging and access projects, Aboriginal peoples' achievements, knowledge, histories, and perspectives remain too often ignored, rejected, suppressed, mar…
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Longitudinal trajectories of bicultural identity integration in recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents: Links with mental health and family functioning Open
This study examined, in a sample of recently immigrated Hispanic adolescents in Miami and Los Angeles, the extent to which bicultural identity integration ( BII ; involving the ability to synthesise one's heritage and receiving cultural st…
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Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation Open
When moving to a new country or living in that country as ethnic-minority-group members, individuals have to relate to different cultural spheres. Scholars and practitioners commonly agree that how people acculturate influences their psych…
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Two Teachers of Aboriginal Students: Effective Practice in Sociohistorical Realities Open
The study of effective teaching for Aboriginal students needs to be situated in the complexities of sociohistorical realities. In addition to cultural differences, the analysisneeds to include the impact of colonization and poiver relatio…
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Researching With Aboriginal Peoples: Practices and Principles Open
The increasing participation of Aboriginal students in Canadian higher education had been attributed to the development of services for students in institutions of higher education. Pigeon (2001) studied the relationship between students a…
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Toward a Redefinition of American Indian/Alaska Native Education Open
My name is Eber Hampton Jr. I was born in Talihina, Oklahoma and am a member of the Chickasaw nation as was my father Eber Hampton Sr. My mother Evelyn is white; her maiden name was Cowling. I have been educated in two cultural traditions.…
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A Culturally Adapted Intervention for Mexican‐Origin Parents of Adolescents: The Need to Overtly Address Culture and Discrimination in Evidence‐Based Practice Open
Latino/a populations in the United States are negatively impacted by widespread mental health disparities. Although the dissemination of culturally relevant parent training ( PT ) programs constitutes an alternative to address this problem…
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Role of Bilingualism and Biculturalism as Assets in Positive Psychology: Conceptual Dynamic GEAR Model Open
Are bilingualism and/or biculturalism good for a person’s positive well being? A growing number of studies have shown different positive outcomes of being exposed to two cultures or speaking two languages respectively, but the benefits of …
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Does selective acculturation work? Cultural orientations, educational aspirations and school effort among children of immigrants in Norway Open
This article examines educational aspirations, expectations and school effort among adolescents, using the first wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway. In comparative terms, youth in Norway have exceptionally high…
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A Phenomenological Study on International Doctoral Students’ Acculturation Experiences at a U.S. University Open
A phenomenological method was used to analyze ten international doctoral students’ description of their lived experiences at a United States (U.S.) university. The analysis was based on the theoretical premise of how students acculturate t…
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Including alternative stories in the mainstream. How transcultural young people in Norway perform creative cultural resistance in and outside of school Open
The development of an inclusive pedagogy takes on new urgency in Norwegian schools as the student body has become increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. Traditionally, the Norwegian school has been dominated by homogenising an…
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The associations of biculturalism to prosocial tendencies and positive self evaluations. Open
Although some research exists on biculturalism and negative adjustment, few studies have examined the mechanisms that account for the positive correlates of biculturalism in U.S. Latino youth. Two competing reverse causal models were teste…
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Journeys to Success: Perceptions of Five Female Aboriginal High School Graduates Open
This article outlines the results of a qualitative research study of five Aboriginal girls in grade 12 at a Catholic high school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Using a discursive narrative method in the form of sharing circles, the researcher…
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Examining clinical training through a bicultural lens: Experiences of genetic counseling students who identify with a racial or ethnic minority group Open
Biculturals are individuals who have had significant exposure to more than one culture and who possess more than one cultural frame of reference. In the United States, this term has been used to describe both immigrants and members of raci…
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Disordered Eating in Asian American Women: Sociocultural and Culture-Specific Predictors Open
Asian American women demonstrate higher rates of disordered eating than other women of color and comparable rates to European American women. Research suggests that leading sociocultural predictors, namely, pressures for thinness and thin-…
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The hikairo rationale teaching students with emotional and behavioural difficulties: A bicultural approach Open
In recent years there has been a proliferation of behaviour management philosophies, techniques, and instructional methodologies that has increased the complexity of the teachers' responsibilities and functions (Walker & Shea, 1995). While…
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A Breach on the Beach: Te Papa and the fraying of biculturalism Open
In 1998, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand opened to the public. The new national museum is strongly bicultural in terms of its architecture, organization, and management – and in the way it represents history and society in exhibiti…
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Psychological Acculturation and Parenting Behaviors in Mexican-Immigrant Families Open
This study examined the relation between mothers’ and fathers’ psychological acculturation and parenting behaviors in two samples of Mexican-immigrant families. The middle childhood sample included 47 mothers, 38 fathers, and 46 children i…
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Monolingual Language Ideologies and the Idealized Speaker: The “New Bilingualism” Meets the “Old” Educational Inequities Open
Background/Context After decades of restrictive U.S. language policies geared toward English-only education, recent years have seen a proliferation of dual-language programs, Seal of Biliteracy awards, and bilingual education programming m…
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Accommodating multiculturalism and biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for language education Open
The field of language education in Aotearoa New Zealand, as elsewhere, has developed significantly since its early and almost exclusive focus on the acquisition of English literacy in schools. As the field has expanded, so too has the rang…
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Exploring Names and Identity Through Multicultural Literature in K-8 Classrooms Open
Children's names reflect their gender, culture, religion, language, and family history. Use of students' personal names has the power to positively affirm identity and signal belonging within the classroom and school community. However, na…
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Aboriginal Identity: The Need for Historical and Contextual Perspectives Open
Employing a perspective that distinguishes between "identity" and "identifying" demonstrates the limitations inherent in typical conceptions of cultural identity. Identifying is situational and historical, shaped by the time and place in w…
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USING BILINGUAL BOOKS TO ENHANCE LITERACY AROUND THE WORLD Open
This paper focuses on approaches and practices for developing biliteracy and bilingualism across diverse international settings. The authors present a framework for why bilingual books can be used to develop both native language and second…
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Affirming identity: The role of language and culture in American Indian education Open
With the passage of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, the United States spent millions upon millions of dollars in a largely unsuccessful effort to close the academic achievement gap between American-Indian and some other ethnic…
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Level of Educational Attainment Among Deaf Adults Who Attended Bilingual–Bicultural Programs Open
In Scandinavia and some other countries, a bilingual-bicultural approach to deaf education was celebrated in national programs from the mid-1980s until the broad popularity of cochlear implantation in middle 2000s created a shift back to a…
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A Māori and Pasifika Label—An Old History, New Context Open
The term ‘Māori and Pasifika’ is widely used in Aotearoa, New Zealand to both unite and distinguish these peoples and cultures. As a collective noun of separate peoples, Māori and Pasifika are used to acknowledge the common Pacific ancestr…
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Disentangling relationships between bicultural stress and mental well-being among Latinx immigrant adolescents. Open
Findings from this study indicate that the RI-CLPM is an effective strategy to examine bicultural stress and well-being processes among adolescents. There is a need for further research examining bicultural stress among Latinx immigrant yo…
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Sample Characteristics and Country Level Indicators Influencing the Relationship Between Biculturalism and Adjustment: An Updated Meta-Analysis Open
A considerable number of studies have explored the relationship between biculturalism and different types of adjustment (psychological, sociocultural, health-related), showing that individuals who are highly engaged in both their heritage …
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U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents’ bicultural competence and mental health in context. Open
The diversity found among U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents' niches underscores the need to assess context broadly by including a range of settings. Studying multiple components of bicultural competence across numerous cultural domains may p…
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Impact of youth cultural orientation on perception of family process and development among Korean Americans. Open
Results show that identity and behavioral enculturation in one's heritage culture are predictors of bonding with parents, which is notably protective for youth. The results highlight the critical effect of enculturation in enhancing youth …