Multicultural for who? A review of a comprehensive multicultural textbook

This study subjected the Intercultural Sensitivity scale consisting of 24 items to Rasch analysis in a sample of 200 participants. The scale was translated into Persian and administered to graduate and undergraduate university students. Analysis of data showed that there were no misfitting items. Furthermore, no item manifested gender differential item functioning (DIF). All the thresholds were ordered and respondents could distinguish well between categories of the scale. The results of principal component analysis (PCA) of standardized residuals revealed that there were two contrasts with eigenvalues above two. Deleting positively and negatively loading items separately did not improve model fit. Thus, the content of items was investigated and it became clear that most of the positively loading items covered those items which have negative content and conversely, negatively loading items encompassed the items which have positive content. This brings about two psychometric dimensions in this scale. 1) Wording of the items revealed that the existence of items with negative wording in the scale results in statistical artifacts, and 2) The secondary dimension here could be interpreted to be an artifact of the wording. It was concluded that the scale is unidimensional and enjoys acceptable psychometric properties.

Section: Intercultural Sensitivity and Its Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validation of Persian Translation of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale Using Rasch Model

Moradi¹

2020

“…This required a sociocultural perspective, looking at individuals and communities across settings to see the diversity in the ways they practice blackness and the role of space in how blackness gets practiced in distinct places. Sociocultural perspectives, grounded in the work of Lev Vygotsky, center learning within social and cultural processesjoint enterprises between individuals and their communities of practice in which individuals draw on the available tools and resources in their local contexts in pursuit of a goal (Buchter, et al, 2020;Cole, 1996;Halpern, 2018;Kopish, 2016;Lave & Wenger, 1991;Rogoff, 1990;Saxe, 1999;Vygotsky 1978Vygotsky , 1987Wertsch, 1998). A sociocultural approach sees learning as occurring in and across multiple cultural contexts imbued with long histories of tool use mediated by language and other semiotic systems towards the end of transformation at the individual and societal levels (Beckett & Kobayashi, 2020;Nasir & Hand, 2006).…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

AfroBoriqua Mothering: Teaching/Learning Blackness in a Bay Area AfroPuerto Rican Community of Practice

Cortes

2020

This article puts forth the notion of Afroboriqua mothering to understand the types of conditions that allow communal, proleptic practices of blackness to exist within AfroPuerto Rican communities. Afroboriqua mothering is an act that occurs within a community of practice that queers how we understand mothering through activism that always centers blackness and anti-colonial Puerto Ricanness. Through participant-observation and a series of interviews with members of one AfroPuerto Rican community in Northern California, Afroboriqua mothering surfaced as a way to describe teaching and learning (or teaching/learning) within AfroLatinx multi-generational communities that centers blackness as an ancestral, cooperative, and activist practice.

“…Ethnic groups have two main dimensions of ethnic identity and acculturation (Laroche et al,1997). Ethnic identity refers to a sense of belonging informed by clear knowledge of one's roots, history, and culture, a positive attitude toward the group, and involvement in cultural practices (Halpern, 2018;Soyer, 2019;Teppang, Han, and Lee，2019). It derives from a sense of peoplehood within a group, a culture, and a particular setting (Phinney, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge Mapping of Ethnic Identity and Acculturation Based on the Method of Bibliometric

Shuangyun

Li²

2020

Ethnic identity and acculturation is a multidisciplinary research field. It is not easy for researchers to gain a panoramic view of the knowledge structure in this field. The bibliometric of knowledge mapping provides researchers with a scientific quantitative research method of statistics, description, and prediction of academic status and development trends. The purpose of this study is to help researchers understand the critical knowledge, evolution trend, and research frontier of the current research. Using bibliometrics software Citespace and Bicomb, this study analyzed 1557 bibliographic data in the Web of Science database and found that: 1)the research field development has gone through three stages, and we knew some representative critical scholars and key literature; 2) The literature knowledge mapping co-citation and the co-occurrence of keywords showed the research hot spots; 3) The results of burst detection and central node analysis reveal the research frontier and development trend. The globalization of the world economy has led to the rapid expansion of research objects from immigrants in the United States to the whole world. Meanwhile, there are still many disputes about theoretical models, constructs, and structural dimensions in the research field, which are the directions that future researchers need to study further.