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Göran Gerdin; Katarina Lundin; Rod Philpot; Ellen Berg; Amanda Mooney; Ansie Kitching; Laura Alfrey; Katarina Schenker; Susanne Linnér – European Physical Education Review, 2025
This paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Health Education, Physical Education
Dilsad Bakir; Esen Altunay – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study aimed to explore the cultural barriers to change in public primary and secondary schools in Türkiye. The study is based on a qualitative research approach. The participants consist of 42 school leaders working in various primary and secondary schools in Türkiye. Data originated from semi-structured interviews and observations, and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Resistance to Change, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
Pietro A. Sasso; Kim E. Bullington; Lindsy Perry – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2023
This qualitative intersectional narrative inquiry examined how Multiracial college students find sense of belongingin student organizations by negotiating multiple racial identities and locations in traditionally monoracial spaces.Multiracial students sought membership in organizations because they felt invisible at their institutions. To…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Multiracial Persons, Group Unity, Interpersonal Relationship
Chan, Maureen Yin Lee; Snell, Robin Stanley – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Through qualitative research, which involved qualitative interviews and focus group meetings with members of four student teams, we identified a number of barriers to the development of cohesiveness in teams of local and international exchange (IE) students, who were undertaking service-learning (SL) together. Lack of cohesiveness in such teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Exchange Programs, Service Learning, Community Organizations
Rissanen, Inkeri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study examines negotiations on Muslims' inclusive citizenship in Finnish and Swedish comprehensive schools. The data include interviews with Muslim parents and Muslim teachers (n = 8 in both countries), who serve as cultural brokers in public schools and mediate negotiations on the terms of inclusion. The study utilizes the notion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Citizenship, Public Schools
Medina, Amelia; Burks-Keeley, Randa G.; Costa-Guerra, Leslie; Ibrahim, Amal – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century is Paulo Freire. He has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue. According to Freire, to enter into dialogue presupposes equality amongst participants. Each must trust the others; there must be mutual respect and love (care…
Descriptors: Special Education, Females, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
Reese, Elaine; Fivush, Robyn; Merrill, Natalie; Wang, Qi; McAnally, Helena – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Adolescents' intergenerational narratives--the stories they tell about their mothers' and fathers' early experiences--are an important component of their identities (Fivush & Merrill, 2016; Merrill & Fivush, 2016). This study explored adolescents' intergenerational narratives across cultures. Adolescents aged 12 to 21 from 3 cultural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intergenerational Programs, Personal Narratives, Family (Sociological Unit)
Moland, Naomi A. – Comparative Education Review, 2015
While scholars argue that "multicultural education" initiatives are rooted in liberal Western ideals, such projects are increasingly being exported to non-Western countries with significantly different sociohistorical contexts. This article examines the adaptation of multicultural education on the Nigerian version of "Sesame…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Educational Television, Childrens Television
Rienties, Bart; Johan, Novie; Jindal-Snape, Divya – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Although many international students experience transitional issues, most research assumes these issues will disappear over time. Using principles of social capital theory, this study addressed whether after three years of study students were able to build multi-national and host social capital links. In this quantitative study of 81 students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Social Theories, Foreign Students
Yoon, Eunju; Lee, Dal Yob; Koo, Young Ran; Yoo, Sung-Kyung – Counseling Psychologist, 2010
Postimmigration adjustment experiences of 10 Korean immigrant women were examined using the consensual qualitative research method. Seven domains emerged: general life conditions; gender role; changes in family dynamics; ethnic/national identity, cultural competency, and belongingness; value changes; racial relationships; and support systems and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Females, Adults

Vega, William A.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986
Examined cohesion and adaptability as two dimensions of family functioning in 294 Anglo- and Mexican-American parents of school-age children. Revealed no significant differences in mean scores or distributions between ethnic groups for cohesion or adaptability, even when acculturation was controlled. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Differences, Family Life, Group Unity
Salo, Matt T. – Ethnicity, 1979
Discussed in this paper is the range of ethnic identities utilized by three North American Gypsy groups: the Rom, Romnicel and Ludar groups. Cultural characteristics that each group considers essential to its ethnic identity are described. In addition, the groups are compared with respect to their own perceptions of cultural similarity and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Traits, Ethnic Distribution

Wong-Rieger, Durhane; Quintana, Diana – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1987
The acculturation of two ethnic groups in Oklahoma was compared. Hispanics seemed to be more assimilated than Southeast Asians. Both groups were more assimilated in their work places and residences than in friendships. Ethnic networking reduced assimilation. Biculturalism was the most satisfactory form of acculturation, followed by assimilation,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Culture Contact
Okamoto, Dina G. – Social Forces, 2006
In the wake of the civil rights movement, new organizations formed which were based on the collective interests and identities of their constituencies. Some of these organizations brought together national origin groups who often differed by ethnicity, language, culture, religion and immigration history. In this paper, I focus on the conditions…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Asian Americans, Organizations (Groups), Organizational Theories
French, Sabine Elizabeth; Seidman, Edward; Allen, LaRue; Aber, J. Lawrence – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The development of ethnic identity is a critical facet of adolescence, particularly for adolescents of color. In order to examine the developmental trajectory of ethnic identity, African American, Latino American, and European American early and middle adolescents (N=420) were assessed over 3 years. Two components of ethnic identity were…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Hispanic Americans
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