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Direct linkHansuvadha, Nat; Slater, Charles L. – Educational Forum, 2012
Cultural competence is the knowledge, behaviors, and dispositions necessary to effectively interact with other cultural groups. Two case studies are presented which illustrate the cultural competence of administrators in urban settings. Theories are reviewed to investigate the themes of cultural competence that emerged from the professional…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Administrator Effectiveness, Case Studies, Urban Schools
Yin, Lishu; Huang, Li-Ching; Hare, Dwight – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2010
This in-depth study examined the perspectives of 17 Korean undergraduate exchange students attending a U.S. southern university during the 2005-2006 school year. The struggles and frustrations they experienced; the difficulties they encountered socially, culturally, and academically; their contributions to the American academic community; and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transportation, Foreign Students, Asians
Gordon, June A. – Leadership, 2005
One of the most common misunderstandings about the composition of the teaching profession, and hence, educational administration, is that it is merely a professional choice: someone chooses to be a teacher rather than a business person, a lawyer, a food service worker, a nurse, a truck driver. In reality, many decisions are made for young people…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Cultural Pluralism, Minority Group Teachers, Cultural Differences
Download full textEdmunds, Polly; And Others – 1990
Demographic studies indicate that the United States is becoming a richer mix of cultures, and that multicultural diversity is especially reflected among young children with special educational needs. Children of color are the most rapidly increasing population group and the largest group at risk for disabilities. Black and Hispanic American…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Voltz, Deborah L. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2000
This qualitative study was designed to strengthen the voice of urban practitioners in the scholarly debate regarding issues in urban teaching. Interviews were conducted with urban special education teachers, general education teachers, and principals from 23 urban school districts across the country. These three groups of educators identified…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Rewards, Special Education Teachers
Stead, Keith – 1982
This research sought to identify reasons why the study of science was being rejected by girls and Polynesian students. From eight schools chosen to give a representative coverage of ethnic grouping (Maori, European, Pacific Island) and type (single sex, coed, rural, urban, primary, intermediate, secondary), 20 Form 1 to 4 classes were administered…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
