Striving for normality: Agency, citizen participation and intergroup belonging on the urban periphery of Helsinki by Pekka Tuominen

“…This article examines how the inhabitants of a culturally diverse suburban estate in Finland strive for meaningful encounters in their lives. …”
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DLLs and the development of self-regulation in early childhood by Ruth Guirguis, Kathy Carolina Antigua

“…Participants were drawn from a Head Start and Universal Pre-Kindergarten program located in a low SES and culturally diverse district. The result yielded a statistically significant effect, (F(1, 61) = 8.56, p = .005; partial Eta squared = .123) for non-DLLs. …”
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Objective understanding of five front-of-pack labels among consumers in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa by Tracey Ruth Hutton, Annelie Gresse

“…Future research should test the objective understanding of culturally diverse groups in South Africa, particularly among rural populations.…”
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Software Development Methodologies, HEIs, and the Digital Economy by Kawther Saeedi, Anna Visvizi

“…From a different angle, considering the changing nature of work, HEIs are responsible for equipping future employees with skills necessary to work in virtual, distributed, culturally diverse, and frequently global, teams. In the domain of software development, i.e., the backbone of the digital world, the challenge HEIs need to face is paramount. …”
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Critical Race Theory: Disruption in Teacher Education Pedagogy by Andrea N Smith

“…Teacher education programs are charged with preparing teacher candidates to successfully educate student populations that are more racially and culturally diverse than ever. However, a look at graduation rates among teacher education programs proves that the majority still produce, on average, a teaching force that is 80% White, although White students make up less than 49% the total Kindergarten-12th grade public school population (U.S. …”
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The dawn of the information age in least developed countries (LDCs): lessons learned from four case studies by Robert M. Bichler

“…The study examines ICTs in four geographically and culturally diverse regions, including the countries Yemen, Guatemala, Malawi and Lao PDR, on the macro and on the micro level. …”
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Intercultural competencies of students vs. their civic activities (Case of Georgia) by David Malazonia, Sofiko Lobzhanidze, Shorena Maglakelidze, Nino Chiabrishvili, Zakaria Giunashvili

“…The role of formal teaching is relatively minor in the process of successful civic integration of culturally diverse students.…”
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Teaching and Learning of Chemistry: The Hybridity of Third Space Approach by Royda Kampamba

“…Educators should understand students’ knowledge and cultural diversities. Researchers can investigate how students’ different acids-bases knowledge levels can promote success in chemistry.…”
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The importance of various aspects of communication with patient in palliative care by Paweł Stanicki, Maciej Dobosz, Zuzanna Chilimoniuk, Piotr Wójcik, Joanna Milanowska

“…Research shows that insufficient knowledge of clinicians prevents effective communication with culturally diverse patients. Almost all of the parents do not regret talking to their children about their deadly diseases. …”
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Challenges of monolingual intercultural communication in the context of the Languages Connect Strategy by Liam Murray, Marta Giralt

“…Ireland has been becoming increasingly culturally diverse for many years now, and so our contexts of work and interactions have become multilingual as well as multicultural. …”
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Effect of Cultural Distinctiveness and Perception of Digital Advertising Appeals on Online Purchase Intention of Clothing Brands: Moderation of Gender Egalitarianism by Syed Hassan Raza, Umer Zaman

“…We propose a gender egalitarianism (hereafter GE)-moderated mediation model whereby ADA mediates the relationships between PDA and OPI in two culturally diverse nations: Malaysia and Pakistan. The model was tested by using 2 (GE appeal: present vs. absent) × 2 (nation: Pakistan vs. …”
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Globalization and Education by Huma Imran Khan

“…Nevertheless, the globalized world demands for multiculturalism, and commonalities amongst communities to be promoted so as to bring the world closer to accepting cultural diversities and celebrating commonalities. For these aims, educational institutions become institutions for promoting globalization by introducing various cultural and traditional beliefs to the new generation. …”
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Manifesto for Belmonte Calabro, a hill-top village in Southern Italy by Denicke-Polcher, Sandra, McAllister, Jane

“…It situates the depopulated Italian mountain village Belmonte Calabro in the region of Calabria, in close proximity to a concern for the integration of culturally diverse migrants who have crossed the sea to arrive on the coast of southern Italy, most of them claiming refugee status. …”
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Students’ sensemaking of self-other relations in Malaysian higher education institutions by Minah Harun, Syarizan Dalib, Norhafezah Yusof

“…Such competence is witnessed and enacted during interactions with culturally diverse others. The interactions are often taken for granted given that these acts are observable only among the interlocutors. …”
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Engaging indigenous knowledge(s) in research and practice by Sue, McGinty

“…Secondly, preparing Indigenous students to become top quality researchers themselves, seeking opportunities to create new knowledge in that culturally diverse space. This includes challenging the boundaries of the academy to include Indigenous knowledges and practices in thesis production (McGinty, Koo, & Saeidi, 2010). …”
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Unique contributions of anxiety, stress and depression to immunity: A cross-cultural investigation by Catherine Breeze, Oleg N. Medvedev, Matti Cervin, Anna Sutton, Barbara Barcaccia, Alessandro Couyoumdjian, Susanna Pallini, Moana Billot, Rebecca Chalmers, Naved Iqbal, Vincent Reid, Nirbhay N. Singh

“…The present cross-sectional study estimated the unique contributions of depression, anxiety, and stress on immune function in culturally diverse samples of adults from Italy, New Zealand and India. …”
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FIVE DECADES OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION RESEARCH IN ELT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW by Marzia Shurovi, Mohamad Fadhili Yahaya, Hafizah Hajimia, Md Kamrul Hasan

“…This study recommends more studies on expectancy-value theory including in-depth qualitative studies involving culturally diverse populations and experimental research to develop more effective pedagogical approaches and expand the current understanding of achievement motivation.  …”
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Developing a Cross-Cultural Competence Scale for Pre-Service Teachers: A Filipino Case Study by Jhaynee Lou P. Tudayan, Justin Ian N. Ogoy, Jose J. Pangngay

“…Exploratory factor analysis of an initial 29-item scale assessing knowledge, teaching flexibility, willingness to engage students, and cultural empathy administered to 109 Filipino pre-service teachers' responses ultimately yielded a 22-item, two-factor structure with sound psychometric properties: "Attitudes Toward Culturally Diverse Students" and "Cultural Knowledge and Teaching Flexibility." …”
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Poor Water Quality Persists in Diverse Urban Communities by Rae Cade, Danlin Yu, Kyle Whyte, Pankaj Lal, Cortni Borgerson

“…To ensure equity in public health outcomes, current mandates must expand to include the design of actionable plans which include linguistically and culturally diverse residents, landlords, and tenants, as stakeholders in public water and housing decision making and remediation processes.…”
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Analysis of Culturable Bacterial Diversity of Pangong Tso Lake via a 16S rRNA Tag Sequencing Approach by Pooja Yadav, Joyasree Das, Shiva S. Sundharam, Srinivasan Krishnamurthi

“…Our study recommends that media formulations can be finalized after analyzing culturable diversity through a high-throughput sequencing effort to retrieve maximum species diversity targeting novel/relevant taxa.…”
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