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What is Multiculturalism

Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
Integration and engagement of diverse cultures within a structure. Moves beyond simple demographics and speaks to interaction and collaboration.
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Developing and Supporting the Internationalisation of Research Capacity
Christopher Hill (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4458-8.ch013
Abstract
The internationalisation of education is a common and perhaps overused term that is still little understood. Developments have been made in the areas of recruitment, overseas delivery, and branch campus creation, but the extent to which our institutions are truly “international” is debatable, especially in light of the fact that few can agree on what is meant by the term itself. The need to collaborate, discuss, reflect, and learn from others is vital for developing nations and developed nations alike. It is in the process of sharing best practice that best practice can itself be developed and further enhanced. Engagement, on a glocal scale, can support integrated learning, contextual understanding, and the internationalisation of research capacity and as such, is an area for further review and reflection.
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Replacing the “Melting Pot” With a “Colorful Mixed Salad” in the Language Classroom
The peaceful co-existence of groups of people with diverse cultures, religion, and lifestyles.
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The Culturally Connected School Counselor: Best Practices and Considerations
Recognizing and preserving the value of different cultures within society.
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Integra(-te): Project Based on Integrative Science, Entrepreneurial, and Multiculticultural Activities
Celebrating human diversity by willingly promoting legal, political, and social recognition of cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences.
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Cultural Citizenship and Refugee Integration: The Case of African Youth in Australia
A political position that attaches positive values to cultural pluralism; a political strategy for managing cultural diversity in society.
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Multiculturalism in the Workplace: Leading With Emotional Intelligence at Every Level
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Race, Ethnicity, and Persons With Disabilities
The acknowledgment of distinct racial, ethnic, and cultural groups without placing value and providing support and perspective in a just in fair way.
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Educating Multicultural Citizens From a Confucian Heritage: Examples From Singapore
An acknowledgement and celebration of sociocultural differences and diversity in a community.
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Fostering Intercultural Competence and Neighbourliness in Multicultural Online Classrooms: Tools, Strategies, and Implications for 21st Century Education
Multiculturalism refers to the acknowledgement and respect of cultural differences, without necessarily referring to any interaction.
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ICT and PB Learning Combined for the Advancement of Intercultural Education: The Case of the MIEC Virtual Exhibition
The co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, thinking patterns, and communicative styles.
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Introduction and Overview
The awareness and promotion of multiple cultures as an appreciation of ethnic diversity in a society.
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Workforce Diversity: Gaining the Competitive Advantage
The presence of several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society or organization.
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Coloniality and Whiteness in Evangelical ESL Classrooms
The coexistence of multiple cultures in one society or dynamic.
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Redesigning GE Language: Promoting Racial Consciousness in Beginning Spanish
The inclusion of diverse cultures, ethnicities, and races especially those of minority groups in society without the need or expectation of assimilation.
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Multicultural Education and Technology Integration
is a philosophy that embodies equity pedagogy and social justice for all individuals that have been marginalized because of their race, gender, sexuality, disability, linguistic abilities, and religious affiliation. The philosophy endorses inclusion for individuals in education, and the need for multiple perspectives to be addressed by the curriculum.
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Re-Envisioning Multiculturalism: Promoting and Applying Disability Competencies Within Clinical Supervision
The recognition and understanding of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences within the larger society and dominant culture. Mental health professionals are encouraged and expected to foster such an understanding to support the mental health, advocacy, and social justice for impacted groups due to existing social and societal inequities. Multiculturalism strives for simultaneous equity and individuality across groups. This definition encompasses all minority cultures, including persons with disabilities.
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Web Apps for Intercultural Competences and Sustainable Development: A Case Study in Higher Education
Coexistence of many cultures that are in constant transformation and expressions of diversity, living together in the same space, place, situations, contexts, and disciplines.
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Inspiring Teacher Candidates to Embrace Cultural Diversity
A philosophy, process and educational approach that emphasizes acceptance, respect, and appreciation for the many kinds of diversity that children and families bring to a classroom, including race, ethnicity, language, and religion.
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Multiculturalism in Higher Education: Multicultural Policies in Australia's Group of 8 Universities
A system that acknowledges and values socio-cultural differences, encourages and empowers all members to make contributions within an inclusive environment.
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Distance Education in Speech-Language Therapy: Telepractice With Children With Speech and Language Disorders
Is a term that refers to a social perspective that identifies several ethnic and cultural groups in the world and considers them politically significant, respecting their cultural identities.
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Management of Intercultural Relations in an Intercultural Organization
Is a dynamic and dialectical process that recognizes the existence and convergence of various cultures as a space between the local and global processes intersecting social and cultural networks articulating personal and collective identities.
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Relevant Issues that Challenge the Designing of Transformative, Liberating Online Science Courses
“A philosophical position and movement that assumes that the gender, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of pluralistic society should be reflected in all of the institutionalized structures of educational institutions, including the staff, the norms and values, the curriculum, and the student body” (Banks & Banks, 2005, p. 451).
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Global Citizenship, Entrepreneurship, and Diversity in the Global Village for the Post-COVID-19 Era
It consists of accepting other cultures in society to avoid social discrimination by offering equal opportunity and equity for all individuals, independently of their race, language, culture, sex, and religion.
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Social Justice and Advocacy in University-Based Play Therapy Training Clinics
The development of a philosophy that encourages an understanding of diverse cultures along the lines of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, religion, age, or level of ability.
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Designing Multicultural Teaching and Learning Environments in Science Education
This is a term related to different disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, education, and considers different characteristics and properties of people such as cultural identity, ethnicity, religion, political views, etc., and respecting, accepting diversities, and accepting them as a richness in society and educational environments.
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Terror and Media: Norwegian Media News Analysis of Al-Noor Mosque Attack in Norway
Multiculturalism is a word that describes a society in which many different cultures live together.
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Preparing Teacher Candidates for Diverse Classrooms: The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs
A philosophy, process and educational approach that emphasizes acceptance, respect, and appreciation for the many kinds of diversity that children and families bring to a classroom, including race, ethnicity, language, and religion.
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Promoting the Representation of Historically Disadvantaged Students: What Educational Leaders Need to Know
The existence of multiple racial, ethnic, and cultural groups in a community that supports and nurtures their presence.
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Learning English and Teaching Italian: The “Egos” of a Bilingual and Bicultural Soul
Refers to the acknowledgement and support of different cultures, ethnicities, races that exist Whitin a dominant culture.
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The Role of Culturally Responsive Teacher to Ensure Social Justice in Education
An equality policy based on recognition of individuals forming the society regardless of their race, ethnicity, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, socio-economic level in living areas social, political, economic, cultural aspects.
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Developing Cultural Competency Through a Multicultural Lens
Incorporates an institutional system to sustain relevant diversity-related training for faculty, staff, and students while leading and supporting training, education, and awareness initiatives focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and multiculturalism (Arredondo et al., 2016 AU48: The in-text citation "Arredondo et al., 2016" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Case Studies in Virtual Multicultural Education
Multiculturalism is the study of and related to gender, racism, sexism, religion, disabilities, and social class.
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Preparing Preservice Teacher Candidates for Educating Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Accepting values, beliefs, and practices of people from different ethnic, racial, and cultural background.
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Cultural Intelligence and Experiential Learning Powering Faculty Intercultural Leadership Development
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Integrating Multiculturalism in the Design and Implementation of Work-Life Balance Strategies
Is the term that describes the existence of numerous ethnic or cultural groups with diverse challenges and needs in the same workplace.
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Multiculturalism in Teacher Education
Multiculturalism is the combination of different cultures to interact and thus enrich the social structure.
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How to Foster Equality in the Language Classroom
The peaceful co-existence of groups of people with diverse cultures, religion, and lifestyles.
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Assessing the International Student Enrolment Strategies in Australian Universities: A Case Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A belief which people of different races and ethnicities and from different cultural backgrounds inhabit and engage in dialogues without sacrificing their own identities.
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Detecting Barriers to Multicultural Education in South African Schools
The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
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Virtual Activities to Promote Multiculturalism and Sustainability of International Partnerships
Multiculturalism is the phenomenon of multiple groups of cultures existing within one society, largely due to the arrival of immigrant communities, or accepting and advocating this phenomenon.
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