Transforming Leadership Learning for Inclusion and Cultural Relevance

A speech-language pathology master's program that grew out of a partnership between the University of Zambia and a U.S.-based charitable organization, Connective Link Among Special needs Programs (CLASP) International, has just been completed in Zambia. The review of this program is outlined according to the suggested principles for community-based partnerships, a framework which may help evaluate cultural relevance and sustainability in long-term volunteer efforts (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998).

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Chinese Communication Competence and Relation to Cultural Relevance

Chinese Language Education and Research ◽

10.24285/cler.2005.11.2.3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Eun-Hui Choi

Keyword(s):

Communication Competence ◽

Cultural Relevance

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Transforming Leadership Model For The Denver Church Of Christ

10.2986/tren.050-0158 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Gregg L. MARUTZKY

Keyword(s):

Church Of Christ ◽

Leadership Model ◽

Transforming Leadership

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Theological Educations In India: Balancing Doctrinal Soundness And Cultural Relevance

10.2986/tren.081-0003 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Jason O'Neal GADDIS

Keyword(s):

Cultural Relevance

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Cultural Relevance of a Fruit and Vegetable Food Frequency Questionnaire

Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research ◽

10.3148/66.4.2005.231 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 231-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Judy Paisley ◽

Marlene Greenberg ◽

Jess Haines

Keyword(s):

Food Frequency Questionnaire ◽

Dietary Assessment ◽

Cultural Relevance ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Fruit And Vegetable ◽

Food Frequency ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Vegetable Food ◽

Nutrition Research

Purpose: Canada’s multicultural population poses challenges for culturally competent nutrition research and practice. In this qualitative study, the cultural relevance of a widely used semiquantitative fruit and vegetable food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was examined among convenience samples of adults from Toronto’s Cantonese-, Mandarin-, Portuguese-, and Vietnamesespeaking communities. Methods: Eighty-nine participants were recruited through community-based organizations, programs, and advertisements to participate in semi-structured interviews moderated in their native language. Data from the interviews were translated into English and transcribed for analysis using the constant comparative approach. Results: Four main themes emerged from the analysis: the cultural relevance of the foods listed on the FFQ, words with multiple meanings, the need for culturally appropriate portionsize prompts, and the telephone survey as a Western concept. Conclusions: This research highlights the importance of investing resources to develop culturally relevant dietary assessment tools that ensure dietary assessment accuracy and, more important, reduce ethnocentric biases in food and nutrition research and practice. The transferability of findings must be established through further research.

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Translating the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) into Argentinian Spanish for paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments, and evaluating understandability and cultural relevance in a multiple-phase descriptive study

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048287 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. e048287

Author(s):

Sergio Gomez ◽

Carmen Salaverria ◽

Erin Plenert ◽

Gisela Gonzalez ◽

Gisela D'Angelo ◽

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Keyword(s):

El Salvador ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Likert Scale ◽

Cultural Relevance ◽

Haematopoietic Stem Cell ◽

Cognitive Interviews ◽

Cancer Treatments ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Symptom Screening ◽

Paediatric Patients

ObjectivesTo translate a symptom screening tool developed for paediatric patients receiving cancer therapies called Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) into Argentinian Spanish and to evaluate the understandability and cultural relevance of the translated version of SSPedi among children with cancer and paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients.MethodsWe conducted a multiphase, descriptive study to translate SSPedi into Argentinian Spanish. Using two translators, forward and backward translations were performed. The translated version was evaluated by Spanish-speaking paediatric patients 8–18 years of age receiving cancer treatments in two centres in Argentina and El Salvador.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome was patient self-reported difficulty with understanding of the SSPedi instructions and each symptom using a 5-point Likert scale. Secondary outcomes were incorrect understanding of the SSPedi instructions, symptoms and response scale determined by cognitive interviews with the patients and rated using a 4-point Likert scale. Cultural relevance was assessed qualitatively.ResultsThere were 30 children enrolled and included in cognitive interviews; 16 lived in Argentina and 14 lived in El Salvador. The most common types of Spanish spoken were Central American (17, 57%) followed by South American (10, 33%) and Castilian (3, 10%). No changes to Argentinian Spanish SSPedi were required based on the outcomes or qualitative comments. No issues with cultural relevance were identified by any of the respondents.ConclusionsWe translated and finalised Argentinian Spanish SSPedi. Future research will focus on its use to describe bothersome symptoms by Argentinian Spanish-speaking children.

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Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/16094069211025896 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 160940692110258

Author(s):

Constance Iloh

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Data Collection ◽

21St Century ◽

Research Process ◽

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

Cultural Relevance ◽

Prominent Feature ◽

Rapport Building ◽

Everyday Communication ◽

Remote Data

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research; (d) approaches that bolster and sustain remote data collection; (e) methods that infuse agency, humor, and creativity into the research process. The author then showcases distinctive ways memes can be effectively incorporated in qualitative research pursuits and publications. The article concludes with the necessity of data collection and representation approaches that advance the meaningfulness and cultural-relevance of qualitative inquiry.

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La introducción del anglicismo berry/berries en el español de Chile: historia, proceso integrativo y consecuencias semánticas

Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP) ◽

10.1515/zrp-2020-0040 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 136 (3) ◽

pp. 789-832

Author(s):

Carsten Sinner ◽

Constanza Gerding Salas

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Development Process ◽

Cultural Relevance ◽

Market Model ◽

Open Market ◽

Different Types ◽

Chilean Spanish ◽

Innovation Mechanism ◽

English Loanword

AbstractLexical innovation is a continuous creative phenomenon which evinces language vitality. In today’s Spanish, borrowing words from other languages is a fruitful innovation mechanism. In Chilean Spanish, a significant portion of lexical neology comes from English loanwords, a fact that may be attributed in part to the global, open-market model upon which the country bases its economy. In this context and because of its linguistic and cultural relevance, we established the development process of the English loanword berry/berries in Chilean Spanish. To this end, this paper presents an analysis of the sociohistorical background that gave rise to the introduction of this Anglicism in Chile. This mixed-methods research includes the analysis of texts, interviews, surveys and field study. A contrastive lexicographic description of berry and its equivalents in Spanish is provided, the role of different types of speakers —from experts to laypeople— is analyzed in relation to the incorporation of this neologism in Chilean Spanish, the occurrence of different existing denominations is examined, some neologicity indicators are analyzed, possible combinations of berry/berries with other elements are classified, and the evolution of this Anglicism in Chilean Spanish use is confirmed.

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