The multicultural mind as an epistemological test and extension for the thinking through other minds approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
George I. Christopoulos ◽  
Ying-yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Multicultural Experience ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Decisive Test ◽  
Energy Principles

Abstract The multicultural experience (i.e., multicultural individuals and cross-cultural experiences) offers the intriguing possibility for (i) an empirical examination of how free-energy principles explain dynamic cultural behaviors and pragmatic cultural phenomena and (ii) a challenging but decisive test of thinking through other minds (TTOM) predictions. We highlight that TTOM needs to treat individuals as active cultural agents instead of passive learners.

Multicultural Classrooms: Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy among A Sample of Canadian Preservice Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 001312452110625
Author(s):  
Saghar Chahar Mahali ◽  
Phillip R. Sevigny
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Cultural Experiences

Many teachers enter classrooms with limited cross-cultural awareness and low levels of confidence to accommodate cultural diversity. Therefore, teaching a heterogeneous body of students requires teachers to have culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy (CRTSE). The investigation of factors impacting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching diverse students has produced mixed results. The purpose of the current study was to explore the determinants of CRTSE in a sample of Canadian preservice teachers. One hundred and ten preservice teachers from a medium-sized public Canadian University completed measures of political orientation, CRTSE, cross-cultural experiences, and teacher burnout. Higher levels of preservice teachers’ CRTSE were predicted by lower levels of Emotional Exhaustion (i.e., a key aspect of burnout syndrome) and more frequent cross-cultural experiences in their childhood and adolescence. Implications for training preservice teachers are discussed.

Take it Outside

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Scheper Hughes ◽  
James Kyung-Jin Lee ◽  
Amanda Lucia ◽  
S.Romi Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Public Sphere

California is experiencing a proliferation of public religious celebrations like never before. The authors focus on four public celebrations: the throwing of colors during Holi, an annual pilgrimage to Manzanar, the Peruvian celebration of El Señor de Los Milagros, and Noche de Altares. Even as these and many other similar festivals simultaneously represent the irruption and interruption of the sacred in the public sphere, these festivals reflect the multi-religious character of immigration. These public rituals say something about the pursuit of belonging in California and in the United States within an increasingly diverse and multicultural landscape. Those who participate together as intimate strangers are often seeking only a temporary affiliation, perhaps a place for a moment to engage one another beyond the context of the marketplace. In sharing in these religious and cross-cultural experiences, participants become enmeshed in the complicated and vibrant diversity of California, up close and personal, as physical as the bodies encountered there.

Arrivals: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Maria Ott Spangenberg ◽  
Jann Huizenga
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Experiences

The Impact of Cross-Cultural Experiences on Worldviews of Chinese International Students

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiwen Yang ◽  
Steven Harlow ◽  
Cleborne Maddux ◽  
Marlowe Smaby
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Impact
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