A mathematics teacher’s respectful listening in a culturally diverse class

Mathematics Teachers’ Approaches to “Listening” in Mathematics Classes: A phenomenographic approach

The ways that mathematics teachers listen to students’ explanation, influence their understanding of students and their teaching activities. If teachers be informed about different ways of “listening” to students’ ideas and conceptions concerning mathematics, they might be able to use listening as an effective teaching method to enhance students’ mathematical learning. The related literature in...

Introduction: Communicating in A Culturally Diverse Society

Promoting Culturally Respectful Cancer Education Through Digital Storytelling.

Cancer is the leading cause of mortality among Alaska Native people. Over half of Alaska Native people live in rural communities where specially trained community members called Community Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) provide health care. In response to CHA/Ps' expressed desire to learn more about cancer, four 5-day cancer education and digital storytelling courses were provided in 2014. ...

Designing a Cultural Efficiency Model for Elementary School Teachers based on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Being an efficient educator is a virtue that includes the notion of cultural efficiency as well. To assess the extent to which Iranian teachers/educators are culturally efficient a model is needed by which different components of this construct are clearly defined. To design such a model a group of ten elementary school teachers with maximum cultural diversity was selected and then asked to wri...

Designing a multimodal system for a culturally diverse user group

This paper describes a study which explores how multimodal systems should be designed for culturally diverse user groups and what methodologies that can be used to accomplish this. An existing multimodal timetable system was redesigned and evaluated with subjects from two culturally different groups using an approach to multicultural design called Meaning in Mediated Action (MMA). The study ind...