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Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity as challenges in school? An interview study on the implications for students and teachers.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms are part of students' lives. Both factors can lower the achievements of students and classrooms and pose a challenge for teachers.
Sanna Higgen, Mike Mösko
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D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
From the foods we eat and the houses we construct, to our religious practices and political organization, to who we can marry and the types of games we teach our children, the diversity of cultural practices in the world is astounding.
Kathryn R Kirby, Russell D Gray, Simon J Greenhill, Fiona M Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E Blasi, Carlos A Botero, Claire Bowern, Carol R Ember, Dan Leehr, Bobbi S Low, Joe McCarter, William Divale, Michael C Gavin   +14 more
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Milwaukee Makes a Difference: Recognizing Gifted Students from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

Education Sciences, 2021
Gifted education today faces a significant challenge in reaching equity as well as excellence. This is reflected in the disproportionate underrepresentation of children from Black, Hispanic, Native, and low-income families.
Susan O’Brien, Mary Ruth Coleman, Dorothy L. Schuller, Martha A. López, German Díaz   +4 more
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Compelling Counternarratives to Deficit Discourses: An Investigation into the Funds of Knowledge of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse U.S. Elementary Students’ Households

Qualitative Research in Education, 2015
This study focused on household funds of knowledge or “historically accumulated bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household functioning and well-being” (Gonzalez, Andrade, Civil, & Moll, 2001).
Angela Kinney
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Discourses of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Mathematics Teacher Education Policy in Sweden

Educare
This study investigates how cultural and linguistic diversity is discursively construed in mathematics teacher education for Grades 4–6 in Sweden at policy level.
Huda Alhadi Alhasani, Petra Svensson Källberg, Helena   +2 more
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Cultural and linguistic diversity in speech-language pathology [PDF]

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2016
Embracing cultural and linguistic diversity in speech-language pathology is a necessity of an increasingly globalized world.
Sarah, Verdon, Helen L, Blake, Suzanne C, Hopf, Ben, Phạm, Sharynne, McLeod   +4 more
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The linguistic landscape of a colombian city for fostering multilingual and intercultural competences

Boletín Redipe
When you go out on the streets, it can be observed how linguistic representations have become diverse environments in social, economic, cultural, and linguistic terms, which leads to the idea that society is surrounded by a Linguistic Landscape in its ...
Leidy Dayan Perlaza Torres, Heberth Caicedo Saldaña, Walter Vargas Urrego, Yurani Giraldo Toro   +3 more
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Multi‐Enzyme Mimetic Molybdenum Nitride Nanozymes Reshape Subgingival Microenvironment for Synergistic Periodontitis Therapy via ROS Regulation and Microbiome Remodeling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory disease initiated and sustained by plaque microorganisms and host immune response, remains an intractable oral disease and a leading cause of tooth loss worldwide. Traditional mechanical debridement and adjunctive antibiotic or antiseptic therapy often shows limited efficacy due to the complex anatomical ...
Weiyu Zhang, Zhongwei Yang, Yunfan Zhang, Longwei Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jiahui Mao, Yizhi Dai, Yifan Yuan, Mingge Wang, Xin Yang, Xin Yu, Jing Liu, Chunying Chen   +12 more
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“It doesn’t exist…”: negotiating palliative care from a culturally and linguistically diverse patient and caregiver perspective

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background The end of life represents a therapeutic context that acutely raises cultural and linguistic specificities, yet there is very little evidence illustrating the importance of such dynamics in shaping choices, trajectories and care practices ...
Emma Kirby, Zarnie Lwin, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Holi Birman, Phillip Good   +5 more
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Trophic Diversity in Duckweed: Mixotrophy, More Than the Sum of its Extremes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In the context of rising DOC in aquatic environments, mixotrophic duckweed may impact carbon cycling by acting as either a carbon sink, as they absorb CO2 through photosynthesis, or a carbon source, as they release CO2 through respiration of absorbed DOC, which depends on DOC concentration, light availability, temperature, and other environmental ...
Zuoliang Sun, Yan Chen, Fajun Li, Xuyao Zhao, Qingxiang Han, Hongwei Hou   +5 more
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