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Using Research on Evaluation in Oceania: Informing Priorities for Future Research on Evaluation

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on evaluation (RoE) plays an important role in evaluation. It enables the testing of new ideas, tools, and approaches and the interrogation and advancement of evaluation theories and practices. In this article, we investigated the perceptions of 111 evaluation practitioners on the use of RoE with a focus on the Oceania context.
Ruth Aston   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dominant ethnicity and integration: the Estonian case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
From introduction: On October 18-19, 2007, the Tallinn Conference on Conceptualising Integration was held that focused on the Estonian integration policy.
Kaufmann, Eric P.
core  

Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain – The Worst of All Possible Worlds? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter offers a critical analysis of the UK’s Prevent programme to date, and argues that it has been ineffective, or even counter-productive because of a number of conceptual flaws and contradictions. In particular, the monocultural focus on entire,
Thomas, Paul
core   +1 more source

A Chinese Language Teacher's Self‐Study on Diffracting Curriculum Materials and Pedagogy Through a Complex Dynamic Systems Framework

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about how classroom teachers' interpretation of curriculum materials influences students' personal, social, and cultural engagements at the classroom level. By connecting posthumanism to complex dynamic systems, this self‐study explores an inclusive pedagogical practice aimed at promoting dynamic learning for diverse student ...
Dave Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy, Race, and Multiculturalism in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Voting Rights Act Ever be Obsolete? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Part I of this essay begins one hundred years before the passage of the Act, with Reconstruction. I briefly canvas the interracial alliances of the Reconstruction and Redemption periods, underscoring that American democracy has been most responsive to ...
Cashin, Sheryll
core   +2 more sources

Multiculturalisms: An overview of multicultural debates in western societies [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Sociology, 2015
This article examines how debates about multiculturalism evolved in western societies. In the first part, it presents the different meanings of the term ‘multiculturalism’ when it applies to diverse types of cultural difference within society: native and sub-state national groups, discriminated groups within society and immigrants.
openaire   +2 more sources

On Being Absorbed: Taking up Dialogic Pedagogy in University Diversity Plans

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are we to make of the proliferation of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) programs for social justice education on college campuses? Though the inception of IGD predates many institutions’ diversity plans, increasingly colleges and universities are citing their existing IGD programs in their present‐day plans, as IGDs effectiveness has been well ...
Stephanie D. Hicks
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretative Repertoires of Multiculturalism – Supporting and Challenging Hierarchical Intergroup Relations

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2016
Social psychological research on immigrant integration has predominantly examined multiculturalism from the perspective of majority members, and has seen it to be in conflict with that of minority members.
Emma Nortio   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Power dynamics and social enterprises: A case study of an international NGO

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Human Resource Development (HRD) scholarship and practice include attention to social justice and human rights, which are critical in international workspaces, including social enterprises. HRD principles could help such organizations better foster intercultural collaboration and respect, while promoting both economic prosperity and social ...
Jill Zarestky   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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