TY - JOUR A1 - Civitillo, Sauro A1 - Schachner, Maja Katharina A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - van de Vijver, Fons J. R. A1 - Handrick, Anna A1 - Noack, Peter T1 - Towards a better understanding of cultural diversity approaches at school BT - a multi-informant and mixed-methods study JF - Learning, Culture and Social Interaction N2 - The current study investigates two types of cultural diversity approaches at school, namely (1) fostering equality and (2) promoting cultural pluralism. Adopting a mixed-methods design, this study assesses teachers' (n = 207) and students' (n = 1,644) self-reported perceptions of descriptive norms and evaluates school practices and artefacts in the physical and virtual environment of 22 secondary schools in south-west Germany. Results showed that in all schools under investigation teachers and students perceived descriptive norms fostering mostly equality. A wide variety of practices and artefacts was found, revealing a third distinct cultural approach leaning towards endorsing the majority culture. Different practices and artefacts were linked to an emphasis on equality, cultural pluralism, and endorsing the majority culture. Implications for educational policy, as well as applied diversity research, are discussed. KW - Cultural diversity KW - School KW - Equality KW - Pluralism KW - Mixed-methods Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.09.002 SN - 2210-6561 VL - 12 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Civitillo, Sauro A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - Badra, Marcel A1 - Schachner, Maja Katharina T1 - The interplay between culturally responsive teaching, cultural diversity beliefs, and self-reflection BT - a multiple case study JF - Teaching and Teacher Education N2 - This investigation examined the dynamic relation between culturally responsive teaching, teacher cultural diversity beliefs, and self-reflection on own teaching. A multiple case study with four ethnic German teachers was conducted using classroom video observations (3 lesson units X 2 raters) and post observation interviews in a culturally and ethnically diverse high school. For these teachers there was a high congruence between culturally responsive teaching and cultural diversity beliefs. Yet their degree of cultural responsiveness and their beliefs differed across teachers. The teachers who were observed to be more culturally responsive also showed elaborated patterns of self-reflection on their own teaching. KW - Cultural diversity KW - Culturally responsive teaching KW - Teacher beliefs KW - Self-reflection KW - Case study Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2018.11.002 SN - 0742-051X VL - 77 SP - 341 EP - 351 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Civitillo, Sauro A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - Schachner, Maja T1 - Stressing similarities or ignoring differences? BT - shedding light into different forms of color-evasive ideology with pre- and in-service teachers BT - unterschiedliche Formen der Color-Evasion-Ideologie bei Lehramtsstudierenden und Lehrkräften JF - Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft : ZfE N2 - The color-evasive ideology (commonly termed "colorblindness") proposes that ethnic and cultural group memberships should be deemphasized. Yet there is a conceptual confusion around the meaning and measurement of color-evasiveness, and this construct is not used consistently in the international as well as German literature. Our purpose is to investigate whether two underlying forms of the color-evasive ideology (i.e., stressing similarities and ignoring differences) are two distinct, albeit related, constructs. We tested this hypothesis by applying these two forms of the color-evasive ideology to teachers' cultural diversity beliefs. In two cross-sectional field studies conducted with pre-service teachers (Study 1, n = 210), and in-service teachers (Study 2, n = 99), questionnaire items on the stressing similarities ideology and items on the ignoring differences ideology loaded on two separate factors, providing a better fit to the data than the one-factor model. Mean scores on these two types of color-evasive ideology also differed substantially, indicating that participants across the two studies mainly endorsed the stressing similarities perspective. The stressing similarities and ignoring differences ideologies related differently to other intergroup ideologies (i.e., multiculturalism and polyculturalism), and showed different patterns to psychosocial functioning in culturally diverse classrooms (i.e., cultural diversity-related stress). N2 - Nach der sogenannten „Color-Evasion“ Ideologie (auch als „Color-blindness“ oder Farbenblindheit bezeichnet) sind ethnische und kulturelle Gruppenzugehörigkeiten irrelevant. Es gibt jedoch begriffliche Unklarheiten über die Bedeutung und Messung von Color-evasion, und dieses Konstrukt wird in der internationalen so wie in der deutschen Literatur nicht konsistent verwendet. Unser Ziel ist es, zu untersuchen, ob zwei zugrunde liegende Formen der Color-evasion-Ideologie, nämlich Ähnlichkeiten hervorheben und Unterschiede ignorieren, zwei unterschiedliche, wenn auch verwandte Konstrukte sind. Wir testeten diese Hypothese, indem wir prüften, ob sich diese Unterscheidung der beiden Formen der Color-evasion-Ideologie in den Überzeugungen über kulturelle Vielfalt von (angehenden) Lehrer*innen widerspiegelte. In zwei Querschnitts-Feldstudien, die mit Lehramtsstudierenden (Studie 1, n = 210) und Lehrkräften (Studie 2, n = 99) durchgeführt wurden, luden Items zum Hervorheben von Ähnlichkeiten und zum Ignorieren von Unterschieden auf zwei getrennten Faktoren, welche eine bessere Passung mit den Daten als das Ein-Faktor-Modell zeigten. Die Durchschnittswerte für diese beiden Arten der Color-evasion-Ideologie unterschieden sich ebenfalls erheblich, was zeigt, dass die Teilnehmer an den beiden Studien hauptsächlich Ähnlichkeiten hervorheben. Auch in ihrem Zusammenhang mit anderen Diversity-Ideologien (Multikulturalismus und Polykulturalismus), und mit der psychosozialen Adaptation von Lehrer*innen (Stress im Zusammenhang mit kultureller Vielfalt) unterschieden sich Ähnlichkeiten hervorheben und Unterschiede ignorieren, was die unterschiedliche konzeptuelle Bedeutung der beiden Formen von Color-evasion ebenfalls unterstreicht. T2 - Ähnlichkeiten hervorheben oder Unterschiede ignorieren? KW - Color-evasiveness KW - Color-blindness KW - Cultural Diversity KW - Intergroup KW - Ideologies KW - Teacher Beliefs KW - Intergruppenwahrnehmung KW - Kulturelle Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften KW - Color-blindness KW - Color-evasion Ideologie KW - Kulturelle Vielfalt Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-021-00995-9 SN - 1434-663X SN - 1862-5215 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 135 EP - 153 PB - Springer VS/Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Civitillo, Sauro A1 - de Moor, Jan M. H. A1 - Vervloed, Mathijs P. J. T1 - Netherlands: An exploratory study JF - Support for Learning : British Journal of Learning Support N2 - Teachers’ beliefs are crucial to the success of inclusion programmes and reform efforts for children with special educational needs (SEN). Based on this evidence, one hundred and thirty-nine primary pre-service teachers from one training institution in the Netherlands completed an adapted version of a measure of beliefs towards inclusive education. In contrast to previous studies on pre-service teachers, results of this study showed participants held neutral or negative beliefs towards this matter. In addition, limited time for pupils received the highest rating as a barrier to inclusion, whereas direct teaching experience was the most preferred method of inclusion. The implications of this study for practice and indications for future research are discussed. KW - inclusive education KW - pre-service teachers KW - training teachers KW - beliefs Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12119 SN - 0268-2141 SN - 1467-9604 VL - 31 SP - 104 EP - 121 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Civitillo, Sauro A1 - Denessen, Eddie A1 - Molenaar, Inge T1 - HOW TO SEE THE CLASSROOM THROUGH THE EYES OF A TEACHER: CONSISTENCY BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS ON DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENTIATION PRACTICES JF - Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs N2 - Nowadays, teachers must deal, as never before, with diversity in classrooms. Differentiation practices help teachers to address this diversity in an inclusive setting. However, teachers’ perceptions about classroom heterogeneity are fundamental to examine whether they are competent to screen their pupils’ needs. The present study used a qualitative research design in order to understand how four teachers who teach the same classroom of a secondary school recognise and address those diverse educational needs within a classroom. Results showed a distinct view of students’ diversity within a classroom. Moreover, differentiation strategies to respond to this perceived diversity were only partially used. KW - qualitative research Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-3802.12190 SN - 1471-3802 VL - 16 SP - 587 EP - 591 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vietze, Jana A1 - Schwarzenthal, Miriam A1 - Moffitt, Ursula A1 - Civitillo, Sauro T1 - Beyond 'migrant background': how to select relevant, social justice oriented, and feasible social categories in educational research JF - European journal of psychology of education N2 - Across continental Europe, educational research samples are often divided by 'migrant background', a binary variable criticized for masking participant heterogeneity and reinforcing exclusionary norms of belonging. This study endorses more meaningful, representative, and precise research by offering four guiding questions for selecting relevant, social justice oriented, and feasible social categories for collecting and analysing data in psychological and educational research. Using a preregistered empirical example, we first compare selected social categories ('migrant background', family heritage, religion, citizenship, cultural identification, and generation status) in their potential to reveal participant heterogeneity. Second, we investigate differences in means and relations between variables (discrimination experiences, perceived societal Islamophobia, and national identity) and academic motivation among 1335 adolescents in Germany (48% female, M-age = 14.69). Regression analyses and multigroup SEM revealed differential experiences with and implications of discrimination for academic motivation. Results highlight the need for a deliberate, transparent use of social categories to make discrimination visible and centre participants' subjective experiences. KW - migrant background KW - labels KW - social categories KW - discrimination KW - academic KW - motivation KW - national identity Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-022-00611-2 SN - 0256-2928 SN - 1878-5174 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 389 EP - 408 PB - Springer CY - New York ER -