Assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation in multicultural schools. Conceptualisation and validation of a four-dimensional mutual acculturation attitudes scale
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Publikationsdatum
09/2021
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
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Übergeordnetes Werk
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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Jahrgang / Band
84
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Seiten / Dauer
300-314
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Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Elsevier
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Abtretungsempfänger:in
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Zusammenfassung
Assessment of acculturation attitudes usually has focused on the importance of two dimensions: first, immigrants’ maintenance of cultural heritage and, second, immigrants’ adoption of the majority culture. Because acculturation is a reciprocal interaction, we extended a bidimensional scale to four dimensions to assess mutual acculturation. Given the importance of the social context for acculturation and schools as a crucial context for immigrant pupils’ acculturation, the scale extension was validated within the context of school. We hypothesised that acculturation attitudes are held not only towards immigrant pupils but also towards native pupils and towards schools’ responsibility to support intercultural contact. The study sample comprised 364 secondary school pupils in Swiss multicultural schools. Using exploratory structural equation modelling, we validated four distinct dimensions of acculturation attitudes: attitudes towards immigrant pupils’ (a) heritage culture maintenance and (b) adoption of the dominant culture and attitudes towards (c) native pupils acquiring cultural knowledge and (d) schools enabling intercultural contact. We conclude that the proposed four-dimensional scale is a valid tool for assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation within the school context and that acculturation attitudes are held not only towards immigrant pupils but also towards native pupils and schools.
Schlagwörter
Mutual acculturation, Acculturation attitudes, Mutual intercultural relations, Multicultural schools, Scale validation, Exploratory structural equation modelling
Fachgebiet (DDC)
370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
Veranstaltung
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ISBN
ISSN
0147-1767
1873-7552
1873-7552
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Hybrid
Zitation
SIDLER, Petra, Wassilis KASSIS, Elena MAKAROVA und Clarissa JANOUSCH, 2021. Assessing attitudes towards mutual acculturation in multicultural schools. Conceptualisation and validation of a four-dimensional mutual acculturation attitudes scale. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. September 2021. Bd. 84, S. 300–314. DOI 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.009. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4030