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Educational Psychologists in Instructional and Mentoring Contexts: The Significance of Multicultural Competence
Authors: Yassir Semmar
Abstract:
During the past two decades, the topic of multicultural competence has gained much attention in the psychology field, most notably in the clinical and counseling specializations. While higher education institutions have been placing a premium on sensitizing their faculty, staff, and student bodies to various diversity and multicultural issues, little emphasis has been directed towards mandating multicultural training for graduate learners in the educational psychology specialty. Given the increasingly diverse student population, it is imperative for educational psychologists to become multiculturally competent particularly in instructional and mentoring contexts. Strategies and conditions for attaining multicultural competence are discussed.Keywords: multicultural competence, instruction, pedagogical practices, mentoring
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