Holiday Break Episode 1: How an understanding of foreign cultures benefits kids

Release date: December 26, 2022

In this first mini Holiday Break episode, I explore the research on the ways being exposed to foreign cultures impacts children and adolescents. Links to the research I cite are below. Full-length Talking About Kids episodes will return in the new year.

Links

Interventions to reduce prejudice and enhance inclusion and respect for ethnic differences in early childhood: A systematic review

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229712000214

Developing Multicultural Awareness in Preschool Children: A Pilot Intervention

https://www.scirp.org/pdf/JSS_2016072711440632.pdf

Why Education Must Be Multicultural

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52cf1070e4b048ae22d972b2/t/54c11a04e4b079eab44b1ca7/1421941251999/Why+Ecuation+Must+Be+Multicultural+%282014%29.pdf

Foreign Language Study in Elementary Schools: Benefits and Implications for Achievement in Reading and Math

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10643-005-0015-5#citeas

Multicultural Families and Creative Children

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jen-Ho-Chang/publication/274268032_Multicultural_Families_and_Creative_Children/links/55d5ccc308ae9d659488b6cb/Multicultural-Families-and-Creative-Children.pdf

The Intergenerational Effect of Maternal Multicultural Experience on Children’s Tolerance: An Example From Palestinians and Jews in Israel

https://coller.tau.ac.il/sites/coller-english.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/Recanati/management/publications/tadmor/MaternalMulticulturalExperience.pdf