Managing conflict in multicultural classes: Examining the relationship between severity of conflict and the use of interventions by university instructors to manage and resolve conflict

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Burton, S. (2012). Managing conflict in multicultural classes: Examining the relationship between severity of conflict and the use of interventions by university instructors to manage and resolve conflict. Unc Charlotte Electronic Theses And Dissertations.
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Abstract

Multicultural class professors are faced with the often difficult task of helping prepare pre-service counselors to meet the mental healthcare needs of an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society. A major factor that has stood in the way of effective training has been students' resistance to challenging their entrenched patterns of bias and prejudice, which are undermining factors to the process of engendering multicultural awareness, sensitivity, and counseling competency. The purpose of this study was to examine how instructors deal with multicultural classroom conflict in view of the severity of the conflicts they encounter and the techniques and interventions that are used to mediate and resolve conflict arising out of the process of teaching multicultural courses. A total of 122 professors from CACREP affiliated counselor education programs in the U.S. were included in this study with 114 usable sets of participant data. Participants completed a researcher-developed online survey entitled the Multicultural Class Conflict Intervention Survey. A repeated-measures ANOVA and the Friedman Test were conducted to analyze the data. The analysis indicated that the level of challenge experienced by professors in dealing with and resolving multicultural classroom conflict was a statistically significant variable. Limited support was found for the Types of conflict as a predictor of specific patterns of conflict intervention usage when dealing with and resolving multicultural classroom conflict.

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Author

Burton, Stephen

Title

Managing conflict in multicultural classes: Examining the relationship between severity of conflict and the use of interventions by university instructors to manage and resolve conflict

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1 online resource (190 pages) : PDF

Date

2012

Degree Granting Institution

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract

Multicultural class professors are faced with the often difficult task of helping prepare pre-service counselors to meet the mental healthcare needs of an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society. A major factor that has stood in the way of effective training has been students' resistance to challenging their entrenched patterns of bias and prejudice, which are undermining factors to the process of engendering multicultural awareness, sensitivity, and counseling competency. The purpose of this study was to examine how instructors deal with multicultural classroom conflict in view of the severity of the conflicts they encounter and the techniques and interventions that are used to mediate and resolve conflict arising out of the process of teaching multicultural courses. A total of 122 professors from CACREP affiliated counselor education programs in the U.S. were included in this study with 114 usable sets of participant data. Participants completed a researcher-developed online survey entitled the Multicultural Class Conflict Intervention Survey. A repeated-measures ANOVA and the Friedman Test were conducted to analyze the data. The analysis indicated that the level of challenge experienced by professors in dealing with and resolving multicultural classroom conflict was a statistically significant variable. Limited support was found for the Types of conflict as a predictor of specific patterns of conflict intervention usage when dealing with and resolving multicultural classroom conflict.

Genre

doctoral dissertations

Subjects--Topics

Multicultural education
Educational psychology
Social sciences--Study and teaching

Degree

Ph.D.

Keywords

Classroom Conflict
Difficult Dialogues
Multicultural Conflict
Racial Dialogues
Racial Microagressions
Teaching Strategies

Subject Area

Counseling

Advisor(s)

Furr, Susan

Committee Members

Abrams, Lyndon
Wierzalis, Edward
Flowers, Claudia
Tong, Rosemarie

Degree Note

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2012.

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