The diversity teaching beliefs scale: Addressing cultural diversity, communalities between cultures, and the national culture in the classroom

Jochem Thijs; Minke Krijnen; Lian van Vemde; Lisette Hornstra; Tim Mainhard; Bjorn Wansink

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2024.104846

The diversity teaching beliefs scale: Addressing cultural diversity, communalities between cultures, and the national culture in the classroom

Jochem Thijs^*, Minke Krijnen, Lian van Vemde, Lisette Hornstra, Tim Mainhard, Bjorn Wansink

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Leiden University

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Abstract

This study describes the examination of a new multidimensional measure on teacher beliefs about diversity teaching: the Diversity Teaching Beliefs Scale (DTBS). The DTBS assesses three distinct dimensions of teachers' diversity beliefs: Acknowledging cultural differences (ACD), emphasizing cultural communalities (ECC), and socialization of the national culture (SNC). The findings of three studies on the psychometric properties of the DTBS provide support for its reliability and validity. Moreover, latent profile analyses indicated that the three teacher beliefs co-occurred in different combinations. Overall, the DTBS can be considered a useful instrument to capture the multidimensional nature of teachers’ diversity teaching beliefs.

Original language	English
Article number	104846
Number of pages	12
Journal	Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume	153
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104846
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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This study was supported by The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research [Nationaal Regieorgaan Onderwijsonderzoek (NRO); grant number 40.5.18300.032].

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Netherlands Initiative for Education Research [Nationaal Regieorgaan Onderwijsonderzoek (NRO)	40.5.18300.032

Keywords

Cultural communalities
Cultural differences
Diversity teaching
National culture
Teacher beliefs

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