Teaching students from diverse backgrounds
Topic: Working with cultural and language backgrounds
What do you know about the factors that make academic integrity concepts and practices hard to understand for students from certain cultural and language backgrounds?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of differing cultural assumptions about plagiarism, and other reasons for plagiarism by students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds
- your skills in relating to and working constructively with students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds to encourage academic integrity
In this this topic, hypotheticals ask you to reconstruct incidents of plagiarism by three different students, and propose approaches to supporting student learning that you could have used to avoid these cases.
Further reading on this topic:
Hayes, N., & Introna, L. (2005). Cultural values, plagiarism and fairness: When plagiarism gets in the way of learning. Ethics & Behavior, 15(3), 213-231.
Views of plagiarism among 126 postgraduate students of over 10 nationalities in a UK university.
Leask, B. (2006). Plagiarism, cultural diversity and metaphor–Implications for academic staff development. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 32(2), 183-199.
“Whereas the war metaphor invites us to construct the issue of plagiarism as being more of an issue for ethnically different cultural others …, the ‘same game, new rule' metaphor is more inclusive.” (p.191)
McDonnell, K. (2003). Academic plagiarism rule and ESL learning–Mutually exclusive concepts? Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://www.american.edu/tesol/wpmcdonnell.pdf
Literature review giving examples of non-Western cultural values and practices.
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