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cultural discontinuities and education  

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  • This entry provides a brief look at cultural discontinuity in education, an explanation of various types of cultural discontinuity, responses to it and its use in practice, and an examination of the implications of cultural discontinuity for education. Researchers and educators refer to cultural discontinuity in education varyingly as cultural dissonance, cultural conflict, cultural mismatch, cultural incongruence, cultural misalignment, or a “lack of cultural synchronization” (Irvine, 2003, p. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Cultural Discontinuities and Education]

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