"Cultural appropriateness" refers to the idea of respectfully and responsibly borrowing or adopting elements from different cultures without demeaning, misrepresenting, or offending the culture or community from which it originated.
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The Alert Program language, activities and resources were pilot tested at a remote Fitzroy Valley Aboriginal community school to evaluate the feasibility and
cultural appropriateness of program delivery with minor adaptations made based on teacher, occupational therapist and original program developer feedback.
Recent research shows that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people regularly experience racism in mainstream settings; mainstream services often report that their staff members are ill - equipped and poorly trained
in cultural appropriateness; and they also report difficulties in stimulating access by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
During the Chinese Parent Cafes development process, the Parent Cafe process was reviewed and field tested
for cultural appropriateness, tagging for Chinese immigrants, multigenerational grandparents co-parenting approach, American born Chinese, and all families for relevance.
Additional measures should be adopted to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in youth justice detention,
ensure cultural appropriateness in the detention environment, and ensure the right of the child or young person to exercise their culture.
(Phase two) campaign with the target audience (25 - 44 year old non-Indigenous people), message clarity, whether the message resulted in a behavioural or attitudinal change, effectiveness in increasing awareness of the link between discrimination and its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and
cultural appropriateness.
Caregivers Speak About
the Cultural Appropriateness of Services for Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (PDF - 1,030 KB) Walker (2000) View Abstract and Download Discusses a study that investigated the cultural appropriateness of mental health services provided to children ages 5 - 18 with a severe emotional or behavioral disability.
We are sensitive to
cultural appropriateness and adaptive to meet the needs of a wide range of cultures and community groups.
Such singular work on such an exceptionally sensitive subject demands distinctive and discrete awareness of
cultural appropriateness.
But talk of
cultural appropriateness is exhausting, confusing and often out of reach for the average person.
While SEL tends to focus on purely intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships, Ripple Effects focuses on the larger context of social justice and
cultural appropriateness, and the role that they play in SEL.
This difficulty in turn raises the general issue of
the cultural appropriateness of program objectives and whether full statistical equality in terms of indicators is achievable or always desirable.