A Differential Construct Methodology for Modelling Predictive Cultural Values

Authors

Béatrice Boufoy -Bastick, University of TechnologyFollow

Abstract

This paper presents an explanatory model of cultural behaviours, which resulted from a four-year ethnographic study of the different academic attainments in English of indigenous Fijians and the Indo-Fijians in the Fiji Islands. Fiji is a natural laboratory for investigating differential cultural behaviours because of these two culturally distinct main ethnic groups. Their different cultural behaviours were found to serve different values within each culture. A three-construct grounded model of these different values emerged from observations and analyses of these behaviours. These constructs were then de-constructed to define and explain a fourth target construct of their Differential Teaching Behaviours, which were contributing to the different academic attainments of the two cultures. The validity of the resulting four-construct model was both empirically and quantitatively ascertained and it is argued that the model can be used to predict culturally determined behaviours and educational outcomes in similar multicultural contexts.

Keywords

Grounded Theory, English teaching, cultural behaviours, culture and education, mixed method methodology, Fiji

Publication Date

9-1-2002

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DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2002.1970

Recommended APA Citation

Boufoy -Bastick, B. (2002). A Differential Construct Methodology for Modelling Predictive Cultural Values. The Qualitative Report, 7(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2002.1970