F. Zehra Çolak

ORCID: 0000-0001-6806-0745
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Research Areas
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Islamic Studies and Radicalism
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Qur’anic Interpretation Studies
  • European Politics and Security
  • Social Sciences and Policies
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies

Utrecht University
2023-2024

University of Antwerp
2020-2022

KU Leuven
2019-2021

Centre for European Policy Studies
2021

Students of Turkish descent suffer various forms discrimination in education Flanders (the northern part Belgium). Nevertheless, few studies have documented how these experiences are situated within structures ethnic inequality education. Adopting a critical race theory approach, Belgian university students were analysed to expose deficit assumptions towards minorities and push against inequity The accounts show the exclusionary treatment they exposed despite dominating discourses...

10.1080/13613324.2020.1842351 article EN Race Ethnicity and Education 2020-11-01

This study draws on data collected from Chinese language textbooks to investigate the ways in which ethnic minority cultures and languages are represented primary school China. Drawing methods of thematic comparative analysis, we specifically analyse how representation minorities has changed across different periods history. The analysis reveals that is largely limited contributions approach additive multicultural curriculum development. findings show a selective, traditional, stereotypical...

10.1080/00220272.2022.2045361 article EN Journal of Curriculum Studies 2022-03-13

This study examines teachers' cultural diversity beliefs and culturally relevant practices, the predictors of those practices. A sample 606 primary school teachers from southwest China participated in study. The findings reveal that are not necessarily reflected their teaching practices as they marginally correlated. Regression analyses show more likely to implement if Han majority, older, interact frequently with diverse people, competent speaking three or languages, regularly watch, read,...

10.1080/13540602.2021.1987878 article EN Teachers and Teaching 2021-10-03

Abstract Global and national education agendas are concerned with improving the quality equality of learning outcomes. School systems involuntarily continue to produce new perpetuate existing inequities injustices, particularly for minority students. While previous research has highlighted potential causes effects educational inequity, little is known about perspectives teachers minoritised backgrounds regarding persistence responses disparities. This draws on literature deficit thinking...

10.1002/berj.3993 article EN British Educational Research Journal 2024-02-26

The study of multilingualism has gained prominence due to increases in linguistically diverse student populations. This paper aims contribute research on by addressing schoolteachers' beliefs and practices related linguistic diversity. A unique sample 606 teachers across ten minority-dominant schools from Southwest China participated the survey study. results show that schoolteachers hold both monolingual multilingual beliefs. Teachers' are mainly positive about education, they favor...

10.1080/13670050.2021.2003293 article EN International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 2021-11-17

While substantial attention has been given to the integration processes of ethnic minority groups across Western Europe, few studies have focused on how students in higher education engage with and make sense these processes. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews 25 female university Turkish Belgian descent shed light students' acculturation meanings. Our analyses show that both student reiterate mainstream interpretation as an adaptation process targeting immigrants their...

10.1080/07256868.2022.2010675 article EN Journal of Intercultural Studies 2021-12-01

Pláticas and testimonio are both Chicana feminist epistemologies through which knowledge is co-constructed, personal stories shared, spaces of healing created. Plática~testimonio as a methodology can provide tool to co-create reflect on social justice pedagogies. Through this chapter, we will highlight how we, two female university teachers color based in the United States Netherlands, used pláticas our pedagogical practices. We held virtual wrote testimonios experiences with students...

10.31219/osf.io/c9pkq preprint EN 2024-12-19

Background Data on advance care planning (ACP) among migrants in Europe is lacking. Research has shown that few older the United States perform ACP due to healthcare system distrust, collectivistic values and spirituality/religion.

10.1080/13814788.2023.2271661 article EN cc-by European Journal of General Practice 2023-10-23

<h3>Background</h3> Advance care planning (ACP) is rare among older adults with a migration background because of social, cultural, and religious reasons. This study aimed to explore ACP-related knowledge perspectives Turkish palliative needs living in Belgium. <h3>Methods</h3> Semi-structured interviews were conducted Turkish. Data analyzed using combination inductive deductive thematic analysis techniques. General practitioners Brussels Antwerp recruited participants. <h3>Results</h3> All...

10.1136/spcare-2023-acp.41 article EN 2023-05-01

Advance care planning is rare among older adults with a migration background because of social, cultural, and religious reasons.To explore advance planning-related knowledge perspectives people from Turkish palliative needs living in Belgium.Semi-structured interviews were conducted Turkish. Data analysed using combination inductive deductive thematic analysis techniques. GPs Brussels Antwerp recruited participants.All 15 interviewees (average age: 79 years) lacked awareness detailed...

10.3399/bjgp23x734001 article EN British Journal of General Practice 2023-07-01

10.1080/23254823.2021.1997416 article EN cc-by-nc European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 2021-12-06
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