Navigating without a Compass: How Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Physical Therapist Students Persist in Higher Education.
This study explores the forms of community wealth culturally and linguistically diverse learners leverage to persist in higher education and become physical therapists. Researchers conducted focus groups with 36 physical therapy students whose primary language was not English, who self-identified as...
| Published in: | Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Education, Research & Policy Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 120 - 143 |
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School of Health Sciences at Winston-Salem State University
Fall2020
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