The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education.
This paper will explore whether teachers' multicultural ideology, soft skills (transversal capacities), national pride and identity, and intergroup contact, controlled by other variables, are related to their multicultural attitudes. This objective is developed and estimated from correlation an...
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| author | Fernando Barrios Aguirre Susan Benavides Trujillo Edgar Iván Vega Guillén Fernando Alonso Téllez Mendivelso |
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| description | This paper will explore whether teachers' multicultural ideology, soft skills (transversal capacities), national pride and identity, and intergroup contact, controlled by other variables, are related to their multicultural attitudes. This objective is developed and estimated from correlation analysis and using the method of ordinary least squares, to verify how multicultural ideology, national pride and identity, soft skills, and intergroup contact, controlled for some sociodemographic variables, generate effects on the multicultural attitudes of teaching in a Colombian higher education institution with high-quality accreditation. The findings revealed that soft skills and multicultural ideology positively influenced teachers' multicultural attitudes, while intergroup contact with different ethnic groups showed a negative correlation. The analysis used primary data collected from 199 professors at the institution, which operates in a culturally diverse, multi-campus context within an emerging country characterized by very low national pride. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-438df36b94d1453f98f45b3c8eb0fe5e2025-08-20T02:11:54ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01204e032149010.1371/journal.pone.0321490The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education.Fernando Barrios AguirreSusan Benavides TrujilloEdgar Iván Vega GuillénFernando Alonso Téllez MendivelsoThis paper will explore whether teachers' multicultural ideology, soft skills (transversal capacities), national pride and identity, and intergroup contact, controlled by other variables, are related to their multicultural attitudes. This objective is developed and estimated from correlation analysis and using the method of ordinary least squares, to verify how multicultural ideology, national pride and identity, soft skills, and intergroup contact, controlled for some sociodemographic variables, generate effects on the multicultural attitudes of teaching in a Colombian higher education institution with high-quality accreditation. The findings revealed that soft skills and multicultural ideology positively influenced teachers' multicultural attitudes, while intergroup contact with different ethnic groups showed a negative correlation. The analysis used primary data collected from 199 professors at the institution, which operates in a culturally diverse, multi-campus context within an emerging country characterized by very low national pride.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321490 |
| spellingShingle | Fernando Barrios Aguirre Susan Benavides Trujillo Edgar Iván Vega Guillén Fernando Alonso Téllez Mendivelso The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. PLoS ONE |
| title | The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. |
| title_full | The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. |
| title_fullStr | The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. |
| title_short | The role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in Colombian higher education. |
| title_sort | role of soft skills and multicultural attitudes in enhancing teaching quality in colombian higher education |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321490 |
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