Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation

This research aimed to study the effect of exposure to Multicultural environment of educational institutions on the acculturation of its students. The study puts forth many types of research that show the positive effects of intergroup contact between groups of diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultura...

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Main Authors:	Rahath House, Yousef, Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas, Kazmi, Yedullah, Ashraf, Hiba
Format:	Monograph
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	BL Religion BP170.8 Universality of Islam H Social Sciences (General) LC65 Social aspects of education
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/1/RMC_Project_Report.pdf

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spelling	iium-514342018-05-24T07:15:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/ Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation Rahath House, Yousef Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Kazmi, Yedullah Ashraf, Hiba BL Religion BP170.8 Universality of Islam H Social Sciences (General) LC65 Social aspects of education This research aimed to study the effect of exposure to Multicultural environment of educational institutions on the acculturation of its students. The study puts forth many types of research that show the positive effects of intergroup contact between groups of diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultural heritages in reducing prejudice and negative stereotyping towards the out-group. This study investigated whether or not the Internationalization process of the International Islamic University, Malaysia, with a multicultural environment, helps its students to, accept the differences that other cultures bring, be comfortable with differences and also seek diversity of contact. The study employed Miville-Guzman Universality – Diversity Scale, (M-GUDS-S) to collect data by survey method from 400 IIUM undergraduate students selected using Quota sampling. 200 of them were first-year students and the rest were fourth-year students. The result indicated that the multicultural environment at IIUM does lead to Acculturation among students. It showed that the fourth year students were significantly more appreciative of and comfortable with differences. However, in terms of seeking diversity of contact, there was no significant difference between first-year and fourth-year students. Based on the findings it has been suggested that if efforts are made to establish optimal conditions for positive intergroup contact to take place, intergroup prejudice can be reduced and problems of coexistence in the Muslim countries and communities can thus be addressed. 2016 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/1/RMC_Project_Report.pdf Rahath House, Yousef and Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas and Kazmi, Yedullah and Ashraf, Hiba (2016) Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation. Research Report. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	BL Religion BP170.8 Universality of Islam H Social Sciences (General) LC65 Social aspects of education Rahath House, Yousef Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Kazmi, Yedullah Ashraf, Hiba Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
description	This research aimed to study the effect of exposure to Multicultural environment of educational institutions on the acculturation of its students. The study puts forth many types of research that show the positive effects of intergroup contact between groups of diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultural heritages in reducing prejudice and negative stereotyping towards the out-group. This study investigated whether or not the Internationalization process of the International Islamic University, Malaysia, with a multicultural environment, helps its students to, accept the differences that other cultures bring, be comfortable with differences and also seek diversity of contact. The study employed Miville-Guzman Universality – Diversity Scale, (M-GUDS-S) to collect data by survey method from 400 IIUM undergraduate students selected using Quota sampling. 200 of them were first-year students and the rest were fourth-year students. The result indicated that the multicultural environment at IIUM does lead to Acculturation among students. It showed that the fourth year students were significantly more appreciative of and comfortable with differences. However, in terms of seeking diversity of contact, there was no significant difference between first-year and fourth-year students. Based on the findings it has been suggested that if efforts are made to establish optimal conditions for positive intergroup contact to take place, intergroup prejudice can be reduced and problems of coexistence in the Muslim countries and communities can thus be addressed.
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author	Rahath House, Yousef Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Kazmi, Yedullah Ashraf, Hiba
author_facet	Rahath House, Yousef Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Kazmi, Yedullah Ashraf, Hiba
author_sort	Rahath House, Yousef
title	Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
title_short	Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
title_full	Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
title_fullStr	Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
title_full_unstemmed	Impact of multicultural environment of International Islamic University Malaysia on students’ acculturation
title_sort	impact of multicultural environment of international islamic university malaysia on students’ acculturation
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51434/1/RMC_Project_Report.pdf
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