The Teaching Alliance in Multicultural Counseling Course Education: A Framework for Examining and Strengthening the Student-Instructor Relationship

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Abstract

This article explores the idea of the teaching alliance as a framework to help instructors of multicultural counseling courses advance student learning by attending to and strengthening the student-instructor relationship. To this end, and drawing on extant literature, two questions are conceptually addressed: (1) what relational qualities comprise the teaching alliance in a graduate-level multicultural class? and (2) what instructional strategies might help strengthen that alliance? The article concludes with a discussion of teaching considerations and directions for future research.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
StatePublished - Jun 6 2015

Keywords

  • Teaching alliance
  • Multicultural counseling education
  • Student-instructor relationship

Disciplines

  • Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
  • Educational Psychology

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