Cultural Wealth Research Articles

Emisoras de paz: el reto de construir paz desde los territorios en Colombia

The Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Lasting Peace, signed in November 2016 between the government of Colombia and the extinct FARC-EP guerrilla, was proposed, as a commitment of the State, to implement of 20 public interest radio stations, in order to teach about the Final Peace Agreement and publicing the progress in its implementation. Located in territories strongly affected by the armed confrontation, peace radio stations are projected as sui generis scenarios in the Colombian transitional horizon. Consequently, the article records the findings obtained in a first systematic exercise of the emergence and consolidation of radio stations, which includes learning, difficulties, challenges and expectations. The approach problematizes and discusses the importance for broadcasters of working from peace journalism, since they have the capacity and opportunity to promote narratives and representations that, far from the story of war and violence, explore ethnic and cultural wealth. and social that characterizes the territories and their communities. With an ethnographic approach, it concluded that peace radio stations have to build their own identity that separates them from the political interests of the government, as well as discuss the political narratives that want to associate them with the interests of insurgent groups. Peace radio stations are scenarios that provide the opportunity to foster communicative and informative ecosystems that offer different perspectives on the realities experienced in territories where violence still persists, at the local and regional level.

Konsep Ekowisata Sebagai Role Model Pengembangan Kawasan Daya Tarik Wisata (DTW) Pada Pengelolaan Subak Perkotaan Denpasar Dalam Perspektif Hukum Kepariwisataan

Tourism is an essential resource for regions that serve as tourist destinations. Indonesia, rich in culture and tourism, boasts a wide range of tourist sites spread across its provinces. One of Indonesia's premier tourist destinations is Bali, an island known for its unique natural and cultural wealth that attracts visitors from around the world. However, tourism development often conflicts with environmental preservation, such as the lack of attention to subak (traditional irrigation systems) in urban areas. Subak, with its cultural foundations, has the potential to be developed into tourist attractions (DTW). Therefore, the concept of ecotourism is seen as a suitable approach for developing tourism attractions in urban subak areas.This research focuses on the role of ecotourism as a model for developing tourism attractions within urban subak systems and the implications of this model based on tourism law principles in Denpasar. The research employs normative legal methods, using both statutory and conceptual approaches. The expected findings aim to serve as a foundation for formulating policies and strategies to develop ecotourism in Denpasar's urban subak areas. These policies and strategies should be grounded in tourism law principles while addressing aspects that need improvement for effective ecotourism implementation in urban subak areas.

Community-driven ecotourism in the trans Himalayan region: A sustainable model for cultural and environmental preservation

ABSTRACT Himalayan destinations, rich in natural and cultural wealth, are increasingly vulnerable to ecological degradation due to unregulated tourism growth. This research examines community-driven ecotourism (CDE) as a model to reconcile economic imperatives with environmental stewardship in Ladakh, a region facing rapid tourism expansion and ecological fragility. Using a qualitative case study approach, the study draws on semi-structured interviews with 22 stakeholders, including community leaders, tourism entrepreneurs, environmental experts, and hospitality managers. Thematic analysis reveals the interplay between local engagement, cultural preservation, and ecological resilience. Key findings introduce a strategic framework that supports cultural and environmental sustainability while aligning with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8, 12, and 15. Community-managed homestays, wildlife tours, and heritage conservation emerge as key mechanisms for fostering local livelihoods and preserving heritage. However, challenges such as infrastructure deficits, capacity gaps, and insufficient policy coherence limit the broader impact of these initiatives. This study underscores the importance of local community participation in shaping resilient tourism practices and offers recommendations to bridge policy and practice. The research positions Ladakh as a model for sustainable tourism in the Himalayas, emphasizing the symbiosis between cultural identity and environmental integrity.

Literasi Budaya Belis dalam Pernikahan Masyarakat Flores Desa Kusu Manggarai Barat Nusa Tenggara Timur

Marriage in the belis tradition in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), has moral and cultural values that are broad and deep enough to be learned together. In the belis tradition, when a marriage couple is about to have a traditional wedding. Both prospective brides and grooms must have a good understanding of what they are doing when they carry out the belis tradition in the marriage. The study of belis culture does require a good understanding in its application, especially when it clashes with culture. The belis tradition can be seen as a way of making prospective couples who are getting married think twice before deciding to use the tradition. Not only is there a certain amount of material or nominal amount that must be prepared, the existence of certain objects or items that can and should be considered as dowry requires each couple to provide these materials and objects properly. Not to mention the existence of other agreements and offers, which of course can be understood. Marriage in the NTT tradition, with the culture of belis, is a phase for each young couple to prepare themselves to enter a new life in their life journey. The belis tradition is a pattern of life in the NTT community that can be used as one of the characteristics inherent in the traditions of our society. with cultural wealth that is certainly inherent and stored in it as a whole.

Working-class Academics: Challenging Deficit Narratives Through Cultural Wealth

When navigating higher education (HE), working-class academics (WCAs) encounter persistent socioeconomic, cultural, and personal barriers throughout their academic careers. This study, grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Tara Yosso, sought to illuminate the cultural wealth of WCAs. Employing a mixed-methods approach over a five-year period, the research engaged with 244 WCAs from various institutions across the United Kingdom (UK). The findings challenged the dominant deficit narratives surrounding WCAs, revealing that WCAs actively cultivate and leverage a rich array of cultural assets, encompassing examples of aspirational, navigational, linguistic, familial, social, and resistant capital. Two overarching themes emerged from the data: the profound impact of shared lived experiences in empowering marginalised students, and the crucial role of WCAs as change agents. The study demonstrates how WCAs employ their backgrounds as pedagogical assets while advocating for structural reforms. These findings suggest institutions should formally recognise working-class cultural wealth through revised hiring criteria, targeted support programmes, and inclusive decision-making frameworks. This research advances understanding of how marginalised groups can transform rather than simply adapt to institutional cultures.

DAMPAK PENGEMBANGAN EKOWISATA DI SEKSI WILAYAH III TANJUNG HARAPAN TAMAN NASIONAL TANJUNG PUTING TERHADAP SOSIAL BUDAYA MASYARAKAT DESA WISATA SEKONYER

This study aims to identify and analyze these impacts using a qualitative approach. Data were collected through in-depth interview techniques, observation, and documentation. The results of the study indicate that ecotourism activities have a positive impact on the local community. First, ecotourism increases community knowledge and insight into environmental management and sustainability-based tourism potential. Second, community awareness of local natural and cultural wealth is increasing, encouraging the preservation of traditional cultural values. Third, the social status of the community increases through active participation in tourism activities. Fourth, it also has an impact on foreign language skills, especially English, as a need for interaction with tourists. Fifth, community empowerment can be seen from the emergence of new economic opportunities, such as homestay management, local crafts, and tour guide services. This study emphasizes the importance of synergy between ecotourism managers, the government, and the community to maintain long-term benefits for the sustainability of ecotourism and the welfare of the local community.

Beyond “Engaged/Involved”: Latina Immigrant Mothers’ Negotiations of Family-Bilingual Program Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

U.S. educational institutions continue to frame racially minoritized families as inferior and as the causes for their children’s educational challenges based on expectations associated with white, middle- and upper-class families. Latinx families can be positioned in deficit ways even in dual language bilingual education programs (DLBE), often lauded for being culturally and linguistically expansive settings. Informed by Critical Race Theory in Education and LatCrit, this study presents counterstories of two Latina immigrant mothers supporting their children’s learning and development during the COVID-19 pandemic in states with anti-bilingual and anti-immigrant legislative histories, Arizona and Massachusetts. Leveraging community cultural wealth, the mothers shared a deep commitment to sustaining their children’s bilingual and bicultural development and wellness. Although they were positioned as engaged parents by the DLBE programs, they problematized static and constrained forms of engagement efforts during pandemic schooling and learning. As such, their counterstories trouble deficit conceptualizations and false dichotomies within family-bilingual school relations and serve as a cautionary tale for educational programs framed as supportive of linguistic and cultural pluralism. We argue for the continued interrogation of school-led forms of engagement to ensure that racially minoritized families engage in shared leadership and school governance and have their knowledge forms and language traditions elevated as crucial levers for catalyzing transformative learning in response to COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts.

Motivation, Drive, and Pride: Exploring Assets of First-Generation College Students Majoring in Education

ABSTRACT This qualitative research study explores the experiences of 20 First Generation College Students (FGCSs) majoring in Education. In this work, we apply an assets-based perspective that relies heavily on the concept of community cultural wealth. Drawing on interview data, we highlight the collective experiences and perspectives of FGCSs as they navigate institutional barriers utilizing cultural wealth. Our findings show that FGCSs relied on familial, aspirational, navigational, and resistant wealth as sources for their motivation, drive, and pride. The findings of this study call for greater awareness of assets-based approaches to understanding the experiences of first-generation college students.

Perspectives: Cultural Wealth, Co-creation, and Conversations

In this article, two librarians reflect on their experience as an intern and supervisor navigating traditional and antiquated norms upheld in academia. The intern, a first-generation Mexican-American student, describes the shift in her values, beliefs, and identity as she confronts the extractive practices embedded in internships, resulting in a collaborative and critical internship. The internship supervisor, a senior librarian, also reflects on her role in resisting these exploitative dynamics by using the community cultural wealth model, which recognizes the knowledge students of colour bring from their homes and communities. The intern and supervisor introduce ideas for improving the internship experience by embracing community cultural wealth, critiquing the role of neoliberal multiculturalism, and addressing the systemic extraction that hinders the professional development of marginalized students.

Complementing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Engaged Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth

Complementing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with Engaged Pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth

Validating an instrument for measuring community cultural wealth with biology majors at a Hispanic-serving institution.

Boosting underrepresented student persistence in STEM majors has been of interest for several years. Prior research has explored various factors that may influence student success and persistence in STEM majors. Specifically, some of these studies have employed Yosso's community cultural wealth framework to explore how a student's cultural wealth may link to certain outcomes. Most of these studies have taken a qualitative approach when exploring cultural wealth and less adopt a quantitative approach. Using biology students in an introductory biology class during the fall (n = 303) and spring semesters (n = 215) at a large Hispanic-serving institution in the southeastern United States, this study seeks to contribute to the literature by validating a previously constructed instrument with a new population. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted using principal axis factoring and an oblique rotation. EFA results revealed 10 dimensions of cultural wealth. Additionally, confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that the model produced properly measures the constructs as intended. Overall, the final 56-item instrument used in this study was validated and can be used for measuring cultural wealth in similar populations.

Natural heritage analytical study of old beech forests and primeval beech forests as a potential for nature tourism sustainable development

Natural and cultural wealth in the tourism market plays a significant role in tourism development ideally in a sustainable way. The papers´ research evaluates the potential of old beech forests and primeval beech forests in Europe as targets for possible future nature tourism, emphasizing their ecological, aesthetic, and cultural significance. The analysis, which utilizes a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including the Shapiro-Wilk normality test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman correlation coefficient processed through Gretl software, highlights the significant role these forests play in biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, and sustainable development in the context of the area of the country, where they are located. These forests, rated as premium destinations for nature tourism or ecotourism, should be integrated into broader tourism strategies. Their preservation and proper utilization can significantly contribute to the development of the local economy while also providing educational and recreational opportunities for residents and tourists.

Pengembangan Potensi Desa Wisata Pasirnanjung Geulis

The management of Pasirnanjung Geulis tourism village has not been optimal, such as the lack of attractions, lack of visitor management and ticket management. The purpose of this research is to discover the description and potential of Pasirnanjung Geulis Tourism Village, as well as the steps that have been taken or are needed to develop it. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study design. This research was taken in three stages using data triangulation, namely interviews, observation, and documentation research, and there were ten participants or sources used to analyze the data. To analyze the data, this research collects data, presents data, reduces data using NVivo, and draws conclusions. Pasirnanjung Geulis Tourism Village has great potential as a tourist destination because of its natural beauty and cultural wealth. However, the development of tour packages, ticketing systems, social media management, and the provision of basic facilities are all still needed. The village has yet to generate equitable financial benefits for the entire local population, despite many people contributing.

Revival of Tribal Fashion and Lifestyle: A Case Study of Western Odisha

Odisha is a land of primitive tribal culture, full of picturesque colourful natural sceneries. It has inherited a wealth of traditional art and culture. In western Odisha, the elements of tribal cultural heritage have become a determining factor of the fashion trend. Most of the traditional tribal arts and crafts have come to find favour in the minds of art lovers and fashion designers not only in India but also in the world. On the contrary, due to a lack of proper training and sound technical knowledge, the tribals don’t find the means to promote their arts and natural creative skills. This paper focuses on the specific traditional art forms of tribals of Western Odisha and also advocates for the requirement of private-public support to promote local art and design in the global fashion industries and social media.

Globally Marginalized People Shifting Temporalities Through Arts-Based Methodologies in Educational Research

This multimodal essay represents the authors’ meditations on the power and potential of arts-based methodologies that attend to the creative traditions of Globally Marginalized People (GMP). We consider how engaging our own breadth of literacies, cultural wealth, and wells of embodied and experiential knowledges informs our research and praxis. Specifically, we investigate how harnessing these ways of knowing and being enables temporal shifting that can lead to vivid, robust, and visionary theorizations and understandings of justice for GMP. To illustrate our own temporal shifting, we offer multimodal autohistoria-teoría to illustrate how arts serve our theoretical and empirical work.

Using a QuantCrit Approach to Develop and Collect Evidence of Validity for a Measure of Community Cultural Wealth.

Students who hold minoritized identities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Educational institutions often apply a deficit lens to understanding disproportionate outcomes between minoritized students and those from the cultural majority. Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) is an asset-based framework that focuses on the cultural strengths that diverse students develop in response to oppressive social structures, and which students use to be successful. Using a QuantCrit approach, we developed and collected evidence of validity for a measure of CCW. QuantCrit is a methodological framework that challenges researchers to critically evaluate theirown biases to produce more equitable analyses. Each author reflected upon our experiences and the ways in which CCW manifested within our lived experiences. Through iterative reflection and discussion, we elected to design items that capture intersecting forms of CCW capital. We conducted cognitive interviews with minoritized students identifying with both seen and unseen forms of diversity to collect evidence of validity based on response process and to avoid construct underrepresentation. The resulting measure consists of 100 items on a 6-point response scale of agreement. Our methodological approach integrates teachings from critical theories to challenge deficit narratives and to capture the experiences of those frequently unheard by the majority culture.

Ontology-based data framework for the digital preservation cultural heritage: A case of Subak

Cultural heritage is increasingly fading due to the influence of globalization and social changes that shift traditional values. Digitalization is critical to addressing the degradation of cultural heritage knowledge by enabling more accessible storage and documentation and facilitating preservation and education efforts for future generations. Subak, as a unique traditional agricultural system in Bali, Indonesia, has a wealth of valuable knowledge and culture, but it is still scattered and unstructured. An ontology-based Knowledge Management System is designed to capture, organize, and utilize knowledge within a domain using ontologies as a fundamental component. Ontologies explicitly represent knowledge by providing meaning, properties, and relationships with related concepts. This paper proposes data modelling with the Ontology Development framework for the knowledge base. The methodological framework consists of knowledge externalization, including identifying and collecting knowledge based on data modelling through interviews and observations. The second steps are modelling and development of ontology, based on the knowledge that has been previously disclosed, including the hierarchical structure, properties, and relationships that form the knowledge base. The third stage is the Implementation and evaluation, which involves evaluating the quality of ontology using onto metrics and implementing the ontology into the KMS. The result of this study is data modeling for the knowledge base and the Ontology Development framework. The data modelling is a form of data mapping based on a combination of traditional philosophy and modern management principles that underlie Subak activities and artefacts, namely Tri Hita Karana, Desa Kala Patra, and POAC. The proposed framework can be a reference in developing new ontologies from scratch on unstructured cultural heritage data.

The Critical Montessori Model

Despite an increase in race-related Montessori research over the past decade, the Montessori community lacks a unified framework to examine the Montessori Method and its philosophy through a critical racial lens. Without explicit discussions or universal training about race and whiteness, the Montessori Method can be interpreted through a color-blind lens unless scholars and practitioners explicitly use a critical racial perspective. This paper proposes the Critical Montessori Model (CMM), which centers high-fidelity Montessori practice—including the Montessori materials, child development, respect for and relationships with children, and observation as a learning tool—encompassed by critical race theory, as a way for researchers and practitioners to interpret the Montessori Method. This theoretical model critiques systems of whiteness and instead proposes centering the lived experiences and knowledge of the BIPOC community, drawing from theories such as culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogy and community cultural wealth (CCW). The hope is that this model will be the start of calibration among critical Montessori research to unify Montessori practitioners in their interpretations of Montessori education and the possibilities it provides for anti-racist education that centers Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC). The paper ends with recommendations for future research using the CMM as a framework and calls for more BIPOC voices to be highlighted in the Montessori research community.

Closer to My Dreams: Exploring Black Women’s Graduate School Aspirations and Community Uplift Through a Community Cultural Wealth and Black Feminist Approach

ABSTRACT This qualitative study analyzed what shaped the aspirations of Black women graduate student alumnae to earn advanced degrees. Using an assets-based conceptual framework of Community Cultural Wealth and Black Feminist Thought, findings suggested that the aspirational capital of Black women alumnae who obtained advanced degrees was fueled by other familial, navigational, resistance, and social capital and that they also implemented notions of Black feminisms within their trajectories into graduate education. Additionally, by bridging Community Cultural Wealth and Black Feminist Thought, the data suggests a new form of capital, which we call community uplift capital, that is rooted in elevating one’s community, family, and culture. The findings have implications for the recruitment and retention of Black graduate students and for stakeholders associated with graduate education matriculation.

R.A.I.C.E.S. (Roots): A conceptual framework for community‐building that connects linguistic and cultural wealth to support emergent bilinguals

AbstractProject R.A.I.C.E.S. (Reaching All Individuals and Communities to Establish Success in Language Learning) is a National Professional Development grant initiative operating at Stephen F. Austin State University. Grant objectives were designed to enhance school readiness, English acquisition, and literacy outcomes for emergent bilinguals (EBs), English learners (ELs), and multilingual learners (MLLs) through collaborative professional development events involving university, community, parent, and school district partnerships. The Spanish word raíces translates to roots in English, symbolizing the project's commitment to preserving and nurturing the cultural and linguistic diversity of the community by reframing language learning within an additive paradigm. Project R.A.I.C.E.S. creates paid professional development events to build a community of professors, preservice teachers, in‐service teachers, parents and caregivers of emergent bilingual children, and children in collaborative professional development sessions called academias (academies). Each academia positions all participants, especially parents and caregivers and their children, as key stakeholders and equal partners in the learning process to honor the community's cultural wealth, emphasizing linguistic and cultural sustainability for English language learners in educational settings. Moreover, the academias provide preservice and in‐service teacher professional development and preparation for the TExES ESL certification exam, crucial for better meeting the needs of EBs/ELs/MLLs in rural schools.