Table A1.

Border crossing and cultural capability coding schema

Themes: cultural capabilityDefinition, source
Border crossings types 
Smooth, Managed and ResistantWays students experience the transition between two or more different cultural and/or professional worlds (Phelan, 1991)
Phelan’s original definitions assume the teacher is modelling and supporting border crossings to some degree
Self-managedOur data suggests that some students made successful border crossings without teacher support and sometimes in spite of negative feedback
Border crossing contexts 
Academic, professional, personal and societalThese themes were developed from the data to accommodate what students said about the scope or areas of students’ lives impacted by developing Cultural Capabilities skills
Types or levels of cultural capability gains
Increased awarenessLow-impact consideration but not adoption of new ideas (from the data)
Tensions between systemsAcknowledgement of differing value and knowledge systems making learning more challenging (Nakata, 2007)
Setting intentionsPlanning on doing things differently (Nakata, 2007)
Taking actionsDescribing culturally capable actions
Pushing through challenges of different knowledges to adapt practice (Nakata, 2007)

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