Cultural Studies: tradition or process?

Indo-Portuguese Quilting Tradition: The Cross-Cultural Context

Transitioning Tradition? Examining the Digitization of Cultural Practices

Over the last few decades, computing researchers have developed a wealth of new systems to maintain particular cultural resources. Computing platforms allow people to access high-resolution images of ancient cave paintings and Googleartwork; 3D scanning systems digitize Michelangelo’s sculptures and Pompeii’s remains [Levoy et al. 2000]; and haptic devices allow users to touch and feel ancient ...

Croatian Cultural Tradition and Children ’ s Artistic Creativity

Croatian Cultural Tradition and Children’s Artistic Creativity generates examples of good teaching practice and authentically portrays and reflects the synergy of children’s creativity, because as can be seen in the presented projects, various media in the hands of children are always formed in an original way thus developing children’s individuality, passion, self-confidence, optimism, confide...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Cross-Cultural Studies

The area of cross-cultural management and organization studies has been dominated by Hofstede’s (1980a) seminal work on cultural values dimensions. Despite much recent criticism, and perhaps because of it, he remains the most cited author in this area. It is difficult to start any account in this field without reference to his work, and this is certainly the starting point here. This chapter fi...