Editorial: Inclusive higher education in cross-cultural settings

Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Higher Education Learning

Changing roles of contemporary higher education has increased the challenges of assessing higher learning from the assessment point of view despite the plethora of available standardized instruments. Existing instruments require modifications in order to accommodate the context of the study as well as to suit the institutional objectives, philosophy and program structure hence adjudging that th...

Some thoughts on an Inclusive Higher Education system

DESNOS in three postconflict settings: assessing cross-cultural construct equivalence.

This study examined the cross-cultural construct equivalence of the Structured Interview for Disorders of Extreme Stress (SIDES), an instrument designed to assess symptoms of Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS). Participants completed the SIDES as a part of an epidemiological survey conducted between 1997 and 1999 among survivors of war or mass violence in Algeria (n = ...

Higher Education Expansion in Iran and Socio-Cultural Transformation; Agency of Female students

The purpose of this study is to reflection the social agency of female students in the course of socio-cultural transformation in the society, was designed in the interpretiveism paradigm and qualitative approach using phenomenological method. The data collection tool was a deep, unstructured interview. Participants included 60 faculty members, Social activists, and female students from four pr...

A study of the educational, cultural and social consequences of increasing women’s enrollment in higher education

The growing presence of girls in higher education is an issue that has attracted attention and has a lot of opponents and proponents. In this article, effects of this event were studied in three dimensions, cultural, social and educational. Research method was descriptive – survey and the population of study was all students and faculty members at Isfahan University, Isfahan University of Techn...