Education for a Multi-Cultural Society

Particularism and Multi - Cultural Education :

Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society

This paper examines the influences of culture on the user experience of local e-government services. It investigates the hypothesis that people with different cultural backgrounds experience different problems when using egovernment applications. Thirty participants with the Moroccan, Surinamese and Dutch cultural background were first asked to fill in a short questionnaire for demographic purp...

Medicine in a multi-cultural society: the effect of cultural background on beliefs about medications.

This exploratory, cross-sectional study examined the effect of self-reported cultural background on beliefs about medicines (modern pharmaceuticals) and perceptions of personal sensitivity to the adverse effects of taking medication. Using a validated questionnaire, beliefs about pharmaceutical medication were compared between 500 UK undergraduate students who identified themselves as having an...

Values Education for a Pluralist Society

Increasingly I have come to believe that educating students to understand their values about people and relationships is an essential aspect of preparing them for professional practice. In this paper I explore the challenges involved in facilitating students’ learning processes when values exploration is on the agenda, especially when controversy may occur from sharing value-based opinions. Thi...

Education can compensate for society – a bit

In this paper I reflect on the findings of a number of loosely related research projects undertaken with colleagues over the last ten years. Their common theme is equity, in formal education and beyond, in wider family and social settings, and with inequity expressed as the stratification of a variety of educational outcomes. The projects are based on a standard mixture of pre-existing records,...