Returning cultural studies to education

Returning to the basics: a new era in pediatric education.

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND ONE EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10021-2692 TEL 212.606.3800 FAX 212.606.3500 E-MAIL [email protected] http://www.cmwf.org Pediatric training has not kept pace with scientific and clinical advances, argue leading health policy experts and educators, despite the nation’s substantial investment in child health. With disparities in health outcomes for children on the rise, exten...

Phenomenology and Surveillance Studies: Returning to the Things Themselves

In response to the increasingly quotidian, even banal character of surveillant practices in postindustrial societies, this article explores the possibility of a theoretical and methodological re-alignment in surveillance studies. This re-alignment entails a move from broadly Foucauldian, macro-level, structural or poststructural analyses, to the existential–phenomenological study of subjective ...

Particularism and Multi - Cultural Education :

Constructivism in cultural competence education.

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...

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...