OBJECTIVE Cultural competency leads to higher quality care for asthmatic children, yet it is not known whether asthma educational materials targeting minority children and families are culturally competent. The study objective was to evaluate the cultural competency of printed asthma educational materials targeting minorities in Wisconsin. PATIENTS AND METHODS The Wisconsin Asthma Coalition D...

The importance of cross-cultural understanding is accelerated nowadays by globalization and joint efforts of different countries in the face of global challenges. Countries’ educational systems display attempts to incorporate cross-cultural studies in their curricula across all stages of formal learning. Many higher education institutions offer special courses aimed at promoting cross-cultural ...

in recent decades, the concept of cultural capital has created a lot of scientific studies over the world in the sociology of education. these studies mainly based on the two models: bourdieu's cultural reproduction and dimaggio's cultural mobility. these have achieved different results. this study aimed at evaluating the theoretical models in an empirical condition. middle and high school stud...

The purpose of this essay is to consider the cultural and organizational issues behind the creation of open educational content. In it I argue that there are many benefits to the individual, to the educational institution, and to society at large from open educational content and, further, that such educational content has to be part of a wider context of open resources across the research, edu...

introduction. setting up “clinical skills labs” has been started in some iranian medical universities since five years ago. in an educational workshop for clinical skills labs managers in january 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. these standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

This project poster introduces the recently started EEXCESS project, which aims at Enhancing Europes eXchange in Cultural Educational and Scientific Resource. Europe has digitised vast amounts of cultural, scientific and educational content like for example scientific research, historical sound recordings, images of sculptures, films and sheet music. However, since content dissemination on the ...

operating urban and rural councils in iran put some new hopes to improve the local situation and correct some authorized procedures in urban management affairs. the third period of local councils started in 2007. at present many councilors and officials aware about the importance of training some necessary skills and knowledge for the councilors. this article tries to adopt a relevant education...