Studies primarily describe cultural competence training in different educational settings, including nursing, social work, pediatric, and child psychology programs (Culhane-Pera et al., 2000; Flores, Gee, and Kastner, 2000; Freed, 1998; Gamble, 2000; Lindquist, 1990; Rankin and Kappy, 1993; Ricardo and Holden, 1994; Salcido and Garcia, 1997; Sublette and Trappler, 2000). Some discussed differen...

With the progress of globalization, China is forming increasing intimate relations with other nations. However, under the context of globalization, we must know each other quite well to promote cross-cultural communication, which requires that our English education follow the multi-cultural principle. On the one hand, we should know more countries who take English as their official or foreign l...

During the past 28 years, the journal "Collegium Antropologicum" has continuously served as one of the main disseminators of anthropological scientific production in Central and Eastern Europe. The journal was committed to its role of a multidisciplinary platform for presenting wide range of research topics relevant to anthropology, from investigations within social and cultural anthropology an...

Medical educators tend to approach teaching and learning grounded in their disciplines (content areas of expertise), culture of origin, and their own learning styles and ways of knowing. This article reviews dimensions for medical educators to consider in preparing themselves and their learners for maximum effectiveness through a lens of cultural awareness and understanding. Internationalizatio...

My purpose today is to explore implications of cultural psychology for guiding educational practice, especially educational practice in settings where the children come from many different home cultures, ethnicities, and social classes. You will note that I phrased my topic as a question. Many scholars, including myself, have raised questions about how classical cultural-psychological ideas han...

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...

The design of educational technologies involves making decisions based in cultural assumptions and ideologies, and student learning may be improved when these design choices are made intentionally with the students’ own cultural context in mind. Despite this, the classroom systems in which these technologies are deployed have their own culturally-based contexts which are often at odds with the ...

The Cultural Artefacts in Education (CAE) questionnaire is used to determine the educational values of different cultures. In this paper I examine the results for ten countries, specifically focussing on their attitudes towards adaptive hypermedia in an educational setting. These results can inform the authoring process for adaptive systems & content, with Adaptive Hypermedia systems being able...

Open educational resources (OERs) provide opportunities as enablers of societal development, but they also create new challenges. From the perspective of content providers and educational institutions, particularly, cultural and context-related challenges emerge. Even though barriers regarding large-scale adoption of OERs are widely discussed, empirical evidence for determining challenges in re...