In the developing of any kind of interactive and information applications, multicultural aspects, usually, have not been considered. Therefore, people need to adapt to the interfaces instead the opposite, interfaces adapting themselves to the user characteristics. Designing products for international users all above the world is a non solved challenge and will be one of the main goals for futur...

tice on curriculum planning needs to be expanded, and the contribution made by community-based general practice teachers needs to be continuously enhanced and supported. Academic departments of general practice need to redefine why they are in medical schools, and to take encouragement from the fact that their efforts are highly appreciated by the medical students, regardless of their ultimate ...

this chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of funds of knowledge (fok) in relation to cultural historical activity theory (chat). this study unveils the basic tenets of fok from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to fok and literacy development over time. the major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...

Structured supervision techniques encourage service providers to increase their knowledge, skills, and selfawareness in providing multicultural services. Structured techniques are described and illustrated.

Multicultural situations are not a new phenomenon in the World history : in the Middle East and the Mediterranean World, a multiplicity of cultures coexisted in rural areas as well as in cities since Antiquity. From the time of Alexander the Great, Greek speaking urban elites dominated lower groups pertaining to a wide variety of languages, religions and cultural traditions from Egypt to Centra...

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of the Downstate Team-Building Initiative (DTBI), a model multicultural and interdisciplinary health care team-building program for health professions students. METHOD A total of 65 students representing seven health disciplines participated in DTBI's first three years (one cohort per year since implementation). During the 18-session curriculum, students self-ev...

The roles and responsibilities of planners in managing culturally diverse cities are beginning to be articulated in the literature. “Visioning,” as planners have used it in recent years, has the potential to help realize “multicultural planning” because of its intentions to involve broad public participation and represent diverse interests, thereby promoting equity and facilitating democracy. T...

The article discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of the multicultural self-organization of the student’s linguistic identity in the context of extended foreign language training. According to the authors’ point of view the methodological basis of the dialogue of cultures is presented by the philosophy of mutual understanding, mutual relationships in the global environment today. The ...

Hospitality organizations which are increasingly operating internationally create real challenges for their employees and managers to interact and effectively work with people from different cultural environments. Many problems may relate to intercultural communication between managers and employees as well as between employees and hotel guests from different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, th...