This paper compares two projects that adopted social bookmarking (SB) technology in different educational contexts at the same institution, a large, research-intensive university in the north of England. The first study used social bookmarking in a multicultural postgraduate class to increase interactivity within the whole class and to produce an archive of course-related online resources to en...

ASSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES LIBRARY SERVICE to young people in rural libraries in New York State with reference to services provided by rural libraries and librarians in other parts of the nation. The article addresses the efforts of rural libraries to meet the information needs of children and young adults. It explores the alignment of library programs with national concerns such as literacy...

As we enter a new millennium, most people are by now aware that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a ...

meet the needs of incoming international scholars, librarians worked closely with the university's Office of International Education and Development to stay informed about international recruitment, partnerships, and campus events related to global and cultural awareness. As a result, the library participates in a 2-day international student orientation event twice a year as well as universityw...

OBJECTIVE Australia is an increasingly multicultural nation. Never before has the dental workforce been exposed to such language, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. There is evidence that refugee and migrant children experience significantly poorer oral health than the nonmigrant population. However, little is known about the oral health knowledge, practices and beliefs of parents with y...

Background. Reading skills are critical to children’s success in school and the increasingly technologic workforce. Children from low-income families are at risk for home environments that fail to promote emergent literacy and for reading failure. A home environment that encourages learning and parents who are involved in their children’s education are important factors in school achievement. O...

School literacy in North America continues to focus on society’s dominant languages. Literacy curriculum — particularly during early grades has an urgency for children quickly master emergent skills the official languages, vindicating exclusion of other minoritized languages that multilingual bring school. Guided by a translingual approach literacy, this motherscholar research explores how and ...

The governing bodies (CACREP; ACA) of mental health counseling have mandated that multicultural training be added to the counselor education curriculum. Counselor educators have found ways to implement diversity issues into pedagogy using various methods, but there has been a lack of focus on multicultural skills. This article will detail current multicultural pedagogy and assessment, a brief h...

Drawing upon social-cognitive theory and the multicultural counseling competency literature, the Multicultural Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale-Racial Diversity Form (MCSE-RD) was developed to assess perceived ability to counsel racially diverse clients. Data were collected from 181 graduate students in counseling-related programs, 41 undergraduate psychology students, and 22 graduate students en...

This article reviews literature on cross-cultural approaches to assessment, research, and clinical practice, culminating in recommendations for using a “cultural exchange” approach when working with multicultural clients. It examines challenges in studying culture and mental illness, including methodological issues and problems in defining constructs in multicultural research. Measurement of di...