Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-Cultural Psychology

Author: Kenneth D. Keith

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 811

ISBN-13: 1444351796

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This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications. • Includes contributions from an experienced, international team of researchers and teachers • Brings together new perspectives and research findings with established psychological principles • Organized around key issues of contemporary cross-cultural psychology, including ethnocentrism, diversity, gender and sexuality and their role in research methods • Argues for the importance of culture as an integral component in the teaching of psychology

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning

Author: Tafazoli, Dara

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1522554645

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The ability to effectively communicate with individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is an invaluable asset. Learning a second language proves useful as students navigate the culturally diverse world; however, studying a second language can be difficult for learners who are not immersed in the real and natural environment of the foreign language. Also, changes in education and advancements in information and communication technologies pose a number of challenges for implementing and maintaining sound practices within technology-enhanced language learning (TELL). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning provides information on educational technologies that enable language learners to have access to authentic and useful language resources. Readers will explore themes such as language pedagogy, how specific and universal cultural contexts influence audio-visual media used in technology-enhanced language learning (TELL), and the use of English video games to promote foreign language learning. This book is a valuable resource for academicians, education practitioners, advanced-level students, and school administrators seeking to improve language learning through technology-based resources.

Unequal Treatment
Unequal Treatment

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-02-06

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 030908265X

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.

Cross Cultural Perspectives On Educational Research
Cross Cultural Perspectives On Educational Research

Author: Robinson-Pant, Anna

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0335214568

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Winner of the BMW Group LIFE Award for Contribution to Intercultural Learning, 2007 The research student population of higher educational institutions continues to expand to include people from an ever-widening range of cultural and educational backgrounds. However, many research methods courses are still directed at the traditional student population. This book examines aspects of postgraduate research from a cross-cultural perspective, analysing the dilemmas faced by international students when defining a research question, choosing research methods, collecting data, deciding which language to use and writing their theses. Through an exploration of how international students re-examine their beliefs and research practices during their study in the UK, this book challenges the assumptions of all those engaged in educational research, addressing key questions such as: How do our teaching and learning experiences shape our approach to educational research? How do we judge ‘good’ educational research? What does it mean to be critical? The book uses the real-life experiences of international students to illuminate the kinds of challenges they may face. It supports both students and their supervisors, showing students how to approach cultural differences, and supervisors how to deal sensitively with the problems encountered by overseas students in their research.

Cross-cultural Approaches to Adoption
Cross-cultural Approaches to Adoption

Author: Fiona Bowie

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780415303514

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Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which regulates the exchange of children within and between countries. However a scarcity of research into cross-cultural attitudes to child-rearing, and a wider lack of awareness of cultural difference in adoptive contexts, has meant that the assumptions underlying Western childcare policy are seldom examined or made explicit. These articles look at adoption practices from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Central America, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents or passed through several foster families. Showing the range and flexibility of the child-rearing practices that approximate to the Western term 'adoption', they demonstrate the benefits of a cross-cultural appreciation of family life, and allow a broader understanding of the varied relationships that exist between children and adoptive parents.

Children's Literacy Development
Children's Literacy Development

Author: Catherine McBride-Chang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1444144685

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This introduction to child literacy development looks at the subject from an international perspective and is appropriate for students and professionals across a wide-range of disciplines.

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

Author: Brian V. Street

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-03-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521409643

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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the last ten years. Accounts of literacy practices in a variety of locations, including Great Britain, the United States, Africa, the South Pacific and Madagascar, illustrate how these practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the traditional view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society.

Beyond Experience
Beyond Experience

Author: Theodore Gochenour

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Divided into three sections, this resource provides a conceptual framework for experiential cross-cultural education, a collection of essays on the practical application of these ideas, and a guide to assessing the impact of the educational experience. (Education/Teaching)

Learning Legacies
Learning Legacies

Author: Sarah Robbins

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0472053515

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Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods