scholarly journals Ethical, Business, and Management Views of China’s Next Generation: A Quantitative Study of Chinese Undergraduate Students for Improved Pedagogy and More Effective East-West Business Interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
William E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Business Practitioners ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
East West

The purpose of this quantitative research is to explore Chinese undergraduate student worldviews and the foundation upon which those views are constructed. This study sheds light on neglected aspects of the changing global economy in its demand for consistent global ethics and a blending of Eastern and Western approaches to business and management that meet the needs of all stakeholders. The results of this study may lead to a better understanding for Western educators and business practitioners when dealing with Chinese students or clients in a cross-cultural environment.

СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ СЕТИ НА УРОКАХ РКИ КАК СРЕДСТВО ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(80)) ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
A. Sehpeyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Creative Tasks

With the advent of modern Internet technologies, the ways of teaching Russian as a foreign language are changing rapidly. Social networks become part of the educational process and serve as a tool for creating new creative tasks aimed at developing cross-cultural competence. Modern technologies help to prepare students to communicate with representatives of other cultures, create situations that are close to those that exist in the natural cultural environment. This article discusses ways to use social networks to develop cross-cultural competence.

scholarly journals From Print Texts to Online Gaming: The Cross-Cultural History of Wuxia Fictions in Vietnam

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110213
Author(s):  
Phan Anh Quang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Mobile Gaming ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
History Of ◽  
East West

The popularization of online gaming in Vietnam, including PC and mobile gaming, has witnessed the contribution of wuxia fictions as an essential aspect of digital content production. This article shows an attempt in tracing the cultural history of wuxia works in Vietnam. East-West differences have also been taken into consideration as a way to explain reading and playing preferences. By using life course approach along with the concepts of nostalgia and cultural proximity, this study tries to historically portray the wuxia readership in Vietnam and its vestige found in wuxia online games. The findings indicate that wuxia novels serve as a crucial factor representing the literary relationship between the Sinosphere and Vietnam. Its presence has enriched the content of Vietnamese literature, adding a new genre that has been widely accepted by many generations of Vietnamese readers. Because wuxia online games could be seen as the digital continuation of wuxia fictions, the author argues that prior experience drawn from interacting with wuxia novels affects the game selection-making process of players, and gaming companies in Vietnam also acknowledge that and deploy appropriate business strategies.

scholarly journals It Is Hard to Read Minds without Words: Cues to Use to Achieve Empathic Accuracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Sara D. Hodges ◽  
Murat Kezer
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
Past Work ◽  
White American ◽  
Middle Easterners

When faced with the task of trying to “read” a stranger’s thoughts, what cues can perceivers use? We explore two predictors of empathic accuracy (the ability to accurately infer another person’s thoughts): use of stereotypes about the target’s group, and use of the target’s own words. A sample of 326 White American undergraduate students were asked to infer the dynamic thoughts of Middle Eastern male targets, using Ickes’ (Ickes et al. 1990) empathic accuracy paradigm. We predicted use of stereotypes would reduce empathic accuracy because the stereotypes would be negative and inaccurate. However, more stereotypical inferences about the target’s thoughts actually predicted greater empathic accuracy, a pattern in line with past work on the role of stereotypes in empathic accuracy (Lewis et al. 2012), perhaps because the stereotypes of Middle Easterners (collected from a sample of 60 participants drawn from the same population) were less negative than expected. In addition, perceivers who inferred that the targets were thinking thoughts that more closely matched what the target was saying out loud were more empathically accurate. Despite the fact that words can be used intentionally to obscure what a target is thinking, they appear to be a useful cue to empathic accuracy, even in tricky contexts that cross cultural lines.

Cultural Understandings of “Religion”: The Hermeneutical Context of Teaching Religious Studies in North America

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Murphy
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Communicative Context ◽  
Comparative Manner

AbstractWhen students come into the classroom, they have a prefigured, albeit deeply implicit, notion of what “religion” is and what it is not. They see religion as private, inner, and personal, as distinct from “politics” and “economics.” This prefigured conception of religion is, in this author's view, one of the principle obstacles to teaching Religious Studies in an empirical, cross-cultural, comparative manner. Given the overall structure of the cultural configuration within which students think about and live out “religion,” i.e., that it is private, utilitarian, and simply an obvious given to them, how can we introduce theory into the Religious Studies classroom? The answer given here is that if we use language-based theoretical models of culture such as structuralism and hermeneutics, we do better, in the main, in applying that theory to the communicative context of the classroom than trying to teach theory directly to our undergraduate students. This paper offers an analysis, using such language-based theories, of those cultural conditions which our students bring into the classroom and which shape their “native” understanding of the category “religion,” as well as some suggestions as to how to cope with it in order to teach Religious Studies more effectively.

Formation of Universal Competencies of Undergraduate Students of Pedagogical Directions

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
O. Minina
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Master Degree ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Teachers Training

The aim of the research was to develop and implement a teachers training master degree program with active integration of soft skills at all the stages to form students’ system and critical thinking, project management skills, teamwork and leadership, communication and cross-cultural interaction skills. To solve these problems, the program included specialized practice-orientated courses based on the principles of pedagogical ergonomics and the latest technologies (ball-rating system, workshop, case study, “agile” principle, pedagogical situations’ modeling and others). The research resulted is a unique, effective and validated program and a set of training materials to develop universal competencies of master degree students.

scholarly journals Motivation and Autonomy in Learning English as Foreign Language: A Case Study of Ecuadorian College Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cevallos Bravo ◽  
Eder A. Intriago ◽  
Jhonny Villafuerte Holguin ◽  
Gustavo Molina Garzon ◽  
Luis Ortega Arcia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
Correct Pronunciation ◽  
Different Levels

This quantitative research aims to examine how different levels of motivation relate to frequency of occurrence of autonomous language learning activities undertaken by undergraduate students. Eight hundred and sixty-two college students from 10 vocational training programs of a public university located in Ecuador, South America, participated in this study. Spratt’s questionnaire that regards ‘autonomy and motivation’ as a cyclical interaction in the language learning process, was updated by the researchers, adding digital education elements. The data were analyzed using the program SPSS v24.0.0 The results showed that there was a significant relationship between: the language learning stimulation generated by professors and the participants’ learning attitudes. In addition, it was determined that the most frequent language practices in which the participants showed greatest autonomy were: listening to songs in English language, worrying about the correct pronunciation, and noting down interesting words or expressions in English.

scholarly journals Utilization of Discrete Event Simulation in Business Processes Management Projects

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Bosilj Vukšić ◽  
Katarina Tomičić-Pupek
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Business Practitioners ◽  
Business And Management

Discrete event simulation (DES) software is often used in business process management (BPM) projects, in order to support modeling, change and automatization of process modeling. However, the current research lacks systematic overview of the benefits and pitfalls of using DES software for BPM. The goal of this paper is to provide a systematic analysis of research paper related to the operations research, computer science, business and management that report the usage of DES in BPM projects, in order to shed some light in this area. Results of this analysis could be useful to academics and business practitioners in their projects.

scholarly journals Starving to be a student: The experiences of food insecurity among undergraduate students in Nova Scotia, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Meredith Bessey ◽  
Lesley Frank ◽  
Patricia L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Funding Programs ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Access To Food ◽  
Student Funding

Household food insecurity (HFI) exists when access to food is inadequate or insecure due to financial constraints, and is an issue of increasing concern among postsecondary students who face barriers to food access due to precarious finances. The goal of the current study was to explore the experience of HFI among university students in Nova Scotia (NS), including barriers and facilitators, and potential policy solutions to the issue from the perspective of students. Twelve semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with students experiencing HFI from across NS. Phenomenological analysis was undertaken, using Radimer’s model of HFI as a theoretical framework. Key aspects of the experience of food insecurity in this sample included all four dimensions of Radimer’s model of HFI: quantitative, qualitative, psychological, and social. The main contributing factor to student’s difficulties accessing food was inadequate and precarious finances. Students highlighted various coping mechanisms, such as utilizing food banks, budgeting their money, and buying food in bulk. This study is an important next step to a better understanding of the experience of student HFI in NS, building on previous quantitative research. Findings suggest that while the experience of HFI has many similarities with the experience in other populations, students experience tensions between independence and reliance on their family and have unique struggles related to government financial supports. The findings point to necessary policy changes related to student funding programs, and suggest that relying on campus food banks to solve the issue of HFI among students is inadequate.

scholarly journals Reconciling Western and Arab Feminisms

1970 ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Azza Basarudin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
North And South ◽  
East West

This article attempts to address how Western and Arab (North and South) feminists are able to envision solidarity and empower women across local and national boundaries through (1) connecting local and global gender issues and (2) reconciling Western feminist scholarships and Arab women’s culturally specific positions in international and cross-cultural frameworks. Given the historical background of the Middle East, there is a need to understand multiple factors such as class, nation, racism, sexism, colonialism and imperialism that influence Arab women’s struggles for liberation. Arab women’s struggles cannot be defined and situated in a context that removes the diversity of their historical experiences, location, religion and cultural factors. I would like to examine how Arab women are marginalized within the sphere of Western feminism(s) because they have been portrayed as passive victims instead of active participants seeking mobility and changes in their society. In dismantling the binary construct of East/West, liberated/oppressed, colonizers/colonized and progressive/backwards in global feminist discourses, there is an urgent need for a cross-cultural dialogue between Western and Arab feminisms in order to create space that allows differences to be recognized and examined, and crafting a meeting point for women to relate across their differences. For Western feminists trying to make sense of Middle Eastern issues and Arab women’s struggles, solidarity will remain elusive unless they recognize that women’s experiences and struggles cannot be separated from race, class, nation, colonization and imperialism.

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