Challenges and Benefits of Multi-Cultural Teaching

2018 ◽  
pp. 340-358
Author(s):  
Sue Conger
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cultural Teaching ◽  
Technology Classroom ◽  
Planned Activities

In an average semester, five or more countries will be represented in the typical information technology classroom. This diversity requires fleetness to develop trust, awareness of our cultural differences and requirements, and students' free participation. It also requires understanding of components of self-esteem and how it relates to learning; bricolage and when to deviate from planned activities; and many forms of experiential learning. This chapter develops these concepts and demonstrates how to effectively weave them together in engaging students from many cultures. The benefits of the work this effort involves many students who learn today and apply tomorrow in internships, and who, years later, return with tales of successes that build on foundations of concepts and techniques learned in such courses.

scholarly journals Organisational-based self-esteem: A within country comparison of outcomes between Māori and New Zealand Europeans

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 720-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod M. Haar ◽  
David Brougham
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Job Outcomes ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
Management Policies

AbstractThe present study investigates the influence of cultural differences on organisational-based self-esteem within New Zealand. A sample of 211 New Zealand European employees and 291 Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) employees answered a range of questions on organisational-based self-esteem, job, and mood outcomes. Findings suggest that organisational-based self-esteem was directly associated with job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and organisational citizenship behaviours, as well as positive and negative affect. Relationships between variables were tested for each sample separately and for a combined sample. A comparison between the separate and combined samples was also investigated. The findings from this study suggest that organisational-based self-esteem has a greater influence on job outcomes and mood outcomes for Māori when compared with New Zealand Europeans. This could be because employment fulfils a basic need for self-determination. The present study suggests the implementation of tailored management policies to support cultural differences within New Zealand’s vibrant and diverse workforce.

Negative Self-Perception and Components of Stress in Canadian, British, and Hong Kong Adolescents

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bagley ◽  
Kanka Mallick
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Relationship Problems ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Adolescent Stress ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Hong Kong Adolescents

Responses to a 68-item Adolescent Stress Scale of 14- to 16-yr.-olds in Canada ( n = 369), Britain ( n = 217), and Hong Kong ( n = 349) were compared. Four common subscales identified by principal component analysis emerged in the three samples. Scores on subscales (Relationship Problems, Abuse at Home, Scholastic and Career Problems, and Loneliness and Social Isolation) were significantly correlated for both sexes with negative self-esteem scores in the three national groups. Differences in stress between cultures were explicable in terms of known cultural differences.

An Examination of the Feasibility of Adventure-Based Therapy in Outpatient Care for Individuals With Psychosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bryson ◽  
Jenna Feinstein ◽  
John Spavor ◽  
Sean A. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Group Counselling ◽  
Education Group

Adventure-based therapy (ABT) involves experiential learning, outdoor education, group counselling, and intrapersonal education. While it has shown benefits in a number of populations including at-risk youth, little research has focused on individuals with psychosis. The objective of this study was to employ a mixed-methods pre-post design to examine the feasibility of a 6-week ABT intervention in an outpatient care setting among 15 adults with psychosis. The intervention proved feasible with significant improvements found in engagement in the recovery process, emotional well-being, and energy level. No changes in self-esteem or global health were observed.

Global Information Technology Company, Ltd

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Alicia Leung ◽  
Amy L. Y. Wong ◽  
Michael N. Young
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
And Performance

This case presents a scenario that pertains to the effective management of human resources in a Chinese cultural context where guanxi and face are of considerable importance. It depicts actual situations in detail, but the names of the organization and participants have been disguised at the request of the interviewees. The scenarios deal with issues of managerial appointments, promotion, husband-wife team in an organization, threat of resignation, effective leadership and achievement of subordinate respect and performance. Human resource management in China often requires a different approach from that espoused in the Western literature that currently dominates orthodox management theory. With China's growing economic power and the numerous foreign joint ventures in China, examining the cultural differences provides important insights for understanding the ways in which the norms and informal rules in general, and face and harmony in particular, function in Chinese organizations.

CONTINGENCY AS A MODERATOR OF THE EFFECT OF DOMAIN SELF-ESTEEM ON GLOBAL SELF-ESTEEM

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junsheng Hu ◽  
Ye Yang ◽  
Dengfeng Wang ◽  
Yang Liu
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Chinese University Students ◽  
The Individual

The aim in this study was to examine whether contingency of domain self-esteem moderates the effect of domain self-esteem on global self-esteem. Chinese university students (N = 320) completed the Contingencies of Self-worth Scale and the Self-worth Questionnaire (both by Yang, Hu, Pang, & Wang, 2007) and the Chinese version (Robinson, Shaver, & Wrightsman, 1997) of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). Results indicated that in domains that the individual could control, such as ability or behavior style, domain self-esteem directly influenced global self-esteem; in domains that the individual could not control, such as appearance and nationality, contingency of domain self-esteem moderated the effect of domain self-esteem on global self-esteem. Cultural differences in contingencies of domain self-esteem are also discussed.

scholarly journals COLLABORATIVE LEARNING OF USABILITY EXPERIENCES: IMPROVING UX TRAINING THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Girouard ◽  
Robert Biddle ◽  
Sonia Chiasson ◽  
Stephen Fai ◽  
Lois Frankel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Design Interfaces ◽  
Design And Testing

The Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) training program1 is an NSERC CREATE grant that trains Canada's leaders in HCI. We aim to improve our trainees' capabilities across the disciplinary boundaries (Information Technology, Psychology, Computer Science, and Design), through collaborative professional skills development, experiential learning, and technical skills. Within human computer interaction (HCI), usability professionals employ research-based methods and principles to understand users’ conceptual models of tasks and design interfaces and experiences accordingly. There is an increased demand for skills in usability experience (UX) design and testing, yet we identify a lack of training in these skills in current graduate programs across Canada.  Even in the context of multidisciplinary HCI programs, graduates often face a usability knowledge gap, which may be due to a lack of grounding in real-world contexts, without business constraints.  

scholarly journals A Study of College English Culture Intelligence-Aided Teaching System and Teaching Pattern

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao Meng-yue ◽  
Li Dan ◽  
Wang Jun
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Teaching ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽  
Modern Information

College English teaching is supposed to cover both language acquisition and culture learning due to the close relationship between language and culture, taking cultural teaching as an indispensible part of college English courses. With the rapid integration of information technology and English curriculum, artificial intelligence has brought new opportunities to college English teaching, and college English cultural teaching methods are now faced with new innovations. In the age of intelligence, to promote teaching quality and learning effect, artificial intelligence technology can be embedded in English teaching practice, exerting its technical advantages and frontier characteristics. In consideration of integrated developing tendency of college English cultural teaching model and modern information technology, the paper is aimed to design and build up an intelligence-aided system so as to extend the depth and width of the application of modern information technology in college English cultural teaching as well as to exploit the great application potential of modern information technology in college English cultural teaching, thus opening a new way and presenting a direction for college English cultural teaching.

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