scholarly journals A Systematic Review: The Next Generation Science Standards and the Increased Cultural Diversity

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa A. Asowayan ◽  
Sammar Y. Ashreef ◽  
Sozan H. Omar
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
Proper Power

This systematic review aims to explore the effect of NGSS on students’ academic excellence. Specifically, considering increased cultural diversity, it is appropriate to identify student’s science-related values, respectful features of teachers’ cultural competence, and underlying challenges and detect in what ways these objectives are addressed by NGSS. Exploring the phenomena of effects, the qualitative evidence is collected. The sample consists of 52 academic entries (empirical researches and case studies) that shed light on the researched question. Summarized data is processed using thematic analysis. The findings reveal that modern students possess such science-related values as social presence, decreased power distance with tutors, simplicity of learning process, multitasking, universal accessibility of learning instruments, readiness to work with big data, readiness to use online software and tools. Simultaneously, teachers are expected to have such cultural competencies as cultural sensitivity, online mentoring, gut feeling about the proper power distance, and social presence. The lack of these competencies results in the emergence of various challenges in an educational setting.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Social Presence: Definition, Antecedents, and Implications

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Oh ◽  
Jeremy N. Bailenson ◽  
Gregory F. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Presence

scholarly journals E-working: Country Versus Culture Dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Michal Beňo
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Geert Hofstede ◽  
Different Cultures

Globalisation and increasing digitisation mean that companies must increasingly orientate themselves internationally in order to become (more) competitive or to remain competitive. Promoting e-working can revitalise rural development. The issue involved is always interaction between people from different cultures, between people who, according to their cultural backgrounds, feel, think and act differently. When cultural diversity and differences are taken into account, greater creativity, more diverse ideas and faster problem solving are achieved. The cultural dimensions, according to Geert Hofstede, offer a comprehensive model for capturing the various expressions of intercultural values. This paper examines the motives for applying e-working in selected European countries in 2018 according to Hofstede’s six dimensions of national culture. Twenty-eight countries from the Eurostat database were analysed (Finland and the Netherlands were excluded, and software detected them in the e-working variable as outliers). Correlation with e-working is statistically significant at PDI (power distance index - negative: the lower the PDI index, the higher the proportion of e-working) and IVR index (indulgence versus restraint - positive: the higher the IVR index, the higher the proportion of e-working).

scholarly journals Systematic Review of Commercially Available Mobile Phone Applications for Prostate Cancer Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155798831881691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otis L. Owens ◽  
Jenay M. Beer ◽  
Ligia I. Reyes ◽  
Tracey L. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Cancer Education ◽  
Prostate Cancer Screening ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Keywords Prostate Cancer ◽  
Prostate Cancer Prevention

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer among all men and the second most common cause of death. To ameliorate the burden of prostate cancer, there is a critical need to identify strategies for providing men with information about prostate cancer screening and the importance of informed decision making. With mobile phones becoming more ubiquitous, many individuals are adopting their phones as sources for health information. The objective of this systematic review is to identify and evaluate commercially available apps for promoting informed prostate cancer screening decisions. Two keywords “prostate cancer screening” and “prostate cancer” were entered into the search engines of Google and iOS app stores in May 2017. Evaluations were conducted on apps’ (a) quality, (b) grade-level readability, (c) cultural sensitivity, and (d) usability heuristics. None of the 14 apps meeting the inclusion criteria contained the full breadth of information covered in the 2016 American Cancer Society’s Prostate Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Guidelines, but over half were inclusive of topics consistent with these guidelines. Most apps’ readability was higher than an eighth-grade reading level. Most apps were also not framed and had a neutral tone. Only four apps met most criteria for being culturally sensitive to African Americans. Usability among apps was variable, but some contained major usability concerns. Recommendations for improving educational apps for prostate cancer screening include: disseminating evidence-based information; using culturally sensitive language; knowing the implications of the one and framing of content; making apps interactive; and following common usability principles.

Systematic review on embracing cultural diversity for developing and sustaining a healthy work environment in healthcare

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-91
Author(s):  
Alan Pearson ◽  
Rani Srivastava ◽  
Dianna Craig ◽  
Donna Tucker ◽  
Doris Grinspun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Healthy Work Environment ◽  
Healthy Work

scholarly journals Coaching Through Technology: A Systematic Review into Efficacy and Effectiveness for the Ageing Population

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5930
Author(s):  
Roberta Bevilacqua ◽  
Sara Casaccia ◽  
Gabriella Cortellessa ◽  
Arlene Astell ◽  
Fabrizia Lattanzio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Health Coaching ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Coaching Strategies ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources ◽  
Potential Tool

Background: Despite the evidence on the positive role of self-management, the adoption of health coaching strategies for older people is still limited. To address these gaps, recent efforts have been made in the ICT sector in order to develop systems for delivering coaching and overcoming barriers relating to scarcity of resources. The aim of this review is to examine the efficacy of personal health coaching systems for older adults using digital virtual agents. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was conducted in December 2019 analyzing manuscripts from four databases over the last 10 years. Nine papers were included. Results: Despite the low number of studies, there was evidence that technology-integrated interventions can deliver benefits for health over usual care. However, the review raises important questions about how to maintain benefits and permanence of behavior change produced by short-term interventions. Conclusion: These systems offer a potential tool to reduce costs, minimize therapist burden and training, and expand the range of clients who can benefit from them. It is desirable that in the future the number of studies will grow, considering other aspects such as the role of the virtual coaches’ characteristics, social-presence, empathy, usability, and health literacy.

Systematic review on embracing cultural diversity for developing and sustaining a healthy work environment in healthcare

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-63
Author(s):  
Alan Pearson ◽  
Rani Srivastava ◽  
Dianna Craig ◽  
Donna Tucker ◽  
Doris Grinspun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Healthy Work Environment ◽  
Healthy Work

War of Social Messaging Platforms

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huatong Sun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Relational View ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Bilingual Literature ◽  
Transnational Study ◽  
Social Messaging

This chapter studies four social messaging platforms, including WhatsApp (United States), WeChat (China), LINE (Japan), and KakaoTalk (South Korea), and applies a relational view of design to explore how the material and the discursive are fused to articulate culturally sustaining value propositions and global mobilities. Based on a multiyear, multisited transnational study and bilingual literature research, it traces the genre development of four local uptakes of a global technology assemblage from the angle of affordances. In exploring the culturally constructed and technology-mediated process of global mobilities, the chapter discusses how discursive affordances of the local uptakes presented culturally sustaining value propositions to spearhead businesses in global competitions, and how the artifact-based and distributed affordances together enhanced individual users to form identities of global mobilities within their communication ecologies for engagement and empowerment. It asks us to consider how we as designers should address the tension between cultural diversity and cultural sensitivity as part of today’s global cultural diversity reality for social media design.

Psychologizing indexes of societal progress: Accounting for cultural diversity in preferred developmental pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuba Krys ◽  
Colin A Capaldi ◽  
Vivian M-C Lun ◽  
Christin-Melanie Vauclair ◽  
Michael H Bond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Developmental Pathways ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Societal Development

Since the Second World War, the dominating paradigm of societal development has focused on economic growth. While economic growth has improved the quality of human life in a variety of ways, we posit that the identification of economic growth as the primary societal goal is culture-blind because preferences for developmental pathways likely vary between societies. We argue that the cultural diversity of developmental goals and the pathways leading to these goals could be reflected in a culturally sensitive approach to assessing societal development. For the vast majority of post-materialistic societies, it is an urgent necessity to prepare culturally sensitive compasses on how to develop next, and to start conceptualizing growth in a more nuanced and culturally responsive way. Furthermore, we propose that cultural sensitivity in measuring societal growth could also be applied to existing development indicators (e.g. the Human Development Index). We call for cultural researchers, in cooperation with development economists and other social scientists, to prepare a new cultural map of developmental goals, and to create and adapt development indexes that are more culturally sensitive. This innovation could ultimately help social planners understand the diverse pathways of development and assess the degree to which societies are progressing in a self-determined and indigenously valued manner.

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