Atención a mujeres inmigrantes en un programa de mediación intercultural en salud

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Manuela Alcaraz Quevedo

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamentos: la mediación intercultural es una estrategia para una atención sanitaria de calidad orientada a la disminución de desigualdades en población inmigrante. El objetivo fue analizar los principales motivos de consulta con el servicio de mediación, el perfil de las mujeres atendidas y las características de la intervención realizada. Métodos: Estudio transversal de 339 episodios de atención de dos mediadoras interculturales (MI desde febrero de 2008 a octubre de 2011 en Valencia. Se analizaron las variables de los registros individuales de las consultas de mediación: motivos de derivación a MI y profesionales que remitieron, motivos y problemas detectados por MI, tipo de intervención, tipo de derivación de MI y variables socioeconómicas. Para evaluar las diferencias entre países de origen se utilizó el test chi2 en las variables cualitativas y el test de Anova de un factor en las cuantitativas. Resultados: 123 (36,3% mujeres fueron remitidas a las MI por el Centro de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva y 98 (28,9% por la matrona. 272 (80,24% fueron remitidas para información y demanda de métodos anticonceptivos. Las MI realizaron educación para la salud y detectaron problemas sociales en 67 (19,7% mujeres y en 38 (11,21% violencia de género. 142 (27% eran bolivianas. Conclusiones: Las mujeres atendidas fueron inmigrantes latinoamericanas y fueron remitidas principalmente para anticoncepción. Las mujeres bolivianas presentan más factores de vulnerabilidad como irregularidad, trabajo precario y poco tiempo de residencia.

micropolítica del trabajo en salud

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Emerson Elias Merhy

2006-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo presenta las bases conceptuales de la política de educación en salud desarrollada por el Ministerio de Salud en Brasil entre enero de 2003 y julio de 2005; rescatando sintéticamente la historia de la construcción del Sistema Único de Salud (el sistema nacional de salud en Brasil y de los principales retos para su consolidación, entre ellos los cambios en las maneras de producir las políticas y las prácticas de salud. Se presenta además un debate sobre la construcción del concepto de Educación Permanente en Salud y una discusión sobre la naturaleza del trabajo en salud y su composición tecnológica, así como de la dinámica institucional de su constitución, trayendo el plan de la micropolítica como elemento fundamental para la comprensión y transformación de las prácticas de salud.

Dimensiones de la competencia comunicativa intercultural (CCI y sus implicaciones para la práctica educativa Dimensions of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC and its implications for educational practice

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Susan Sanhueza Henríquez

Full Text Available Resumen La competencia comunicativa intercultural se entiende como las habilidades que emplean los individuos culturalmente diferentes para favorecer un grado de comunicación suficientemente eficaz, estableciendo comportamientos apropiados y efectivos en determinado contexto social y cultural. Desde esta perspectiva, el trabajo tiene como objetivos: (a analizar el concepto de la comunicación intercultural describiendo sus dimensiones: cognitiva, comportamental y afectiva; (b proporcionar elementos de reflexión para el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa intercultural en las prácticas educativas. En el ámbito educativo, se espera que profesores y alumnos desarrollen de la mejor manera posible la interacción, anticipen malentendidos causados por las diferencias en valores, significados y creencias entre los actores involucrados, y puedan hacer frente tanto a demandas afectivas como cognitivas en la interacción.Abstract Intercultural Communicative Competence is defined as skills used by culturally different individuals to promote an efficient communication level, by establishing effective and appropriate behaviour within a social and cultural context. From this perspective, this paper aims to: (a analyse the intercultural communication concept by describing its dimensions - cognitive, behavioural, and affective; (b provide some points for reflection for the development of intercultural communicative competence in educational practices. In the educational environment, it is expected that teachers and students develop the best interaction possible, foreseeing misunderstandings caused by contrary values, meanings and beliefs among involved players; therefore they can manage both affective and cognitive demands.

Determinantes sociales de la salud y el trabajo informal

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Consuelo Vélez Álvarez; María del Pilar Escobar Potes; María Eugenia Pico Merchán

2013-01-01

Objetivo: Describir elementos teóricos sobre los determinantes sociales de la salud en la población trabajadora informal y condiciones sociales, modos de vida y repercusiones en el proceso salud-enfermedad. Estrategia de búsqueda: Búsqueda sistemática en bases de datos especializadas (Ovid, Proquest, Hinary, Medline, LILACS, Literatura gris). Se utilizaron las siguientes palabras claves: condiciones sociales, factores socioeconómicos, fuerza de trabajo, empleo; de igual forma se retoman texto...

PLURALISMO MÉDICO Y ETNOMEDICINA ENTRE LOS TOBAS (QOM DEL RÍO BERMEJITO (CHACO, ARGENTINA. DESAFÍOS Y APORTES PARA UNA GESTIÓN INTERCULTURAL DE LA SALUD EN EL IMPENETRABLE CHAQUEÑO / Medical pluralism and ethnomedicine among the Toba (Qom, Bermejito

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Gustavo Javier Martínez

2011-12-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo se concibe en el marco de un estudio de la etnomedicina de los pueblos tobas (qom del Chaco Central, Argentina, y  pretende mostrar - a partir de la caracterización de la misma y del estado actual de los procesos de salud/enfermedad- algunos de los desafíos que supone una gestión intercultural en materia de salud en la región conocida como Impenetrable chaqueño. Para ello nos detendremos en la consideración de tres aspectos: Las prácticas médicas tradicionales en el sistema sanitario local, la salud materno- infantil, y las problemáticas de salud vinculadas al ambiente. Desde el punto de vista metodológico discutiremos algunos marcos teóricos y el estado actual en torno a estas temáticas, a la luz de información de campo obtenida de la conjunción de técnicas cualitativas, cuantitativas y participativas. Analizaremos para ello la complejidad del sistema etnomédico vigente en la región; los conflictos y articulación entre los diferentes escenarios y actores locales; las representaciones, pensamientos y praxis de las mujeres tobas vinculadas al ciclo vital; y por último, los conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas de los nativos en relación con los cambios ambientales y con las enfermedades a ellos asociadas. Como síntesis y corolario de cada una de estas temáticas, exponemos posibles lineamientos y sugerencias en orden a la gestión intercultural de la salud, considerando el contexto de pluralismo médico vigente, así como el aporte de diversos enfoques interdisciplinares de investigación y acción, tales como las perspectivas etnoecológicas y los estudios de epidemiología crítica y comunitaria.   Palabras claves: tobas; Chaco Central; Impenetrable; salud; interculturalidad; etnomedicina.   Abstract The following article is conceived as part of a study of ethnomedicine of the people Toba (Qom of the Central Chaco, Argentina, and aims to show - by characterizing of it and of  the current state of

Dimensiones de la competencia comunicativa intercultural (CCI y sus implicaciones para la práctica educativa

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Susan Sanhueza

2013-01-01

Full Text Available La competencia comunicativa intercultural se entiende como las habilidades que emplean los individuos culturalmente diferentes para favorecer un grado de comunicación suficientemente eficaz, estableciendo comportamientos apropiados y efectivos en determinado contexto social y cultural. Desde esta perspectiva, el trabajo tiene como objetivos: (a analizar el concepto de la comunicación intercultural describiendo sus dimensiones: cognitiva, comportamental y afectiva; (b proporcionar elementos de reflexión para el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa intercultural en las prácticas educativas. En el ámbito educativo, se espera que profesores y alumnos desarrollen de la mejor manera posible la interacción, anticipen malentendidos causados por las diferencias en valores, significados y creencias entre los actores involucrados, y puedan hacer frente tanto a demandas afectivas como cognitivas en la interacción.

La espiritualidad como dimensión de la concepción holística de salud

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Guirao Solís, Adolf

2013-01-01

En este artículo se analiza el concepto de espiritualidad y como se relaciona con la salud. Se aportan una somera revisión de cómo los aspectos espirituales pueden influir en los resultados de salud y la necesidad de contemplar la dimensión espiritual como un elemento más del concepto de salud. Partiendo del análisis se reconceptualiza el concepto de salud como un constructo multidimensional de carácter complejo.

Salud materna indígena en mujeres Nasa y Misak del Cauca, Colombia: tensiones, subordinación y diálogo intercultural entre dos sistemas médicos

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Paula Tatiana Castillo-Santana

Full Text Available Resumen En este texto se pretende avanzar en la comprensión de los elementos que configuran la relación entre madres Nasa y Misak del Cauca y los servicios de salud materna tradicional y occidental, desde un abordaje cualitativo que armonizó el modelo de construcción de sentido y la teoría fundamentada. Se identificó la forma cómo cada sistema médico define la salud, la enfermedad y la maternidad, que está reflejada en las prácticas y cuidados, siendo el parto el momento de mayores tensiones. Se han identificado patrones de relacionamiento entre los dos agentes del sistema médico. El sistema médico tradicional con bajo desarrollo propio y pérdida progresiva de valores culturales, así como el sistema médico occidental con la ausencia de servicios de salud apropiados culturalmente, dejan a las madres en un espacio de incertidumbre en el que no es posible realizar las prácticas tradicionales, ni acceder a los servicios propuestos por el sistema médico occidental.

Interculturality and Intercultural Education: A Challenge for Democracy

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Aikman, Sheila

1997-09-01

The paper examines the debate taking place in Peru, and also more generally in South and Central American countries with large indigenous populations, on the nature of interculturality and intercultural education. It investigates concepts fundamental to interculturality such as democracy and equality and asks what they mean in the context of the Peruvian state, civil society and the indigenous movement. It questions whether an interculturality based in apolitical calls for dialogue and respect for cultural and linguistic plurality can meet the needs of indigenous peoples and their daily confrontations with oppressive and unequal intercultural relations. Taking Peru as an example, it investigates the possibilities for the development of an interculturality that is characterised by equality and participation and which enables indigenous peoples to have greater control over their lives. It then briefly examines the nature of the intercultural lives of the Harakmbut of SE Peruvian Amazon and a new indigenous intercultural education programme which the Harakmbut hope will help them address the inequalities and exploitation which they face.

La cartera de servicios en una organización de salud pública

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Villalbí J.R.; Guix J.; Plasència A.; Armengou J.M.; Llebaría X.; Torralba L.

2003-01-01

La definición de la cartera de servicios ha sido uno de los elementos del proceso de mejora de la gestión de los servicios sanitarios en España, en curso, del que los servicios de salud pública se han mantenido en buena parte al margen. En este trabajo se analizan los servicios de salud pública a partir de la experiencia de la Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona. Se propone un esquema de categorización que permite distinguir entre los que son propiamente servicios productivos de salud públi...

Educación intercultural en Chile: la integración del alumnado extranjero en el sistema escolar

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Llarela Alejandra Barrios-Valenzuela

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Considerando que la integración del alumnado extranjero aún constituye un reto para Chile, es conveniente presentar la situación actual de la educación intercultural en nuestro contexto, así como los elementos que son considerados clave para promover la integración del alumnado inmigrante. Desde un enfoque intercultural, la integración pasa por la inclusión del diálogo y por el intercambio cultural y no solo por aceptar e incorporar a niños, niñas y jóvenes extranjeros en aulas chilenas. Del análisis exhaustivo realizado en la literatura sobre el tema, se desprende que es imprescindible que Chile establezca políticas públicas en el área de educación que promuevan la educación intercultural no solo bilingüe, sino una educación intercultural holística que permita responder de forma idónea a los principios de: Diversidad, Integración e Interculturalidad descritos en la Ley General de Educación chilena.

Elementos de la psicopatología social de los colombianos

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Ismael Roldan

1994-01-01

Las primeras causas de la morbi-mortalidad nacional se deben a factores como la violencia, el trauma y los accidentes, asociadas con la pérdida o menoscabo de la salud mental y el consumo de sustancias, especialmente el alcohol.  Tomando como punto de partida y desarrollo la violencia intrafamiliar, se pretende abrir la discusión sobre algunos elementos que constituyen y explican la presencia de la agresión intrafamiliar.

Vigilancia epidemiológica del estado de salud bucal

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. Amado Rodríguez Calzadilla; . Carolina Valiente Zaldívar

1999-01-01

Se exponen aspectos relacionados con la vigilancia epidemiológica del estado de salud bucal de la población general, con fines metodológicos. Se plantean los objetivos y las premisas para establecer el sistema de vigilancia, así como la caracterización de la comunidad basados en los elementos fundamentales para un sistema de vigilancia. Se pretende evaluar costo y calidad de la atención de la salud bucal para lograr el aprovechamiento eficiente de los recursos. Se realizarán investigaciones r...

Tecnología y Salud

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Juan Jacobo Muñoz Delgado

1993-12-01

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La Academia Nacional de Medicina inicia hoy, con los auspicios de ITALMEX y con la colaboración de Corferias, el Seminario sobre TECNOLOGIA EN SALUD PARA EL SIGLO XXI, para difundir algunas de las nuevas tecnologías inventadas en el pasado reciente.

Estos avances son el resultado de la investigación médica orientada al progreso diagnóstico y terapéutico en la patología usual. Son logros que nos muestran las nuevas formas de tecnología, los conocimientos recientes en la aplicación del progreso bioquímico, los adelantos en las formas de tratamiento.

Los deseos del hombre de prolongar la vida, de aportar mejores elementos en la batalla contra la enfermedad, unidos al empuje de la ambición industrial y personal, nos impulsan al cambio buscando el beneficio general.

Desde luego que el gran edificio de la salud debemos construirlo ordenadamente, comenzando por sus bases. La Academia tiene como preocupación fundamental buscar que todos los colombianos, sin excepción, se beneficien de los progresos de la ciencia médica. El postulado fundamental que el Gobierno Nacional, el Congreso, la ciudadanía, deben tener como la más grande meta de sus labores, inspirado y orientado por el cuerpo médico, es la buena salud para todo el pueblo colombiano.

Para el avance de nuestro pensamiento sanitario, debemos reconocer que la medicina preventiva, base de la salud pública, no está de acuerdo con nuestro desarrollo político, económico y social.

Todos nuestros grupos directivos han fallado en proporcionar al pueblo los elementos básicos de agua potable, nutrición, vacunación, campañas ambientales, etc. No quiero referirme a otros elementos de gobierno, como la justicia, ya que el asesinato, lo: accidentalidad, la violencia y tantas otras, tienen una incidencia grave en los índices de vida y morbilidad del pueblo. No es esta la ocasión de enumerar elementos de la salud pública, fundamentales como base de una

Intercultural Communication Ethics and Communication Competence%Intercultural Communication Ethics and Communication Competence

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时婷洁

2012-01-01

This paper investigates intercultural communication ethics is a vital element to promote intercultural communication competence. Firstly, it defines the concept of intercultural communication ethics; Secondly, it illustrates the relation between ethics and the key point of intercultural communication competence; and finally addresses how intercultural communication ethics can improve intercultural communication competence.

COMUNICACIÓN EN SALUD: CONCEPTOS Y MODELOS TEORICOS

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Iván Ríos Hernández

2011-01-01

Full Text Available A través de este artículo de revisión de tema se analiza el concepto comunicación en salud y algunas de las definiciones esbozadas hasta el momento por organismos internacionales y expertos del tema. Se presenta una mirada crítica y reflexiva sobre algunos de los principales modelos teóricos desarrollados en el campo de la comunicación en salud. Se esboza un análisis del paradigma de la Comunicación para el Cambio Social y se compara con las otras teorías y modelos de comunicación en salud discutidos en el escrito. Luego del análisis reflexivo se concluye que el apoderamiento de las comunidades en las estrategias de prevención de enfermedades, representa un reto para los estudios concernientes a las teorías y modelos que tratan de explicar de forma simplificada los elementos inmersos en un proceso de comunicación en salud.

En Defensa del Fin de Lucro en Salud.

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Ramón Abel Castaño Yepes

2007-06-01

La quinta premisa se deriva de la cuarta y de la segunda, es decir, que si el diseño del sistema de salud introducido por la Ley 100 tiene como elemento distintivo el fin de lucro, entonces el resultado de dicho diseño tiene que ser indeseable, puesto que el fin de lucro es indeseable...

AUTOEFICACIA Y CONDUCTAS DE SALUD

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OLIVARI MEDINA,CECILIA; URRA MEDINA,EUGENIA

2007-01-01

En este artículo se revisa el constructo de autoeficacia, se exponen algunos elementos centrales del concepto que presentan algunos hallazgos de importancia en relación con conductas generales de salud y con las conductas específicas del ejercicio, el estrés y control del dolor. Las distintas investigaciones avalan la relevancia de la auto-eficacia en las conductas presentadas. Finalmente se explícita su aporte para la disciplina de enfermería

Desafíos públicos en la universalización segmentada de los Servicios de Salud en México

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CAMBRONI CUEVAS, JORGE ALEJANDRO

2017-01-01

El acceso a los servicios de salud debe sustentarse en primera línea por la prevención de enfermedades y riesgos sanitarios que pongan en peligro la salud y la vida de las personas, que permita conservar la salud mediante elementos materiales pero más aún educativos, como lo son estilos de vida saludables. Tal y como lo recomienda la Organización Mundial de la Salud con el fin de preservar la vida, mantenerse sanos, paliar la discapacidad, el dolor en la vejez, advirtiendo que si no se ado...

La Escuela Intercultural hoy: reflexiones y perspectivas pedagógicas

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Juan José Leiva Olivencia

2017-01-01

Full Text Available La educación intercultural está atravesando un período de reflexión conceptual sobre su desarrollo como propuesta educativa inclusiva e innovadora. En este sentido, este artículo pretende favorecer y suscitar el debate y la reflexión pedagógica sobre los nuevos caminos y orientaciones de la interculturalidad en la escuela actual. Para ello, planteamos una mirada más holística, centrada en los procesos educativos interculturales y la educación personalizada como elementos esenciales de un nuevo impulso pedagógico.

Mercadotecnia social: una herramienta necesaria para la promoción de salud

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Ledia Haydeé Góngora García

2014-05-01

Full Text Available Los objetivos fundamentales de la promoción de salud son fortalecer los determinantes positivos de la salud y transformar los negativos, de ahí la importancia de actuar de manera individual y colectiva en toda la cadena de determinantes del proceso salud-enfermedad. A tales efectos se realizó una revisión bibliográfica con vistas a analizar los elementos de la promoción de salud, sus principales líneas de acción y la mercadotecnia social como una perspectiva para trabajar en función de diseñar y poner en marcha programas de salud, para de esta forma conciliar los objetivos y propósitos de la salud pública con los del usuario, el consumidor y el paciente, a fin de lograr sus metas. Si los profesionales y gerentes de la salud se apropiaran de la mercadotecnia, encontrarían un aliado para producir bienestar, desarrollar habilidades para el diseño, así como ejecutar estrategias, campañas de prevención y control de estilos de vida

Exigibilidad del derecho a la protección de la salud en los servicios de obstetricia en México

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Alejandro Meza

2015-05-01

Full Text Available La incorporación del marco de los derechos humanos a la salud materna se menciona cada vez con mayor frecuencia como una propuesta factible para mejorar la atención que reciben las mujeres en los servicios de atención obstétrica. Si bien es cierto que en México se cuenta con un sólido marco normativo en la materia, un elemento fundamental para garantizar el cumplimiento los derechos humanos relacionados con la salud son los mecanismos de exigibilidad que, además de encontrarse disponibles, deben ser efectivos y próximos a la población, principalmente en la atención obstétrica, espacio en donde ocurren reiteradas violaciones a los derechos humanos que ponen en riesgo la salud y la vida de las mujeres. El objetivo de este artículo es precisar los elementos normativos, jurídicos y extrajurídicos que deben ser considerados para incorporar la salud materna como un conjunto de derechos humanos exigibles.

Towards Post-Intercultural Teacher Education: Analysing "Extreme" Intercultural Dialogue to Reconstruct Interculturality

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Dervin, Fred

2015-01-01

The "intercultural" is now omnipresent in most departments of teacher education in Europe and elsewhere. It can be implemented under the guise of, amongst others, multicultural, transcultural, global and/or development education. In this paper, I problematise post-intercultural teacher education. The context of this study is that of…

Riesgos a la salud por presencia del aluminio en el agua potable

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Rodolfo Trejo Vázquez; Virginia Hernández Montoya

2004-01-01

En la actualidad el aluminio tiene una amplia aplicación en la industria alimenticia, farmacéutica, del papel, de la construcción y en el tratamiento de agua para beber y agua residual. Sin embargo, no se ha dado énfasis a los posibles daños a la salud originados por el consumo de este elemento. Una de las enfermedades que ha sido asociada a la ingesta de este elemento es el Alzheimer y se corre el riesgo de desarrollar otros padecimientos. En el presente documento se ...

LA EDUCACIÓN EN SALUD, UN ELEMENTO CENTRAL DEL CUIDADO DE ENFERMERÍA

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EM.MSc Paz Soto, PhD

2018-05-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: El Consejo Internacional de Enfermeras en Estadios Unidos describe que el rol de la profesión “abarca el cuidado autónomo y colaborativo de individuos de todas las edades, familias, grupos y comunidades, y en todos los entornos”. Esto incluye la promoción de la salud, la prevención de enfermedades y el cuidado de personas enfermas, discapacitadas y moribundas. En este contexto, considera “la promoción de un entorno seguro, la investigación, la participación en la formulación de políticas de salud y en la gestión de los sistemas de salud y los pacientes, y la educación” como funciones clave de enfermería. Propósito: Conocer la educación en salud como parte del rol de enfermería en su quehacer profesional. Metodología: Revisión bibliográfica que utilizó las bases de datos Medline con el motor de búsqueda Pubmed y CINAHL/EBSCO, con los descriptores: education or nursing education and nurse's role or professional rol, and Self-Care and effectiveness. Se seleccionaron 23 artículos que cumplieran con los criterios de inclusión: investigaciones originales, entre los años 2012- 2018, en español, inglés y portugués a texto completo. Resultados: De los 23 artículos científicos revisados; el 68.9% (14 son artículos relacionados con el Rol de la Enfermera, el 30,43% (8 son diseños cuasi experimentales o experimentales y el 87.5% (7 corresponden a programas educativos o intervenciones educativas efectivas. Solo dos de ellos no presenta limitaciones. Conclusiones: Se evidencia que desde la formación la educación para la salud es desarrollada en un nivel menos importante, lo que constituye una amenaza porque se podría perder una herramienta básica para el cuidado, sobre todo a nivel primario de atención, donde la educación para la salud es fundamental para el cambio de conductas en salud. SUMMARY: The International Council of Nurses in the United States describes that the role of the profession �

Intercultural competence @ SMEs

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van der Poel, Marcel H.

2015-01-01

The experiences with intercultural competence training at the Hanze International Business School Groningen may serve as a blueprint for augmenting professional intercultural behaviour at the SME work floor. The set-up of the training is based on current intercultural communication theory and

Percepciones de salud-enfermedad y trayectorias de cuidado en familias afrocolombianas vulnerables

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Alba Idaly Muñoz Sánchez

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Acercarse al proceso salud-enfermedad es un paso inicial para el fortalecimiento del cuidado propio de los colectivos. Así, se describieron las percepciones de salud-enfermedad y las trayectorias de cuidado de las familias afrocolombianas en situación de pobreza de la zona urbana de Tumaco-región del Pacífico colombiano. Mediante un enfoque cualitativo etnográfico, se abordaron familias extensas afrocolombianas en situación de pobreza de la ciudad de Tumaco-Nariño, seleccionadas mediante un muestreo por conveniencia. Se utilizaron la entrevista etnográfica y la observación participante como instrumentos. La enfermedad emergió como el deterioro del cuerpo y estar sano, como su vitalidad. Las trayectorias de cuidado evidenciaron las alteraciones de salud prioritarias y diferentes rutas y agentes de salud para su cuidado. Acercarse a los significados del proceso salud-enfermedad y a las trayectorias de cuidado brindan elementos para orientar intervenciones en salud sensibles a la cultura y direccionar las acciones de investigación y docencia de enfermería.

Marco conceptual para la evaluación de programas de salud

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Montero Rojas, Eiliana

2004-03-01

Full Text Available La evaluación como disciplina es un área relativamente nueva de las Ciencias Sociales; consecuentemente, su incorporación explícita en los programas y sistemas de salud ha llegado algo tardíamente. Este artículo presenta elementos de un marco conceptual para concebir y utilizar la evaluación en programas de salud. Se define la evaluación como una herramienta para la toma de decisiones, se discuten tendencias y temáticas de actualidad en el campo y también conceptos clave tales como teoría del programa y valoración de necesidades. Finalmente, se esboza una primera aproximación a dos constructos de gran interés en la evaluación de programas de salud: calidad y equidad.

Construcción de entornos saludables en el marco de la Atención Primaria en Salud: el caso de la enseñanza de Salud Comunitaria en el Programa de Medicina de la Universidad de La Sabana

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Francisco Lamus Lemus

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo presenta la reflexión de una experiencia educativa de salud comunitaria en el marco de la Atención Primaria en Salud (APS en el Programa de Medicina de la Univer - sidad de La Sabana; proceso que articula a estudiantes, ciudadanos y gestores de equipos interdisciplinarios para trabajar por la salud de la población a través del apoyo a la gestión de “entornos saludables”. Se profundiza en los elementos que han caracterizado el ejercicio de enseñanza y aprendizaje en APS , el proceso de construcción del programa académico, la confluencia de la Salud Pública y la Medicina Familiar en la APS , la orientación pedagó - gica de las actividades docente - asistenciales hacia la formulación y ejecución de planes de mejoramiento en salud, proyectos de salud comunitaria y el fomento de entornos saludables en las distintas organizaciones y comunidades abordadas, y se describe la evolución del proceso. Por último, se concluye resaltando aquellos aspectos estratégicos en las compe - tencias médicas y de otros profesionales de la salud necesarios para fortalecer la salud de la población a través de este tipo de programas, y se destaca la importancia de la APS en los procesos de docencia, investigación, proyección social y su articulación con otros sectores afines a la iniciativa.

Relación entre salud y deporte escolar desde una perspectiva intercultural, un estudio multicaso

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Bastian Carter-Thuillier

2018-01-01

Full Text Available Introducción. La salud y el deporte configuran prácticas, creencias y relaciones culturales particulares en cada contexto. Objetivo. Analizar las creencias de estudiantes inmigrantes y mapuche-huilliche sobre la relación entre deporte escolar y salud. Materiales y métodos. Se desarrolló un estudio multicaso cualitativo con enfoque etnográfico. Participaron 71 sujetos subdivididos en dos grupos: uno constituido por estudiantes inmigrantes que participaban de un programa de deporte escolar con principios comprensivos de enseñanza en España (n=47 y otro compuesto por alumnos de la etnia Mapuche-Huilliche que participaban de un programa análogo en Chile (n=24. Para la recolección de datos se aplican tres entrevistas colectivas a cada grupo. Resultados. Ambos colectivos perciben una asociación positiva entre la participación en deporte escolar y el desarrollo de la salud en diferentes dimensiones. Existen diferencias respecto a la interpretación cultural que ambos grupos otorgan al concepto salud y sus posibles relaciones con el deporte escolar. Sin embargo, en ambos contextos existen situaciones en que se considera de forma parcial la cultura de los estudiantes para trabajar sobre estos temas. Conclusiones. Estudiantes inmigrantes y mapuche-huilliche establecen creencias positivas sobre la relación entre deporte escolar y desarrollo de salud en sus diferentes manifestaciones.

Exploring intercultural competence through an intercultural extracurricular activity in Taiwan

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Liu Kai Li

2016-01-01

Full Text Available This study used interviews to explore how 10 Taiwanese college students' intercultural competence was developed after participating in an intercultural extracurricular activity designed with a purpose to facilitate foreign students’ study in Taiwan and to promote meaningful home-foreign student contacts. In-depth information and narratives from the interviews were collected as evidence of intercultural competence development. The results showed all the interviewees appreciated the experience and felt it to have been of value to them in terms of building international friendships, heightening their intercultural awareness and the benefits of intercultural competence, and having more appreciation and better understanding of Taiwanese culture. Students also realized that a lack of understanding of Taiwanese culture could exacerbate communication difficulties. Students thus became aware of the importance of describing Taiwanese cultural practices in English and realized that more language practice was necessary for smoother communication. Suggestions for both extracurricular activities and language programs improvement in the future were also provided in the conclusion.

The promise of intercultural understanding and the transformative power of intercultural awareness: a problematization of Intercultural Communication theory

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Ferri, G.

2015-01-01

The thesis is concerned with a problematization of the field of intercultural communication. Philosophical inquiry is employed in this thesis to examine intercultural communication from the perspective of existing critical intercultural frameworks, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of cultural difference and the acquisition of communicative competence. In proposing this philosophical approach, the thesis reconfigures the relationship between self and other in dialogic terms, and ...

La toxicología en la atención primaria de salud

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Jesús Martínez Cabrera

1995-06-01

Full Text Available Se expone la función que debe desempeñar la toxicología en Cuba para contribuir al logro de la meta de Salud para todos en el año 2000, así como los factores que condicionan el surgimiento de la toxicología preventiva. Se expresan los principales elementos que debe conocer el médico de la familia sobre toxicología y la necesidad de ampliar la interacción en el terreno docente, asistencial e investigativo entre la toxicología y el nivel de atención primaria de salud.

Interculturality and Intercultural Education in Portugal: Recent Developments

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Pratas, Maria Helena

2010-01-01

The Portuguese approach to cultural diversity anchors on the principle of Interculturality; within the framework of mutual respect, it embraces the value and richness of diversity and dialogue. This intercultural approach is embedded in the paradigm of an equal value of all cultures and cultural miscegenation, moving thus far beyond a…

La cartera de servicios en una organización de salud pública Portfolio of services in a public health organization

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J.R. Villalbí; J. Guix; A. Plasència; J.M. Armengou; X. Llebaría; L. Torralba

2003-01-01

La definición de la cartera de servicios ha sido uno de los elementos del proceso de mejora de la gestión de los servicios sanitarios en España, en curso, del que los servicios de salud pública se han mantenido en buena parte al margen. En este trabajo se analizan los servicios de salud p��blica a partir de la experiencia de la Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona. Se propone un esquema de categorización que permite distinguir entre los que son propiamente servicios productivos de salud públ...

Intercultural Training in Business Practice

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Neznajová, Kateřina

2012-01-01

Master's thesis on Intercultural Training in Business Practice deals with the intercultural communication, opportunities for its improvement through intercultural training and actual practices in czech companies when using it. The theoretical part defines the concepts of culture, intercultural communication and intercultural training. The practical part includes research in firms in the czech market through a survey and case study in a chosen company. Based on the findings, the last part of t...

Intercultural Reflection through the "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters": Students' Accounts of Their Images of Alterity

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Méndez García, María del Carmen

2017-01-01

The Council of Europe's "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounter" (AIE) is a tool to develop intercultural competence (IC) in education by encouraging users to reflect upon and learn from momentous intercultural encounters they have experienced face to face. Its parallel resource, the "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters…

Intercultural conflict styles: literature review

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Batkhina A.A.

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Analytical review of foreign psychological research on the international conflict styles is presented in this article. Intercultural conflict is understood as an interpersonal conflict between representatives of different cultures. The main models describing the intercultural conflict styles are analyzed: the dual concern model, the intercultural conflict styles inventory model, the face negotiation model. The publication provides a brief review of modern studies’ results of behavior predictors in the intercultural conflict; special attention is paid to the analysis of the influence of culture and intercultural communication apprehension on the choice of conflict styles. The importance of assessing the conflict styles effectiveness used in the situation of intercultural interaction is noted. In conclusion, unresolved problems and actual trends in the study of behavior in the intercultural conflict are designated.

Frontline employees' intercultural competence: Does it impact customers' evaluations of intercultural service encounters?

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Hoefnagels, A.H.J.M.; Bloemer, J.M.M.; Pluymaekers, M.

2014-01-01

Globalization has led to an exponential growth of intercultural service encounters. In view of the importance of customer-orientation in services, we investigate the effect of the frontline employee’s intercultural competence on customer’s affective and cognitive evaluations of intercultural

Las organizaciones indígenas peruanas, pioneras de la educación intercultural bilingüe

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Alfredo Rodríguez Torres

2017-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo aborda de manera introductoria el problema de la educación básica de los pueblos indígenas amazónicos en el Perú y las iniciativas de las organizaciones indígenas amazónicas articuladas en la AIDESEP (Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana para el desarrollo de la educación superior indígena intercultural; sobre todo en las experiencias de formación inicial de maestros indígenas y de profesionales de la salud con un currículo intercultural y bilingüe desde la visión del “otro indígena”. El Estado peruano tardó años en asumir la formación de maestros interculturales bilingües y abordar la educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB como política pública, pero ambas con un enfoque tradicional y funcional que mantiene la colonialidad, aun así las organizaciones indígenas siguen aportando y apostando por una EIB desde la visión de los pueblos indígenas.

WHO NEEDS INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES?

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Carmen-Laura ZARZU

2013-06-01

Full Text Available The current essay focuses on the need for formal education in the area of intercultural communication and training of intercultural competences. It builds on cultural identity and diversity literature, on the experiment conducted in the Low Countries in introducing a new topic for students from social sciences referring to intercultural communication and on reports and papers of international companies, organizations and agencies. The argument of globalization which should give equal opportunities to each and every world’s citizen adds pressure on managers dealing with multicultural teams. Intercultural competences gain importance in recruiting, while turning cultural diversity in team performance requires skills, knowledge and experience. Managing cultural diversity presupposes that people are aware, recognize, understand and deal with differences. Thus intercultural communication should be studied as a stand-alone topic or imbedded in other subjects in different forms of education or training, so people are prepared for intercultural, social and professional relationships.

Dual Globalizations and Intercultural Sensitivities

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Saeid Reza Ameli

2009-08-01

Full Text Available This article aimed to investigate the intercultural sensitivities between Sunnite Turkmen groups and Shiite groups in Golestan province of Iran through considering the most important factors influenced it. The intercultural development inventory (IDI, which designed according to Milton Bennet's the intercultural sensitivities theory, was utilised to examine the intercultural sensitivities between those Muslim groups. The intercultural sensitivities theory essentially states that the more communication among people leads them to have the less intercultural sensitivities. In other words, the development of communications among people causes to diminish their intercultural sensitivities. In this study, both virtual and actual measurement domains were used in order to measure the communications development of two groups. The development of virtual communications was measured according people's interactivity with different types of media, especially Satellite and Internet, whereas the actual one was measured based on three cities varying according to different religious distribution. Finally this article concluded that the development of virtual and actual communications led to decreasing intercultural sensitivities among people in this area.

Culture Elements in Intercultural Communication:Phenomena and Strategies%Culture Elements in Intercultural Communication: Phenomena and Strategies

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2017-01-01

With the advancement of globalization and the"the one-belt and one-road"initiative, there is greater-than-ever need for intercultural communication in many fields. With distinguished cultures, there will be conflicts of all kinds in intercultur-al communication, which greatly hinder the intercultural communication. The research to explore the culture elements and the cultural interference is of great significance for intercultural communication. Herein, culture elements and culture interference are to be explored, and strategies and techniques to minimize cultural interference are put forward, so as to promote intercultural communication.

Reflexiones para consolidar la ética intercultural a través de la educación intercultural / Meditate to consolidate the intercultural ethics to inclination of the intercultural education

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Zambrano van Beverhoudt, Egilde

2008-08-01

Full Text Available Resumen: El propósito de este documento es reflexionar sobre una propuesta de consolidación de la ética intercultural a partir de la educación intercultural. Se efectuó un análisis documental basado en autores con pertinencia en el área de interés. Para el desarrollo teórico se analizaron aspectos como globalización, educación, valores, multiculturalidad e interculturalidad. Se concluye que la ética intercultural minimiza los riesgos de la globalización y busca la construcción de sistemas de valores que aseguren la convivencia social. La educación debe asumir su papel activo en la consolidación de la ética intercultural. La interculturalidad es un modelo de gestión que administra con eficiencia y eficacia la diversidad cultural.Abstract: The purpose of this document is to meditate on a proposal of consolidation of the ethical intercultural starting from the education intercultural. A documental analysis was made based on authors with relevancy in the area of interest. For the theoretical development aspects like globalization, education, values, multiculturaly and interculturaly were analyzed. It is concluded that the ethical intercultural minimizes the risks of the globalization and search the construction of systems of values that they assure the social coexistence. The education should assume its active paper in the consolidation of the ethical intercultural. The interculturaly is an administration model that administers with efficiency and effectiveness the cultural diversity

El acceso a la información como determinante social de la salud

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Maria Cristina Soares Guimarães

2011-01-01

Full Text Available A lo largo de más de un siglo de investigación, permanece viva la discusión sobre las dimensiones formativas y explicativas que tienen los procesos sociales con relación a la salud de las poblaciones. Las evidencias recogidas a lo largo de este período, en los más distintos contextos y tiempos históricos, apuntan hacia una ecuación compleja entre salud, desigualdades en las condiciones de vida y la red de vínculos y asociaciones entre individuos y grupos. Por ser evitables, injustas e innecesarias, las inequidades en salud son elementos susceptibles de intervención; en particular, el acceso a la información emerge como una dimensión importante para la equidad en salud. Este artículo presenta una discusión inicial sobre el concepto de acceso a la información y de algunos de los distintos marcos y dimensiones en el ámbito de la salud. Finaliza con la propuesta de construcción de una agenda orientada a la promoción del uso de la información en y para la salud.

Cierre de escuelas rurales y salud colectiva

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Daniela Vera-Bachmann

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Señor editor: Diversos estudios adviertenque la situación de pobreza socioeconómica es un factor de riesgo psicosocial que afecta especialmente a los sectores rurales. La forma de enfrentar dicha condición y sus consecuencias, como el aumento de enfermedades de diversa índole desarrolladas cada vez a edad más temprana, entre otras, es la educación, toda vez que por medio de la escuela, la acción educativa alcanza zonas rurales más alejadas y de menor desarrollo. En los sectores campesinos desfavorecidos, la interacción entre la escuela, la comunidad y otras organizaciones del medio, por ejemplo, las de salud rural, termina siendo un elemento fundamental para promover salud y bienestar. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21149/spm.v58i1.8152

Medios y salud pública: la voz de los adolescentes

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Rafael Obregón Gálvez

2003-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo presenta los resultados de un ejercicio de investigación realizado en la ciudad de Barranquilla (Colombia con el objetivo de identificar el rol de los medios de comunicación en la cotidianidad de los adolescentes escolarizados de los estratos bajo y medio, particularmente en el ámbito de la salud. La investigación fue exploratoria en cuanto intentó identificar pistas y tendencias de la relación medios-adolescentes en el contexto de la salud pública, y descriptiva en cuanto permitió identificar las características de una serie de elementos relacionados con el acceso a y uso de medios por parte de los adolescentes, con énfasis en algunos temas de salud. Dadas las características y limitaciones de la investigación, se optó por desarrollar una primera fase a partir de una propuesta metodológica de corte cualitativo a través de grupos focales.

La construcción del sistema comunitario de salud de Guarjila: sistematización de una experiencia de Atención Primaria de Salud Integral en El Salvador durante el período 1987-2007

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María Argelia Dubón Abrego

Full Text Available Se sistematizó una experiencia de salud comunitaria, surgida durante la Guerra Civil en El Salvador, en un contexto de represión institucionalizada, describiendo el proceso desarrollado con elementos de la Atención Primaria de Salud integral, tomando como ejes el proceso histórico de construcción, el empoderamiento social y los indicadores de impacto. La población abordó intersectorialmente sus problemas, mejorando condiciones básicas como vivienda, agua, letrinas y energía eléctrica; produjo sus alimentos; y creó un modelo de educación popular y de salud con agentes comunitarios. Las intervenciones en salud progresaron desde la atención y prevención de la enfermedad, hasta un abordaje integral de determinantes sociales. La organización, la participación y el trabajo intersectorial fueron claves para mejorar la salud y el desarrollo integral de la comunidad.

Training Intercultural Competence in the International Classroom : A Qualitative Analysis of Students' Intercultural Awareness

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Corina Tabacaru

2015-01-01

The international classroom is presumably a far more effective learning environment for the acquisition of intercultural competence when students receive adequate training to make the most of their intercultural encounters. This paper provides a summary of the intercultural training taught to

Duelo y proceso salud-enfermedad en la Atención Primaria de Salud como escenario para su atención

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Carmen Regina Victoria García-Viniegras

Full Text Available Introducción: el duelo es un proceso normal de adaptación a las pérdidas, que atañe a la persona, pero puede derivar en un factor de riesgo de enfermar, elevando la morbilidad y la mortalidad de los dolientes. Constituye un problema semioculto en la salud pública contemporánea que es preciso develar. Requiere un monitoreo cuidadoso y un manejo general para evitar complicaciones. Objetivo: caracterizar el duelo en su relación con el proceso salud-enfermedad, así como proporcionar algunos elementos para su abordaje en el nivel primario de atención. Método: se realizó una revisión de la literatura acerca del impacto del duelo en el proceso salud-enfermedad. Desarrollo: el duelo constituye una etapa de riesgo para la aparición de algunas enfermedades (depresión, susceptibilidad inmunológica o para que el mismo se convierta en una enfermedad o "duelo patológico" diferente al síndrome depresivo. La familia es el marco natural donde cursa este proceso, por lo que su evaluación y participación en la intervención cobra una especial significación. El médico especialista en Medicina Familiar y su equipo de salud son los indicados para brindar atención a este problema de salud muchas veces oculto. Conclusiones: el impacto del duelo es un importante factor de riesgo para la salud, por lo que es necesario su seguimiento, especialmente en el nivel primario de atención, que permita garantizar su curso normal y evitar complicaciones.

The intercultural competence learning lab : a training initiative for intercultural competences development of faculty as a precondition for intercultural competences development of students

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van der Poel, Marcel H.; Jones, Elspeth; Coelen, Robert; Beelen, Jos; de Wit, Hans

2016-01-01

“So why do we assume our teachers pull at the right end of the rope?” This question was raised during a discussion concerning the intercultural competences of our faculty in comparison to the perceived disappointing level of intercultural competences of our graduates. Intercultural competence

Intercultural Competence in Host Students?

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Egekvist, Ulla Egidiussen; Lyngdorf, Niels Erik; Du, Xiangyun

2016-01-01

Although substantial work in intercultural education has been done on the intercultural competences of mobile students engaging in international study visits, there is a need to explore intercultural competences in host students. This chapter seeks to answer questions about the challenges...

Aspectos biopsicosociales que inciden en la salud del adulto mayor Bio-psycho social aspects shattering elderly health

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Aida Chong Daniel

2012-01-01

El presente trabajo trata acerca de algunos factores biosicosociales que inciden en la salud del adulto mayor, se parte del concepto de que el envejecimiento no es un proceso de causa única, sino el resultado de una compleja asociación de interacciones y modificaciones estructurales y funcionales, entre lo biológico, lo psicológico y lo socio-ambiental. Teniendo en cuenta estos elementos el objetivo de este trabajo es exponer algunos aspectos que inciden en la salud del adulto mayor, para que...

Negotiation of identities in intercultural communication

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Janík Zdeněk

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Negotiation of identities in communication entails affirming the identities we want others to recognize in us and ascription of identities we mutually assign to each other in communication. The study of intercultural communication focuses on cultural identity as the principal identity component that defines intercultural communication. In this article, the assumption that cultural group membership factors determine the context of intercultural communication is questioned. The article examines how intercultural interlocutors negotiate their identities in various intercultural interactions. The aims of the research presented in this paper are: 1 to examine which identities - cultural, personal, or social - intercultural interlocutors activate in intercultural communication; 2 to determine whether interlocutors’ intercultural communication is largely influenced by their cultural identities; 3 and to identify situations in which they activate their cultural identities (3. The research data were collected from 263 international students studying at Masaryk University in Brno in the years 2010 - 2016. Although the research results are not conclusive, they indicate that cultural identities predominate in the students’ ethnocentric views and that stereotypes constrain the students’ cultural identities and affect the negotiation of identities in intercultural communication.

“Auditoria de la Gestión en Salud: Un Reto a la Excelencia en el Nuevo Milenio”

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Germán Riaño Gamboa

2006-09-01

Mi afinidad por la Auditoría en Salud y el Control de calidad me ha llevado a escudriñar en estos temas para los cuales regento una cátedra universitaria y sobre los cuales publiqué los libros Auditoría en salud para una Gestión Eficiente y Garantía de Calidad en Salud, los dos preparados por la Editorial Médica Panamericana para los países de habla Hispana; por esta circunstancia puedo afirmar con alguna autoridad que el libro del Dr. Riaño es una obra excelente, escrita con gran claridad, impecable sintaxis, es didáctica, metodológica y sustanciosa. Sobre todo, ofrece un arsenal informativo y da positivos elementos para quienes deben adelantar actividades de vigilancia y control en Instituciones de Salud...

Promoting Intercultural Competencies

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Bachner, Katherine M.

2014-01-01

What is culture? • Culture is the acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and generate behavior. • It is the way of life a people pass down from one generation to the next through learning. • It is the rules for living and functioning in society that come from growing up in a specific society, and it is a set of acquired skills, habits and society-specific training that gives a group of people its identity. What is intercultural competency? • Cultures can have widely varying perspectives. • These perspectives influence the way that a person develops relationships, responds to situations, and operates in a professional setting. • Intercultural competency is the ability to comprehend and navigate the ways that culture can influence behavior, relationships, and the results of collaboration and interaction. What does becoming interculturally competent entail? • Intercultural preparedness is not merely travelling, learning a foreign language, or being exposed to other cultures. • Developing competency requires thinking about the challenges posed to our work by a multi-cultural workforce in a way that prepares employees and staff for potential incidents or misunderstandings. • It is impossible to avoid all intercultural misunderstandings, but learning to anticipate them and deal with them is key to developing any training program on culture

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Bachner, Katherine M., E-mail: kbachner@bnl.gov [Brookhaven National Laboratory (United States)

2014-07-01

What is culture? • Culture is the acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and generate behavior. • It is the way of life a people pass down from one generation to the next through learning. • It is the rules for living and functioning in society that come from growing up in a specific society, and it is a set of acquired skills, habits and society-specific training that gives a group of people its identity. What is intercultural competency? • Cultures can have widely varying perspectives. • These perspectives influence the way that a person develops relationships, responds to situations, and operates in a professional setting. • Intercultural competency is the ability to comprehend and navigate the ways that culture can influence behavior, relationships, and the results of collaboration and interaction. What does becoming interculturally competent entail? • Intercultural preparedness is not merely travelling, learning a foreign language, or being exposed to other cultures. • Developing competency requires thinking about the challenges posed to our work by a multi-cultural workforce in a way that prepares employees and staff for potential incidents or misunderstandings. • It is impossible to avoid all intercultural misunderstandings, but learning to anticipate them and deal with them is key to developing any training program on culture.

The Intercultural Education

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María del Carmen Pérez Paredes

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Intercultural education is defined and conceived as a continuous process of development learning at all educational levels and integrators axes of Education, where the state with the participation of the family and society promote cultural diversity in the educational process citizen. That is why the aim of this study was to analyze aspects of intercultural education in order to foster the potential to ensure their integration into the proposals coming in curriculum design. It was based on the theory of complexity (Morin, 2008, 2001a, 2001b and the Theory of the Intercultural Education (Yampara, 2001. Methodologically was an analytical and documentary research which is inserted in studies of theoretical development. In that regard, it relied on authors such as Manual Pedagogical University Experimental Libertador (2003, Arias (2006: 27, Sánchez (2000. As a result it was found that aspects of complexity are present in the intercultural education in the form of principles such as the dialogic principle, the recursive principle, hologram tic principle, the principle of culture, the principle of autopoiesis, the principle of identity and the value of knowledge and wisdom, concluding that it can be said that intercultural education is present in the principles of complexity and are represented.

La participación de la comunidad en salud

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Ismael M Ferrer Herrera

2001-06-01

Full Text Available Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema actualizando los conceptos de comunidad, salud, participación social y participación comunitaria, así como analizando los requisitos indispensables para alcanzar esta última. Abordamos sus grados, tipos, etapas o fases, principales mecanismos para lograrla en los programas de salud, elementos con que se interrelaciona, factores desfavorables y la estrategia de promoción de salud a través del movimiento de Municipios Saludables. Finalmente se expone brevemente la experiencia en nuestro país sobre este movimiento y su articulación en los Consejos Populares, haciendo énfasis en las orientaciones metodológicas para el trabajo en la atención primaria de salud de nuestro Ministerio de Salud Pública, con el objetivo de facilitar un material de estudio para el personal de salud de este nivel, especialmente Médicos y Enfermeras de la FamiliaA bibliographic review on the topic was made in order to bring up to date the concepts of community, health, social participation and community participation and to analyze the requirements necessary to attain comunity participation. We approached its degrees, types, stages or phases, main mechansism to achieve it in 2 health programs, elements with which it is interrelated, unfavorable factors and the strategy of health promotion through the Movement of Healthy Municipalities. Finally, the experience accumulated in our country in relation to this movement and its implementation in the People's Councils is briefly explained, making emphasis on the methodological instructions given by our Ministry of Public Health to work at the primary health care level, so that the health personnel working at this level, specially family physicians and nurses, have study materials.

Intercultural learning and skills

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Alessio Surian

2012-08-01

Full Text Available The concept of intercultural competence is associated in the literature lists both abilities to be "successful" as an individual and an organization in cross-cultural relations, as most critical visions and interested in different contexts and social roles that play a role in the definition and perception of these relations.The concept of intercultural competence authors as Earley and Ang (2003, p. 59 prefer the concept of cultural intelligence in relation to how people can adapt to new cultural contexts, and in continuity with the work on intelligence of educational psychologists (H. Gardner, RJ Sternberg, and in relation to the interaction between cognitive styles and management of daily activities (Zhang, Sternberg, 2001, p. 198-200.From different approaches, has occurred in recent years a significant number of tools for assessing intercultural competence (Earley and Ang 2003, p. 193-199; Fowler and Blohm 2004, p. 37-84, Paige 2004, pp. 85-128.In this contribution we investigate the relevant aspects and implications of the discourses on intercultural skills for learning and for education policies that integrate an intercultural approach.

Instituciones Educativas Saludables y su Influencia en el Desarrollo Integral de los Estudiantes de Nivel Primario, Ámbito Rural UGEL Cusco, 2014

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Gallegos Salas, Diana Iris

2015-01-01

El componente medio ambiente escolar y entornos saludables no sólo implican el estado físico y estructural de la escuela sino que incorpora aquellos elementos constitutivos de las relaciones entre los seres que facilitan o entorpecen la posibilidad de un escenario propicio para el libre desarrollo de la personalidad; por consiguiente, las acciones deben ir encaminadas a fomentar: Las relaciones saludables sociales (maestro - estudiante, maestro - maestro, maestro - padres de familia...

Algunos elementos para interpretar la presencia de los varones en los procesos de salud reproductiva

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Juan Guillermo Figueroa-Perea

Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo es identificar vertientes analíticas para ubicar a los varones en los procesos de salud reproductiva. Se propone cuestionar la interpretación que los identifica solamente como actores que pueden apoyar mejorías en la salud de las mujeres y de los hijos. Es reciente la inquietud por redimensionar su papel, como seres que se reproducen y enfrentan riesgos en su aparato, comportamiento y proceso reproductivos. Una posibilidad para explicitar la presencia de los varones en dichos procesos es identificar cuáles son sus ausencias y presencias que condicionan las consecuencias favorables o no para las mujeres y los hijos. Se trata de ver de qué manera dificultan o contribuyen a mejorar las condiciones de la morbimortalidad materna. Una segunda posibilidad es incursionar en el carácter relacional, social y potencialmente conflictivo de la reproducción "sexualizada". Implica replantear el análisis de la reproducción como un proceso relacional y no como eventos aislados de hombres y mujeres, al mismo tiempo que recuperar la especificidad de unos y de otras. Se utiliza la perspectiva de género con el fin de imaginar los procesos sin negar la dimensión del poder. Así, se replantean la sexualidad, la reproducción y la salud en términos de interacción, con el fin de construir referencias más claras respecto a la población masculina.

Researching Identity and Interculturality

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Lønsmann, Dorte

2016-01-01

Review of: Researching Identity and Interculturality / by F. Dervin and K. Risager (eds.). Routledge 2015, 245 pp.......Review of: Researching Identity and Interculturality / by F. Dervin and K. Risager (eds.). Routledge 2015, 245 pp....

PROGRAMA ALIMENTARIO MEDITERRANEO EN CHILE (PAM-CHILE): FOMENTO DEL VINO Y OTROS PRODUCTOS ALIMENTARIOS SALUDABLES, ECONOMICAMENTE PRIORITARIOS, MEDIANTE EVIDENCIAS CIENTIFICAS

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LEIGHTON PUGA, FEDERICO

2008-01-01

Las recomendaciones sobre consumo de alimentos basadas en sus propiedades saludables son un elemento clave en su comercialización, pero deben basarse en evidencias científicas para evitar abusos con los consumidores. Dichas recomendaciones pueden constituir un valor agregado significativo para muchos productos alimentarios chilenos. Este proyecto surge de la experiencia e información obtenidas en seis años de operación del Proyecto Ciencia, Vino y Salud de la Universidad Católica de Chile, qu...

Civic and Intercultural Education

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Oana Nestian Sandu

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Our societies are going through a process of continuous transformation. The challenges and opportunities of diversity and globalization can only be addressed if civic education and intercultural education are interrelated. More often than not, there is a lack of coherence between educational practices based on these approaches. Moreover, even if the principles and methods of civic and intercultural education are used for international as well as local development, very seldom their impact is measured through the means of scientific research. In this study, a methodology of civic and intercultural education was piloted, and its impact was measured regarding teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward Roma. We measured the acculturation orientations and stereotypes of teachers and students involved in a civic and intercultural program. The results show that there are changes in both teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward Roma.

Short-Term Intercultural Psychotherapy: Ethnographic Inquiry

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Seeley, Karen M.

2004-01-01

This article examines the challenges specific to short-term intercultural treatments and recently developed approaches to intercultural treatments based on notions of cultural knowledge and cultural competence. The article introduces alternative approaches to short-term intercultural treatments based on ethnographic inquiry adapted for clinical…

Cohesión social como base para políticas públicas orientadas a la equidad en salud: reflexiones desde el programa EUROsociAL

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Rita Maria Ferrelli

Full Text Available EUROsociAL es un programa de la Unión Europea para la cohesión social en América Latina. El objetivo principal de este ensayo es presentar los elementos conceptuales que sustentan las actividades implementadas por el programa EUROsociAL en el área temática de salud, con especial atención a sus aspectos de equidad. Se consideran los conceptos de cohesión social, equidad en salud, la relación entre ambos en EUROsociAL y se abordan el monitoreo de la equidad en salud como base de acción hacia una mejora con enfoque en los determinantes sociales de la salud.

Intercultural communication: Differences between Western and Asian perspective

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Dang, Linh

2016-01-01

The thesis focused differences in intercultural communication from Western and Asian perspective. The goal of this thesis was to find the differences and similarities in business communication between Western and Asian culture. The theoretical part of this thesis was titled as intercultural communication. Definition of intercultural communication, culture’s influence on perception, obstacles in intercultural communication and inter-cultural communication competences were covered in this...

Assessing Intercultural Training Designs

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Graf, Andrea

2004-01-01

Training designs are critical to the success of intercultural training programmes. A common typology for classifying intercultural training designs distinguishes among the following dimensions: experiential discovery versus didactic expository and culture-specific versus culture-general training. The purpose of this paper is to assess different…

Intercultural communication between patients and health care providers: an exploration of intercultural communication effectiveness, cultural sensitivity, stress, and anxiety.

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Ulrey, K L; Amason, P

2001-01-01

Cultural diversity is becoming increasingly more important in the workplace. This is particularly true in health care organizations facing demographic shifts in the patients served and their families. This study serves to aid the development of intercultural communication training programs for health care providers by examining how cultural sensitivity and effective intercultural communication, besides helping patients, personally benefit health care providers by reducing their stress. Effective intercultural communication and cultural sensitivity were found to be related. Health care providers' levels of intercultural anxiety also were found to correlate with effective intercultural communication.

La educación intercultural en España y en Suiza : un enfoque comparativo

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Ferrán Ferrer

2000-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo que se presenta tiene como objetivo describir, analizar y comparar el tratamiento que se le da a la educación intercultural en los sistemas educativos de los dos países. Ambos tienen una realidad política, social y cultural similar en ciertos aspectos mientras que en otros son claramente djferentes. Una estructura político-administrativa descentralizada y su diversidad lingüística constituyen elementos comunes. Por otra parte, la presencia de alumnos de minorías culturales provenientes de otros países tienen un reflejo distinto en ambos países: en Suiza hay un porcentaje mucho más elevado que en España y en Cataluna; sin embargo en estos dos territorios hay una presencia de alumnos gitanos muchos más elevada que en Suiza. Entre otras conclusiones se señala la necesidad de vincular la educación intercultural a las problemáticas de exclusión y marginación social, debiendo convertir la primera en un instrumento estratégico de primera magnitud para combatir la segunda situación. 

Probing intercultural competence in Malaysia: A Relational Framework

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Dalib Syarizan

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Studies in intercultural competence are quite numerous but they were mainly derived from Eurocentric experiences. Since Eurocentric scholars may become oblivious to certain elements or issues of intercultural communication that are pertinent to Asian people, the Western conception of intercultural competence have been argued for its relevance in the Asian world. This paper aims to revisit the current (Eurocentric perspective of intercultural competence and probes an alternative perspective of intercultural competence by reviewing current Asian literature. Our review suggests that the conception intercultural competence must consider relational aspects when it is situated within Asian experiences. Since relational aspects were a noted gap in the existing Eurocentric definitions, this paper proposes a relational framework in probing intercultural competence in Malaysia.

Intercultural Competence: Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations. Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning. Volume 10

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Witte, Arnd, Ed.; Harden, Theo, Ed.

2011-01-01

This book explores the idea of "intercultural competence", which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a universal definition and "competence" is not only a cognitive construct but also includes psychological traits such as attitudes,…

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN TOURISM

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Cristina Elena ALBU

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Communication is involved in all social life acts, being the constituent factor of creation and of cultural processes. Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue are intensely discussed topics in today's society which is marked by globalization. Cultural differences are the core subject for studies addressing intercultural communication. Good knowledge of other cultures is a necessary step to get to recognize the nature of these differences and to relate to others through attitudes of understanding and tolerance which are premises for genuine intercultural dialogue, especially in the tourism industry. While communication is an act of human relationships, culture is the motive of this act. In tourism, quality of communication is related to the level of the culture involved and to the degree of improvement of the means of which is done. Intercultural communication experiences help tourists to know and to appreciate other cultures, but also help them to a better understanding of their own culture.

[Interculturality in health].

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Salaverry, Oswaldo

2010-03-01

Interculturality in health is a recent concept that develops in response to claims of indigenous peoples for their right to their cultural identity, but also correspond to a global trend of incorporating the "right to the difference", which distinguishes and promotes coexistence between different cultural groups in the same territory. The article discusses, from a historical perspective, the original mismatch between Native American populations and European conquerors that marked out their access to health services, and discussed some of the many current issues related to, as the identification of indigenous people and the relationship between human rights and interculturality, to finally present a review of the genesis of the concept of interculturalism in health and their complexity reviewing the concept of cultural syndrome and his adaptation to scientific medicine.

La comprensión de la salud: punto de partida del enfoque sanológico en la promoción de la salud de la mujer adulta joven

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MYRIAM PATRICIA PARDO TORRES

2007-12-01

Full Text Available Através de un estudio de intervención con diseño antes-después, se trabajó con un grupo de 100 mujeres en-tre 20 y 40 años residentes en la Localidad Cuarta del Distrito Capital de Bogotá (San Cristóbal, con el objetivo de identificar la comprensión de la salud antes de una intervención en promoción de la salud con enfoque sanológico, y la transformación que se genera después de la intervención. Para explorar el concepto de salud y las acciones para mantener la salud antes-después se utilizó como instrumento la entrevista semiestructurada, a partir de los juicios emitidos por las mujeres, se identificaron los criterios y se construyeron categorías para comprender el concepto de salud y su evolución. Al inicio de la intervención, la mitad de las mujeres comprendían la salud en términos de ausencia de enfermedad; un quinto la asociaba con el cuidado corporal, psicoespiritual y ambiental y un tercio integraba elementos complejos cercanos a la categoría comprensión sanológica de la salud. Posterior a la intervención, la mayoría de los juicios emitidos por las participantes incluían criterios de esta última categoría. Como conclusión se demuestra que la estrategia de intervención en promoción de salud con enfoque sanológico a la mujer adulta joven favorece la autorreflexión y evolución de la concepción de salud, hacia el reconocimiento por parte de la mujer de su papel determinante en la construcción de su salud y la necesidad de los aportes sociales a un proyecto de vida.

20 años de la construcción del sistema único de salud

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Jairnilson Silva Paim

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Después de 20 años de la 8 ª. Conferencia Nacional sobre Salud y tres décadas de la fundación del Centro Brasileño para el Estudio de la Salud, es un análisis del proyecto y el proceso de la Reforma de Salud brasileño. A partir de un tipo de práctica argumentan que es el argumento de que la Reforma de Salud de Brasil, es una reforma social. El estudio indica que la Reforma de Salud de Brasil, aunque la propuesta de reforma como una práctica general y la teoría para alcanzar la revolución del estilo de vida, actuando como un resultado parcial y sectorial de reforma. Se realizó un estudio, y como el ciclo de componente descriptivo idea-propuesta-proyecto-propuesta-proceso, utilizando las referencias a "gramsciano", en particular las categorías de revolución pasiva y los transformadores. Su objetivo es hacer hincapié en la importancia del elemento jacobino, la radicalización de la democracia ayudará a cambiar la correlación de fuerzas, desequilibrio en el binomio conservación-cambio.

Hacia la construcción del trabajo en red para una universidad saludable. Balance del “I Foro internacional sobre experiencias en universidad saludable”

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Virginia, García Sánchez; Jackeline, Ospina Rodríguez

2009-01-01

Esta compilación busca favorecer el trabajo en red de las instituciones universitarias que promueven la actividad física como elemento esencial de la salud de su comunidad. También se orienta a socializar los resultados del I Foro Internacional de experiencias en universidad saludable, como avance del trabajo interinstitucional que se promovió durante el evento, con aportes de expertos internacionales, nacionales y las experiencias de las universidades. Este material, va dirigido a todas las ...

MIGRACIÓN Y MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN: ELEMENTOS PARA SU ANÁLISIS DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA INTERCULTURAL

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José Miguel Labrín Elgueta

2009-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo plantea una revisión crítica de los distintos modelos metodológicos que caracterizan a la investigación centrada en el estudio del fenómeno migratorio y su relación con los medios de comunicación. A partir de un análisis bibliográfico se pretende poner en discusión cómo las formas convencionales del análisis de los medios han sido replicadas operativamente en los estudios contemporáneos que abordan este objeto de estudio, obviando las condiciones contextuales que delimitan las migraciones actuales. En esta línea, el artículo culmina con la proposición de una apertura epistemológica que se basa en las condiciones sistémicas propias de la investigación intercultural.

Theoretical Modelling of Intercultural Communication Process

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Mariia Soter

2016-08-01

Full Text Available The definition of the concepts of “communication”, “intercultural communication”, “model of communication” are analyzed in the article. The basic components of the communication process are singled out. The model of intercultural communication is developed. Communicative, behavioral and complex skills for optimal organization of intercultural communication, establishment of productive contact with a foreign partner to achieve mutual understanding, searching for acceptable ways of organizing interaction and cooperation for both communicants are highlighted in the article. It is noted that intercultural communication through interaction between people affects the development of different cultures’ aspects.

INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN BUSINESS

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Angelica-Nicoleta NECULAESEI (ONEA

2017-06-01

Full Text Available The proposed article presents introductive aspects regarding intercultural communication in business. The main milestones that define the field are identified (culture, communication, intercultural situation and examples of economic rationality and organizational models are presented with influence on intercultural communication in business, in order to understand the importance of knowing the cultural contexts that require different approaches in business relationships.

Políticas públicas para el recurso humano en salud, en Colombia: Elementos para la reflexión

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María Orfa Ochoa

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Desde los referentes internacionales soportados en las recomendaciones de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT, el presente artículo revisa la trascendencia de las políticas y convenios existentes para la protección del trabajador nocturno en general y del trabajador nocturno del área de la salud en particular, se consideran las influencias de los procesos de globalización en la generación de las políticas económicas y su impacto en las políticas sociales. Se analiza la influencia que desde la globalización induce la mercantilización de la fuerza laboral y del capital humano del sector salud y cómo estas presiones ejercen un efecto de carácter biopsicosocial en las personas que laboran en el sector salud y realizan turnos nocturnos. Las políticas públicas toman importancia en este proceso cuando los actores sociales propician el empoderamiento frente a esta situación, y desarrollan propuestas para el manejo de las problemáticas que son producto del trabajo en horario nocturno. Las recomendaciones de la OIT para el trabajo nocturno, surgen como referentes obligados, a pesar de ser optativas, a partir de las consecuencias que este tiene sobre los trabajadores del área de la salud, su responsabilidad social y su compromiso ético y jurídico.

Realizing dignity as a part of intercultural competence

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Breunig, Steven

2014-01-01

in intercultural encounters with cognitive, behavioral and affective competence. Dignity contributes to intercultural competence by enabling persons to view the social world anew. In this paper, dignity is conceptualized as the development and self-expression of persons free from social categorization, while...... for effective and appropriate interaction between a Self and a culturally dissimilar Other. Accordingly, it is proposed that emotional regulation is essential for realizing dignity as an aspect of intercultural competence. Research on social dynamics and identity and the emotions is not without its precedence...... within intercultural communication. This project contributes to the objectives of intercultural communication and competence by theorizing how awareness of social dynamics and emotional regulation may support the realization of dignity during intercultural encounters. Dignity may complement other...

Experiencia de colaboración entre atención primaria y salud mental en el Departamento de Salud La Ribera, 7 años después

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Miquel Morera-Llorca

2014-09-01

Full Text Available Pese a la gran frecuencia de problemas de salud mental entre los consultantes de atención primaria, persiste el problema de unos inadecuados diagnóstico y tratamiento. Se necesita una buena capacitación de los médicos de familia para el manejo de estos trastornos, a fin de minimizar su impacto sanitario, económico y social. Entre otros elementos, se considera relevante la cooperación con los servicios de salud mental, para la cual existen diferentes modelos. Nuestro departamento de salud inició en 2006 una colaboración estable según el modelo de enlace. Se han obtenido resultados positivos en términos de reducción de demora para las primeras visitas al especialista y de aumento de la satisfacción de los profesionales, aunque deben interpretarse con cautela. Recientemente se han acumulado evidencias sobre la utilidad del modelo colaborativo, aunque su evaluación y extrapolación son complejas. Nos proponemos ahondar en la evaluación de nuestro modelo, de manera análoga a otras iniciativas de nuestro entorno.

Intercultural communication: conceptual delimitations

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Stela SPÎNU

2018-06-01

Full Text Available In an era of interference, intercultural communication is timely and advisable. The article analyzes the relation between communication/ language and culture. Starting from a description of different approaches and models of the concept of culture that have influenced and still influence the intercultural communication, and a description of the linguistic theories regarding the relation between language and culture.

Editorial: Qualitative Research and Intercultural Communication

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Matthias Otten; Jens Allwood; Maria Assumpta Aneas; Dominic Busch; David M. Hoffman; Michele Schweisfurth

2009-01-01

This article introduces to the thematic scope and the articles of this special issue and it explains some important terminological distinctions of the intercultural research field. The overall aim of this issue is to explore the manifold ways to apply and to reflect upon qualitative research methods in the context of intercultural communication. This implies both a discussion of genuine characteristics of intercultural qualitative research as well as attempts to identify common features and l...

Professionalism in intercultural job interviews

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Jensen, Iben

2005-01-01

The article is a slightly revised manuscript from my keynote speech at the NIC conference 2003 in Göteborg, Sweden. The aim of the speech was to put forward research towards a critical intercultural multiperspectivism in order to understand professional intercultural communication in multicultural...

Infarto Miocárdico Agudo: una perspectiva desde la Atención Primaria de Salud

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Lianne Ramos Marrero

Full Text Available Introducción: las enfermedades del corazón constituyen la primera causa de muerte a nivel mundial. Durante más de cuatro décadas, Cuba comportó similar estadística hasta el año 2012, a partir del cual el cáncer se situó como la primera causa de muerte; no obstante la enfermedades cardiovasculares constituyen un problema de salud de segundo orden para Cuba y dentro de este ítem el infarto miocárdico agudo como la principal causa de muerte. Objetivo: profundizar en el conocimiento sobre los elementos diagnósticos y de la conducta ante un infarto miocárdico agudo en el nivel primario de atención. Desarrollo: se hace especial énfasis en los elementos diagnósticos y la conducta recomendada ajustada a las posibilidades del nivel primario de atención. Conclusiones: el Infarto miocárdico agudo aporta la mayor mortalidad dentro de las enfermedades cardiacas, de causa multifactorial, su diagnóstico en la atención primaria de salud se basa en el cuadro clínico y cambios electrocardiográficos. La trombólisis es piedra angular en el tratamiento temprano de reperfusión.

Interculturalities: Reframing Identities in Intercultural Communication

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Nair-Venugopal, Shanta

2009-01-01

This paper attempts to reframe identities as "interculturalities" in the multimodal ways in which language is used for identity construction, specifically as responses to questionnaires, articulations within limited narratives, on-line interactions and in community ways of speaking a localised variety of English. Relying on a framework…

Developing intercultural competencies in a PBL environment

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Du, Xiangyun; Hansen, Carsten Jahn

2006-01-01

This paper discusses the influences of international programs in a problem based, project and group work organized learning (PBL) environment on the development of intercultural competencies. Based on the discussion of the positive effects as well as the observed barriers in the educational...... practice of international programs, this paper suggests that PBL can be a good example of a supportive learning environment in terms of providing students opportunities to develop intercultural competences. However, in order to make the best of international programs as an intercultural learning context...... students from different cultures can learn from each other and develop intercultural competencies together....

CARACTERIZACIÓN DEL TALENTO HUMANO EN SALUD ORAL POR ESPECIALIDADES EN EGRESADOS EN BOGOTA: 2001-2010

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Fredy Fabian Pardo Romero

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Para determinar la distribución de egresados de especialidades clínicas en salud oral de acuerdo al sexo, universidad que otorgó el título, intensidad, duración de los programas y número de habitantes en Bogotá por especialista, se realizó un estudio descriptivo, tomando la información disponible en fuentes secundarias, principalmente el Observatorio Laboral del Ministerio de Educación  Nacional y las páginas web de las Universidades que ofertan posgrados clínicos en salud oral en Bogotá. En la década 2001-2010 se graduaron en Bogotá 2.666 especialistas de los diferentes posgrados clínicos en Salud Oral, ofertados por nueve universidades. De estos, 931(35% se graduaron en la especialidad de “Ortodoncia”; 545(20% se graduaron de Endodoncia y 365 (14% de “Rehabilitación oral”. Esta información puede brindar elementos de juicio a muchos odontólogos que desean seguir capacitándose y a las Universidades que desean ofertar nuevos programas clínicos en salud oral y a las instituciones encargadas de ejercer la rectoría en regulación de la formación de talento humano en salud.

CARACTERIZACIÓN DEL TALENTO HUMANO EN SALUD ORAL POR ESPECIALIDADES EN EGRESADOS EN BOGOTA: 2001-2010

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Fredy Fabian Pardo Romero

2012-07-01

Full Text Available Para determinar la distribución de egresados de especialidades clínicas en salud oral de acuerdo al sexo, universidad que otorgó el título, intensidad, duración de los programas y número de habitantes en Bogotá por especialista, se realizó un estudio descriptivo, tomando la información disponible en fuentes secundarias, principalmente el Observatorio Laboral del Ministerio de Educación  Nacional y las páginas web de las Universidades que ofertan posgrados clínicos en salud oral en Bogotá. En la década 2001-2010 se graduaron en Bogotá 2.666 especialistas de los diferentes posgrados clínicos en Salud Oral, ofertados por nueve universidades. De estos, 931(35% se graduaron en la especialidad de “Ortodoncia”; 545(20% se graduaron de Endodoncia y 365 (14% de “Rehabilitación oral”. Esta información puede brindar elementos de juicio a muchos odontólogos que desean seguir capacitándose y a las Universidades que desean ofertar nuevos programas clínicos en salud oral y a las instituciones encargadas de ejercer la rectoría en regulación de la formación de talento humano en salud.

Managing intercultural conflict effectively

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Ting-Toomey, Stella

2001-01-01

In this volume, Ting-Toomey and Oetzel accomplish two objectives: to explain the culture-based situational conflict model, including the relationship among conflict, ethnicity, and culture; and, second, integrate theory and practice in the discussion of interpersonal conflict in culture, ethnic, and gender contexts. While the book is theoretically directed, it is also a down-to-earth practical book that contains ample examples, conflict dialogues, and critical incidents. Managing Intercultural Conflict Effectively helps to illustrate the complexity of intercultural conflict interactions and readers will gain a broad yet integrative perspective in assessing intercultural conflict situations. The book is a multidisciplinary text that draws from the research work of a variety of disciplines such as cross-cultural psychology, social psychology, sociology, marital and family studies, international management, and communication.

Educating Teachers for Intercultural Education

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Ermenc, Klara Skubic

2015-01-01

The paper begins with a short overview of the development of intercultural education and proposes a definition of interculturality in education as a pedagogical principle that guides the entire process of planning, implementing, and evaluating education at the systemic, curricular, school, and classroom levels to enable recognition and empowerment…

Indigenous Worldviews in Intercultural Education: Teachers' Construction of Interculturalism in a Bilingual Quechua-Spanish Program

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Valdiviezo, Laura Alicia

2010-01-01

This paper examines teachers' implementation of a bilingual intercultural education (BIE) program in Peru. This program is inspired by global policies that promote cultural pluralism and educational access to marginalized indigenous populations. Broadly addressed in policy in Andean countries, interculturalism in Peru has remained a core…

Seguridad y salud laboral en las empresas

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Blanca Johanna Pérez-Fernández

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Este artículo busca analizar algunos referentes conceptuales sobre riesgos laborales, accidentes de trabajo y enfermedades laborales. Se realizó una búsqueda, selección y revisión de la literatura, documentos electrónicos y textos relacionados con el tema en mención. En general las áreas de trabajo no cuentan con los elementos para garantizar las condiciones de trabajo seguro, aun cuando la normatividad legal vigente le exige al empleador “proporcionar y mantener un ambiente de trabajo en adecuadas condiciones de higiene y seguridad, establecer métodos de trabajo con el mínimo de riesgos para la salud dentro de los procesos de producción” (1.

Developing Intercultural Understanding for Study Abroad: Students' and Teachers' Perspectives on Pre-Departure Intercultural Learning

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Holmes, P.; Bavieri, L.; Ganassin, S.

2015-01-01

This study reports on students' and teachers' perspectives on a programme designed to develop Erasmus students' intercultural understanding prior to going abroad. We aimed to understand how students and their teachers perceived pre-departure materials in promoting their awareness of key concepts related to interculturality (e.g., essentialism,…

Building Intercultural Competence One “Patch” at a Time

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Rebecca Spooner-Lane

2013-01-01

Full Text Available This paper describes a program called Patches that was implemented to assist a group of Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers to enhance their intercultural competence through their involvement in a series of reciprocal learning activities. Each learning experience was considered a “patch” that eventually created a “quilt of intercultural learning.” The purpose of this study was to enhance the intercultural competence of domestic and international students through organized intercultural activities, through a series of reflective writing sessions, and mutual engagement on a common project. The effectiveness of the Patches program was analysed in accordance with Deardorff’s elements of intercultural competence. The qualitative findings indicate that both cohorts of preservice teachers showed elements of intercultural competence through participation in the program, with both groups reporting a deeper appreciation and understanding of how to communicate more effectively in intercultural contexts.

Intercultural Competence – Key Competence of Multicultural Teams

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Diana Bebenova - Nikolova

2014-08-01

Full Text Available The article deals with intercultural competence of multicultural teams elaborating European projects. Firstly, it discusses basic theoretical aspects of the related concepts: culture and intercultural competence, then presents its impact on multicultural team effectiveness and models for improving it. The article finds ground on studies of intercultural competence as a set of strategic, personal, social and professional competences. The paper uses the project cycle management theory and proves that in multi-ethnic surroundings, the project membersř communication skills might not be sufficient to generate mutual understanding. Provisionally, the study performed a standardized Internet survey on self-assessment of intercultural competence among 50 experts on European projects. Another applied approach is field observation (attendance and note-taking of the 5- day training "To become diplomats between cultures", based on Bennettřs theoretical model for "Development of Intercultural Sensitivity". A training model for improving intercultural competence of multicultural team members. Possible approach for improvement of project management of crossborder or trans-border funding programs. Building intercultural competence in European project management is important, timely and necessity-driven, especially under the framework of the Danube Region Strategy.

"Interculturality" in Higher Education as Student Intercultural Learning and Development: A Case Study in South Korea

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Jon, Jae-Eun

2009-01-01

This paper discusses the topic of "interculturality" in higher education as it relates to global student mobility and internationalization efforts at higher education institutions. Starting with the underlying idea of "internationalization at home", it explores domestic students' intercultural experiences at a summer…

From Intercultural Awareness to Intercultural Empathy

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Zhu, Honglin

2011-01-01

This article is concerned with the incorporation of teaching culture into EFL teaching and learning, with a focus on the cultivation of culturally empathic ability for Chinese learners. The article first holds a discussion on the significance and basic concepts concerning intercultural empathy. Furthermore, it makes an attempt to analyze the…

Cómo fomentar las competencias transversales en los estudios de Ciencias de la Salud: una propuesta de actividades

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Josep-E. Baños

Full Text Available El proceso de convergencia europea de enseñanza superior incide en la necesidad de contemplar las competencias genéricas o transversales en la formación pregraduada. Dichas competencias son especialmente adecuadas para los futuros profesionales en ciencias de la salud.El presente artículo pretende aportar algunos elementos sobre la bondad de su implementación así como sugerir diversas actividades para fomentarlas en el marco de los procesos docentes de las titulaciones. Las propuestas están contempladas a partir de experiencias positivas desarrolladas en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona y en otros centros españoles.

La relación ejercicios físicos - salud positiva

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Walter N. Toscano

2015-08-01

Full Text Available En la antigua Grecia, se reconocieron los beneficios de los ejercicios físicos para el cuerpo humano, la importancia de tener en cuenta la edad de las personas, su condición física (lo interno, así como las condiciones climáticas y el lugar geográfico en el cual vivían (lo externo. Fue en ese escenario que se destacó la figura de Hipócrates, autor de los Tratados Hipocráticos, creador de la escuela médica griega y del uso médico del ejercicio físico, quien señaló la importancia de los ejercicios para la salud física de los sujetos, así como para su salud mental. En este artículo se analiza las relaciones posibles entre ejercicios físicos y salud positiva, a partir de la propuesta teórica de la psicología positiva, siguiendo a Boniwell (2006 quien señala que la psicología positiva opera en tres niveles: nivel subjetivo, nivel individual y nivel grupal. A tal fin, consideraremos el nivel individual que se dedica a la identificación de los elementos constitutivos de una “buena vida” y a las cualidades personales necesarias para ser una “buena persona”, presentando el desarrollo de ejercicios físicos como una de las actividades que aportan al logro de una buena vida en relación a una mirada de salud positiva.

Benefits/problems of enhancing students' intercultural competence.

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Koskinen, Liisa; Tossavainen, Kerttu

European nursing has responded to the challenges of multicultural society by integrating student exchange programmes into nursing education since the 1990s. For students, these programmes provide opportunities to study in another EU member state and to develop intercultural competence as part of the training. The aim of this study was to describe the process of gaining intercultural competence among British undergraduate nursing students during their study abroad in Finland. Fifteen British students participated in this study. Data were obtained from interviews, observations, background questionnaires and research diary notes. The data were analysed with Spradley's developmental research sequence (DRS) method. Campinha-Bacotes' model of cultural competence was used as a framework of rendering the results. Students' intercultural desire, i.e. their effort to become interculturally competent, turned out to be the foundation of the entire process. Study abroad is an intensive experience, and therefore the preparation, the selection of exchange students, the design of the programme and intercultural tutoring warrant careful attention.

Pesquisa de novos elementos Pesquisa de novos elementos

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Gil Mário de Macedo Grassi

1978-11-01

Full Text Available The present study deals with the discovery of new elements synthesized by man. The introduction discusses in general the theories about nuclear transmutation, which is the method employed in these syntheses. The study shows the importance of the Periodical Table since it is through this table that one can reach a prevision of new elements and its, properties. The discoveries of the transuranic elements, together wich the data of their first preparations are also tabulated The stability of these elements is also discussed, and future speculations are showedNeste trabalho estuda-se, teoricamente, a descoberta de novos elementos sintetizados pelo homem Na introdução apresentamos um apanhado geral sobre as teorias a respeito da transmutação nuclear, que é o método utilizado nestas sínteses. Em seguida, mostramos a importância da Tabela Periódica, pois é através dela que se chega à previsão dos novos elementos e de suas propriedades. As descobertas dos transurânicos, Já realizadas com êxito, juntamente com os dados de suas primeiras preparações são tabelados. A estabilidade destes novos elementos também é discutida, e apresentadas futuras especulações.

Irish Intercultural Cinema: Memory, Identity and Subjectivity

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Murray, Enda Vincent

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Irish intercultural cinema looks at the development of a cinematic genre which focuses on issues of Irish migrancy but is produced outside of Ireland. This paper has as its focus the cultural landscape of Irish-Australia. The essay uses methodologies of ethnographic and documentary theory plus textual analysis of film and written texts to establish a throughline of Irish intercultural film. The essay begins by contextualising the place of the Irish diaspora within the creation of Irish identity globally. The discussion around migrancy is widened to consider the place of memory and intergenerational tensions within not just the Irish migrant population, but also within the diverse cultures which comprise the contemporary Australian landscape. The historical development of intercultural cinema is then explored internationally within a context of colonial, gender and class struggles in the 1970s and1980s. The term intercultural cinema has its origins in the Third Cinema of Argentinians Solanas and Getino in the 1970s and covers those films which deal with issues involving two countries or cultures. The term was refined by Laura Marks in 2000 and further developed by Hamid Naficy in 2001 in his discussion of accented cinema which narrows its definition to include the politics of production. The paper then traces the development of Irish intercultural cinema from its beginnings in England in the 1970s with Thaddeus O'Sullivan through to Nicola Bruce and others including Enda Murray in the present day. The essay concludes by bringing these various strands together to see where intercultural film might have a place in today's globalised cultural landscape. Common traits within intercultural film such as the notion of place, autobiographical film and personal identity are explored using examples of intercultural filmmaking from around the globe. These commonalities point to a way forward for the future of a sustainable multicultural film culture.

Cultural Relativism and the Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere

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O'Regan, John P.; MacDonald, Malcolm N.

2007-01-01

The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically--as an academic field of social…

Sociedades Plurais: as minorias no contexto multi/intercultural / Plural societies: the minority category in a context multi/intercultural

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Larissa Caetano Mizutani

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Resumo O paradigma multicultural (ou intercultural é apresentado como tentativa de uma compreensão de mundo adaptada às novas demandas sociais globais. Por meio de um exame bibliográfico sobre o tema e a análise de um caso concreto julgado em uma instância superior do Poder Judiciário brasileiro, apresenta-se prováveis limitações de uso da categoria minoria em um contexto multi/intercultural, seja por reconhecer uma diferença, seja por reafirmar uma desigualdade. Palavras-chave: Multiculturalismo; interculturalismo; minorias. Abstract The multicultural (or intercultural paradigm addresses is presented as an attempt to understand the world adapted to new global social demands. Through an examination of literature on the subject and the analysis of a case tried in a higher court of the Brazilian Judiciary, we present potential limitations of using the minority category in a context multi / intercultural, either by recognizing a difference, or reaffirming an inequality. Keywords: Multiculturalism, interculturalism, minorities.

Actualization of the intercultural dialogue in the Internet

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M E Lipatova

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The article considers the main directions of the intercultural dialogue in the Internet. Based on the analysis of the nature of intercultural communication in the Internet the authors identify features that characterize the Internet as a tool for intercultural communication providing its users wide opportunities for implementing the idea of intercultural dialogue. The authors analyze new types and forms of communication that change and improve the cross-cultural interaction in the Internet; the online network communities that turn to be the continuation and a new dimension of traditional structures of social and cultural life, and represent a special socio-cultural space, in which the existing social reality transforms and develops into a new form of everyday life. The article considers different approaches to the study of the current role of the Internet as a means of intercultural communication, including the specifics of the Russian Internet in achieving this goal; the resources of intercultural dialogue, in particular visual communication as a nowadays tool for intercultural communication in the Internet. The authors show the widest range of possibilities for the dialogue provided by various social networks today - these resources can act as both a platform for communication of large social groups and a service for correspondence between individuals.

CREATIVE PRACTICES IN DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

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Lyudmila M. Andryukhina

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Introduction: the article is concerned with the topical problem of extending intercultural communicative competence in the educational process. Materials and Methods: the authors made a theoretical and empirical analysis of domestic and foreign research and analytical reports prepared in the framework of international projects, the activity of non-governmental organisations, in particular the activities of Sverdlovsk regiona l public organisation “Friends of France”. Results: it is proven that intercultural competence cannot be fully developed by traditional forms of education, and even the existing current innovative experience in this area is insufficient. The integration of education becomes a crucial factor. The article describes the creative educational practices of such integration as the conditions for broadening intercultural communicative competence. The basic characteristics of creative practices are described. Сreative practices being integrated fo rm a creative platform. Discussion and Conclusions: the system of conditions and means for broadening intercultural communicative competence is in constant development. The authors propose to consider the communicative competence as a system of creative practices transformed in the course of elaboration into creative platforms, expanding in the process of intercultural dialogue. This is a promising way to achieve the comprehensive result – completeness of integrated multi-component structure of the intercultural co mmunicative competence.

La investigación sobre la educación intercultural en España. The Research on Intercultural Education in Spain

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Rosa Maria Rodríguez Izquierdo

2009-02-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo revisa la literatura científica de carácter cuantitativo o cualitativo referidas a diversos ámbitos de la educación intercultural en España desde los años noventa hasta ahora. Los temas más relevantes hallados en la bibliografía se refieren a los siguientes aspectos: 1 escolarización de los inmigrantes y minorías étnicas, 2 modelos de intervención y propuestas educativas, 3 bilingüismo y diversidad lingüística en la escuela, 4 actitudes ante otras culturas, y 5 ciudadanía intercultural e identidad intercultural. Finalmente, se indican los nuevos campos abiertos o las lagunas que se detectan en estas investigaciones y se proponen ideas y estrategias para profundizar la investigación intercultural en un futuro inmediato. This paper reviews the scientific literature, both quantitative and qualitative, referred to several aspects of intercultural education in Spain from 1990 until 2008. The core themes found in the literature are the following: 1 schooling of immigrants and ethnic minorities, 2 models of intervention and educative proposals, 3 bilingual and linguistic diversity, 4 attitudes towards other cultures, and 5 intercultural citizenship and intercultural identity. Finally, it shows new open fields or gaps that are identified in the literature reviewed, and suggests ideas and strategies to strengthen intercultural research in the near future.

Situación de la atención primaria de salud mental en servicios públicos de El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia The state of mental health primary care in the social services of El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia

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Carmen Camacho-Arce; Dora Caballero-Baldivieso; Francis Venegas-Arzabe

2009-01-01

OBJETIVOS: Caracterizar los trastornos de salud mental o conductuales (TSMC) atendidos en una red de salud boliviana y conocer la percepción de profesionales sanitarios, representantes de la comunidad y responsables de brindar los servicios a fin de identificar los elementos necesarios para mejorar la respuesta a estos problemas. MÉTODO: Se realizó un estudio transversal descriptivo entre enero y diciembre de 2005 en los 15 centros públicos de salud de los distritos 2 y 3 pertenecientes a la ...

Evaluación del impacto en salud de intervenciones de regeneración en la bahía de Pasaia: percepciones de la población afectada

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Elena Serrano

2014-11-01

Conclusiones: El conocimiento de las percepciones y expectativas de los afectados mediante los métodos cualitativos aporta elementos e interrelaciones novedosas y necesarias para la aplicación de la EIS como herramienta de mejora de la salud y de participación ciudadana

DIFERENCIACIÓN EN LA PRESTACIÓN DE SERVICIOS DE MEDICINA PREPAGADA Y PLAN OBLIGATORIO DE SALUD-POS*

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Julio Hernando Lozano Jiménez

2003-01-01

Full Text Available El Sistema Nacional de Salud, que regulaba la atención y coberturas en salud en todo el territorio nacional, se había estructurado como un modelo de operación determinado por el Estado colombiano, unía todas las modalidades de servicios de salud existentes prestados por instituciones tan variadas como empresas privadas, las cuales constituían su propio servicio para sus empleados; ejemplo: cajas de compensación, secretarías de salud, Instituto de Seguros Sociales, hospitales locales, lo que hacía que el Sistema fuera una colcha unida solamente por la normatividad teórica, adoleciendo de elementos que le permitieran llevar a cabo una atención de máxima calidad. La baja oportunidad en la prestación del servicio de salud, al igual que la baja cobertura y las pocas oportunidades de calidad de atención en salud se constituyeron en la base sobre la cual nacerían los servicios de salud prepagados. Nace entonces Salud Coomeva Medicina Prepagada con diferentes planes y programas y con éxito ante la población colombiana, garantizando comodidad y agilidad, aspectos no encontrados en el Sistema de Seguridad Social del Gobierno. Los cambios introducidos en el sector de la salud, emanados por la corriente que generó la nueva Constitución colombiana de 1991 y la entrada en vigencia de la Ley 100 de 1993, cambiaron radicalmente el modelo de prestación de servicios de salud, creando el denominado Plan Obligatorio de Salud- POS, entrando en escena las empresas promotoras de salud, estableciendo regímenes y normatividad que cubría enfermedades anteriores al ingreso del programa de salud del usuario tomador del servicio y/o su familia (enfermedades preexistentes, generando confusión en los usuarios que mantenían vigentes los dos sistemas: los Planes de Medicina Prepagada y el POS. ...

Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education

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Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines - «History of Education» and «Intercultural Education» - the contributions to this volume provide insights into the (pre-)history of intercultural issues in education across a vast range of historical...

Experiential training for enhancing intercultural sensitivity.

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Jain, Sachin

2013-01-01

This project aims to enhance intercultural sensitivity using cross-cultural movies and focused group discussions with invited guests. Both treatment and control groups consisted of 9 Caucasian participants. The researcher conducted 8 group sessions with the participants of treatment group. Pre and post intervention data were collected on the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale. Results show that there was a significant increase in the participants' scores in the treatment group and not a significant difference in participants' pre and post scores in the control group. Further analysis on the five different dimensions of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale was also conducted.

Editorial: Qualitative Research and Intercultural Communication

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Matthias Otten

2009-01-01

Full Text Available This article introduces to the thematic scope and the articles of this special issue and it explains some important terminological distinctions of the intercultural research field. The overall aim of this issue is to explore the manifold ways to apply and to reflect upon qualitative research methods in the context of intercultural communication. This implies both a discussion of genuine characteristics of intercultural qualitative research as well as attempts to identify common features and linkages of this special area with more general interpretative research traditions under the "umbrella" of qualitative social research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901342

A 21st Century Imperative: integrating intercultural competence in Tuning

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Darla K. Deardorff

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Given the increasing demand for interculturally competent graduates and employees, it is incumbent upon the Tuning community to incorporate intercultural competence into Tuning Frameworks. With the growing diversity in the world today, beyond national diversity, intercultural competence cuts across disciplines, subjects, and contexts. This essay highlights the first research-based definition and framework of intercultural competence which can be translated into any subject and context and makes the case for why intercultural competence must be embedded into Tuning Frameworks around the world.

Interculturality and Globalization

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Cristina Sepsi Soare

2009-06-01

Full Text Available society can not exist without culture. In this last one are coded the relations of human withtranscendent, history, nature, society and the others. Cultures diversity has no correlation to thebiological diversity of individuals, but in different social forms of ethnic groups. Geographical,sociological and historical circumstances, factors related to the intern aspect of a community and societyand the particular form taken by the subject/object in the existence of the community, they are, generallyspeaking, the areas explaining the cultures diversification. Different cultures, therefore, reflect thedifferent ways of manifestation of the human condition. If the cultural elements of human wouldn’t haveowned amazing diversity that appears in history, from the relevant diversity of natural language, thehuman existence would have stopped in a stationary form, would have been blocked into a single patternof behavior, like other species. All these meanings refer to a unifying meaning, namely the mediation or,better said, intermediation. In other words, when we talk about intercultural we refer to what is betweencultures. Intercultural ideology aims to help communities in their support of different cultures.Interculturality reflecting the social dynamics.

INTERCULTURAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS

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Майкл Б Хиннер

2017-12-01

Full Text Available Intercultural misunderstandings involve a number of complex causes which can easily escalate into conflicts. Since conflicts are also complex, it is not easy to find solutions because there is no one solution for all problems. Systems Theory, transdisciplinarity, and the social ecological model take a holistic approach in investigating complex phenomena. They permit the creation of a theoretical framework based on previous empirical research and theories across scientific disciplines to identify the relevant elements of complex phenomena and to understand the interrelationship of these elements. Intercultural misunderstandings and conflicts are very complex phenomena because they include culture, perception, identity, ethnocentrism, relationships, trust building and conflict management as well as intercultural commu-nication competence which entails cognition, metacognition, and social metacognition. Since most em-pirical studies focus on isolated, individual elements in specific contexts, this article describes the theoretical framework of how the various findings and theories developed in different scientific disciplines can be used to form a cohesive framework to help circumvent intercultural misunderstandings and conflicts. In so doing, it follows the general principles of Systems Theory, transdisciplinarity, and the social ecological model.

Cultural Identity Forum: Enacting the Self-Awareness Imperative in Intercultural Communication

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Anderson-Lain, Karen

2017-01-01

Courses: Intercultural Communication; any course with an intercultural communication unit. Objectives: Students will demonstrate the self-awareness imperative in intercultural communication, explore their own cultural identities, and reflect on others cultural identities in order to build their intercultural communication competence.

Intercultural Historical Learning: A Conceptual Framework

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Nordgren, Kenneth; Johansson, Maria

2015-01-01

This paper outlines a conceptual framework in order to systematically discuss the meaning of intercultural learning in history education and how it could be advanced. We do so by bringing together theories of historical consciousness, intercultural competence and postcolonial thinking. By combining these theories into one framework, we identify…

Interculturalism and the Pendulum of Identity

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Svirsky, Marcelo; Mor-Sommerfeld, Aura

2012-01-01

This article offers a critical appraisal of the role played by cultural identity in intercultural bilingual Arabic-Hebrew schools in Israel. While engineered as oases of interculturalism amidst a life of ethnic segregation, such schools ultimately confront serious difficulties in escaping the constraints of identity politics and representation.…

Intercultural Communication Training in Vocational and Industrial Education Training

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Hastjarjo, S.; Nuryana, A.

2018-02-01

The globalization and free trade between countries and nations has created demands for the knowledge and skills in the area of intercultural interaction and transaction. Intercultural Communication Competences (ICC) is one of the capabilities that need to be possessed by workers and professionals who want to have a bigger role in the business and industries in international level. Vocational education institutions are demanded to provide their students with a certain degree of competences in multicultural interaction and communication. This paper aims to address the effectiveness of trainings in a vocational education institution in equipping its students with the intercultural communication skills. Using a sample of students from the ISP Cruiseship and Hotel School Surakarta, Central Java, this study will analyses the differences of ICC between groups of students who have undergone various forms of training in intercultural communication, in order to determine the effectiveness of the training in equipping the students with the necessary intercultural communication skills. The study incorporates a quantitative approach, using survey method. The data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and analysis of variations between groups. The result shows that the intercultural communication training increase the level of ICC especially in the intercultural confidence dimension.

Beyond empathy, cultivating trust: keys for intercultural reunion

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Gérard Marandon

2003-06-01

Full Text Available disagreements increases due to intercultural misunderstandings, and the difficulty of reaching a relationship of trust arises. To achieve this climate of trust it is advisable to previously examine certain general, theoretical problems in communication, and, in particular,those posed by intercultural situations. First, he discusses conflict and distinguishes between cognitive and affective conflict, to then go on to the psychosocial conditions of conflict management. What are the factors that condition the success of intercultural exchanges?Communication theories must be reconsidered in such a way that they can explain intercultural interactions. For the author, an intercultural situation is produced from the moment in which people or groups do not share the same universes of meaning and the same forms of expression for these meanings. A proposal for communication as well as for conflict management can be found in the theory of a provisional culture (culture tierce, which allows temporary adjustments to achieve common goals. In the creation of this space, trust plays a central role, since it is necessary in any exchange but, above all, it is crucial in intercultural situations, due to their complexity.

Educación intercultural del estudiante universitario: el enfoque de formación humanístico intercultural

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Iran Cabrera Ruiz, Isaac

2013-09-01

Full Text Available Este artículo científico aborda la educación intercultural como un enfoque que pretende responder a la interacción en una misma sociedad entre individuos originarios de diferentes culturas. Propone, para el nivel superior/universitario, una formación humanista que parta de las respuestas de los sistemas educativos a las situaciones de interculturalidad desde una educación intercultural que configure situaciones sociales de desarrollo. La investigación se realizó entre los años 2007 y 2010 en la Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas en Santa Clara, Cuba, en dos etapas fundamentales: un diseño transversal exploratorio en el diagnóstico del estado actual de la educación intercultural y un diseño de investigación evaluativa del modelo construido. Se aplicó durante el primer año de estudio en dos carreras (Ciencias Farmacéuticas y Ciencias de la Información a partir del criterio de presencia o ausencia de diversidad respecto de la cultura de origen. La aplicación del enfoque de formación humanista intercultural a través de un modelo contribuyó a la formación de puntos de vista relacionados con la diversidad de la cultura de origen como un valor, al conocimiento de sus características y realidades sociales, así como a la reflexión sobre modos de actuación para contribuir al desarrollo de relaciones con personas de culturas de origen diversas.This paper addresses intercultural education as an approach that seeks to respond to the interaction in the same society between individuals of different cultures of origin. This paper addresses intercultural education as an approach that seeks to respond to the interaction in the same society between individuals of different cultures of origin. It proposes to develop a humanistic formation, of university level, based on the response of the educational system to intercultural scheme from an intercultural educational environment that setup social development situation. The

The problems of intercultural communication: didactic considerations for teaching languages

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Małgorzata Spychała

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The coexistence of different nations, races i.e. cultures in the same social space that could be a country, a village or even a company is already a fact. Nowadays, not taking into account the tools of intercultural communication may result in damaging every communicative act. We believe that there is a necessity for revising and explaining the concepts related to the subject of intercultural communication from the perspective of foreign language teaching. In this article we will discuss such concepts as: interculturalism, transculturation, acculturation, integration, identity, etc. We will also look into the origin of intercultural communication. All these reflections will bring us closer to the intercultural competence which, in our opinion, students of foreign languages, i.e. intercultural speakers, should possess. In conclusion, we present the main objectives of the Common Frame of Reference for the Languages of the Council of Europe (2002 with regard to intercultural education.

Servicios de salud y salud de la mujer en el contexto de la globalización

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Mario Bronfman Pertzovsky

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Full Text Available En 1999 se cumplen cinco años de vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC de América del Norte. Antes de su puesta en marcha, el tratado fue cuestionado o defendido por los distintos actores sociales que, podían resultar afectados o beneficiados por él. Hoy, a cinco años de vigencia, el debate gira alrededor de los resultados visibles del TLC. En esta discusión, sin embargo, los acontecimientos que emergieron a la escena política y económica mexicana cuando iniciaba el TLC ?y que modificaron radicalmente las condiciones en las que inicialmente se planeó el convenio?, provocaron que su puesta en marcha efectiva se aplazara en muchos de sus ámbitos potenciales. A cinco años de su arranque, es de esperar que las acciones del TLC se intensifiquen paulatinamente. En este sentido, es indispensable reanudar el debate pendiente, en especial en aquellas materias en donde los efectos del tratado pueden ser profundos. La polémica debe tomar en cuenta la existencia de los amplios procesos mundiales de globalización observados a partir de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre los cuales los tratados comerciales son sólo elementos adicionales. Esto es especialmente importante para evaluar el impacto del convenio comercial sobre variables cuya temporalidad se inscribe en plazos mucho mayores o en arreglos institucionales que tienen dinámicas propias y que están inmersos en procesos que anteceden en el tiempo y exceden en el espacio al TLC. En el primer caso, se encuentran los aspectos relacionados con la salud de la mujer, y en el segundo, los procesos que tienen que ver con los sistemas de salud. Este trabajo inicia con una visión panorámica del proceso de globalización y sus consecuencias, para continuar con un análisis de las condiciones específicas que, al iniciar el TLC, guardaban la salud de la mujer y los sistemas de salud de los tres países firmantes. Al final del texto, se comentan las esferas que ya han sufrido modificaciones por

Los recursos humanos en salud según el nuevo modelo de atención en Ecuador

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Verónica Espinosa

2017-06-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN Objetivo Describir las estrategias implementadas por el Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador (MSP para fortalecer la rectoría de los recursos humanos en salud y responder al nuevo modelo de atención, como parte del proceso de reforma durante el periodo 2012–2015. Métodos Se realizó una revisión documental sobre el desarrollo del recurso humano en salud antes y después de la reforma recabando información en fuentes primarias y secundarias. Resultados En el periodo de estudio, Ecuador generó un nuevo marco institucional y normativo para desarrollar recursos humanos en salud a fin de responder a los requisitos de un modelo de atención basado en la Atención Primaria en Salud (APS. El MSP consolidó su papel rector estableciendo alianzas estratégicas, aplicando métodos de planificación de los recursos humanos y realizando una inversión sin precedentes en la formación del personal sanitario, contrataciones e incrementos salariales. Estos elementos constituyen los ejes iniciales para la construcción de una política de recursos humanos en salud y una carrera sanitaria coherentes con los objetivos de la reforma. Conclusiones En el marco de la reforma realizada entre 2012 y 2015, el desarrollo del recurso humano en salud muestra logros importantes gracias al trabajo intersectorial realizado por el MSP. Entre dichos logros destacan el fortalecimiento de la rectoría, el desarrollo e implementación de normativa e instrumentos regulatorios, la creación de nuevos perfiles de profesionales, y el contrato de profesionales con el objetivo de implementar el Modelo de atención integral de salud (MAIS, lo cual contribuyó a resolver problemas arrastrados durante los años previos a la reforma.

"Taking Culture Seriously": Implications for Intercultural Education and Training

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Ogay, Tania; Edelmann, Doris

2016-01-01

Albeit indispensable to understanding human action, the concept of culture has suffered from excessive enthusiasm in the fields of intercultural education as well as in intercultural teacher training, leading too often to culturalist stances. These excesses of intercultural education and training as well as their contradictory message (between…

Promoción de la salud a través del arte: estudio de caso de un taller de fotografía en "Ciudad Oculta", la villa Nº 15 de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

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Gabriela Wald

2009-01-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo analiza las potencialidades del arte comunitario para promover la salud y el bienestar entre jóvenes que viven en contextos de vulnerabilidad social en América Latina. A través de un estudio de caso se propone aportar elementos para el debate teórico y metodológico de una problemática central en promoción de la salud: la distancia entre su retórica, basada en una concepción de salud amplia -entendida como proceso colectivo e integral, influido por aspectos sociales, económicos, ambientales y culturales- y la mayor parte de las prácticas que bajo esta filosofía se han realizado en nuestra región, intervenciones de tipo preventivo organizadas alrededor de conceptos de enfermedad y que responden a modelos teóricos individualistas. El caso seleccionado es "ph15", una experiencia de educación fotográfica gestionada por un grupo de fotógrafos en "Ciudad Oculta", la villa Nº 15 de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. La investigación muestra que los jóvenes perciben cambios individuales y colectivos como consecuencia de participar en este taller, cambios que pueden vincularse al concepto de salud en sentido amplio. Así, una experiencia que no fue pensada para promover la salud puede aportar elementos para diseñar intervenciones más acordes a la filosofía en promoción de la salud.

Estudio cuali-cuantitativo sobre la atención de salud de niños menores de tres años en establecimientos de salud de nueve regiones pobres del Perú

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Luis Germán Cordero Muñoz

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Objetivos. Evaluar cinco elementos importantes de la calidad de atención (espacio físico, equipamiento, personal, tiempo para la atención, y consejería en servicios de crecimiento y desarrollo (CRED de 18 establecimientos de salud (EE. SS. en nueve regiones con altos índices de pobreza en Perú. Materiales y métodos. Estudio cuali-cuantitativo realizado en Amazonas, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Cusco, Huánuco, Huancavelica, Puno y Ucayali, que incluyó la observación directa (OD durante la atención de CRED, grupos focales (GF con usuarios (uno por establecimiento de salud, y entrevistas en profundidad (EEP con trabajadores de salud (dos por establecimiento de salud. Resultados. Se realizaron 18 OD para la verificación de ambientes y equipos, 23 OD de turnos completos de atención, 67 acompañamientos a usuarios de los servicios de CRED, 18 GF (118 madres participantes, y 36 EEP. Las madres y los profesionales de salud coincidieron en que existen limitaciones de infraestructura, equipamiento, materiales y personal que afectarían una atención de CRED de calidad. La demora en la atención, el incumplimiento de horarios, y la falta de calidez en la atención son los aspectos que generaron mayor insatisfacción en los usuarios. Solo en 24,3% del tiempo total de los turnos observados se realizaron actividades que generaron beneficio al usuario. Por su parte, la consejería estaría cumpliendo el objetivo de promover el mejoramiento de las prácticas de cuidado del niño. Conclusiones. El estudio ha permitido identificar debilidades y áreas de oportunidad para reorientar los servicios de CRED, en el marco de la política de fortalecimiento del primer nivel de atención del sector Salud.

The intercultural component in Business English textbooks

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M. Carmen Lario de Oñate

2013-10-01

Full Text Available The relationship between culture and business is crucial; therefore, in an international business context Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC is essential for effectively dealing with other cultures. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages highlights the relevance of intercultural language education in developing effective communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries (Council of Europe, 2001. Thus, in recent years, whereas there has been an increasing interest in Intercultural Business Communication (IBC, relatively little attention has been paid to the study of the intercultural component in texts used for the teaching of English for Business, despite the fact that textbooks are a key resource for language instructors. This paper aims to examine the role that the intercultural component has played in Business English textbooks since the 1960s. It explores whether and to what extent those textbooks have promoted the acquisition of ICC, at the same time it reviews the development of ICC as a concept and the ways in which it has been taught over the years. A selection of 67 general Business English textbooks published between 1963 and 2009 are analysed.

"Sé que debo parar, pero no sé cómo": Abordajes teóricos en torno a los hombres, la salud y el cambio

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Benno de Keijzer

Full Text Available Resumen: Este artículo propone revisar el proceso salud/enfermedad/atención de los hombres, desde los aportes de distintas miradas teóricas que buscan comprender la dialéctica del cambio y la resistencia/permanencia. El objetivo es dar un paso atrás en relación a la abundante información que la epidemiología arroja, que evidencia el cúmulo de problemas de salud que los hombres padecen y generan, para reflexionar, desde otras miradas teóricas, las formas en que los hombres cuidan o no su salud y sus posibles explicaciones para ello. Se procura aportar elementos tanto para la investigación como para pensar programas y políticas públicas al respecto del tema.

Review article The Frontier of Interculturality. A review of Wim van ...

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Review article. The Frontier of Interculturality. A review of Wim van Binsbergen\\'s Intercultural Encounters: African and Anthropological Lessons towards a Philosophy of Interculturality (2003). Sanya Osha ...

Teachers and the foundations of intercultural interaction

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Günay, Oya

2016-08-01

With the effects of globalisation, the number of people exposed to intercultural interaction has increased significantly. One of the most affected sectors is education. In parallel to the increase in numbers of students going abroad for tertiary education, primary and secondary education classes have also become culturally and religiously more diverse, mainly due to the effects of migration. With the increase in cultural diversity among their students, teachers find themselves facing new challenges. In order to be able to effectively encourage cultural exchange and intercultural dialogue, teachers need to cultivate their own intercultural competence. However, instead of directly jumping to the end result, this paper focuses on the very foundations of any intercultural interaction, namely self-awareness - of one's own normative settings -, acceptance of the equality of different cultural approaches, and strategies for how these can be transformed into personal attributes. The author highlights the importance of the internalisation of a belief in order to be able to reflect it in one's behaviour and convey to others the sense that they are genuinely accepted as they are. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) provides important insights into how and under which conditions internalisation can take place. Combining the insights gained from SDT with questioning techniques used by coaching experts, the author drafts a set of self-assessment questions which aim to help teachers reflect on the foundations of their intercultural interactions, gauge their level of internalisation and define the areas they have to focus on in order to cultivate their intercultural competence.

Representaciones sociales de la salud sexual de adolescentes sordos y oyentes en la ciudad de Bogotá

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Jaime Collazos Aldana

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Objetivo. Describir y analizar la estructura y contenidos de las representaciones sociales de la salud sexual de tres grupos de adolescentes: sordos usuarios de lengua de señas colombiana (LSC, oyentes y sordos usuarios de castellano oral, con el fin de reflexionar sobre la salud sexual en poblaciones en situación de vulnerabilidad y su aplicación al campo de la salud pública. Método. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo interpretativo de orientación procesual, en el que se emplearon las técnicas analíticas de uso de redes de asociaciones, entrevistas y dibujos. Resultados. Se encontraron diferentes representaciones de salud sexual en los adolescentes evaluados: los adolescentes sordos usuarios de LSC, quienes focalizan sus representaciones en el cuidado del cuerpo, la enfermedad y el goce sexual. Por su parte, los oyentes construyen representaciones alrededor de la prevención de las infecciones de transmisión sexual y el amor afectivo; mientras los adolescentes sordos usuarios del castellano lo hacen en relación con la educación, el amor afectivo y las relaciones convencionales. Conclusion. El reconocimiento de las diferentes representaciones sociales de la salud sexual de los adolescentes oyentes y sordos se convierte en un reto para la Salud Pública en la medida que obliga a reconocer las necesidades y servicios, en este campo, desde una perspectiva diferencial. La salud sexual de las personas en situación de vulnerabilidad, es un asunto de Derechos Humanos, que cuestiona la manera de formular políticas en la actualidad, sobre todo cuando se desconoce la identidad como elemento fundamental de la sexualidad de estas personas.

Intercultural Conflicts: Causes and the Role of Competences

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Valdas Pruskus

2013-10-01

Full Text Available The article discusses the origins of intercultural conflicts and their causes. It discloses the working mechanism of intercultural conflicts. The author demonstrates that in real life conflicts are caused by the socializing individuals themselves, who are different by their character traits as well as the cultural and intellectual level. Additionally, possibilities of conflict solution are discussed and the conception of competence is presented as explained in works of foreign and Lithuanian authors. The article also reveals the relationship between the constituent elements of the intercultural competence. It shows that proper attention to the acquisition of intercultural competences (linguistic, cultural and communication can be an effective assumption for depreciation of cross-cultural conflicts and thus promote communication and collaboration between the full range of cultures.

Análisis de las estrategias de vinculación de los varones al Programa de Salud Sexual y Procreación Responsable de la municipalidad de La Plata

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Rodríguez Moreno, Sandra Milena

2014-01-01

La responsabilidad de las decisiones en la salud sexual y reproductiva ha sido puesta en mayor parte sobre las mujeres, invisibilizando las relaciones de poder que se viven al interior de las parejas; por esta razón surge el interés de analizar las estrategias de vinculación de los varones que se implementan desde el Programa de Salud Sexual y Procreación Responsable PSSyPR. En este aspecto, este trabajo propuso estudiar la temática, con el fin de aportar elementos que permitan mejorar sus re...

Biblioteca Virtual en Población y Salud del Centro Centroamericano de Población

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Ricardo Chinchilla Arley

2011-01-01

Full Text Available La Biblioteca Virtual en Población y Salud constituye un gran esfuerzo institucional dirigido a la diseminación de la información de manera organizada en el área de la salud y la demografía. Este documento describe los antecedentes del proyecto, cuando se contaba con una enorme cantidad de información desorganizada y las dificultades de su acceso. Se menciona cómo ésta problemática justificó la inversión en el proyecto, con la idea final de democratizar el acceso a la información al organizarse eficientemente y transmitirse por medios electrónicos. Se presentan los componentes del proyecto divididos en productos, servicios y recursos de información. Se menciona la revista electrónica “Población y Salud en Mesoamerica” como un elemento destacado dentro de los recursos ofrecidos. Termina exponiendo los resultados obtenidos hasta el momento, así como una evaluación de los problemas que se han presentado y las soluciones planteadas. El sitio de la Biblioteca Virtual se accede en la dirección http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/bvp/

Teaching Interculturality through Visual Media

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Svarstad, Lone Krogsgaard

2016-01-01

The paper presents an exploration of an intersectional approach to intercultural competence in lower secondary English classes in Denmark. The presentation is based on the second intervention in a participatory action research project in connection with my doctoral thesis in the school year 2013-......D Towards a Cultural Studies and Critical Cultural Pedagogy Approach to Intercultural Competence in English Language Teaching.......The paper presents an exploration of an intersectional approach to intercultural competence in lower secondary English classes in Denmark. The presentation is based on the second intervention in a participatory action research project in connection with my doctoral thesis in the school year 2013......-2014 (Svarstad, 2015). The intersectional approach is based on Cultural Studies (Agger, 1992; Grossberg, 2010; Hall, 1997; Hall, Evans, & Nixon, 2013; Pickering, 2001; Ryan & Musiol, 2008) and knowledge of social categories and representation, and how these can be taught and discussed in class through...

Interculturality and Intercultural Education: A Challenge for Democracy.

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Aikman, Sheila

1999-01-01

Uses Peru to exemplify the debate taking place in South and Central American countries with large populations of indigenous people. Questions whether an interculturality based in apolitical calls for dialog and respect for cultural and linguistic plurality can meet the needs of indigenous peoples and their daily confrontations with oppressive and…

Los servicios públicos de salud y seguridad en manos del régimen municipal

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Billy Quirós Muñoz

2007-03-01

Full Text Available El presenta artículo aborda la posibilidad de que sean las municipalidades las que se encarguen de brindar los servicios de salud y seguridad para los habitantes de sus cantones. Ello implicaría una serie de pasos previos en los que necesariamente debe existir como uno de los principales elementos, la voluntad política para tales efectos y por supuesto el empoderamiento por parte de los gobiernos locales para llevar a cabo estas nuevas funciones. Sin embargo, antes de proponer una estrategia viable para conseguirlo, se hizo necesario echar un vistazo a nuestro contexto jurídico e institucional, incorporando el tema de la cultura política, a fin de entender nuestra actual realidad para así posteriormente formular lo que hemos considerado la propuesta de prestación de servicios de salud y seguridad por parte de los ayuntamientos.

Interculturalism and Teaching Music in Grammar Schools

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Begic, Amir; Begic, Jasna Šulentic; Pušic, Ivana

2017-01-01

The concept of intercultural education should be aimed at better understanding of ourselves and others, discovering similarities and differences, recognizing preconceptions, and cooperation in accomplishing our common goals. Intercultural education can be very useful in resolving the issues that arise when different groups live together. Also,…

Metacognition and the Development of Intercultural Competence

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Lane, H. Chad

2007-01-01

.... We conclude with several suggestions for future research, including the use of existing intercultural development metrics for evaluating learning in immersive environments and to conduct more studies of the use of implicit and explicit feedback to guide learning and establish optimal conditions for acquiring intercultural competence.

Indigenous Health, Social Inequity, and Interculturality: Research ...

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The implementation of intercultural health programs, often understood as the integration of indigenous and biomedical models of medicine, is a common challenge in many countries. Currently there is great interest in implementing intercultural health programs in Peru and throughout the Latin American region. This project ...

Managing Intercultural Teams: The eOrganization Exercise

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Humes, Michelle; Reilly, Anne H.

2008-01-01

In today's global environment, intercultural teams may become the most effective teams in an organization when their diversity is managed as an asset. However, because of miscommunication and conflict, intercultural teams often become dysfunctional. This experiential group exercise demonstrates how cultural dimensions such as individualism and…

Enhancing intercultural understanding using e-learning strategies ...

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Intercultural understanding is a prerequisite for peaceful local and global citizenship, especially in South African society where prejudice and negative stereotypes were previously the order of the day because of official separatism. It is therefore crucial to teach intercultural understanding in South Africa. I report with ...

Las redes sociales como elemento a tener en cuenta en promoción de la salud

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García García, Mª Carmen

2015-01-01

Cartel presentado en la Segunda Conferencia Internacional de Comunicación en Salud, celebrada el 23 de octubre de 2015 en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Introducción: primeramente, diferenciar entre redes que existen muchas e incluyen no solo a personas sino también a objetos, y redes sociales que nos rodean en nuestro trabajo, amigos y familia. Centrándonos en las redes sociales decir que se forman cuando existe un ideal común y se consolidan cuando aparece la figura de un líder. Así...

An Argument for Love in Intercultural Education for Teacher Education

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Lanas, Maija

2017-01-01

This paper proposes rethinking intercultural education in teacher education, arguing that any discussion of student teachers' intercultural education should be connected more explicitly to a theoretical conceptualisation of love. The first part of the paper focuses on identifying discursive boundaries in engaging with intercultural education in…

Traversing New Theoretical Frames for Intercultural Education: Gender, Intersectionality, Performativity

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Gregoriou, Zelia

2013-01-01

This paper attempts to renegotiate the conceptual and political borders of intercultural education by importing ways of thinking, concepts, aporias and questions relevant to a gendered study of intercultural interactions from theoretical terrains outside the disciplinary borders and discursive limits of intercultural education. A number of…

Local Resignifications of Transnational Discourses in Intercultural Higher Education: The Case of the "Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural" in Mexico

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Mateos Cortés, Laura Selene; Dietz, Gunther

2017-01-01

Our main objective is to analyze the different ways in which people involved in the Mexican intercultural education subsystem conceive interculturality. This subsystem is still emerging and we refer to the specific case of Veracruz. We point out the discursive elements implied in the construction of definitions as well as the linguistic screens…

Intercultural Training: Six Measures Assessing Training Needs

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Graf, Andrea; Mertesacker, Marion

2009-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop recommendations for measures assessing intercultural training needs for international human resource management. Based on scientific as well as application-oriented criteria the aim is to select six measures assessing general intercultural competencies and with the help of behaviour ratings in…

Making Intercultural Language Learning Visible and Assessable

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Moloney, Robyn; Harbon, Lesley

2010-01-01

While languages education (Liddicoat, 2002) is being transformed by intercultural language learning theory, there is little illustration of either how students are achieving intercultural learning or how to assess it. This article reports on a study of high school language students in Sydney, Australia. Its findings make visible student…

Developing the Intercultural Competence of Graduate Students

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Dimitrov, Nanda; Dawson, Debra L.; Olsen, Karyn C.; Meadows, Ken N.

2014-01-01

This study explores how teaching development programs may facilitate the development of intercultural competence in graduate students and prepare them for communicating effectively in the global workplace after graduation. First, we describe the concept of intercultural teaching competence and examine the skills that graduate students may need to…

The Need for Comparison in Intercultural Education

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Dietz, Gunther; Mateos Cortes, Laura Selene

2012-01-01

Intercultural education has arisen in the last two decades as an intersectional field of academic knowledge and professional development, located at the borders and in the confluence of the multicultural paradigm in the social sciences, the anthropology of education, and other interdisciplinary subfields commonly known as Intercultural Studies. As…

Construct Validity evidence for the Intercultural Readiness Check against the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire.

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Van der Zee, KI; Brinkmann, U

The psychometric qualities of the intercultural readiness check (IRC) were evaluated against an existing instrument for multicultural effectiveness: the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ). The IRC has scales for intercultural sensitivity, intercultural communication, intercultural

Construct validity evidence for the intercultural readiness check against the multicultural personality questionnaire

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Van der Zee, K.I.; Brinkmann, Ursula

The psychometric qualities of the intercultural readiness check (IRC) were evaluated against an existing instrument for multicultural effectiveness: the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ). The IRC has scales for intercultural sensitivity, intercultural communication, intercultural

El médico de la familia en la vigilancia de salud

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Ricardo Batista Moliner

1997-02-01

Full Text Available Se revisan algunos aspectos generales sobre las concepciones actuales de la vigilancia en salud y su aplicación a nivel de la atención primaria, con especial énfasis en el papel del médico de la familia en esta actividad en nuestro país, con el objetivo de mejorar la situación de salud de su comunidad. Se describen elementos de su concepción, implementación, los requisitos básicos para el funcionamiento, los componentes básicos así como los atributos que debe cumplir en su evaluación.: Several general features about the current concepts about health surveillance, and their application at a primary care level, are reviewed, specially emphasizing the role of the family physician in this activity in our country, with the aim of improving the health situation in the community. The elements of their conception, introduction, functional baseline requirements, and basic components, are described, as well as the attributes that it must fulfill in its assessment.

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE - A FURTHER CHALLENGE

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Робин Кранмер

2017-12-01

Full Text Available This article focuses on types of challenge to intercultural communicators arising during communication between those with a good level of intercultural competence and those with a lower level and which relate to communicative style. Those with weaker intercultural competence tend to have limited awareness of variation in communicative style and its link to language and culture. As a result, they often continue using aspects of the communicative style of their first language when using a for-eign language. They may even criticise ethnocentrically aspects of the communicative style associated with that foreign language. This can create specific challenges for a more interculturally competent communicator who may well understand the behaviour in question but find it hard to deal with. The key aim of this article is to analyse these challenges prior to hypothesising what underlying skills and prac-tical strategies might help communicators to deal with them. Relevant skills are sought in existing lit-erature and the further processes used in generating hypotheses are described. Skills are identified which include the capacities to deal with negative comments on your own communicative style, to per-suade your fellow communicator of its validity, to negotiate compromises and to steer the communica-tion towards a mutually satisfactory dynamic. Besides outlining the forms further research needs to take, the article concludes by stressing the importance of better understanding these challenges and of incorporating the development of skills for dealing with them into a variety of teaching programmes containing an intercultural component.

The education form the moral autonomy in the intercultural school La educación para la autonomía moral en la escuela intercultural

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Eduardo S. Vila Merino

2012-07-01

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Exploring Intercultural Sensitivity in Early Adolescence: A Mixed Methods Study

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Mellizo, Jennifer M.

2017-01-01

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore levels of intercultural sensitivity in a sample of fourth to eighth grade students in the United States (n = 162). "Intercultural sensitivity" was conceptualised through Bennett's Developmental Model of Sensitivity, and assessed through the Adapted Intercultural Sensitivity Index.…

Intercultural communication in a dialogical perspective

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Gholamian, Jamshid

in – materializing of others. This concept of culture defends, consciously or unconsciously, a monological understanding of culture as an autonomous, self-sufficient, and independent of the other cultures and determinant of human actions and thoughts. The aim of this paper is to examine how a dialogical approach......”The most intense and productive life of culture takes place on the boundaries of its individual areas and not in the places where these areas have become enclosed (Bakhtin 1986: 2). Theorists of intercultural communication tend to reduce identity to the „culture“ you have been born...... based on Mikhail Bakhtins dialogical communication can contribute to the field of intercultural communication. Unlike the intercultural perspective where cultural differences are addressed as a problem and barrier for communication differences perceived by Bakhtin as the precondition for dialogue...

Assessment of Staff Intercultural Competences in Health Care Organisations

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Stašys Rimantas

2017-10-01

Full Text Available As a consequence of globalisation, people’s mobility has been increasing, which brought cultural diversity to a number of countries of the world, therefore intercultural competences became a particularly important research object in organisation management. Scientific literature is rich in publications on the topic, however, the latter problem and its specificity has been insufficiently studied in health care organisations whose performance is especially important for each patient and the cost of errors, possibly caused also by insufficient intercultural competences, may be very great. The conducted research justifies the meaning and significance of intercultural competences in health care organisations and identifies the principal problems in organisations faced when communicating in an intercultural environment. The development of intercultural competences was not sufficiently promoted in health care organisations, leaving that to the staff’s responsibility. Quite a few of health care services providers had a poor knowledge of etiquette and did not know much about the customs and traditions of other countries.

Linking the Intercultural and Grounded Theory: Methodological Issues in Migration Research

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Vera Sheridan

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Connecting intercultural research with Grounded Theory was advocated in the early history of intercultural theorising and includes the development of researchers' intercultural competencies. Such competency comes to the fore where intercultural theory places an equal emphasis on home and host cultures in migration research. In this context we have found a Grounded Theory approach particularly suitable for disentangling complex interlinkings within migration experiences and their individual outcomes. Grounded Theory allows for the exploration of various theories in different fields and the emergence of new or deeper interpretations of intercultural experiences, including where research has not engaged deeply with or avoided intercultural contexts. The use of software, based on Grounded Theory, provides the resource for systematically exploring the inter-related nature of data. In addition, engaging in intercultural research, in particular, raises questions around our practice as social science researchers: adherence to ethics guidelines, for instance, can be in some conflict with the relations we build with members of communities whose cultural values, for instance around friendship or trust, impact on the norms of both our own and institutional expectations. This leads to reflection on the relationship with research participants in terms of our own intercultural experiences and position. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901363

Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence.

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Zapata-Barrero, Ricard

2017-01-01

The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current migration-related diversity policy debate. My defence will take two main lines of argumentation: Firstly, I will state that the increasing intensity of the intercultural policy paradigm must be placed in the present-day post-multicultural period, which recognizes the strengths ​​of the multicultural policy paradigm but also the limits to its process for recognizing differences. The role played by the emerging national civic policy paradigm (a renovated version of assimilation), prioritizing duties before rights, will also be considered crucial to better contextualize interculturalism. Secondly, I will try to identify the main distinctive features of interculturalism, which legitimize its proper place within the diversity debate today. Without rejecting rights-based and duties-based policy approaches, interculturalism places more emphasis on a contacts-based policy approach, aimed at fostering communication and relationships among people from different backgrounds, including national citizens. This approach focuses on common bonds rather than differences. It also views diversity as an advantage and a resource, and centres its policy goals on community cohesion and reframing a common public culture that places diversity within rather than outside the so-called Unity. In reviewing the current literature and the origins of the intercultural policy paradigm, I restate its contribution towards resolving current trends in transnationalism, changing identities, superdiversity and the rise of populist anti-immigrant parties. These are issues the old multicultural project has struggled to deal with, which has provoked the current disillusionment. Lastly, I will propose a research avenue to further consolidate interculturalism as a distinctive and legitimate policy

Promoting Intercultural Understanding among School Students through an English Language Based Reading Programme

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Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Malaysian intercultural society is typified by three major ethnic groups mainly Malays, Chinese and Indians.  Although education system is the best tool for these three major ethnic groups to work together, contemporary research reveals that there is still lack of intercultural embedding education context and national schools are seen as breeding grounds of racial polarisation.  In Malaysian context, there is a gap in research that focuses on the design of a proper intercultural reading framework for national integration and such initiatives are viable through schools.  The main objective of this conceptual paper is to introduce the English Language Intercultural Reading Programme (ELIRP in secondary schools to promote intercultural understanding among secondary school students.  The proposed framework will facilitate the acquisition of intercultural inputs without being constrained by ideological, political, or psychological demands.  This article will focus on elucidating how ELIRP could affect cognitive (knowledge and behavioural transformations to intercultural perceptions harboured by selected Form 4 students of 20 national schools in Malaysia. Keywords: behavior, knowledge, intercultural reading framework, intercultural understanding, English Language Intercultural Reading Programme, secondary school students

Immigrant children and school interculturality in northern Chihuahua

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Tamara Segura Herrera

2018-09-01

Full Text Available In the Mexican context, interculturality represents a discourse of recognition and respect for cultural diversity, in particular of indigenous peoples. The purpose of this article is to explore how interculturality among immigrant children of indigenous and mixed-race origins is constructed. The starting premise is that interculturality is also an interactive process of communication between individuals of different cultures. The methodology is based on the results of an anthropological study carried out at the Center for Comprehensive Attention to Migrant Children, in Ascension, Chihuahua. Based on observations and interviews, it was found that immigrant children construct interculturality in the classrooms, in the recreation areas, and during the journey to school. Therefore, the conclusion is that they do so in these school spaces, through relationships and meanings, sometimes in dispute, which they establish among themselves and with the teaching staff.

Influences on Intercultural Classroom Communication: Student Voices

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Tarp, Gertrud

2017-01-01

The case study is an attempt to understand how students experience intercultural classroom communication and what kind of competence they need to cope in intercultural classroom communication. The context is a supplementary course in English for university enrolment in Denmark. It is a multinational student body and all the students have finished…

Intercultural Development in the Romanian School System

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Chircu, Elena Sorina; Negreanu, Mirela

2010-01-01

The present paper aims to briefly describe the manner in which intercultural education is perceived in the Romanian school system, as well as the solutions that are being proposed (mainly in the form of activities) for reconsidering and strengthening interculturality as a dimension of education. We report on the results of semi-structured…

Caracterización de un colectivo de cuidadores informales de acuerdo a su percepción de la salud

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Trinidad Lorenzo

2014-07-01

Full Text Available La salud autopercibida es un elemento clave a la hora de minimizar el impacto socioeconómico generado por el cuidado de personas mayores con dependencia. En este estudio, se pretende caracterizar a un colectivo de personas cuidadoras informales de acuerdo a dicha variable. Se realizó un estudio transversal con un grupo de cuidadores seleccionados por muestreo no probabilístico incidental, en el área urbana de A Coruña y área rural de Mondoñedo (Lugo. En nuestro estudio, el género y el hábitat se han mostrado como dos variables de gran relevancia a la hora de establecer las necesidades de apoyo de los cuidadores informales de acuerdo a su autopercepción de la salud.

Indigenous Participation in Intercultural Education: Learning from Mexico and Tanzania

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Gemma Burford

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Intercultural education seeks to create a forum for integrating Western scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge to address local and global challenges such as biocultural diversity conservation, natural resource management, and social justice for indigenous peoples. Intercultural education is based on learning together with, rather than learning about or from, indigenous communities. In the best examples, problem-based learning dissolves the dichotomy between indigenous and nonindigenous, resulting in full partnerships in which participants share expertise to meet mutual needs. With reference to literature and two illustrative examples of intercultural education initiatives in Mexico and Tanzania, we present an original conceptual framework for assessing indigenous participation in intercultural education. This incorporates a new ladder of participation depth (in relation to both curriculum content and decision making alongside separate considerations of breadth, i.e., stakeholder diversity, and scope, i.e., the number of key project stages in which certain stakeholder groups are participating. The framework can be used to compare intercultural education initiatives in differing contexts and might be adaptable to other intercultural work.

Mindfulness, Empathy, and Intercultural Sensitivity amongst Undergraduate Students

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Menardo, Dayne Arvin

2017-01-01

This study examined the relationships amongst mindfulness, empathy, and intercultural sensitivity. Non-parametric analysis were conducted through Spearman and Hayes's PROCESS bootstrapping to examine the relationship between mindfulness and intercultural sensitivity, and whether empathy mediates the relationship between mindfulness and…

REFLEXIONES PARA CONSOLIDAR LA ÉTICA INTERCULTURAL A TRAVÉS DE LA EDUCACIÓN EN VALORES Y LA EDUCACIÓN INTERCULTURAL

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Egilde Zambrano van Beverhoudt

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El propósito de este documento es reflexionar sobre una propuesta de consolidación de la ética intercultural a partir de la educación intercultural. Se efectuó un análisis documental basado en autores con pertinencia en el área de interés. Para el desarrollo teórico se analizaron aspectos como globalización, educación, valores, multiculturalidad e interculturalidad. Se concluye que la ética intercultural minimiza los riesgos de la globalización y busca la construcción de sistemas de valores que aseguren la convivencia social. La educación debe asumir su papel activo en la consolidación de la ética intercultural. La interculturalidad es un modelo de gestión que administra con eficiencia y eficacia la diversidad cultural.

Definición de prioridades para las intervenciones de salud en el Sistema de Protección Social en Salud de México Priority setting for health interventions in Mexico's System of Social Protection in Health

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Eduardo González-Pier

2007-01-01

Full Text Available La definición explícita de prioridades en intervenciones de salud representa una oportunidad para México de equilibrar la presión y la complejidad de una transición epidemiológica avanzada, con políticas basadas en evidencias generadas por la inquietud de cómo optimizar el uso de los recursos escasos para mejorar la salud de la población. La experiencia mexicana en la definición de prioridades describe cómo los enfoques analíticos estandarizados en la toma de decisiones, principalmente los de análisis de la carga de la enfermedad y de costo-efectividad, se combinan con otros criterios -tales como dar respuesta a las expectativas legítimas no médicas de los pacientes y asegurar un financiamiento justo para los hogares-, para diseñar e implementar un grupo de tres paquetes diferenciados de intervenciones de salud. Éste es un proceso clave dentro de un conjunto más amplio de elementos de reforma dirigidos a extender el aseguramiento en salud, especialmente a los pobres. Las implicaciones más relevantes en el ámbito de políticas públicas incluyen lecciones sobre el uso de las herramientas analíticas disponibles y probadas para definir prioridades nacionales de salud; la utilidad de resultados que definan prioridades para guiar el desarrollo de capacidades a largo plazo; la importancia de favorecer un enfoque para institucionalizar el análisis ex-ante de costo-efectividad; y la necesidad del fortalecimiento de la capacidad técnica local como un elemento esencial para equilibrar los argumentos sobre maximización de la salud con criterios no relacionados con la salud en el marco de un ejercicio sistemático y transparente.Explicit priority setting presents Mexico with the opportunity to match the pressure and complexity of an advancing epidemiological transition with evidence-based policies driven by a fundamental concern for how to make the best use of scarce resources to improve population health. The Mexican priority

El derecho a la salud: una visión a partir del enfoque de capacidades

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Alba L. Vélez Arango

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: 1 identificar en las tesis libertarias y en la tradición liberal igualitaria de John Rawls la aceptación y/o rechazo de la protección de la salud como requisito de justicia social. 2 Analizar en los idearios teóricos de Amartya Sen y Martha Nussbaum elementos a favor de la protección de la salud y su goce efectivo como parte de los derechos que deben reconocerse por la sociedad, como respuesta a cuestiones de justicia social. Metodología: investigación de carácter filosófico, analizó críticamente los fundamentos morales y políticos que sustentan el reconocimiento del derecho a la salud como un requisito de justicia social. Resultados: en el proyecto rawlsiano la estructura básica de la sociedad debe distribuir ciertos “bienes primarios”, cosas que se presume que todo ser racional desea para poder desarrollar los planes de vida. Amartya Sen y Martha Nussbaum proponen el enfoque de las capacidades humanas básicas; el primero lo justifica en torno a la libertad y la segunda como requisitos básicos para una vida digna. Nussbaum justifica una lista de diez capacidades, dentro de las cuales incluye la vida, la salud física y la integridad física; todas relacionadas directamente con la salud. Así la tutela en salud se torna en condición necesaria de justicia social. El enfoque de las capacidades introduce la idea de un umbral para cada capacidad, por debajo del cual se considera que los ciudadanos no pueden funcionar de un modo auténticamente humano. Conclusiones: la protección de la salud instrumentalizada a través del sistema de salud es condición necesaria para el desarrollo de la vida que cada individuo tiene razones para valorar. Su protección debe darse dentro de los umbrales mínimos de justicia y la meta social debería entenderse en el sentido de lograr que los ciudadanos se sitúen por encima de este conjunto de capacidades entre las que se encuentra la salud.

The Intercultural Sensitivity of Chilean Teachers Serving an Immigrant Population in Schools

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Karla Morales

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The objective of this article is to evaluate the intercultural sensitivity of teachers working in culturally diverse classrooms, and to analyse differences in intercultural sensitivity based on the gender, age, training (advanced training courses, and intercultural experience of the teachers. A quantitative approach with a comparative descriptive design was chosen. The Intercultural Sensitivity Scale was used, composed of 24 statements, which were responded to by 50 teachers. The results show that teachers possess moderate intercultural sensitivity and that the highest rated competencies are trust and attention to communication.

Intercultural Primary Education in the Second Half of the Decade

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Osaďan Róbert

2016-08-01

Full Text Available Intercultural education advances the comprehension of different people and cultures. It emphasizes teaching that accepts and respects that diversity is normal in all areas of life. It attempts to sensitize the pupil to the concept that we all have developed in varied ways and that different does not mean “wrong”. In the presented article, we deal with a term defined in the context of intercultural education. We think about the way of its implementation in primary education, while respecting all the attributes of cultural differentiation. Intercultural education examines forms of xenophobia, trying to diminish them, and advocates equal opportunities for all. Intercultural education works to modify individuals and institutions and so transform the society (What is intercultural education? Do we in the West have the materials to accomplish this in our classrooms?.

Intercultural Knowledge, Awareness and Skills Observed in a Foreign Language Classroom

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Toyoda, Etsuko

2016-01-01

This article reports on findings from a research study conducted in a university-level Japanese course, which utilised intercultural learning approaches, methodologies and techniques. The purpose of the investigation was to assess student intercultural development as conceptualised in Deardorff's Process Model of Intercultural Competence.) The…

Indigenous Australian art in intercultural contact zones

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Eleonore Wildburger

2009-06-01

Full Text Available This article comments on Indigenous Australian art from an intercultural perspective. The painting Bush Tomato Dreaming (1998, by the Anmatyerre artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth serves as model case for my argument that art expresses existential social knowledge. In consequence, I will argue that social theory and art theory together provide tools for intercultural understanding and competence.

Negotiating cultural encounters narrating intercultural engineering and technical communication

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Yu, Han

2013-01-01

Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication in engineering, technical, and related professional fields Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for students to develop global competence and communication skills. This book will help readers learn what intercultural communication is like in the workplace-which is an import

The healthy urbanism El urbanismo saludable

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Javier Contel Ballesteros

2007-12-01

de salud pública y urbanismo, como de las administraciones públicas, durante los próximos años: (a la evaluación de los efectos del desarrollo urbano en la salud, como elemento clave del trabajo de la planificación territorial y urbanística; (b la atención prioritaria a los problemas de equidad social en las ciudades, como factor determinante para la mejora de la salud de las poblaciones; (c la incorporación de la perspectiva de prevención del riesgo de enfermedades mentales, como factor determinante de la planificación territorial y urbanística, y (d la incorporación de la perspectiva de la mitigación de los efectos del cambio climático, como factor asimismo determinante de la planificación territorial y urbanística.

Análisis comparativo de modelos de atención en salud para población indígena en la región Andina

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Lina A. González V

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Objetivo: realizar un análisis comparativo de cuatro modelos de atención en salud para población indígena en países de la región Andina, con el fin de aportar categorías de estudio útiles para el diseño y evaluación de modelos de atención en contextos indígenas. Metodología: se utilizó la técnica de análisis comparado en la revisión de casos puntuales de modelos de atención en Colombia, Bolivia, Chile y Venezuela. Se revisó, señalando y analizando de manera sistemática, la información de fuentes secundarias para extraer fragmentos y citas textuales que hicieran alusión a algún aspecto del modelo. Luego se conformaron conjuntos con elementos que fueran semejantes o diferentes y posteriormente se identificaron variables y parámetros para la comparación. Resultados: se proponen cinco categorías de estudio que pueden ser utilizadas al momento de analizar, diseñar y evaluar un modelo de atención en salud en contextos indígenas: 1. Recurso humano, 2. Recurso físico, 3. Espacios de interacción y participación social, 4. Estrategias de gestión del modelo y 5. Aspectos filosóficos y conceptuales. Conclusiones: un amplio marco legal respalda la implementación de modelos de atención en salud para población indígena pero hay vacíos significativos en la conceptualización y definición de elementos estructurales de estos modelos. Éstos se han estructurado como ajustes a los sistemas nacionales de salud en respuesta a las tensiones que se generan en contextos sociales y culturales diversos. Los modelos con enfoque cultural son estrategias útiles para garantizar la equidad en salud.

La reforma de salud y su componente político: un análisis de factibilidad

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González Rossetti A.

2002-01-01

Full Text Available La dimensión política del proceso de reforma de salud es un factor fundamental que no sólo determina su factibilidad, sino la forma y contenido que ésta tome. De ahí que el estudio del aspecto político de las reformas de salud sea esencial en el análisis y manejo de la factibilidad política de las mismas. El presente estudio enfoca su atención sobre la capacidad del Estado para impulsar exitosamente propuestas de reforma de salud, usando como estudios de caso Colombia y México. Se concentra específicamente en aquellos elementos que buscan incrementar la factibilidad política para formular, legislar e instrumentar propuestas de cambio. Para ello, toma como variables el contexto institucional en que se desenvuelven las iniciativas de reforma; la dinámica política de su proceso, y las características y estrategias de los equipos a cargo de dirigir el cambio (equipos de cambio. Entre los principales hallazgos que aquí se presentan destacan las claras similitudes entre las estrategias políticas usadas por los grupos encargados de la reforma de salud y aquellas aplicadas por equipos tecnocráticos similares, a cargo de las reformas económicas en estos países. Se argumenta que si bien estas estrategias resultaron efectivas en la creación de nuevos actores en el sector salud -tales como organizaciones privadas de financiamiento y provisión de servicios-, no tuvieron el mismo impacto en la transformación de los viejos actores -los servicios de los ministerios de salud y de los institutos de seguridad social-, lo que ha limitado considerablemente el avance de las reformas.

Innovative Methods for Promoting and Assessing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education

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Hiller, Gundula Gwenn

2010-01-01

This paper presents an intercultural training program that was developed by the Center for Intercultural Learning at the European University Viadrina in cooperation with students. A few of the student-generated activities will be described in detail. The program, aimed at enabling students to acquire intercultural competence, was developed at an…

Relationship of Gender and Academic Achievement to Finnish Students' Intercultural Sensitivity

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Holm, Kristiina; Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi

2009-01-01

This study examined the intercultural sensitivity of Finnish 12-16-year-old secondary school students (N=549) with a 23-item Intercultural Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ICSSQ). The ICSSQ is based on Bennett's (1993) Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS), which is a conceptual tool to situate certain reactions towards cultural…

Selective Intercultural Sensitivity to Different Sources of Cultural Identity: Study of Intercultural Sensitivity of Students at Teacher Education Programs of Georgia

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Tabatadze, Shalva; Gorgadze, Natia

2018-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the intercultural sensitivity of students in teacher educational programs at higher education institutes (HEIs) in Georgia. Design/methodology/approach: This research explored the intercultural sensitivity among 355 randomly selected students in teacher education programs at higher education…

Facing the "Challenge": School Leadership in Intercultural Schools

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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis

2014-01-01

The overarching purpose of this study is to examine the prospects of school leadership for the development of intercultural education. The article focuses on the ways in which Greek-Cypriot headteachers conceptualize: diversity and intercultural education; and their school leadership roles in culturally diverse settings. To this extent, interviews…

La educación intercultural como ejercicio de educación en valores

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Touriñán-López, J.M. (José M.)

2006-01-01

En este trabajo defendemos que la educación intercultural es un ejercicio de educación en valores que se fundamenta en dos proposiciones: El sentido axiológico de la comunicación intercultural. La comunicación intercultural como ejercicio de elección de valores. Nuestro postulado final es que la comunicación intercultural tiene sentido axiológico y, necesariamente, tenemos que elegir valores en la comunicación intercultural, de tal manera que la educación intercult...

RESENSI BUKU : Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication

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S Agung, Sarwititi; Indah, Yatri

2007-01-01

Buku ini terdiri dari dua bagian yakni bagian pertama komunikasi lintas budaya (cross cultural communication) (KLB) dan bagian kedua komunikasi antar budaya (KAB) (intercultural communication) dengan masing-masing bagian diberi pengantar. Buku ini merupakan ringkasan dari dua bagian “Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication” yang disunting oleh William B Gudykunst dari California State University. Ditulis oleh berbagai ahli komunikasi antar budaya dengan beragam bu...

Intercultural Training for US Business Expatriates in Taiwan

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Chien, Tien-Chen; McLean, Gary N.

2011-01-01

Purpose: This study aims to explore the intercultural training needs for US business expatriates on assignment in Taiwan. The study assesses Taiwan culture-specific training needs of US expatriates from the perspectives of both US expatriates and their Taiwanese colleagues and compares the perceived importance of these intercultural training needs…

Intercultural Education in Primary School: A Collaborative Project

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Santos, Marta; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena; Simões, Ana Raquel

2014-01-01

In this article, we present and discuss a collaborative project on intercultural education developed by a group of educational partners. The group was made up of 12 people representing different institutions in the community, namely primary schools, cultural and social associations and the local council. The project takes an intercultural approach…

Is intercultural mediation necessary? An approach from a communications perspective

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Susana Ridao Rodrigo

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Institutionalized intercultural mediation is expanding as a result of the increase in the number of immigrants in our country. Institutionalized intercultural mediation, which started in the early Nineties in Spain, is understood to mean activities carried out by ONGs and by the social services of the host nation. In line with Giménez (1997: 127, we understand intercultural mediation as a modality within the broader field of mediation. Because of its recent expansion, there is not at present a unique methodology accepted by experts in this field. In this paper, our aims are focused on describing various mediation techniques and the possibility of their application within intercultural contexts

Interculturality and the Study Abroad Experience: Students' Learning from the IEREST Materials

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Holmes, Prue; Bavieri, Luisa; Ganassin, Sara; Murphy, Jonathon

2016-01-01

This study investigated how a "while abroad" (IEREST) intercultural experiential learning programme (i) encouraged mobile student sojourners to explore the concept of "interculturality"; (ii) promoted their intercultural engagement/communication during their stay abroad; and (iii) invited them to reflect on their own…

Gesture-based mobile training of intercultural behavior

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Rehm, Matthias; Leichtenstern, Karin

2012-01-01

Cultural heuristics determine acceptable verbal and non-verbal behavior in interpersonal encounters and are often the main reason for problems in intercultural communication. In this article, we present an approach to intercultural training of non-verbal behaviors that makes use of enculturated...... virtual agents, i.e. interactive systems that take cultural heuristics for interpreting and generating behavior into account. Because current trends in intercultural training highlight the importance of a coaching approach, i.e. the ability to offer training units anytime and anywhere, the system...... of the application itself, emphasizing the importance of situated role-plays. Two evaluation studies are presented next that analyze the usability of the approach as well as the more important question of whether training with the system gives better results than traditional methods....

Incorporating Intercultural Communication Activities in English Language Classes

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Velasco, Daniel

2017-01-01

Intercultural Communication has become a relevant focal point within a variety of fields--science, psychology, politics, journalism, economics, and education, to name a few. Yet, current university students may not even be aware of Intercultural Communication's role in these fields, as well as their studies and future careers. A survey was first…

Reframing Teachers' Intercultural Learning as an Emotional Process

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Jokikokko, Katri

2016-01-01

The importance of emotions in the process of intercultural learning has been recognised, but the topic has not been extensively theorised. This theoretical review article synthesises the research literature on emotions in the context of teachers' intercultural learning. The article argues that emotions are a vital part of any change, and thus play…

Role of Teacher in Forming Experience of Intercultural Interaction in Students

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V I Kazarenkov

2014-12-01

Full Text Available The article considers the role of the teacher in the realization of one of the significant aspects of the problem of forming the experience of intercultural interaction in higher school students. The significance of personal and professional resources of the higher school teacher for the effective development in the future experts the requirement for intercultural interaction, the experience of intercultural interaction is revealed. The separate directions and forms of the activity of the teacher aimed at forming in students the experience of intercultural interaction in socially-educational space of the higher school are presented.

Género, salud materna y la paradoja perinatal

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Simone Grilo DINIZ

2010-12-01

Full Text Available En los últimos 20 años mejoraron prácticamente todos los indicadores de salud materna en el Brasil, así como hubo un amplio acceso a los servicios de salud. Gender, maternal health and the perinatal paradox1 Gênero, saúde materna e o paradoxo perinatal Género, salud materna y la paradoja perinatal REFLEXÕES SOBRE HUMANIZAÇÃO E A REALIDADE DOS SERVIÇOS REFLECTIONS ON HUMANIZATION AND THE REALITY OF HEALTH SERVICES REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA HUMANIZACIÓN Y LA REALIDAD DE LOS SERVICIOS 50 // Rev Tempus Actas Saúde Col Paradoxalmente, no existe ninguna evidencia de mejora de la mortalidad materna. El objetivo de este texto es ofrecer elementos para comprender esta paradoja, a través de la evaluación de los modelos típicos de asistencia al parto, en el Sistema Único de Salud (SUS y en el sector privado. Analizaremos las propuestas de cambio para una asistencia basada en evidencias sobre la seguridad de estos modelos, su relación con los derechos de las mujeres, y con los conflictos de interés y resistencias al cambio de los modelos. Examinamos los presupuestos de género que modulan la asistencia y los sesgos de género en la investigación en este campo, que se expresan en la sobrevalorización de los beneficios de la tecnología, y en la subvalorización o en la negación de los desconfortos y efectos adversos de las intervenciones. Creencias de la cultura sexual no raramente son consideradas como explicaciones ‘científicas’ sobre el cuerpo, la parturición y la sexualidad, y se reflejan en la imposición de sufrimientos y riesgos innecesarios, en las intervenciones dañinas a la integridad genital, y en la negación del derecho a acompañantes. Este ‘pesimismo del parto’ es instrumento para favorecer, por comparación, el modelo de la cesárea de rutina. Por fin, discutimos como el uso de la categoría género puede contribuir para promover derechos y cambios institucionales, como en el caso de los acompañantes en el parto.

A Critical Analysis and Applied Intersectionality Framework with Intercultural Queer Couples.

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Chan, Christian D; Erby, Adrienne N

2018-01-01

Intercultural queer couples are growing at an extensive rate in the United States, exemplifying diversity across multiple dimensions (e.g., race, ethnicity, sexuality, affectional identity, gender identity) while experiencing multiple converging forms of oppression (e.g., racism, heterosexism, genderism). Given the dearth of conceptual and empirical literature that unifies both dimensions related to intercultural and queer, applied practices and research contend with a unilateral approach focusing exclusively on either intercultural or queer couples. Intersectionality theory has revolutionized critical scholarship to determine overlapping forms of oppression, decenter hegemonic structures of power relations and social contexts, and enact a social justice agenda. This article addresses the following aims: (1) an overview of the gaps eliciting unilateral approaches to intercultural queer couples; (2) an illustration of intersectionality's theoretical underpinnings as a critical approach; and (3) applications for insights in practices and research with intercultural queer couples.

A Study on the Level of Intercultural Knowledge among Malaysian Secondary School Students

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Fatin Najwa Amelia binti Marsani

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Malaysia is typified by three major ethnic groups namely Malay, Chinese and Indian.  The evolution of national unity in Malaysia, which is based on acceptance and tolerance towards different cultures has been allowed to flourish in tandem with the realization of national aspirations.  Even though education system is seen to be the best tool to cultivate team work among these three major ethnic groups, contemporary research reveals that there is still a lack of intercultural embedment in both tertiary and non-tertiary settings.  Worst, non-tertiary setting national schools are seen as the breeding ground of racial polarization.  Thus, the main objectives of this research is to explore the level of intercultural knowledge that can enhance intercultural awareness among Malaysian secondary school students.  Data was collected using a structured survey questionnaire to elicit responses from Form Four students in one national secondary school in Penang, Malaysia on their level of intercultural knowledge.  The results of this study shows low level of intercultural knowledge among secondary school students and it indicates poor intercultural awareness among them in the contexts of intercultural knowledge.  This suggest that classroom intervention is needed to improve the students’ intercultural knowledge and at the same time improve their intercultural sensitivity towards other cultures.

Educación popular en salud para la educación en sexualidad en un movimiento social rural brasileño

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Luiz Fabiano Zanatta

2017-05-01

Full Text Available Sustentado en los conceptos de Paulo Freire, el marco metodológico de la Educación Popular en Salud (EPS para la educación en sexualidad proporciona una mayor adecuación de las acciones, por incluir la participación social y las dimensiones sociales, históricas y culturales de las personas. El objetivo de esta nota es comunicar una experiencia de EPS para la educación en sexualidad, de un proyecto de trabajo comunitario desarrollado junto a estudiantes de 10 a 28 años de edad de las Escuelas Itinerantes y comunidades del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST del Estado de Paraná, Brasil. El trabajo aporta elementos para que puedan ser desarrollados proyectos similares, no solo para la educación en sexualidad, sino también para otros problemas de interés en salud pública, ya que evidencia una forma de garantizar la participación social efectiva en las estrategias de promoción para la salud en sus distintas dimensiones.

The Intercultural Sensitivity of Chilean Teachers Serving an Immigrant Population in Schools

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Morales Mendoza, Karla; Sanhueza Henríquez, Susan; Friz Carrillo, Miguel; Riquelme Bravo, Paula

2017-01-01

The objective of this article is to evaluate the intercultural sensitivity of teachers working in culturally diverse classrooms, and to analyse differences in intercultural sensitivity based on the gender, age, training (advanced training courses), and intercultural experience of the teachers. A quantitative approach with a comparative descriptive…

An Analysis of the Use of Autobiographical Narrative for Teachers' Intercultural Learning

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Cloonan, Anne; Fox, Brandi; Ohi, Sarah; Halse, Christine

2017-01-01

The currency of intercultural education has risen worldwide in response to increased diversity within societies resulting from migration and global flows of populations. As intercultural education becomes a core responsibility of schooling, critical, detailed analysis of pedagogies for teachers' own intercultural learning is largely absent in…

The Cultural Heritage of Interculturalism

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Martin Peterson

2015-03-01

Full Text Available The article traces the cultural heritage of inter-cultural contexts, which have had profound impact over long time. It takes its departure in antique and culturally complex environments in the eastern Mediterranean. One millennium later corresponding inter-cultural conditions are explored in the western part of the Mediterranean. Both cases demonstrated their wide and long lasting influences on posterity. The cultural heritage implied the deep effects of cross-fertilization and ensuing cultural enrichment as the conflation of several well-endowed cultures took place. A similar, more powerful outcome followed the Radical Enlightenment in Leiden around 1650s and in Vienna some centuries later.

Reflections on Interculturality in Relation to Education and Work

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Lasonen, Johanna

2005-01-01

Internationalization and intercultural education may be contradictory concepts as the former supports globalization of the economy and the latter explains mutual learning and intercultural understanding. Higher education is preparing planners, leaders, managers, administrators, policy-makers and teachers to societies. Are pedagogical approaches of…

Las decisiones de los habitantes de Medellín en materia de servicios de salud Health seeking behavior in Medellin

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Luz Stella Álvarez C

2008-03-01

Full Text Available Objetivo: se realizó una investigación cualitativa para conocer las preferencias en materia de salud, de habitantes de diferentes estratos sociales de Medellín y las razones que explican esas preferencias. El objetivo era establecer si existían patrones de comportamiento entre los informantes y si algunos de los modelos teóricos contribuían a explicar esos patrones. Métodología: se entrevistaron 46 personas entre los meses de julio y septiembre de 2005. Se les preguntó si habían estado enfermos durante los últimos tres meses, qué pasos habían dado para solucionar su problema y por qué razón lo habían hecho. Resultados: se encontró que los factores que más pesan en las decisiones tomadas por los entrevistados son razones de índole cultural; es así como buscan recursos en la medicina popular; financiera porque de acuerdo a los recursos de que disponen, acceden a servicios de salud; e insatisfacción con la medicina occidental y con la prestación de los servicios de salud. Discusión: los elementos que las personas tuvieron en cuenta para decidir en salud fueron diferentes a aquellos planteados en los modelos teóricos de comportamiento en salud. Conclusiones: se necesita acudir a elementos aportados por otras teorías que consultan el contexto económico, social y cultural para la explicación de las decisiones en salud.Objective: a qualitative study was carried out to explore health choices of Medellín’s residents from different social strata and factors associated to decisions. The aim was to determine behavior patterns, if any, among informants and if a health behavior model contributes to explain any existing pattern. Methodology: forty six people from different social strata were interviewed from July to September 2005; informants were questioned about the diseases and ailments they suffered during the last three months, as well as the course of action taken and the reason for each decision made. Results: the study

Paisaje natural y envejecimiento saludable en el lugar: el caso del Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey (México)

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Sánchez-González, Diego; Adame Rivera, Lydia Marcela; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Vicente

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La investigación analiza los factores del paisaje natural cotidiano que favorecen el envejecimiento saludable en el lugar y la calidad de vida de las personas mayores residentes en los límites del Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey (México). La metodología ha consistido en la utilización de métodos como fotovoz y mapas mentales aplicados a grupos de discusión por personas mayores, encuestas y Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Los resultados indican que la exposición a elementos naturales ...

Unpacking Virtual and Intercultural Spaces: A Presentation of a Conceptual Framework to Investigate the Connection between Technology and Intercultural Learning

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Pedersen, Rikke; Jørgensen, Mette; Harrison, Roger

This paper presents a framework for the development of research within the emerging areas of internationalisation and technology that connect to build potential learning spaces within intercultural and global settings.......This paper presents a framework for the development of research within the emerging areas of internationalisation and technology that connect to build potential learning spaces within intercultural and global settings....

Promoción de la salud y un entorno laboral saludable

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Sara Barrios Casas

Full Text Available En este estudio se exponen abordajes sobre un entorno laboral saludable, presentándose las principales líneas en esta temática. Es en este sentido que un entorno laboral saludable promueve una buena salud, que es un recurso primordial para el desarrollo social, económico y personal, así como una importante dimensión de los ambientes laborales. Es por esta razón que, para que exista un entorno laboral saludable, se debe promover la participación de todos los actores para controlar, mejorar y mantener la salud y el bienestar de los trabajadores y, así, propender a un ambiente laboral saludable, donde se mejore la calidad de vida de toda la población, ya que este es uno de los bienes más preciados por las personas, comunidades y países. Es en este ámbito que los profesionales de enfermería, a través de la promoción en salud, van a promover entornos laborales saludables, fomentando el desarrollo personal, familiar y social, apoyando de esta manera al cumplimiento de las metas definidas por empleadores y trabajadores.

Alimentación saludable y autopercepción de salud

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Gemma Blázquez Abellán

2016-10-01

Conclusiones: En mayores de 50 años el nivel de salud autopercibida se asocia al cumplimiento de los criterios de una alimentación saludable, lo cual es independiente de otros hábitos de salud y de las principales variables sociodemográficas.

Developing Intercultural Teachers: The Mumbai Global Experience Project

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Johnson, Richard

2009-01-01

Interculturalism is a major theme that needs to inform the teaching and learning of all subjects in teacher education courses. Moreover, the practicum is an area where there needs to be more attention given to developing the attributes of an intercultural teacher. In 2008 I took a group of thirteen teacher education students on a three-week…

El imaginario de la horizontalidad como instrumento de subordinación: la Política de Salud pueblos indígenas en el multiculturalismo neoliberal chileno

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Carlos Piñones Rivera

Full Text Available Resumen El artículo desarrolla un análisis documental de la Política de Salud Pueblos Indígenas chilena desde la Antropología Médica Crítica. Entendiendo las políticas públicas como producciones ideológicas, la contextualiza en la apuesta gubernamental del “Multiculturalismo neoliberal”, analizando el sentido que en ese marco tienen los ejes de interculturalidad, equidad y participación, mostrando el carácter socioculturalista y voluntarista de los diagnósticos y abordajes que la constituyen. Desde un análisis de relaciones de hegemonía/subalternidad, muestra como la ahistoricidad que la caracteriza permite la producción de un imaginario de la horizontalidad en contextos de asimetría de poder, cumpliendo la función ideológica de sostener a la salud intercultural como respuesta ante el problema de la inequidad en salud, opacando la participación que esta política tiene en el proceso de producción de la misma inequidad. Se concluye interrogando la pertinencia de una política construida desde otros supuestos ideológicos.

Pema’s Tale: Intercultural Communication as Storytelling

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Ellen Rose

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Intercultural communication is typically conceptualized in terms of business-oriented models that focus on the binary differences between cultural groups. Beginning with Edward Hall, the foundational premise is that the basis of effective communication with people of cultures other than our own is a thorough understanding of the disparities between cultural groups. This paper argues that intercultural communication should entail not merely the business-like, efficient exchange of information with different others but the crucial development of a feeling of connection and an appreciation for diverse ways of being in the world. Building upon the work of Jerome Bruner, it further suggests that the focus on dissimilarities which traditional models enforce obscures a true understanding of how intercultural communications can be enabled by a fundamental similarity: the human impulse to make sense of the world through narrative.

Symmetry and Interculturality

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Marchis, Iuliana

2009-01-01

Symmetry is one of the fundamental concepts in Geometry. It is a Mathematical concept, which can be very well connected with Art and Ethnography. The aim of the article is to show how to link the geometrical concept symmetry with interculturality. For this mosaics from different countries are used.

'I believe they felt attacked': discursive representation and construction of interculturality in Spanish news television

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Pineda, Antonio; García-Jiménez, Leonarda; Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-

2016-01-01

This article discusses the representation of interculturality in the media. Interculturality, the interaction between two different cultures, has taken on greater importance in the social and human sciences. However, in the field of media communications the representation of interculturality has not received much attention. Thus, we are interested in analysing the media representation of interculturality in Spanish television news. We analyse the discursive construction of interculturality in...

Bilingual Intercultural Education in Ecuador: A Study of Social Demand

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Marcelo Bastidas Jiménez

2015-12-01

Full Text Available The Intercultural Bilingual Education System in Ecuador is guaranteed by the Constitution and assured by the Organic Law of Intercultural Bilingual Education, in a process that took a few decades to the indigenous population. The Ecuadorian state currently counts with a Model of Intercultural Bilingual Education that has its own structure, attached to the Ministry of Education and responsible for generating educational guidelines for 35 indigenous nationalities that coexist in the country. The objective of this study is to analyze the social demand for the Bachelor in Intercultural Bilingual Education, offered by Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. The analysis was carried out through two studies, one of them quantitative, addressed to educational institutions, and the other one qualitative and directed to government officials. The research objectives were to determine the need for graduates in Intercultural Bilingual Education, identify the desired profile of graduates of the career and academic requirements for a successful career. The results highlighted that the current presence of professionals in bilingual intercultural education is 0,65 per institution, with an average necessity of 1,85, which determines the existence of a demand in the next three years of 3 315 professionals. The main conclusion is that there is a significant demand for this career. Although the deficiencies of the current educational system, there in a strengthening trend.

Intercultural Education in Brazil: Between Conservatism and Radical Transformations

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Akkari, Abdeljalil

2012-01-01

This article analyses the emergence of intercultural education in the Brazilian educational system. After summarizing the debate on international convergence in intercultural education, it traces the development of interethnic relations in Brazil, describing the heavy legacy of slavery and colonization. It then investigates recently adopted…

Good Intentions Are Not Enough: A Decolonizing Intercultural Education

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Gorski, Paul C.

2008-01-01

Despite unquestionably good intentions on the part of most people who call themselves intercultural educators, most intercultural education practice supports, rather than challenges, dominant hegemony, prevailing social hierarchies, and inequitable distributions of power and privilege. In this essay I describe a philosophy of decolonizing…

Transnational Academic Mobility, Internationalization and Interculturality in Higher Education

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Kim, Terri

2009-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to consider the complex relations of transnational academic mobility, internationalization and interculturality in higher education. It is argued that, in the contemporaneous relations of the triad, "interculturality" disappears and the other two--transnational academic mobility and internationalization--are…

El sentido de los elementos del acto administrativo

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Santiago Maqueda

2010-01-01

y promoción del bien común. La conclusión que se ofrece es que cada uno de los elementos legales del acto administrativo encuentra fundamentación filosófica en uno o varios de los elementos de la noción de "ley", y que esta es una manera idónea de justificar el sentido de cada uno de esos elementos legales.

Pre-Service Teacher Intercultural Sensitivity Assessment as a Basis for Addressing Multiculturalism

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Spinthourakis, J. A.; Karatzia-Stavlioti, E.; Roussakis, Y.

2009-01-01

The aim of the present study was to assess the cultural sensitivity of a sample of Greek University Elementary education students using an adjusted version of Chen and Starosta's Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, which is based on Bennett's Inventory on Intercultural Sensitivity. Results show that Greek student intercultural sensitivity is already…

Violencia física contra la mujer: una propuesta de abordaje desde un servicio de salud

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María Fernanda Rivadeneira Guerrero

2017-05-01

Full Text Available Introducción: La violencia física contra la mujer es un problema de salud pública y una necesidad sentida por la comunidad, que exige una respuesta desde los servicios de salud. El objetivo de esta investigación fue desarrollar un modelo de abordaje a partir del servicio de salud que permita la detección, apoyo y seguimiento de estos casos. Materiales y Métodos: Se realizó una investigación-acción en un servicio de primer nivel de atención. Participaron personal de salud. Inicialmente se realizó un diagnóstico situacional para evaluar: percepción de violencia física contra la mujer, calidad del servicio y organización funcional ante casos de violencia. Se desarrolló un modelo de abordaje para enfrentar este problema a partir de: formación del personal de salud, reorganización funcional del servicio de salud y diseño de herramientas de detección y seguimiento. Se evaluó la intervención a partir de indicadores operativos y evaluación de su impacto a corto plazo. Resultados: Se logró que el personal se capacite y empodere del problema; se introdujeron elementos operativos para la reorganización funcional de la unidad operativa: tamizaje para violencia intrafamiliar, flujograma de atención y hoja de seguimiento. En las tres semanas siguientes a la implementación de estos instrumentos, tres casos de violencia fueron detectados y abordados por el servicio de salud. Discusión y Conclusiones: La metodología de investigación-acción permitió que los actores se empoderen del problema de violencia física contra la mujer, diseñen y apliquen herramientas para abordarlo. Es necesaria una evaluación posterior para determinar su impacto. Cómo citar este artículo: Rivadeneira MF. Violencia física contra la mujer: una propuesta de abordaje desde un servicio de salud. Rev Cuid. 2017; 8(2: 1656-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v8i2.404

Intercultural challenges in offshore software development outsourcing relationship: an empirical study

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Khan, S.U.; Azeem, M.I.

2016-01-01

The importance of intercultural challenges is recognized by both the practitioners and researchers in offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) relationships. These challenges affect almost all the activities involved in offshore software development outsourcing relationships especially communication, mutual understanding, interpretation and decision making processes etc. which in turn leads to project failure. In our previous published study we identified, through systematic literature review (SLR), various intercultural challenges faced by vendors in OSDO relationship. The aim of this study was to validate these findings through industry practitioners and to identify its intensity as well as to identify any other intercultural challenges, faced by vendor organizations in OSDO relationships. We performed questionnaire surveys with 41 experts from different software companies. A seven point likert scale was used to determine the significance of each intercultural challenge. Our findings indicate that all the intercultural challenges are critical for OSDO vendors. We further analyzed these challenges based on different variables, such as company size, company type, expert's job/position etc. We have identified that there is no significant difference in the intercultural challenges based on company type and expert's experience level. We identified that language and language proficiency is the most commonly agreed and difference in social behavior is the most commonly disagreed intercultural challenge in the category of both sizes of company. Similarly language and language proficiency is the most commonly agreed challenge based on experts job positions. (author)

From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship

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Byram, Michael, Ed.; Golubeva, Irina, Ed.; Hui, Han, Ed.; Wagner, Manuela, Ed.

2016-01-01

The contributors to this volume have collaborated to present their work on introducing competences in intercultural communication and citizenship into foreign language education. The book examines how learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality, and shows how teachers and researchers from primary to university education can…

UTILIZACIÓN DEL TELÉFONO MÓVIL PARA EL FOMENTO DE HÁBITOS SALUDABLES EN ADOLESCENTES. ESTUDIO CON GRUPOS FOCALES

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Carme Carrion

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamento: El Proyecto PEGASO pretende diseñar un sistema tecnológico dirigido a adolescentes europeos para fomentar hábitos de vida saludables. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar las percepciones de adolescentes, sus progenitores y profesores el uso de las tecnologías móviles, la salud y la influencia de las tecnologías en la promoción de estilos de vida saludables en cuanto a alimentación y actividad física. Métodos: Estudio cualitativo basado en datos primarios obtenidos mediante análisis de cuatro grupos focales (tres de adolescentes entre 13 y 15 años y uno de adultos, formado por padres y profesores que se realizaron en abril y mayo de 2015. Las transcripciones se analizaron bajo la perspectiva del análisis del contenido. Resultados: Emergieron cuatro categorías: 1: marco social y cultural, 2: adolescentes y salud, 3: papel de la tecnología en la vida de los adolescentes y 4: uso de la tecnología para adquirir hábitos más saludables. En cada categoría se identificaron subcategorías vinculadas al nexo entre adolescentes y salud: concepto holístico de salud, identificación de salud/enfermedad con edad adulta, relación de la salud con sentirse en buena forma y aceptación social. En relación al papel que juega la tecnología en la vida de los adolescentes, las subcategorías obtenidas fueron: conexión con otros, elemento de entretenimiento/juego, uso omnipresente del móvil y riesgos asociados a la dependencia excesiva de la tecnología. Las diferencias entre adolescentes y adultos fueron mínimas. Conclusiones: Tanto adolescentes como sus progenitores y profesores consideraron que la tecnología puede ser un buen aliado para fomentar hábitos saludables. El uso de la tecnología es eficaz en la medida que les ayude a mejorar y mantener su autoestima, de forma divertida y utilizando sus propios códigos de comunicación (fundamentalmente audiovisuales, partiendo de una percepción holística e integrada de la

Building communities through performance: emerging approaches to interculturality.

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Parent, Roger

2009-08-01

Changing definitions of culture are modifying approaches to intercultural education and training. This paper outlines the principal features of these emerging models for innovation and capacity building in communities. Semiotics provides a theoretical frame for the interdisciplinary analysis of research on cultural competency, especially regarding recent studies on "cultural intelligence", performance and creativity. Interdisciplinary research on cultural literacy is shifting from cultural knowledge to intercultural know-how. This know-how translates into the individual's capacity to innovate and illustrates the influence of culture on individual and group performance. Research on cultural intelligence, performance and creativity provides promising new models for capacity building in communities. These approaches constitute a synthesis of previous research on cultural competency and provide new avenues for innovative social action through intercultural exchange.

Intercultural communication through the eyes of patients: experiences and preferences.

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Paternotte, E.; Dulmen, S. van; Bank, L.; Seeleman, C.M.; Scheele, F.

2017-01-01

Objectives: To explore patients’ preferences and experiences regarding intercultural communication which could influence the development of intercultural patient-centred communication training. Methods: This qualitative study is based on interviews with non-native patients. Thirty non-native

Comunicar para la salud

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Lic. Eva Bocco

1998-01-01

Full Text Available Con este trabajo quiero plantearles una inquietud en torno al rol que nos cabe a los comunicadores en el área de la salud desde la perspectiva de la comunicación para la salud. ¿Se puede pensar la salud pública desvinculada de la comunicación? ¿La comunicación es posible sin la existencia de salud en la comunidad? ¿Qué puede hacer un comunicador en el ministerio de salud? ¿Puede un estado desarrollar políticas de salud sin la presencia de la comunicación?

INVESTIGATING INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS’ RESPONSES OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING

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Fauzi Miftakh

2015-12-01

Full Text Available This study aimed at discovering the students‟ responses to the implementation of intercultural language learning at the sixth semester students of the English Education Department, University of Singaperbangsa Karawang, Indonesia. The focus of the study was on 1 the students‟ general attitudes toward the course, 2 the students‟ attitudes toward the implementation of teaching and learning and 3 the students‟ responsibility as an intercultural person. This study was designed as a descriptive qualitative study that involved 31 participants. The data were collected through questionnaire and interviews. Based on the findings, the students gave positive responses to the implementation of intercultural language learning and they showed a greater interest in participating in the course. The intercultural language learning also proved that the students were given the opportunity to become intercultural speakers either during the teaching and learning process or in their daily life. Finally, it recommends that the intercultural approach should be implemented by other English teachers in any subject and at all levels of students.

Learning to Live Together: The Contribution of Intercultural Education

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Martins, Isabel Ferreira

2008-01-01

This article reflects the 17 years of experience of the "Entreculturas project" in Portugal, where the "Learning to live together" dimension has played a central role. It questions how intercultural education and training can contribute to promote and model an intercultural citizenship societal project and looks back at the…

Critical Thinking in the Intercultural Context: Investigating EFL Textbooks

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Sobkowiak, Pawel

2016-01-01

The multicultural world has made intercultural teaching necessary. It should focus on students' ability to comprehend quickly and accurately, and then act appropriately and effectively in a culturally complex environment in order to achieve the desired goal. Intercultural competence is important for successful communication across cultures, and so…

Intercultural Education in the Multicultural and Multilingual Bolivian Context

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Drange, Live Danbolt

2011-01-01

Intercultural bilingual education (IBE) has been discussed in Bolivia since the 1970s. The first Educational Act with a bilingual and intercultural curriculum adapted to cultural and linguistic diversity--Ley de Reforma Educativa--was passed in 1994 with implementation starting in 1996. However, discussions continued: when the Evo Morales…

Social Representation of Intercultural Exchange in an International University

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Kudo, Kazuhiro

2016-01-01

This paper provides an interpretive investigation into the social representation of intercultural exchange at one of the newly established international universities in Japan. The author conducted quasi-structured interviews with 5 staff members and 22 students to gain insight into their perceptions of intercultural exchange and interactions. The…

Introduction: Borders in Translation and Intercultural Communication

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Jonathan Evans

2017-09-01

Full Text Available The introduction to this special issue discusses the notion of border and its position in current scholarship in translation studies and intercultural communication. It then analyses ways in which borders can be useful for thinking, focusing particularly on Walter Mignolo’s notion of “border thinking”. It reviews how borders are viewed in both translation studies and intercultural communication and offers some possible directions for future research before introducing the papers in this special issue.

Education as a Factor of Intercultural Communication

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Grozdanka Gojkov

2011-01-01

Full Text Available The paper considers alternative constructivism as a possibility of theoretical starting point regarding education as a factor of intercultural communication. The introductory part of the paper deals with Kelly’s personal construct theory permeating the arguments in favour of the theoretical research thesis referring to the issue of the extent the pluralism of European culture space interferes with national culture through education. Furthermore, the paper considers the way pedagogy has been searching for more comprehensive self-observation, self-reflection and self-determination on its way to self-change in order to ensure freedom of personal action according to contemporary philosophical discussions. The importance of education as a factor of intercultural communication has been supported by the outcomes of an explorative empirical research, which is an element bonding all the reflections in the text. Finally, the key competences for intercultural communication have been stated in the paper.

Intercultural education: Issues statement valuation and ethnic indian school Pan Kararu

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Warna Vieira Rodrigues

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The Indigenous Education is distinguished from four dimensions: community, specific, and different cultures. This paper aims to investigate the issue of intercultural situations from everyday school Pankararus Ezekiel, in order to contribute to discussions on intercultural dialogue in areas of cultural clash. At school we Pankararus Ezekiel identified through ethnographic research two situations involving intercultural theme: in the classroom, in the confrontation of specific knowledge and universal knowledge of the sayings, and relations between indigenous teachers and non-indigenous counterparts. Porting, we realize that education differently, based on a proposal to interculturality is, above all, understand the other perspective of recognition and respect of cultural diversity in our country.

Variaciones sobre el modelo psicológico de salud biológica de Ribes: justificación y desarrollo

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Piña López, Julio Alfonso

2007-01-01

Con base en la propuesta interconductual de Kantor, en este trabajo se presentan algunas variaciones sobre el modelo psicológico de salud biológica de Ribes. Tanto por la lógica que le subyace como por las características de los elementos que lo conforman, se trata de un modelo de campo y multifactorial que pone especial énfasis en la interacción de un conjunto de variables psicológicas de tipo histórico y situacional, que probabilizan la práctica de los comportamientos instrumentales de prev...

Aspectos beneficiosos del zinc en la salud ocular. Intervención en el tratamiento de patologías oculares

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Martínez Ortega, Patricia Nerea

2016-01-01

En el presente trabajo de investigación se lleva a cabo una revisión bibliográfica del efecto del zinc en la salud ocular, realizándose una evaluación de sus aspectos metabólicos en el organismo y valorando los efectos beneficiosos y los posibles efectos tóxicos de una suplementación con altas dosis de este elemento. Los efectos del zinc en el ser humano son principalmente beneficiosos ya que se trata de un oligoelemento esencial para el mismo y cuya deficiencia ocasiona severos problemas ...

Caracterización de un colectivo de cuidadores informales de acuerdo a su percepción de la salud

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Trinidad Lorenzo; José Carlos Millán-Calenti; Laura Lorenzo-López; Ana Maseda

2014-01-01

La salud autopercibida es un elemento clave a la hora de minimizar el impacto socioeconómico generado por el cuidado de personas mayores con dependencia. En este estudio, se pretende caracterizar a un colectivo de personas cuidadoras informales de acuerdo a dicha variable. Se realizó un estudio transversal con un grupo de cuidadores seleccionados por muestreo no probabilístico incidental, en el área urbana de A Coruña y área rural de Mondoñedo (Lugo). En nuestro estudio, el género y el hábita...

Servicios de salud ocupacional

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Augusto V. Ramírez

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Los Servicios de Salud Ocupacional tienen por misión prevenir las enfermedades causadas o relacionadas con el trabajo desarrollando programas preventivo-promocionales de salud, cuya base son los exámenes ocupacionales. La vigilancia de salud con estos exámenes es la herramienta de mayor uso en prevención y control de las enfermedades laborales. Su manejo técnico por el médico ocupacionista permite reconocer daño a la salud del trabajador en las primeras etapas de una enfermedad ocupacional. Gestionar la salud en el trabajo mediante exámenes periódicos deviene en la acción esencial de los Servicios de Salud Ocupacional. Es responsabilidad de la Empresa conformar y mantener servicios de salud laboral dirigidos por un médico especializado en medicina del trabajo e integrados por un equipo que incluya enfermería ocupacional, higiene industrial, personal técnico y especialidades afines de salud.

Intercultural Mediation

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Dragos Marian Radulescu; Denisa Mitrut

2012-01-01

The Intercultural Mediator facilitates exchanges between people of different socio-cultural backgrounds and acts as a bridge between immigrants and national and local associations, health organizations, services and offices in order to foster integration of every single individual. As the use mediation increases, mediators are more likely to be involved in cross-cultural mediation, but only the best mediators have the opportunity to mediate cross border business disputes or international poli...

Intercultural aspects and success factors of European companies entering the Indian market

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Pilný, Ondřej

2015-01-01

This bachelor thesis focuses on the Intercultural aspects and success factors of European companies entering the Indian market. Its main objective is to evaluate Intercultural aspects and success factors. Partial aims are to evaluate attractive-ness of chosen emerging segments in Indian market. Analyse external business environment in India. Recommend market entry strategy, business communica-tion and Intercultural management.

Reflexiones para el abordaje de la salud, el cuerpo y el movimiento corporal en la escuela

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Nancy Molina Achury

2013-10-01

educación. Esta tensión frecuentemente es sustentada en una lógica de imposición vertical de sentidos, procesos y acciones por parte del primero sobre el segundo. Este escrito pretende aportar elementos conceptuales y estratégicos para una visión crítica, al tiempo que plantea elementos para el diseño de propuestas de articulación, que ubican como centralidad la necesidad de configurar un objeto común que oriente el sentido de las acciones en torno al proceso de promoción de la autonomía. Para ello se propone el diseño de propuestas de trabajo que retomen reflexiones en torno a cuatro aspectos: el proceso de construcción de conocimiento y las posibilidades que ofrece la incorporación de elementos que hacen parte del llamado nuevo paradigma, la concepción de la salud como proceso histórico centrado en las relaciones sociales que impactan de manera integral a los sujetos y grupos, la visión del cuerpo y del movimiento corporal más allá de receptáculo de las condiciones de deterioro de la calidad de vida, y el lugar de la educación en la construcción de sujetos autónomos.

CODE CHOICE WITHIN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG ETHNIC MINORITY IN BRUNEI

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Fatimah Chuchu

2015-07-01

Full Text Available The influences of globalisation and multilingualism have caused linguistic diversity and emergence of interesting and unique sociolinguistic phenomena, for instance, language contact in intercultural communication. As the study of intercultural communication has yet to be studied at large, this research takes the opportunity to embark on a descriptive study of code choice within intercultural communication, relating to the ethnic minorities in Brunei Darussalam. This investigation aims to identify these ethnics’ preferable code choice within intercultural communication, and their needs and motivations practising those codes in a shared multilingual setting. Involving empirical investigation, this study was conducted on 60 native Brunei ethnics in Mukim Ukong, Tutong District. Research found that study involving multilingual settings and intercultural communications are rather relatively complex sociolinguistic phenomena, where speakers would employ different dialects or languages at an episode of communication, but still mutually understood by each other. To some extent, some speakers also accommodate their speech styles or languages to ease communication process between parties. The hegemony of globalisation, local vernacular, speakers’ background and setting are among others influenced the selection of their everyday code choice.

Generalidades sobre promoción y educación para la salud Overview on promotion and health education

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Yoimy Díaz Brito

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica con el objetivo de profundizar en el tema de la promoción de salud. Se explica cómo desarrollarla, a partir de la utilización de la herramienta de educación para la salud, para lo cual se tienen en cuenta como premisa fundamental, las necesidades de enseñanza y aprendizaje en un individuo, familia o comunidad. Las técnicas educativas que se utilizan, constituyen un elemento clave para influir de forma positiva, en los comportamientos de los seres humanos.A literature review was conducted in order to pursue the subject of health promotion. It explains how to develop, from the use of the health education tools. To this aim, the needs of teaching and learning in an individual, family or community are considered as fundamental premise. The educational techniques that we use are a key to positively influence on the behavior of humans.

The Relationships Among Personality, Intercultural Communication, and Cultural Self-Efficacy in Nursing Students.

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Chan, Joanne Chung-Yan; Sy, Po Yi

2016-12-01

The demand for nurses to provide transcultural nursing care is rising. However, little is known about the relationships among the dimensions of nurse personality, intercultural communication, and cultural self-efficacy in the provision of this care. The aims of this study were to examine the associations among personality, intercultural communication, and cultural self-efficacy in nursing students and to compare intercultural communication and cultural self-efficacy between first-year and third-year nursing students. One hundred twenty-six Chinese students completed a questionnaire that consisted of three scales that were designed to measure intercultural communication, cultural self-efficacy (cultural concepts, transcultural nursing functions, and cultural knowledge related to South Asians), and personality, respectively. Intercultural communication correlated positively with the three subscales of personality, agreeableness (r = .22, p nursing functions correlated positively with intercultural communication (r = .36, p Asians correlated positively with agreeableness (r = .20, p nursing functions, or self-efficacy in the cultural knowledge related to South Asians. Personality assessments should be included in the nursing student recruitment process. Furthermore, nurse educators should focus greater attention on enhancing the cultural self-efficacy and intercultural communication skills of their students.

In the Name of Interculturality: On Colonial Legacies in Intercultural Education

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Aman, Robert

2015-01-01

This paper scrutinises the ways in which students who have completed a university course on interculturality distinguish between sameness and otherness in attempts to integrate, relate to and build a bridge to those deemed culturally different. It makes use of interviews to analyse the factors that shape the interpretation of otherness and…

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In this article I attempt to provide an ethical framework for inter-cultural dialogue, which I argue can contribute to efforts at facilitating multicultural understanding. Such an ethical framework for inter-cultural dialogue which finds its roots in postmodernism, I will argue, provides the impetus for the creation of critical civil ...

SKILL2E: Online Reflection for Intercultural Competence Gain

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Tabuenca Cuevas, María Felicidad; Abermann, Gabriele; Eder, Rosalyn Baldonado

2012-01-01

The project SKILL2E aims to equip students on international work placements with intercultural competences. The model proposes a double loop learning cycle in which a shared online diary using guided questions is used for reflection. Preliminary results illustrate how this collaborative approach is conducive to the development of intercultural competences.

Emociones y salud

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Fernández Castro, Jordi

1994-01-01

En este articulo se plantea la relación entre las emociones humanas y la salud. Se explica que las emociones no influyen en la salud a través de un unico mecanisrno, sino quepueden ejercer esta influencia de varias maneras distintas que, además, inciden en diferentes momentos delproceso de enfermar. De esta manera se muestra que: a) las emociones negativas constituyen un riesgo para la salud; b) los estados emocionales crònicos afectan a los hábitos de salud; c) los episodios emocionales agud...

How do medical specialists value their own intercultural communication behaviour? A reflective practice study.

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Paternotte, E.; Scheele, F.; Rossum, T.R. van; Seeleman, C.M.; Scherpbier, A.J.J.A.; Dulmen, A.M. van

2016-01-01

Background: Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how

How do medical specialists value their own intercultural communication behaviour? : A reflective practice study

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Paternotte, E; Scheele, F; van Rossum, T R; Seeleman, M C; Scherpbier, A J J A; van Dulmen, A M

2016-01-01

BACKGROUND: Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how

How do medical specialists value their own intercultural communication behaviour? A reflective practice study

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Paternotte, E.; Scheele, F.; Rossum, T.R. van; Seeleman, M.C.; Scherpbier, A.J.; Dulmen, A.M. van

2016-01-01

BACKGROUND: Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how

Intercultural Leadership Toolkit for Librarians: Building Awareness to Effectively Serve Diverse Multicultural Populations

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Allard, Suzie; Mehra, Bharat; Qayyum, M. Asim

2007-01-01

This paper presents five tools for librarians to use in building effective intercultural communication that reaches out to diverse populations. Librarians can more successfully cross intercultural boundaries if they are aware of the key tenets of intercultural communication and information provision, and then apply the five leadership tools in…

LA MUJER EN LAS PROFESIONES DE LA SALUD A MULHER NAS PROFISSÕES DE SAÚDE THE WOMAN IN THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS

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Laura Rueda C

2006-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo busca establecer, a partir de la detección de competencias afectivas entre las jóvenes que se encuentran estudiando profesiones de la salud, una reflexión acerca de la presencia femenina en esta área profesional. El análisis incluye elementos del desarrollo moral femenino, de la vocación por cuidar y prevenir el riesgo, y del perfil profesional que se va generando en las carreras dedicadas al cuidado de la salud humanaO presente artigo procura estabelecer, a partir da detecção de competencias afetivas entre as jovens estudantes nas profissões de saúde, uma reflexão sobre a presença feminina nesta área profissional. A análise inclui elementos do desenvolvimento moral feminino, da vocação de cuidar e previnir o risco, bem como do perfil profissional que vai sendo gerado nas profissionais dedicadas ao cuidado da saúde humanaThis paper tries to establish, through identifying the affective capacities of young women who are studying health care professions, a reflection about the feminine presence in this professional sector. This analysis includes some aspects of the feminine moral development, the vocation to care and to prevent risks and the professional profile that has been developed in careers dedicated to health care

Perceptions of Chinese and Tanzanian employees regarding intercultural collaboration

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Claude-Hélène Mayer

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Orientation: Chinese organisations have a long tradition of operating in Tanzania, and even today, Tanzania is the gateway for Chinese interests entering sub-Saharan markets. Research purpose: The purpose of this article was to explore and understand the perceptions of Chinese and Tanzanian employees working in a private Chinese organisation in Tanzania. Motivation for the study: The authors would like to contribute to the discourse on Chinese and Tanzanian collaboration in southern Africa to improve context-based intercultural collaboration from a human resource management perspective. Research design, approach and method: The study used a case study approach within a hermeneutical research paradigm. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observation in a selected private Chinese organisation. Data were analysed by content analysis using Terre Blanche’s five-step model of content analysis. Main findings: The findings show that intercultural collaboration is a challenge for both Chinese and Tanzanian employees. Chinese employees share a mostly positive view of their organisation, while Tanzanians tend to be more critical. Members of both groups, however, feel that intercultural collaboration could improve if members of ‘the other group’ made recommended changes. Despite this, both groups adhere to their perceptions of ‘the other’ and maintain a favourable view of the self. Practical/managerial implications: Chinese organisations need to create opportunities for the improvement of intercultural collaboration by reflecting on the self and ‘the other’ in terms of understanding thought styles, experiences, knowledge, and the impact of cultural values on collaboration behaviour. As such, cultural knowledge-sharing might contribute to a sustainable long-term intercultural collaboration. Contribution: The study contributes to filling the gap of in-depth qualitative research on perceptions of Chinese and Tanzanian

Critical thinking in the intercultural context: Investigating EFL textbooks

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Paweł Sobkowiak

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The multicultural world has made intercultural teaching necessary. It should focus on students’ ability to comprehend quickly and accurately, and then act appropriately and effectively in a culturally complex environment in order to achieve the desired goal. Intercultural competence is important for successful communication across cultures, and so is critical thinking since the two, if they are not “parallel” (Bennett, 2013, at least overlap (Deardorff, 2009. This article tries to shed light on the linkage between intercultural and critical thinking skills and reports on the findings of research done on whether and to what extent EFL textbooks used in Polish schools contribute to fostering critical thinking skills in students. The study analyzed the cultural content of 20 coursebooks to check whether they go beyond merely depicting the target culture, or various foreign cultures, and involve students in practicing critical thinking, that is, prompt them to explore intercultural encounters and processes, and scrutinize how diverse cultures influence their own understanding of reality. The research revealed an insignificant and limited capacity of the textbooks to develop students’ critical thinking.

El sistema local de salud en la región Guarijío/Makurawe de Sonora: retos y perspectivas

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Jesús Armando Haro Encinas

1996-01-01

Full Text Available Desde fines de 1992,un equipo interdisciplinario de investigadores de varias instituciones ha venido conduciendo un proyecto de investigación-acción en la región Guarijío / Makurawe de Sonora, con el objetivo de formular un modelo de atención a la salud aplicable a los grupos indígenas en la entidad. 1 Siguiendo el enfoque de los Sistemas Locales de Salud (SILOS, se aplicaron diversas estrategias y metodologías, planteadas de acuerdo a los intereses disciplinarios de los participantes en el equipo. Como resultado, se conformó una propuesta de análisis situacional de la región seleccionada para el estudio, dividida en 9 ejes con sus correspondientes líneas de acción o propuestas estratégicas. El modelo construido muestra que la interdependencia de los fenómenos implicados en el proceso salud / enfermedad en esta región indígena, amerita una visión interdisciplinaria capaz de dar cuenta de la particularidad que adquiere este proceso en el diagnóstico situacional de una región definida como intercultural, como también de un modelo de atención integral sustentado en el concurso de los recursos disponibles, la diversificación de actividades productivas y de otras acciones que reclaman un enfoque intersectorial y requieren para su implementación de la participación de la población.

The relation between intercultural competence, personality features and students’ intellectual development

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Gridunova Marina V.

2017-01-01

Full Text Available In the light of globalisation processes accompanied by an increase in interethnic tensions, the research on personality features that contribute to a more efficient functioning in the intercultural context has become fairly topical. The aim of the conducted research was to explore the relation between intercultural competence, personality features and the level of intellectual development of students (N=121, 45% male students of a general education secondary school in Moscow. Bennett’s developmental model of intercultural sensitivity was used as the basis for studying intercultural competence, while the Scale of intercultural sensitivity was used as a diagnostic instrument. Personality features were defined in accordance with the Five Factor Model and diagnosed via the shorter version of the Five Factors questionnaire. The level of mental (intellectual development was measured using the normative School test of intellectual development (STID-2. Based on research results, it has been established that personality features such as conscientiousness, extraversion and neuroticism are related to the indicators of intercultural competence in the examined students, whereby the intensity of the relations is by far higher in the group of students with the lower level of intellectual development. At the same time, the students whose level of intellectual development is higher are more inclined towards accepting cultural differences, while those with the lower level of intellectual development tend to absolutise them.

Interculturality in education. Situation and foundations of intercultural education based on values / La interculturalidad en la educación. Situación y fundamentos de la educación intercultural basada en valores

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Salvador Peiró i Grègory

2012-10-01

Full Text Available Cultural diversity is reflected in the classroom. It is one of the crucial variables that have influenced the climate in education centers. This research aims to analyze the complexity of intercultural education, provide theoretical foundations to address the problem of integration of foreign students in the educational system, and propose alternative models of integration to optimize the management of interculturality. The methodology is based on descriptive design. We use quantitative and qualitative techniques. We employ, as a research tool, a questionnaire developed by the Interdisciplinary Group Theory of Education at the University of Alicante. The results of the questionnaire, administered to 3,820 teachers, show the existence of classroom behavior involving racism and xenophobia. In this paper, we defend the holistic model of intercultural education, and look at the key principles and issues to consider for effective intervention.

Género y salud

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Matud Aznar, María Pilar

2008-09-01

Full Text Available Los estudios sobre género y salud muestran la complejidad de las diferencias en salud entre mujeres y hombres e indican la relevancia de los factores sociales, tanto en el surgimiento y desarrollo de tales diferencias como en la salud de todas las personas. Así, todo indica la necesidad de instaurar medidas que, además de eliminar la desigualdad de género, promuevan unas condiciones de vida más saludables para toda la población. Se analizan la relación existente entre sexo y género, género y salud mental, violencia de género, género y estrés, múltiples roles y salud.

Intercultural Policies and Education

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Goncalves, Susana, Ed.; Carpenter, Markus A., Ed.

2012-01-01

Intercultural Policies and Education is concerned with educational challenges in multicultural societies. Educational policies, practices and strategies for fruitful coexistence in the multicultural school and classroom are explored and analysed through a collection of chapters designed and selected to provide readers with international,…

The necessity of Intercultural Communication for a peaceful world

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Katia Scannavini

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Our times are often referred to as the new world order with its new economy. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual people in migration. Given the ubiquity of cultural contact, mergers and hybrids, it is unsurprising that there should be a strong interest in intercultural communication. If intercultural communication is an exchange of stimuli, data and information through an interaction between individuals came from different local communication contexts, we can daily come across this type of communication process. Sociology as a discipline makes an important contribution to the study of intercultural communication: it is the key contribution of discourse analysis to take culture as empirical and cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. Moreover, to investigate whether it is possible to avoid any of the problems of intercultural communication, it is suitable to start with the communication situation itself and analyze why misunderstanding and conflict arise. Today a new form of communication is necessary; it should take itself away from the temptation of merging, tolerating and joining together different cultural realities. Intercultural communication today moves towards an horizon much more complex, which offers a new interpretation: in fact it is necessary to promote cultural coordination and cooperation.

Intercultural communication. Prerequisites for translation effectiveness

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Titela Vîlceanu

2008-01-01

Full Text Available The paper is intended to raise awareness of some recurrent problems related to cultural and linguistic security in translation alongside strategies of achieving it. Globalisation means global thinking, individual accountability and the development of new sensitivities and capabilities. Different models of Intercultural Communicative Competence are scrutinised in an attempt to identify a common core of generalisable traits, which could be further applied to a wide range of translation situations. The (intercultural load is of paramount importance in translation being, more often than not, the cause of serious misunderstanding if the translator does not adequately equate the two cultures or bridge the cultural gap.

Intercultural Communication for Professional Development: Creative Approaches in Higher Education

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Mesh, Linda Joy

2016-01-01

This study examines the development of telecollaborative exchange activities within blended language courses that are aimed at preparing post-graduate students for an intercultural workplace by developing valuable transversal competencies and intercultural awareness, which enable one to better adapt to changing work situations. A description is…

The Ideology of Interculturality in Japanese Language-in-Education Policy

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Liddicoat, Anthony J.

2007-01-01

Language learning is frequently justified as a vehicle for promoting intercultural communication and understanding, and language-in-education policies have increasingly come to reflect this preoccupation in their rhetoric. This paper will examine the ways in which concepts relating to interculturality are constructed in Japanese language policy…

Salud mental y adicciones

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Boccalari, Paola

2013-01-01

La recientemente reglamentada Ley Nacional de Salud Mental 26.657 plantea amplias reformas en el ámbito de la salud pública. Este escrito se detendrá en uno de los puntos de la ley referido al lugar de las adicciones en las políticas de salud mental. Reflexionará sobre las conexiones entre la salud mental y adicciones. Si bien desde la nueva ley las adicciones forman parte de las políticas de salud mental, la “Y” conectora entre ambas, a la vez que unifica ambos campos, también hace pensar en...

Las familias saludables y los factores determinantes del estado de salud

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Amado Rodríguez Calzadilla

2001-12-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio descriptivo transversal con 30 familias, escogidas al azar, de 3 áreas de salud. Cada familia se relacionó con los factores determinantes del estado de salud. Se utilizó como instrumento para la recogida de la información la historia de salud bucal familiar y su respectivo instructivo. Se seleccionaron los aspectos a estudiar y se determinaron valores cuantitativos para evaluar familias saludables, moderadamente saludables y no saludables. Se describe un método sencillo para identificar resultados comparables entre uno y otro diagnóstico cada año, o período de 2 años. Finalmente se presenta el ciclo de calidad de las familias saludables y las estrategias para lograrlo.A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 30 families selected at random from 3 health areas. Each family was related to the determinants of the health status. The family history of oral health and its respective instructions were used as a tool for gathering information. The aspects to be studied were chosen and the quantitative values were determined to evaluate healthy, moderately healthy and unhealthy families. A simple method to identify comparable results between one diagnosis and the other every year or for 2 years was described. Finally, the quality cycle of the healthy families and the strategies to attain it were presented.

Pedagogia decolonial e educação antirracista e intercultural no Brasil Decolonial pedagogy and anti-racist and intercultural education in Brazil

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Luiz Fernandes de Oliveira

2010-04-01

Full Text Available O texto situa-se no âmbito da pesquisa "Multiculturalismo, Direitos Humanos e Educação: a tensão entre igualdade e diferença", que vem sendo desenvolvida desde 2006, tendo como um de seus principais objetivos analisar a problemática da educação intercultural no contexto latino-americano. No percurso investigativo realizado, foi privilegiada a produção do grupo Modernidade-Colonialidade, por seu potencial crítico para a discussão das relações entre interculturalidade, relações étnico-raciais e educação no Brasil. Em primeiro lugar, é feita uma breve análise dos principais conceitos que fundamentam as reflexões desse grupo. Em seguida, são apresentadas as noções de pedagogia decolonial e interculturalidade crítica. Por último, são discutidas possíveis confluências entre as propostas da pedagogia decolonial e intercultural e as das "Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais e para o Ensino de História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira e Africana".This text falls within the scope of the research field known as "Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Education: the tension between equality and difference", which has been developed since 2006, having as one of its objectives the study of issues related to intercultural education in Latin America. In the research process, special emphasis was given to the production of the "Modernity/Coloniality" working group for its critical potential in the discussion of the relationship between interculturality, ethnic-racial relations and education in Brazil. Firstly, a brief analysis of the main concepts, which are the basis of their work, is carried out. Then, the notion of decolonial pedagogy and critical interculturality is presented. Finally, the possible intersections between the propositions of decolonial and intercultural pedagogy and the National Curriculum Guidelines for the education of Ethnic-racial relations and for the teaching of Afro

"Bildung" and Intercultural Understanding

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Bohlin, Henrik

2013-01-01

The concept of "Bildung", sometimes translated as self-cultivation, is located at the core of an influential tradition of educational thought. A key question concerns the relationship between "Bildung" and interculturality. Drawing on Wilhelm von Humboldt and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and on the so-called transformative learning…

Docentes globales: un modelo conceptual para el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural on-line Global Teachers: A Conceptual Model for Building Teachers' Intercultural Competence Online

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Erin M. McCloskey

2012-03-01

Full Text Available La competencia en lenguas extranjeras, la conciencia global y la comunicación intercultural están cada vez más reconocidas como aspectos esenciales de la participación productiva en el ámbito económico, cívico, político y social del siglo XXI. Como consecuencia, la promoción internacional de estas competencias adquiere una importancia única en el espectro de la educación infantil, básica y secundaria en Estados Unidos. El conjunto de nuevos objetivos para estudiantes de hoy implica el desarrollo de nuevas competencias entre docentes que no han sido contempladas hasta ahora en las iniciativas de desarrollo profesional llevadas a cabo en Estados Unidos, y poco se sabe sobre la adquisición de estas competencias entre educadores. Estas competencias pueden entenderse según el modelo de competencia comunicativa intercultural de Byram (1997, cuyos principios de desarrollo se basan en señalar el aprendizaje on-line como una herramienta eficaz para la adquisición de competencias entre docentes. En este artículo se presenta el análisis de varios estudios sobre el aprendizaje intercultural; aprendizaje intercultural y tecnología; y el desarrollo profesional on-line de profesores, con el fin de plantear la posibilidad de las tres dimensiones. En suma, se nos ofrece una serie de principios sobre el diseño educativo que promueven la construcción de estas competencias interculturales en los profesores, entre los que destaca la evidencia de que las tecnologías en red aplicadas al aprendizaje on-line poseen aspectos únicos para desarrollar las competencias interculturales en todas las áreas.Foreign language ability, global awareness, and intercultural communication skills are increasingly recognized as essential dimensions of productive participation in the emerging economic, civic, political and social arenas of the 21st century. Consequently, these skills are being promoted more intentionally than ever across the spectrum of K16

The Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media: Exploring Images of Others in Telecollaboration

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Lindner, Rachel; Méndez Garcia, Maria del Carmen

2014-01-01

Positioned against the background of the Council of Europe's interest in developing intercultural competence through education, the study presented in this paper investigates the impact on intercultural visual literacy of the Council of Europe's "Images of Others--An Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media"…

Infância catarinense e educação intercultural

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Vera Lúcia Chacon Valença

2016-05-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this article is to reflect on childhood in Santa Catarina state, Brazil, from the perspective of intercultural education. To this end, a theoretical review and an exploratory empirical study were conducted with 78 children, of various ethnic descents, aged eight to 12 years. The study was based on the assumption that children in Santa Catarina come from varied descents and, therefore, would present some common cultural elements, but also some specificity regarding cultural-aesthetic values. Inter-cultural education should aim to enable educational contexts where conflicts between identity and difference are minimized, encouraging respect and solidarity between children. The study was developed within the Childhood Museum of Brazil project, a cultural space set up for children, along the lines of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York. Participants were children of African, Indigenous, and European descents. The profile outlined from the study results revealed characteristics common to all of them: values attributed to people (respect for elders, responsibility, and honesty; expressed characteristics of each descent (celebrations, cuisine, religious manifestations; and predomination of ‘consumer beauty’ (pale or tanned skin and straight hair with respect to the physical standard of beauty. These results create the Virtual Network, that of the Childhood Imaginarium, which will, in turn, nourish the Museum in its activities. O propósito deste artigo é refletir sobre a infância catarinense na perspectiva da educação intercultural. Com esse objetivo, realizou-se uma revisão teórica e uma pesquisa empírica, exploratória, com 78 crianças de várias descendências de oito a 12 anos. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que a infância catarinense, por ser constituída de diversas descendências/etnias, apresenta elementos culturais comuns e algumas especificidades com relação aos valores estético culturais. A educa

A Model for Intercultural Training for Study Abroad in Germany

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Henze, Yvonne A.

2007-01-01

This article describes an intercultural workshop designed for American students from the University of Rhode Island's International Engineering Program who are going to Germany to work and to study. The activities and goals of the workshop are explained. The outcomes and findings show that participation in the pre-departure intercultural workshop…

Host Students' Perspectives of Intercultural Contact in an Irish University

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Dunne, Ciaran

2009-01-01

Given the increasing numbers of international students in Ireland and the lack of attention afforded to host culture students in existing research on intercultural relations in higher education, a grounded theory study was conducted in an Irish university exploring host (Irish) students' perspectives on intercultural contact. The study focused on…

Intercultural Communicative Competence: Exploring English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices

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Young, Tony Johnstone; Sachdev, Itesh

2011-01-01

This paper reports on an investigation into the beliefs and practices of experienced teachers in the USA, UK and France relating to the application of a model of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to English language programmes. Broadly, "intercultural" approaches to language learning and teaching are strongly advocated in both the…

Uso de los establecimientos de salud del Ministerio de Salud del Perú, 2009 - 2011

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Walter H Curioso

Full Text Available Objetivo. Describir el uso de los servicios de salud y los factores asociados a este en los establecimientos de salud del Ministerio de Salud del Perú (MINSA. Materiales y método. Se realizó un estudio ecológico con información de los atendidos en los centros de salud a nivel nacional, durante años 2009 a 2011, empleando el sistema de información de salud HIS del MINSA. El uso de los servicios de salud fue definido por la proporción de atendidos y el total de la población. Esta variable se comparó por sexo, grupo de edad, zona geográfica y año calendario. Se realizó la prueba de chi cuadrado para comparar proporciones entre los diferentes estratos y regresión lineal para determinar los factores asociados. Resultados. Entre los años 2009-2011 hubo un incremento en el número de centros de salud y cobertura de seguros de salud, pero el uso de los servicios de salud disminuyó de 43,3% (2009 a 40,3% (2011. Se encontró un mayor uso por pobladores del sexo femenino, en el grupo de edades de 0 a 29 años y los residentes en la zona sur del país. En el análisis multivariado los factores asociados con uso de los sistemas de salud fueron zona geográfica y año calendario. Conclusiones. El uso de los servicios de salud no está asociada con el incremento en el número de centros de salud ni al acceso a los seguros de salud, sino a factores individuales o del sistema de salud que deben ser evaluados en estudios posteriores.

Reflexiones sobre la Reforma de la Seguridad Social en Salud.

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José Felix Patiño Restrepo

2002-08-01

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En el contexto de la ejecución de la Ley 100 de 1993, el enfoque intelectual de los problemas de salud es reemplazado por un enfoque económico, bajo el precepto neoliberal de convertir la atención de la salud en un bien de mercado y en un negocio con ánimo de lucro.

Ello, sin duda, es una perversión de la moral social que tiene un profundo efecto sobre la estructura ética y deontológica de la medicina, porque lleva al médico a desatender su obligación hipocrática como agente del paciente para convertirse en agente de la empresa intermediaria. Esto es perjudicial para la sociedad, por cuanto el defensor del consumidor, el único defensor, es el médico. ¿Qué le pasará a la sociedad el día en que el médico, lo mismo que el asegurador, también vea el ejercicio de su profesión no como una vocación sino como un negocio?

En la medicina, como ciencia que es, la Era de la Razón marcó el inicio de la inteligencia médica. La inteligencia médica se entiende hoy como práctica basada en la evidencia, por una parte y, por otra, en la amplificación de la capacidad intelectual mediante la tecnología de la computación y la inteligencia artificial. El conocimiento, uno de los componentes del profesionalismo médico, constituye el único factor que realmente garantiza la calidad en la atención de la salud y es el elemento insustituible de la inteligencia médica. Todo sistema de salud debe tener como prioridad el fortalecimiento del capital intelectual de la medicina, o sea, de su bagaje de conocimiento y del estímulo de la inteligencia médica. Con este propósito debe asignar recursos, no como gastos sino como inversión.

Inversión de altos rendimientos, no sólo científicos y sociales, sino también económicos, porque de ello depende la calidad de la atención, y la atención de alta calidad, la atención idónea, es la más económica.

Es evidente el deterioro de la calidad en la atención de la salud

Personality, threat, and cognitive and emotional reactions to stressful intercultural situations

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van der Zee, K; van Oudenhoven, JP; de Grijs, E

2004-01-01

The present study examined individual differences in appraisal of and affective reactions to intercultural situations. A sample of 160 students filled out the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) and participated in an experiment in which they received a description of an intercultural

Abordar la interculturalidad en el aula desde el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural del profesorado

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Moreno Moreno, Rosa María

2016-03-01

Full Text Available La enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras requiere un enfoque intercultural en el aula. El aprendizaje de una lengua lleva asociado unos factores culturales que deben aprender a interpretarse desde un punto de vista no etnocentrista, para evitar conflictos culturales y conseguir una cohesión social que permita el diálogo intercultural. Todo ello puede ser posible gracias al desarrollo de la competencia intercultural del profesorado que depende de la educación intercultural. Idealmente, esta educación debería adoptar también un enfoque intercultural en sus objetivos, procesos y contenidos, de manera que se trabaje de forma transversal el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural del profesorado. El presente trabajo pretende aportar innovadoras ideas para suplir las necesidades formativas del docente de lenguas extranjeras y aplicarlas en la transformación del currículo, para desarrollar las diferentes subcompetencias que engloba la competencia intercultural del profesorado: saberes, saber ser / saber reaccionar, saber aprender, saber comprender/saber comprometerse y saber hacer.

Sociedad y Salud. Curso 2010-2011

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Ruiz Callado, Raúl; Fabregat Cabrera, María Elena

2011-01-01

Sociología de la salud. Determinantes sociales de la salud y la enfermedad. Desigualdades sociales en salud. Las organizaciones como sistemas. Estilos de vida y conductas de salud. Impacto de sociedad de consumo, la ciencia y la tecnología en la salud. Métodos de investigación social aplicados al ámbito de la salud.

Intercultural Education and Migration: Educational Proposals

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Pedro Ortega Ruiz

2011-01-01

Full Text Available This paper tackles the difficult problem that immigration poses for developed Western European societies and the need of a new model of intercultural education which puts the emphasis of educational activity not so much on “intellectual understanding” as on the acceptance and welcoming of the person who is different, on account of his/her culture or ethnic group. Educational proposals are put forward that are materialized in a change of the intercultural education model, the involvement of the family and of society in changing attitudes towards immigrants, the need not to attribute a metahistorical or essentialist meaning to cultural identity, and the restoring of an ethical and political dimension of educational activity.

Gender Influences on Students' Study Abroad Participation and Intercultural Competence

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Tompkins, Amanda; Cook, Trevor; Miller, Emily; LePeau, Lucy A.

2017-01-01

The purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of gender in study abroad participation rates and intercultural competence. The researchers aimed to identify the differences in intercultural competence between men and women and those who have and have not studied abroad. A mixed methods survey indicated there are significant…

Un diálogo intercultural

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The Concept of the Interculture in Time: (Intercultural Topics in Textbooks of French as a Foreign Language

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Meta Lah

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The article deals with the concept of interculturality as used in foreign language didactics. In accordance with the definition of interculturality given in the first part of the article, two categories are included in the analysis – two “levels” of culture, each of them bearing a different name in literature, namely high and popular culture. Various textbooks used for teaching French as a foreign language in Slovenia in both the past and present were chosen for the analysis of topics that cover a fairly long period of time – among them the textbooks by two Slovenian authors: Južnič (1938 and Grad (1954, as well as some generally-used French textbooks, such as Cours de langue et de civilisation françaises (1953, Le nouveau sans frontières (1988 and Nouveau rond point (2011. The article is based on the hypothesis that high culture is more likely to be present in the older textbooks, which are based on traditional methods, whereas in modern textbooks more popular, everyday topics can be found. It is also presumed that topics in modern textbooks are, compared to their more traditional counterparts, introduced in an intercultural manner which could encourage students to compare the culture of the foreign country with their own. Both hypotheses are partly confirmed. In Slovenian textbooks there are very few culture-based topics. On the other hand, they are present in all French textbooks, regardless of the methodology. It is true that Mauger introduces more high culture than the others and that the intercultural topics are presented only in the most recent textbook. In all the others, it is exclusively the culture of the target country that is introduced.

Políticas públicas para el recurso humano en salud, en Colombia: Elementos para la reflexión

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Ochoa, María Orfa; Muñoz, Emma Patricia

2013-01-01

Desde los referentes internacionales soportados en las recomendaciones de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), el presente artículo revisa la trascendencia de las políticas y convenios existentes para la protección del trabajador nocturno en general y del trabajador nocturno del área de la salud en particular, se consideran las influencias de los procesos de globalización en la generación de las políticas económicas y su impacto en las políticas sociales. Se analiza la influencia ...

Using Songs in Developing Intercultural Competence

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Liliia Shayakhmetova

2017-09-01

Full Text Available Songs in teaching English are not used to the full extent. To confirm this, we created a set of exercises based on the use of songs to form socio-cultural and regional knowledge, to familiarize students with the culture and way of life of Great Britain, to gain a deeper understanding of the representatives of this linguistic cultural community. The next step was carrying out a survey on revealing the effectiveness of using songs in EFL class, more precisely their effect on the developing of intercultural competence. Following methods were used to conduct the survey: the questionnaire of teachers and students, to determine the role of English songs in the developing of intercultural competence; the analysis of English language course books to determine the presence of songs focusing on their cultural significance; Life in the UK Test, a test to check the knowledge of the history and culture of Britain. The results of the research showed the expediency of using song to develop intercultural competence. Moreover, use of songs aroused interest among students; they expressed the opinion that lyrics have a much deeper meaning and varied information than they thought before using them in English classes. They expressed a desire to continue using songs during classes in keeping with this approach.

Aproximación teórico-metodológica a los estudios en salud reproductiva

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Sara Yaneth Fernández Moreno

1998-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo condensa los planteamientos básicos de una investigación más amplia, aplicada al caso mexicano; por la naturaleza de la discusión planteada en ella, se considera de vital importancia recuperar dichos planteamientos para el caso colombiano, toda vez que sus ejes comprometen cuatro elementos básicos: la política de población y las metas demográficas, los programas de planificación familiar y la regulación de la fecundidad, el proceso de medicalización y el debate de los derechos reproductivos, y por último, los postulados de las conferencias de El Cairo y de Beijing; estos aspectos son desarrollados dentro de la perspectiva de género como marco conceptual para desarrollar y evaluar los efectos del uso del concepto de salud reproductiva en nuestro medio. Por último, se plantean a manera de conclusiones los interrogantes que hacia delante quedarán por resolver en los espacios académicos, sociales y políticos, respecto a los alcances, usos y repercusiones del uso del concepto de salud reproductiva.

La salud móvil y los sistemas de salud: Determinantes del progreso en la salud global

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Julio Frenk

Full Text Available Por lo general, cuando se habla sobre tecnologías de la información suele hablarse sobre la tecnología en sí y su contenido. En este artículo quisiera enfocarme en las tecnologías móviles para la salud (salud móvil, pero no tanto en su contenido de la salud móvil sino en su contexto, representado por los sistemas de salud en donde estas tecnologías se despliegan. El mensaje central es que para poder capitalizar todo el potencial de la revolución de las comunicaciones móviles es necesario innovar no solo en el terreno de las tecnologías mismas sino también en el de las instituciones que permiten que estas tecnologías lleguen a sus posibles beneficiarios

Capabilities for Intercultural Dialogue

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Crosbie, Veronica

2014-01-01

The capabilities approach offers a valuable analytical lens for exploring the challenge and complexity of intercultural dialogue in contemporary settings. The central tenets of the approach, developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, involve a set of humanistic goals including the recognition that development is a process whereby people's…

Medio Ambiente y Salud: perspectivas desde la gestión de salud pública

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José María Martín Moreno

2002-01-01

El impacto que sobre la salud tiene el medio ambiente constituye un área de interés primordial en el ámbito de la Salud Pública. Las competencias del Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo en materia de Salud Ambiental están operativamente delimitadas en el marco de las actuaciones de la Dirección General de Salud Pública (DGSP). En este artículo se examinan de forma sintética algunos de los principales riesgos ambientales y su efecto en la salud, haciendo referencia al papel de la DGSP en esos tema...

Economia Solidária: uma experiência intercultural

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Dinora Tereza Zuchetti

2011-01-01

Full Text Available This paper discuss the possible approximations among the sympathetic economy & the intercultural studies. Picking demonstrate how the sympathetic economy - more than only one alternative viable the capitalism- can be a effective tool to social transformation, presents the social and economic scene from the politicals & economic practices of the sympathetic economy, into the Brazilian ambit. Propose a critical & contexting reflection about its potentialities from this approximation, highlighting the properties & convergences among sympathetic economy & from the intercultural studies field.

Promoting Intercultural Competency in the Nuclear Workplace

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Bachner K. M.

2015-07-12

Intercultural preparedness training is a staple of many workplaces that require international competence, including government, business, and non-profits. Even highly experienced diplomats are often advised to attend training sessions on this topic. Intercultural preparedness training promises to be especially relevant and useful for professionals working in the field of nuclear nonproliferation, including in the application of international nuclear safeguards. This paper outlines the fundamental philosophies underlying a training program that will benefit professionals in the nuclear arena, whether practitioners of nonproliferation or other sub-fields relying on international cooperation and collaboration, and how such a training program might be implemented efficiently.

A formative approach to cultural content learning in intercultural foreign language teaching

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Andrijević Maja M.

2016-01-01

Full Text Available The paper outlines the effectiveness of the formative approach in the adoption of cultural content as part of intercultural foreign language teaching. In contrast to the informative, the formative approach is based on a constructivist approach to foreign language acquisition; in other words, it is a process of tertiary socialization through the construction of an intercultural identity, by means of experiential acquisition, interaction and cognitive conflict with previously adopted patterns. Byram's (1997 propositions about the importance of acquiring intercultural competence in foreign language teaching represent a complete shift towards a formative approach since they formulate general educational goals according to which it is impossible to have an insight into the language reality of a different culture unless an individual is aware of their own and the relative nature of both, which is vital to the development of critical intercultural awareness. Thus the focus of teaching shifts to the integration of the target and the source cultures through participatory tasks and constructive analysis, and to the construction of the learner's identity as intercultural speaker with a range of affective, cognitive and behavioral competences enabling successful contact with difference. The formative approach enables the foreign language teacher, whose role has also been redefined, to use appropriate materials in order to develop critical thinking and intercultural competence in students through their active involvement in the process of target language acquisition.

Paz Intercultural y Sumak Kawsay ¿Un encuentro con el origen?

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Alena Kárpava Kárpava

2016-06-01

Full Text Available En el marco del estudio de Irenología, en el año 2003,Fernández Herrería propuso el concepto de la Paz Intercultural, visto como equilibrio entre la Paz Interior, Social y Gaia. El interés por este enfoque del estudio de la paz, la búsqueda de respuestas a las múltiples preguntas sobre el solapamiento de los conceptos multi- e interculturalidad, sobre la práctica de la paz intercultural en los contextos de la pérdida de la identidad en la población nativa e inmigrante, nos llevó a establecer contactos con diversas culturas. En Ecuador encontramos una rica base documental sobre el tema estudiado. En el marco del estudio culitativo tuvimos la oportunidad de realizar una entrevista biográfica a Ruth Moya, experta en la investigación intercultural y asesora de diversos Programas de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en América Latina. El análisis del estado de la cuestión y de la entrevista realizada, permitió establecer paralelismos entre la fundamentación teórica occidental de la Paz Intercultural y la práctica de la Filosofía indígena Sumak Kawsay. Como proyección futura proponemos elaboración de la antología de diversos saberes culturales sobre la paz con el fin de fortalecer el saber teórico-metodológico-empírico de la Paz Intercultural.

Towards a democratic and intercultural citizenship. Notes for teacher training

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J. Eduardo Sierra Nieto

2017-12-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, the building of democratic citizenship cannot be understood apart from the considerations of respect and measures aimed at encourage cultural diversity; especially with the aggravation in racist discourses and manifestations, and the successive humanitarian crisis with respect to immigration. In light of this situation, in this paper we propose to combine civic education from the intercultural paradigm. For this, we reclaim, for the one hand, the role of the school as a cultural mediation place and encou- raging of intercultural coexistence; on the other hand, we emphasize the importance role that teachers play as social agents with broad involvement in the formation of democratic citizenship; both aspects as complementary. From this, we investigate different studies that stand out some deficiencies in many of the proposals for service teaching [of the teachers] that are developed from an intercultural perspective. Finally, we insist on the urgency to reinforce a type of service teaching in intercultural key; so, it is necessary to encourage the “self knowledge” as an important element of the relationship with “the other”.

INTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN FORMAL PARTNERSHIPS - DIAGNOSIS AND SOLUTIONS

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Irina MANOLESCU

2014-04-01

Full Text Available Today, collaboration, information and resource sharing with different (and sometimes even competing organizations have been viewed as key for success building. Encouraged by the European and national institutions, formal partnerships, whether temporary or permanent, such as grant writing agreements, clusters, regional working groups or networks have become more widespread in the socio-economic environment. This paper aims to investigate the most important intercultural issues in various types of formal partnerships built in Romanian public and private organizations and to identify solutions to these problems. In order to provide a solid, research-based approach to our study, we studied the evaluation reports of programs and projects involving partnerships and conducted interviews with people involved in the development and implementation of joint activities. The application of results is straightforward: the organizations will raise their awareness of the importance of an intercultural analysis when participating in a formal partnership and will take into account the implementation of appropriate methods in order to overcome intercultural challenges.

Intercultural Dialogue. A Utopia of 21st Century

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Mª Carmen López Sáenz

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Having clarified what we mean by «utopia», we adopt the phenomenological attitude in order to search for the meaning of interculturalism in our multicultural world. The latter loses its indifference when it is understood and incorporated into our praxis thanks to multiculturalism, which is primarily a moral challenge. The centrality of dialogue in philosophical hermeneutics lends new energy into this phenomenon. Our hermeneutic exercise is going to reactivate the phenomenology of intersubjectivity as the origin of social life as well as the source of the encounter between cultures. We will conclude by defending the need to restore the concrete universality so as not to dissolve multiculturalism neither into relativism nor into culturalism; in this way, multiculturalism acquires meaning as interculturalism, which is not attained neither spontaneously nor by adhesión to the other cultures after denying the our own. We reach interculturalism by building ourselves and by configuring it together consciously as a process of identification within differences.

Elementos para la implantación y uso del sistema de costos en salud

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Miguel Mukodsi Caran

2000-12-01

Full Text Available Se aborda el tema de eficiencia económica en la atención primaria, con énfasis en los costos por área de responsabilidad, conceptualizándolo y reseñando los principios básicos en el marco conceptual predominante en el sistema de salud cubano, así como los requisitos necesarios para su implantación. Se plantean sus beneficios y se señala la necesidad de aplicar costos en todos los policlínicos, acorde con la metodología aprobada por el MINSAP y su uso como herramienta de dirección en la consecución de una mayor eficiencia en el subsistema del Médico de FamiliaThe topic of economic efficiency in the primary health care field is approached making emphasis on the costs by area of responsibility. Its concept is given and the basic principles within the conceptual framework predominating in the Cuban health system, as well as the requirements necessary for its implementation are stressed. Its benefits are set forth and it is explained the need to apply costs in all the polyclinics, according to the methodology approved by the Ministry of Public Health, and to use them as a management tool to attain a greater efficiency in the subsystem of the Family Physician

Intercultural Training with Films

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Roell, Christine

2010-01-01

Films are a great medium to use not only to practice English, but also to facilitate intercultural learning. Today English is a global language spoken by people from many countries and cultural backgrounds. Since culture greatly impacts communication, it is helpful for teachers to introduce lessons and activities that reveal how different…

APRENDER A VIVIR JUNTOS. UNA EDUCACIÓN INTERCULTURAL.

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Miguel Soler; Inés Massot; Marta Sabariego

2009-01-01

RESUMEN:Las culturas no son «bolas de billar» que chocan sin quedar afectadas. Las culturas son permeables y cambiantes, sometidas a múltiples influencias. Es así como las culturas evolucionan, pero esta evolución a lo largo de la historia ha estado plagada de traumas. La clave para lograr una convivencia intercultural, está en tener claro que para que diferentes culturas puedan vivir en paz han de conocerse y aprender a convivir.PALABRAS-CLAVE: Cultura, convivencia intercultural.ABSTRACT:Cul...

El modelo de creencias de salud. Un enfoque teórico para la prevención del sida

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Soto Mas Francisco

1997-01-01

Full Text Available A pesar de los últimos avances farmacológicos, la mejor arma de que disponemos hoy día en la lucha contra el VIH/SIDA sigue siendo la educacion preventiva. Dado que un cambio voluntario de comportamiento a largo plazo es difícil de conseguir, incluso bajo las mejores circunstancias, las intervenciones educativo/preventivas deben considerar toda estrategia que pueda facilitar ese proceso de cambio deseado. Aunque el objetivo final es conseguir una determinada conducta, ciertos modelos teóricos que incorporan componentes cognitivo-perceptivos, podrían resultar de gran utilidad en la consecución de ese objetivo ya que cierta cantidad de información, aunque no suficiente para mantenerlos, sí ha mostrado ser un importante elemento predisponente para la iniciación de cambios conductuales. Este artículo examina el papel del Modelo de Creencias de Salud (MCS como herramienta educativa en intervenciones preventivas contra el VIH/SIDA y defiende la utilización de teorías cognitivo-sociales en educación de salud.

Intercultural Identity and Inter-Religious Dialogue: A Holy Place to Be?

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Wolf, Alain

2012-01-01

The paper critically engages with contemporary theories of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue found in the areas of linguistic pragmatics and intercultural theology. Drawing on Ducrot's theory of polyphony, it takes preliminary steps in formulating an alternative conception of the individual subject that incorporates a polyphonic…

Intercultural Simulation Games: A Review (of the United States and beyond)

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Fowler, Sandra M.; Pusch, Margaret D.

2010-01-01

Intercultural simulations are instructional activities that engage and challenge participants with experiences integral to encounters between people of more than one cultural group. Simulations designed specifically to support intercultural encounters have been in use since the 1970s. This article examines the conceptual bases for intercultural…

Intercultural Miscommunication: Impact on ESOL Students and Implications for ESOL Teachers

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Huang, Jinyan; Dotterweich, Erin; Bowers, Ashleigh

2012-01-01

Intercultural miscommunication occurs when there is a breakdown in communication between speakers of two different cultures and languages due to cultural differences and/or sociolinguistic transfer. Intercultural miscommunication has tremendous impact on ESOL students' academic learning at North American schools. This paper examines the nature of…

An Intercultural Education for Mexico: Career and Contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes

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Evans, Ma. Cecilia Fierro; Pons, Flavio Rojo

2012-01-01

This article introduces Sylvia Schmelkes's contributions in the field of intercultural education. An outstanding Mexican educational researcher, Schmelkes was General Coordinator of the Intercultural and Bilingual General Coordination (GCIBE) at the Mexican Ministry of Public Education from its inception in 2001 until 2007. This article provides a…

Teaching American Culture in France: Language Assistants' Identity Construction and Interculturality

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Dargent-Wallace, Anne

2013-01-01

This study investigates the identity and interculturality development of English-language teaching assistants through their perceptions of their experiences living and working in France. The study is framed using Bourdieu's (1979, 2000) notions of habitus and cultural capital, and draws from Byram's (2000) "intercultural mediator" and…

The In-Depth Interview as a Research Tool for Investigating the Online Intercultural Communication of Asian Internet Users in Relation to Ethics in Intercultural Research

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Fetscher, Doris

2013-01-01

Virtual intercultural communication is of great interest in intercultural research. How can a researcher gain access to this field of investigation if s/he does not or only partially speaks the languages used by the subjects? This study is an example of how categories relevant to research can be accessed through in-depth interviews. The interview…

A state of emergency in crisis communication: An intercultural crisis communication research agenda

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2016-01-01

This article seeks to provide an evidence-based set of recommendations for the development of an intercultural crisis communication research agenda with three goals. First, to provide an advancement in our understanding of the state of crisis communication research in general. Second, to offer a grounded introduction to crisis communication for intercultural scholars who may not be as familiar with the field. Finally to identify three broad evidence-based areas for developing intercultural cr...

Why not Intercultural Education?

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Nicole C. Noble

2005-01-01

Now more than ever teachers and those in teacher training positions are being confronted with the prevalence of multicultural and multilingual classroom environments. Along with this presence, they also face international and national policies which call for effective and successful strategy building for coping with diverse settings. This appeal often manifests with an inability on the teacher's part to effectively facilitate these multicultural classrooms, as well as an inability on the students' part to interact and finally contribute to a larger national and global goal of intercultural cooperation. A growing body of research suggests that as those in the field of teaching and teacher education seek to improve classroom techniques, curricula, and teaching practice in the area of diversity they continue to face disparaging and almost disillusioning results. What were traditionally seen as venues in dealing with issues in multiculturalism and diversity through multicultural education have been left unanswered? The purpose of this article thus seeks to explore the pedagogical concept of intercultural education as a way to suggest discourse of dealing with the challenges to diversity in the classroom.

Mediated Intercultural Communication Barrier in No Drama Zone! Group

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Lizal, Valentino

2015-01-01

This research study aimed to describe the mediated intercultural communication barriers in the No Drama Zone! group. This study is a qualitative descriptive type of research, with case study method. By doing in depth interview and observation, researcher found two barriers that generates other barriers in the group's mediated intercultural communication. The two big barriers were: language and physical barriers. Language barriers in this group generated two barriers, emotional barrier and pe...

Utilizing the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (IES) to Enhance International Student Travel

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Bates, Alicia; Rehal, Dalia Atef

2017-01-01

This paper highlights how one institution used the International Effectiveness Scale (IES) to support intercultural exploration and development for short-term undergraduate travel programs. Authors discuss utilization of the IES to explore students' intercultural development, how it can be applied to create an individualized action plan, and how…

Interculturality for Afro-Peruvians: Towards a Racially Inclusive Education in Peru

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Valdiviezo, Laura Alicia

2006-01-01

Intercultural education policy and programs in Peru emerged as a response to the right of education for marginalised indigenous populations. Under the influence of international dialogue regarding education for all, Peruvian policy has recently proposed interculturality as a guiding principle of education for all Peruvians. In this context,…

Implementación del sistema de gestión de seguridad y salud de los trabajadores en la Empresa de Servicios Petroleros ESP

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Ortega Govea, Andrés Darío

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo es un estudio de un Plan de Implementación de un Sistema de Gestión de la Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional para la Empresa de Servicios Petroleros, que se dedica a la prestación de Servicios petroleros a nivel nacional. Este trabajo está basado en el análisis de los cuatro elementos principales: la Gestión Administrativa, Técnica, Talento humano y del Desarrollo de los procesos operativos que se complementan para realizar un modelo completo de Gestión en materia de Seguridad ...

Intercultural bilingual education in Chile

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Williams Ibarra Figueroa

2016-08-01

Full Text Available This article is based on analysis of the actions of public bodies and institutions that are being created in Chile to meet demand in Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE. The aim is to analyze the practical training of students in initial teacher training in intercultural basic education at the Catholic University of Temuco. In addition, reveal the working methods of collaborative field between family-school- community partnership in key initial identification and subsequent components and devices in the proper relationship of individuals, in order to establish criteria by biopsychosocial processes from the identity the Other and You as host in the plural diversity of human beings, with aim is to recommend  a public policy with an emphasis on multicultural values of each community, enriching the human condition and biopolitics regarding the integration from the educational training and the role that fits the state.

Intercultural Dialogue and Ethical Challenge in the Latin-American Thought

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Victor Martin Fiorino

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The article analyzes some central problems of the intercultural dialogue in the context of philosophical, historiographical and political debates promoted by the contemporary LatinAmerican thought. The analysis concerns: the anthropological and ethical approach of interculturalityby Arturo Andrés Roig, its relation with the literary avant-gardes in Latin Americaand its expression in a liberationist philosophy oriented to overcome the patriarchalism; the interculturality as a space for the asking by the other and as intelligence to live together,as well as its educational consequences, with regard to a pedagogy and to an ethics of decolonization; the relation between interculturality and integration of peoples, on the basis of the proposal of Giuseppe Cacciatore about the ethics of imagination.

'Cultures do not exist' : Exploding self-evidences in the investigation of interculturality

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Binsbergen, van W.M.J.

2003-01-01

This volume brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Published between 1969 and 2002, the essays operate at the borderline between anthropology and intercultural philosophy. Ethnographic data are derived from field research carried out in Tunisia, Zambia and

Towards new teacher and student perceptions of interculturality

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Svarstad, Lone Krogsgaard

to the explorative interventions, and follow-up interviews after the explorative interventions. Finally, the study investigated students’ productions, such as notes in Autobiographies of Intercultural Encounters (Council of Europe. Education department. Language policy unit, 2013), blogs and essays. The analytical....... London: Sage Publications. Kemmis, S., & McTaggart, R. (2005). Participatory action research: Communicative action and the public sphere. In N. Denzil & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 559-604): Thousand Oaks: SAGE. Luke, A. (2012). Critical Literacy: Foundational Notes. Theory...... Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Oxen: Routledge....

How do medical specialists value their own intercultural communication behaviour? A reflective practice study.

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Paternotte, E; Scheele, F; van Rossum, T R; Seeleman, M C; Scherpbier, A J J A; van Dulmen, A M

2016-08-24

Intercultural communication behaviour of doctors with patients requires specific intercultural communication skills, which do not seem structurally implemented in medical education. It is unclear what motivates doctors to apply intercultural communication skills. We investigated how purposefully medical specialists think they practise intercultural communication and how they reflect on their own communication behaviour. Using reflective practice, 17 medical specialists independently watched two fragments of videotapes of their own outpatient consultations: one with a native patient and one with a non-native patient. They were asked to reflect on their own communication and on challenges they experience in intercultural communication. The interviews were open coded and analysed using thematic network analysis. The participants experienced only little differences in their communication with native and non-native patients. They mainly mentioned generic communication skills, such as listening and checking if the patient understood. Many participants experienced their communication with non-native patients positively. The participants mentioned critical incidences of intercultural communication: language barriers, cultural differences, the presence of an interpreter, the role of the family and the atmosphere. Despite extensive experience in intercultural communication, the participants of this study noticed hardly any differences between their own communication behaviour with native and non-native patients. This could mean that they are unaware that consultations with non-native patients might cause them to communicate differently than with native patients. The reason for this could be that medical specialists lack the skills to reflect on the process of the communication. The participants focused on their generic communication skills rather than on specific intercultural communication skills, which could either indicate their lack of awareness, or demonstrate that

An Intercultural Reading Programme (IRP) to Enhance Intercultural Knowledge among Secondary School Students

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Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Marsani, Fatin Najwa Amelia; Jaganathan, Paramaswari; Karupiah, Premalatha; Abdullah, Ahmad Sofwan Nathan

2017-01-01

As a multi ethnic country, Malaysia consists of three major ethnic groups mainly Malays, Chinese, and Indians with unity as its building block. Although education is seen as the best medium for the three major ethnic groups to work together, contemporary research shows that there is lack of intercultural understanding among these three ethnic…

[Community health and interculturality].

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Vieira, Gildas; Courtois, Robert; Rusch, Emmanuel

2018-03-01

An interventional research study in public health was carried out with populations originating from sub-Saharan Africa living in France. With the aim of acting on health inequalities through health education, the researchers focused notably on the links between intercultural relationships and the improvement of health promotion actions. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Adopting a critical intercultural communication approach to understanding health professionals' encounter with ethnic minority patients

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Jæger, Kirsten

2012-01-01

professionals and their approach to ethnic minority patients influence the accessibility of healthcare and availability of health prevention resources of ethnic minorities. When adapting healthcare practice to minority patients, healthcare professionals draw on insights from intercultural communication...... and anthropology. However, within these disciplines such concepts as culture, interculturality, and ethnicity are subjected to contestation due to co-existing, but competing paradigms. This paper demonstrates how healthcare discourses on ethnic minority patients reflect shifting intercultural communication...... paradigms and advocates the adoption of a critical intercultural communication approach in relation to ethnicity-based health inequality....

El análisis de la situación de salud: Una vía para el perfeccionamiento de la atención primaria

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Alcides Ochoa Alonso

1996-08-01

Full Text Available Con el propósito de contribuir al perfeccionamiento del análisis de la situación de salud en el nivel primario de atención, se diseñó un estudio de cohorte en el Policlínico "Mario Gutiérrez Ardaya" de Holguín que incluyó a los equipos básicos y a su comunidad. Se evaluaron los conocimientos y habilidades de estos equipos mediante un test y la revisión de sus diagnósticos de salud; así como el grado de información y participación comunitaria e intersectorial por una encuesta. El test fue aprobado por el 16 % de los participantes y los diagnósticos evaluados mostraron carencia de elementos y enfoques inadecuados. La población mostró poco dominio de conceptos básicos y limitada participación en la planificación de acciones. Como conclusión se señala insuficiencia de conocimientos y habilidades de los equipos para la adecuada construcción, análisis e interpretación de la situación de salud.

Promoting Intercultural Understanding among School Students through an English Language Based Reading Programme

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Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh; Fatin Najwa Amelia binti Marsani; Paramaswari Jaganathan; Ahmad Sofwan Nathan Abdullah; Premalatha Karupiah

2016-01-01

Malaysian intercultural society is typified by three major ethnic groups mainly Malays, Chinese and Indians.  Although education system is the best tool for these three major ethnic groups to work together, contemporary research reveals that there is still lack of intercultural embedding education context and national schools are seen as breeding grounds of racial polarisation.  In Malaysian context, there is a gap in research that focuses on the design of a proper intercultural reading frame...

Globalizar la salud

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Franco A.

2003-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se exploran diversos aspectos de la relación entre salud y globalización. Se consideran diferentes dimensiones de la globalización (económica, tecnológica, cultural y política y se discuten sus consecuencias sobre la salud en términos epidemiológicos, éticos, sanitarios, ambientales y en relación con la distribución del poder y la equidad. Se analizan datos que evidencian la globalización de los riesgos y las enfermedades, atribuibles al actual modelo de relaciones internacionales y a la movilidad entre países. En el artículo se defiende la propuesta de globalizar la salud, integrando conceptos renovados y adelantos en las ciencias afines a la salud pública con nuevas estrategias políticas, sociales y organizativas de la práctica sanitaria. Finalmente, se reconocen las oportunidades que nos brinda la globalización, desde mediados del siglo pasado, para redefinir la gobernabilidad mundial y desarrollar movimientos locales, basados en la solidaridad y en una nueva concepción política que favorezcan la universalización de la salud.

Intercultural communication competence in family medicine: lessons from the field.

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Rosenberg, Ellen; Richard, Claude; Lussier, Marie-Thérèse; Abdool, Shelly N

2006-05-01

To describe the challenges for immigrant patients and their physicians and their skills in intercultural communication (ICC). We videotaped one clinical encounter for each of 24 psychologically distressed patients visiting their regular family physician. The physician and the patient, each separately, viewed the videotape of their clinical encounter and commented on important moments identified by the participant or the researchers. Patients and/or physicians lacked knowledge of the effects of culture on the doctor-patient relationship and expressions of distress as well as the effects of immigrant-specific stress on health. Most subjects were motivated to have an interpersonal, rather than an intercultural encounter. Physicians and patients demonstrated the skills needed to achieve an interpersonal encounter. Some physicians and their patients achieved intercultural meetings as a result of their interpersonal interactions over a period of years. Lack of formal training partly explains why most participants demonstrated an elementary level of ICC. In addition, Identity Management Theory and Co-cultural Theory explain some of the barriers to ICC. Providing physicians with formal training in intercultural communication and empowerment training for patients is likely to improve the quality of care of immigrants.

Intercultural Pedagogies: An Interim Stocktaking.

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Reich, Hans H.

1994-01-01

Presents a survey of educational history specific to immigration in England, France, and West Germany after World War II. Concludes that intercultural pedagogics is passing through a severe crisis that can be surmounted only if previous insights are successfully integrated into fundamentally new developments. (CFR)

Perspective Intercultural Bioethics and Human Rights: the search for instruments for resolving ethical conflicts culturally based.

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Aline ALBUQUERQUE

2015-10-01

Full Text Available This article aims to contribute to a deeper reflection on intercultural conflicts within the bioethics scope, and to point out the problem of using human rights as a theoretical normative mediator of the conflicts in bioethics that bear elements of interculturalism. The methodological steps adopted in this inquiry were: analysis of the concept of intercultural conflict in bioethics, from the perception developed by Colectivo Amani; study of human rights as tools of the culture of human beings, based on Bauman’s and Beauchamp’s theories; investigation of the toolsthat human rights offer so as to solve intercultural conflicts in bioethics. It was concluded that intercultural bioethics must incorporate to its prescriptive and descriptive tasks norms and institutions of human rights that ensure the participation and social integration of the individuals from communities that are in cultural conflict. Such measure will act as instrumentsfor the solution of intercultural conflicts.

Intercultural Education, Picturebooks and Refugees: Approaches for Language Teachers

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Anne M. Dolan

2014-05-01

Full Text Available Picturebooks can be used as a means of teaching a range of intercultural issues as well as enriching learners’ linguistic and literacy skills. As windows and mirrors, picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom in terms of intercultural education for all learners, including those working through the medium of a second language. This article explores the potential of teaching the topic of refugees through picturebooks. While developing the traditional forms of literacy, reading and writing, strategies can also be used to promote critical literacies and intercultural education. Critical multicultural analysis of these picturebooks examines the complex web of power in our society, the interconnected systems of race, class and gender and how they work together. A framework is presented for analysing one picturebook through a series of activities that help learners and teachers to critically interrogate the topic of refugees with empathy and understanding.

Interactions among Future Study Abroad Students: Exploring Potential Intercultural Learning Sequences

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Borghetti, C.; Beaven, A.; Pugliese, R.

2015-01-01

The study presented in this article aims to explore if and how intercultural learning may take place in students' class interaction. It is grounded in the assumption that interculturality is not a clear-cut feature inherent to interactions occurring when individuals with presumed different linguistic and cultural/national backgrounds talk to each…

Intercultural communication through the eyes of patients: experiences and preferences.

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Paternotte, Emma; van Dulmen, Sandra; Bank, Lindsay; Seeleman, Conny; Scherpbier, Albert; Scheele, Fedde

2017-05-16

To explore patients' preferences and experiences regarding intercultural communication which could influence the development of intercultural patient-centred communication training. This qualitative study is based on interviews with non-native patients. Thirty non-native patients were interviewed between September and December 2015 about their preferences and experiences regarding communication with a native Dutch doctor. Fourteen interviews were established with an interpreter. The semi-structured interviews took place in Amsterdam. They were focused on generic and intercultural communication skills of doctors. Relevant fragments were coded by two researchers and analysed by the research team by means of thematic network analysis. Informed consent and ethical approval was obtained beforehand. All patients preferred a doctor with a professional patient-centred attitude regardless of the doctor's background. Patients mentioned mainly generic communication aspects, such as listening, as important skills and seemed to be aware of their own responsibility in participating in a consultation. Being treated as a unique person and not as a disease was also frequently mentioned. Unfamiliarity with the Dutch healthcare system influenced the experienced communication negatively. However, a language barrier was considered the most important problem, which would become less pressing once a doctor-patient relation was established. Remarkably, patients in this study had no preference regarding the ethnic background of the doctor. Generic communication was experienced as important as specific intercultural communication, which underlines the marginal distinction between these two. A close link between intercultural communication and patient-centred communication was reflected in the expressed preference 'to be treated as a person'.

Reduciendo las inequidades en salud y mejorando la salud materna mediante la mejora de los sistemas de información en salud: Wawared Perú

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José E. Pérez-Lu

Full Text Available En los países en desarrollo no existen datos de calidad para apoyar la toma de decisiones y la gobernanza, debido a inadecuados procesos de colección y transmisión de información. Nuestro proyecto WawaRed-Perú: "Reduciendo las inequidades en salud y mejorando la salud materna mediante la mejora de los sistemas de información en salud" propone mejorar los procesos e indicadores de salud materna a través de la implementación de estándares de interoperabilidad en los sistemas de información de salud materna para que los tomadores de decisión tengan información oportuna y de calidad. Con esto se desea apoyar a desarrollar mejores políticas de salud y, a su vez, contribuir a disminuir los problemas de equidad en salud de las mujeres peruanas, y potencialmente las mujeres de otros países en desarrollo. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar la situación actual de los sistemas de información de salud materna en el Perú

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS AND LANGUAGE USE IN COMPUTER MEDIATED-COMMUNICATION

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Adriana Teodorescu

2012-01-01

This paper aims at analyzing the degree to which intercultural communication patterns are embedded in computer-mediated communication. Drawing on Hall's and Hofstede's intercultural communication dimensions, this study evaluates empirically high-versus-low context cultural orientations as reflected in the electronic medium, namely the blog, in three different cultures. Cultural variation is also analyzed in linguistic features and communication style in a synchronous mode of communication, by...

"Cultural Responsiveness": A Framework for Re-Thinking Students' Interculturality through Study Abroad

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Giovanangeli, Angela; Oguro, Susan

2016-01-01

While intercultural competence is commonly a goal of university study abroad programmes, debates around criteria for assessing this competence have highlighted the challenges in appropriately identifying students' intercultural learning in relation to specific university programmes. To overcome these issues, this research moves beyond…

AJUSTAMENTO INTERCULTURAL DE EXECUTIVOS JAPONESES EXPATRIADOS NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO EMPÍRICO

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Edson Keyso de Miranda Kubo

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Intercultural adjustment has been considered a determinant factor of success in international assignments and the key concept of the model of international adjustment from Black, Mendenhall and Oddou (1991a. The objective of this article is to analyze how intercultural adjustment occurs among Japanese expatriate executives. A qualitative research was conducted with 37 Japanese expatriate executives in Brazil from 21 different subsidiaries in various sectors. Although the literature considers Japanese expatriates as examples of success due to their low failure rates in international assignments, the results shows that they do not adjust, because they receive little or neither intercultural training, keep distance from locals, and feel a lot of stress on work and cannot fail. This article contributes to a better understanding of the construct of intercultural adjustment and emphasizes the need to revise the model of Black, Mendenhall and Oddou (1991a for other nationalities.

Boletín Salud Mental

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anonymous

2011-01-01

Boletín informativo de los profesionales de la Red de Salud Mental del Servicio de Salud del Principado de Asturias Newsletter for professionals in the mental health network Asturias Servicio de Salud del Principado de Asturias

Sistemas integrados de gestión de la calidad, el medio ambiente, la seguridad y salud en el trabajo, según los enfoques normalizados

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Damarys Peña-Escobio; Mayra Moreno-Pino; Buenaventura Rigor-Cardona

2011-01-01

Se abordó el incrementado interés en implantar sistemas integrados para gestionar la calidad, la seguridad y salud en el trabajo y la protección del medio ambiente, luego de reconocer la importancia de todos estos elementos para el funcionamiento de la empresa. Los métodos empleados fueron: análisis y síntesis y modelación. Se resumen los aspectos comunes en los enfoques normalizados para cada sistema individual de gestión de los aspectos mencionados y se valoran las ventajas y desventajas de...

Hábitos saludables, igual buena salud

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López, María Fernanda

2011-01-01

El presente trabajo es un proyecto desarrollado en el Jardín de Infantes N 904 de Ensenada durante el ciclo lectivo 2010 con el propósito de promover hábitos saludables desde el ámbito educativo en niños de nivel inicial desde el área de la educación física teniendo en cuenta un abordaje transversal con las demás áreas. Se realizaron distintas actividades en el Jardín y en la plaza cercana: clases en las que se trataron diferentes contenidos de promoción y prevención de la salud como hábitos ...

Identifying School Psychologists' Intercultural Sensitivity

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Puyana, Olivia E.; Edwards, Oliver W.

2016-01-01

School psychologists are encouraged to analyze their intercultural sensitivity because they may be subject to personal attitudes and beliefs that pejoratively influence their work with students and clients who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). However, gaps remain in the literature regarding whether school psychologists are prepared…

Intercultural Effectiveness, Authoritarianism, and Ethnic Prejudice

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Nesdale, Drew; Robbe, Mike de Vries; Van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter

This study examined the extent to which intercultural effectiveness dimensions (cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability, flexibility) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) predicted the ethnic prejudice of 166 Australian respondents toward Indigenous Australians.

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APRENDER A VIVIR JUNTOS. UNA EDUCACIÓN INTERCULTURAL.

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Miguel Soler

2009-12-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN:Las culturas no son «bolas de billar» que chocan sin quedar afectadas. Las culturas son permeables y cambiantes, sometidas a múltiples influencias. Es así como las culturas evolucionan, pero esta evolución a lo largo de la historia ha estado plagada de traumas. La clave para lograr una convivencia intercultural, está en tener claro que para que diferentes culturas puedan vivir en paz han de conocerse y aprender a convivir.PALABRAS-CLAVE: Cultura, convivencia intercultural.ABSTRACT:Cultures are not «billiard balls» which crash into each other and remain intact. Cultures are permeable, under constant change and subject to many influences. This is how cultures evolve, but, throughout history, this evolution has been plagued with trauma. The key to intercultural cohabitation lies in knowing that, in order for different cultures to live in harmony, they must get to know each other and learn to live together.KEY-WORDS: Culture, intercultural cohabitation.RÉSUMÉ:Les cultures ne sont pas des «boules de billard» qui s’entrechoquent sans résulter affectées.Les cultures sont perméables et changeantes, soumises à de multiples influences. C’est ainsi que les cultures évoluent, mais cette évolution ne se produit pas sans peine. Pour réussir une cohabitation interculturelle, la clé est de savoir que , pour que différentes cultures puissent vivre en commun, elles doivent se connaître et apprendre à vivre ensemble.MOTS-CLÉS: Culture, cohabitacions interculturelle

Strategies used by nurses, academics and students to overcome intercultural communication challenges.

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Henderson, Saras; Barker, Michelle; Mak, Anita

2016-01-01

Nurse clinicians and academics need to understand intercultural communication challenges to improve their communication skills and better support students' learning. Gaps exist in the literature regarding intercultural communication resources for students, academics and clinicians. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of clinical nurses, nurse academics, and student nurses regarding intercultural communication challenges. Data were collected using focus group interviews with nineteen clinical facilitators (nurses who supervise nursing students in clinical practice), five clinical nurses, and ten nursing students. Seven nurse academics were interviewed via telephone. The purposive sample was drawn from a tertiary hospital and a university in Australia. Participants were invited to discuss challenging intercultural scenarios they had experienced including strategies they used to overcome such challenges. Using qualitative content analysis data were analysed resulting in four categories which were: 1) prejudice based on cultural diversity; 2) unfamiliarity with cultural boundaries; 3) stereotyping cultural behaviours; and 4) difficulty understanding English. Strategies participants used to mitigate challenges included resorting to cultural validation through alliance building, proactively seeking clarification, and acquiring cultural awareness knowledge. This study highlights intercultural challenges students, clinicians and academics face and signpost the way forward with useful strategies to better inform nurse education. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Intercultural Communication and Teaching Russian to International Students at Language Summer Courses

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Yuriy A. Romanov

2017-09-01

Full Text Available Introduction: the article considers the content and methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language at language summer courses with due account to (as a form of study-abroad training the motives of intercultural communication. The specifics of teaching Russian to international students in the cultural field of Ukraine is revealed. The timeliness of the study is determined by constantly increasing academic mobility of students and the need for the development of modern educational technologies. The main purpose of the article is to present an integrated approach to Russian as a foreign language teaching at language summer courses, when cultural needs of the trainees and the motives of intercultural communication are considered. Materials and Methods: teaching methodology draws on specific methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language and models of intercultural competence development. Educational materials for practical teaching of the Russian language are presented; qualitative and quantitative methods to research intercultural communication motives (written questionnaires and interviews on key topics are used. Results: through working with the learners of language courses – students of Austrian universities – the data on the learners’ motivation factors, the most relevant topics for intercultural dialogue, some important aspects of Russian grammar, and also the data on the most popular knowledge about Ukraine are obtained and carefully analysed. The analysis of the obtained data, carried out by the authors of the study, allowed to optimise the content of the educational process and to incre ase its effectiveness. Discussion and Conclusions: teaching Russian to foreigners, showing a keen interest in the cultural values of Ukraine, suggests a parallel formation of intercultural competence based on understanding the local cultural realities. The presented approach to RFL teaching within the framework of the language summer courses

Music, Arts and Intercultural Education: The Artistic Sensibility in the Discovery of the Other

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Maria do Rosário Sousa

2011-12-01

Full Text Available The present article presents a doctoral investigation. It mainly focuses on an action research whose problematic is based on the search for didactic-pedagogical paths which contribute to intercultural openness and change within schools allowing for better social integration. We have chosen the trilogy music, arts education and interculturality to address the central problematics of this research. Therefore an Intercultural Musical Program was conceived, implemented and assessed in three Portuguese Elementary/Preparatory schools. The main leading forces guiding this Program are attached to four areas, which constitute the theoretical/conceptual frame of this research: • Artistic education as a priority in education; • Intercultural education as a response to a growing cultural diversity; • The role of music as an harnessing methodology for intercultural communication; • Arts Programs as globalising impulses for human development and the preservation of cultural heritage. The empirical work rests on a methodology of qualitative analysis based on Renald Legendre’s (1993, 2005 model of Pedagogical Relationship (PR, combined with a strong influence of Visual Anthropology. The attained results are indicators of the high relevance and participation, as well as of the transforming impact of this action research, as a facilitator of intercultural communication and education among communities.

Rethinking the concept of intercultural conflict: Italian returnees’ attitudes towards others during a cultural conflict

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Mattia Baiutti

2016-04-01

Full Text Available The article aims to rethink the concept of intercultural conflict. Specifically, I argue that the use of the adjective “intercultural” within ‘intercultural conflict’ is usually an expression of rhetorical discourse or is not appropriate. Following a semantic analysis I show that a cultural conflict, here conceptualized as incompatibility of cultural values between a minimum of two people belonging to different cultural backgrounds, might be described as an intercultural conflict. This is possible if the interactants, rather than focussing on solutions, adopt an ‘intercultural attitude’ (comity, ethical relativism, critical self-reflection, openness toward a potential change, suspending judgment, reframing meanings, curiosity, respect, and self-decentralization between them. Existing theoretical concepts are explored through qualitative research examining supposedly interculturally competent high school students’ (after one scholastic year abroad attitudes towards others during a cultural conflict. The study shows that curiosity and respect towards others might be considered as preconditions for a true dialogue. Two main attitudes emerge from the analysis: the multicultural one and the intercultural one. The former corresponds to respect for the different ideas of others. The second is exemplified by true interaction between interactants who seek a deep understanding of what is behind the point of view held by themselves and others. Adopting an intercultural attitude, they make all possible efforts to truly encounter each other’s otherness. 

Intercultural virtual student teams open innovating via online social networks

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Santonen, Teemu

2011-01-01

Effective functioning of geographically dispersed, culturally mixed work team is essential for global business success in the era of open innovation. Therefore it is vital to understand and learn how to innovate in a virtually supported intercultural open innovation environments. This case study is developing and testing virtually supported intercultural open innovation process in context of higher education. Our aim is to develop better teaching solutions for experimental innovation learni...

Metacognition and the Development of Intercultural Competence

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Lane, H. Chad

2007-01-01

We argue that metacognition is a critical component in the development of intercultural competence by highlighting the importance of supporting a learner's self-assessment, self-monitoring, predictive...

Intercultural health practices: towards an equal recognition between indigenous medicine and biomedicine? A case study from Chile.

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Torri, Maria Costanza

2012-03-01

Over the past few years, intercultural health has become an emerging issue in health policy. Intercultural health is an approach in health that aims at reducing the gap between indigenous and western health systems, on the basis of mutual respect and equal recognition of these knowledge systems. This article questions the applicability of such a concept in the context of Chile. Here, conflicting interests between the Mapuche and the Chilean state are related to aspects of economic development, modernity processes, integration, intercultural relations, and indigenous rights and are deeply reflected also in projects for an intercultural health system. By analysing the experience of the intercultural practice of Makewe Hospital, this article argues that effective and equitable intercultural health practices will not take place unless there will be an integral valorisation of the Mapuche culture from a broader perspective.

Intercultural Health Care and Welfare

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Nielsen, Ben

2014-01-01

Artiklen har fokus på undervisning, planlægning, udvikling og evaluering af et internationalt tværfagligt valgfag Intercultural Health Care and Welfare, der udbydes på Det Sundhedsfaglige og Teknologiske Fakultet på Professionshøjskolen Metropol. Ifølge den tysk-amerikanske professor Iris Varner og...

Posibilidades y limitaciones de la educación intercultural en contexto mapuche.

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Segundo Quintriqueo M

2009-07-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo tiene por objeto la educación intercultural en contexto mapuche, donde se exponen antecedentes teóricos y prácticos referidos a su origen en América Latina y Chile, asociado al carácter histórico, monocultural y centralizado de la educación. La educación intercultural es definida en relación a las demandas históricas de las familias y comunidades para mejorar la educación y valorar el patrimonio cultural mapuche en la educación escolar. Como resultado se presenta un análisis sobre las posibilidades y limitaciones de la educación intercultural en relación a la coexistencia de racionalidades: mapuche y no mapuche en contexto intercultural. Estas racionalidades generan una distancia epistemológica en la definición de contenidos y finalidades educativas para la formación de persona en contexto de relaciones interétnicas e interculturales.

Educación Superior Intercultural en Ecuador y México. Disputas y tendencias

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Paola Andrea Vargas Moreno

2016-10-01

Full Text Available El documento describe y analiza las posibilidades e imposibilidades de la Educación Superior Intercultural en Ecuador y México a partir de las relaciones (conflictos/negociaciones entre política pública educativa, como materialización del proyecto educativo de los Estados, e instituciones de educación superior intercultural vinculadas a organizaciones sociales indígenas. Para ello, se tendrán en cuenta a manera de ejemplo las trayectorias de dos instituciones de educación superior intercultural vinculadas a organizaciones indígenas: la Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas Amawtay Wasi (UIAW en Ecuador y la Universidad Intercultural de los Pueblos del Sur (UNISUR en el Estado de Guerrero, México. El documento propone tres momentos: en primera instancia, un encuadre histórico y teórico general sobre modelos de administración de la diferencia y modelos educativos que contextualice el análisis y permita situar similitudes, diferencias y conexiones entre Ecuador y México, posteriormente una breve descripción de las trayectorias de las dos instituciones caracterizadas como experiencias de educación superior desde abajo y, finalmente, a manera de conclusión y aporte al debate, un breve análisis respecto a las tendencias regionales emergentes en el campo de la educación superior intercultural en América Latina hoy fundamentado en el ejercicio comparativo.

Multicultural Group Work on Field Excursions to Promote Student Teachers' Intercultural Competence

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Brendel, Nina; Aksit, Fisun; Aksit, Selahattin; Schrüfer, Gabriele

2016-01-01

As a response to the intercultural challenges of Geography Education, this study seeks to determine factors fostering intercultural competence of student teachers. Based on a one-week multicultural field excursion of eight German and eight Turkish students in Kayseri (Turkey) on Education for Sustainable Development, we used qualitative interviews…

An Analysis of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Hotel Front Office Personnel in Bangkok

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Inkaew, Manachai

2016-01-01

When we consider a strategy for dealing with globalization, it can be seen that intercultural interactions and encounters are very important and appropriate as effective outcomes are expected. Therefore, the need to assess the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of those expected to achieve these outcomes is worth consideration. This…

The Methodology of Investigation of Intercultural Rhetoric applied to SFL

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David Heredero Zorzo

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Intercultural rhetoric is a discipline which studies written discourse among individuals from different cultures. It is a very strong field in the Anglo-Saxon scientific world, especially referring to English as a second language, but in Spanish as a foreign language it is not as prominent. Intercultural rhetoric has provided applied linguistics with important methods of investigation, thus applying this to SFL could introduce interesting new perspectives on the subject. In this paper, we present the methodology of investigation of intercultural rhetoric, which is based on the use of different types of corpora for analysing genders, and follows the precepts of tertium comparationis. In addition, it uses techniques of ethnographic investigation. The purpose of this paper is to show the applications of this methodology to SFL and to outline future investigations in the same field.

¿ES EL MÉDICO FAMILIAR EL ESPECIALISTA CON MEJOR PERFIL PARA LA ATENCIÓN PRIMARIA EN SALUD Y EL MÁS IDÓNEO PARA LIDERAR SUS EQUIPOS DE ATENCIÓN?

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Dairo F. Beltrán

2012-04-01

Full Text Available La Atención Primaria en Salud es el componente esencial del Sistema Sanitario. Sus actividades son la educación sanitaria, provisión de alimentos, nutrición adecuada, salubridad del agua, saneamiento básico, cuidado materno infantil, inmunización, prevención y control de enfermedades endémicas, tratamiento básico y abastecimiento de fármacos. La especialidad en Medicina Familiar se encarga del cuidado de la salud total del individuo y su familia, combinando ciencias del comportamiento con ciencias tradicionales clínicas y biológicas, ofreciendo un cuidado integral, humanizado y continuo sin importar edad, sexo ni órgano comprometido. Tanto la Medicina familiar como la Atención primaria en salud poseen elementos conceptuales que las definen individualmente y que además tienen en común: Primer contacto, Accesibilidad, Integralidad, Continuidad, Coordinación, Orientación familiar, Énfasis en promoción y prevención, Atención apropiada y Recursos adecuados y sostenibles. Teniendo en cuenta estos conceptos y la indiscutible congruencia entre la Medicina Familiar y la Atención Primaria en Salud, podemos afirmar que es ésta especialidad, la efectora más idónea para realizar las intervenciones médicas necesarias en el contexto de la Atención Primaria en Salud.

Comprender la Hibridación. Hacia un Estudio de los Espacios de Comunicación Intercultural

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Lie, R.

2009-01-01

La comunicación intercultural está estrechamente relacionada con la construcción y el funcionamiento de la identidad cultural; por ello, una forma de analizar los procesos de la comunicación intercultural es que se adopte la idea de espacios de comunicación intercultural, donde las culturas se

Las redes sociales rumanas en Coslada: un espacio de encuentro intercultural

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Buitrago, Luz M.

2006-12-01

Full Text Available This paper examines the social networks of Rumanian residents in Coslada, showing the building of social maps to describe the community. In the process, we identify several action sets that are useful to design a Rumanian intercultural space in Coslada. This was part of a participative action research called “Espacio de encuentro intercultural: caminando hacia la convivencia en Coslada”.

The Intercultural Marketing Competence of Software Subcontractors: Toward a Conceptual Framework

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Skaates, Maria Anne

2002-01-01

As part of a research project on cooperation between Nordic software development subcontractors and their foreign customers, the dynamics of intercultural marketing competence are being examined. This paper builds a conceptual bridge by developing a definition of a software subcontracting firm......'s intercultural marketing competence on the basis of (a) socio-psychological and human resource management definitions of intercultural competence at the level of individuals and (b) definitions of organizational competence from the resource-based perspective. Furthermore a model of the dynamics...... of this competence is presented. In connection with the model, key economic aspects of the competence from the viewpoints of both the subcontractor and its customer firm - including strategic importance, heterogeneity, imperfect mobility, ex ante limits to competition, dynamic transaction costs, time compression...

Enhancing intercultural competence through U.S. multicultural literature in the EFL classroom

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Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez

2013-12-01

Full Text Available This article reports part of an action research experience that was conducted in an advanced EFL classroom of the language program at a public university in Bogotá, Colombia in 2011. The study proposes the incorporation of authentic multicultural literary texts in the EFL classroom as a means to develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC. Data were collected to show how learners acquired cultural knowledge, developed critical intercultural skills, and created positive attitudes -aspects of Byram's model of ICC- when they read literary short stories. Findings show that integrating language and literature in EFL constitutes a pedagogical contribution to construct critical intercultural awareness.

INTERCULTURALIDAD EN SALUD: COMPETENCIAS EN PRÁCTICAS DE SALUD CON POBLACIÓN INDÍGENA

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Hasen Narváez,Felipe Nayip

2012-01-01

Este artículo pretende discutir y reflexionar en torno a la manera en la cual los servicios del sistema de salud inmersos en territorios con alta presencia de comunidades mapuche, se adecuan a la idiosincrasia cultural de esta población, abordando cuáles son las dificultades con que los servicios de salud se encuentran a la hora de ejercer la práctica de atención de salud en contextos pluriétnicos, en donde la salud es entendida de forma ho-lística, llevando necesariamente a una visión epidem...

"Intercultural Training" in Exchange Situations for Experts and Management: A Critical Reflection

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Engelbert, Sonja

2004-01-01

In this paper, developments in the area of "intercultural communication" are described to shed light on the pitfalls that the author has discovered in her analysis of some of the more popular intercultural training programs, through practical applications of communication training programs and through her own personal experiences in exchange…

Adopting and Implementing Globalised Policies of Intercultural Education: The Example of Cyprus

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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis

2017-01-01

Globalisation has heavily influenced the terrain of intercultural education policy development and implementation in multiple countries around the world. To this end, in this article, we seek to introduce a broader focus of analysis encompassing not only the development of globalised policies of intercultural education, but also the adoption,…

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

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Jadranka Zlomislić

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The aim of this study is to explore the influence of education and additional factors influencing students’ awareness of intercultural differences. For the purposes of this research assessment was carried out with regard to their role in promoting cultural awareness and facing cross-cultural challenges posed by unfamiliar cross-cultural contexts. Cultural education is presumed to be a key factor for achieving a significant increase of cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness in order to ensure successful cross-cultural communication and increase mobility of students/working professionals. For this study, it was assumed that the cultural awareness of students increases due to the courses they take and their overall study experience. A special questionnaire was developed for the purposes of this research, and the obtained results were statistically analyzed with the help of descriptive statistics, the non-parametric chi-square test, and the Mann-Whitney test. The research has shown that intercultural competence has a statistically significant positive effect on the readiness of students to participate in study and work programs abroad. Thus, it is mandatory that foreign language competence as well as intercultural competence be a priority of the curriculum if we are to increase the number of highly educated experts who will be capable to compete successfully as students or professionals in all fields and all cultural areas. If we recognize that globalization has made the world a global village, we all need the intercultural competence to successfully live in it.

E-LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE

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Meei-Ling Liaw

2006-09-01

Full Text Available This study presents findings on the efficacy of an online learning environment developed to foster EFL students’ intercultural competence via reading articles on topics of their own culture and communicating their responses with speakers of another culture. The project offered opportunities for EFL students to use their own societal and cultural practices as the focus for EFL learning. In addition, with the help of an e-forum, the learning environment allowed the students to exchange their views with speakers of the target language. Two e-referencing tools were made available in the system while students were reading and writing. The findings showed that all EFL participants were able to communicate fluently in the target language without much help from corpora-based e-referencing tools provided in the system. The use of the online dictionary decreased drastically after the first two readings. The online concordancer, instead of being used for learning different kinds of cultural meaning on the levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual organization as originally intended, was used by the students to link to articles of similar topics for further explorations of culture and language learning opportunities. Despite some technical difficulties with the computers, the collaboration between the two groups of students was successful, as can be seen from the positive and complimentary comments from the participants. The students’ e-forum entries demonstrated four types of intercultural competences: (A interest in knowing other people’s way of life and introducing one’s own culture to others, (B ability to change perspective, (C knowledge about one’s own and others’ culture for intercultural communication, and (D knowledge about intercultural communication processes.

Intercultural Moments in Teaching English through Film

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Margaret Lee Zoreda

2006-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo describe el curso de nivel avanzado “Encuentros Interculturales en el Cine Anglófono” diseñado para el programa de inglés de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, y señala cómo las películas incluidas pueden conducirnos a una reflexión intercultural. A partir de una discusión sobre la importancia de la cultura en el currículo de lenguas extranjeras y de su relación con el cine, la autora presenta un panorama general del curso, los resúmenes de las películas utilizadas, y concluye con una reflexión en torno a momentos propicios para el fortalecimiento de una perspectiva intercultural.

Can an intercultural education model combat discrimination and xenophobia?

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Moisès Esteban Guitart

2010-03-01

Full Text Available In this article we present a qualitative study conducted with six indigenous and six mestizos from Intercultural University of Chiapas. The aim of the study is to exemplify the mutual perception between different ethno-linguistic groups, as well as the possible change occurred after the admission to the University. That is, opinions about the other group after and before entering the University. We conclude that a higher education intercultural model can promote mutual understanding and relationship between indigenous and mestizos and thus combat prejudices and stereotypes.     

Salud Mental... Antes y ahora

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Patricia Velez-Laguado

2004-12-01

Full Text Available Comprender el concepto de Salud Mental es entender que la Salud depende de algo más que un buen estado físico; es el equilibrio o armonía entre las distintas dimensiones que conforman al individuo dentro de un entorno, que dada las condiciones de nuestro País, ha cambiado. Su prevención está dada por la adquisición de conductas saludables a partir de la implementación, las Políticas de Salud mental dentro de los Lineamientos Departamentales.

La plaza de la salud

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Pracilio, Horacio Oscar; Zelayeta, Adrián Rogelio; Diaczuk, Teresa; Mendes, Claudia Andrea; Mamonde, Mario Valentín

2016-01-01

La estrategia de promoción de la salud, propiciada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud en la Carta de Otawa (1986), propone entre las líneas de acción para intervenir sobre los determinantes de la salud, la “creación de entornos favorables a la salud” y el “desarrollo de aptitudes personales”. Según numerosas investigaciones epidemiológicas sobre factores causales y de riesgo de enfermedades transmisibles y crónicas no transmisibles, la salud de la población depende no solo de intervencio...

Transformative Learning and Concepts of the Self: Insights from Immigrant and Intercultural Journeys

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Lange, Elizabeth

2015-01-01

This article examines Canadian immigrant and intercultural learning as an insightful context for examining transformative learning. Theories of intercultural communication are explored, particularly the concept of transculturality and Bhabha's concept of "Third Space". Various concepts of the self are also compared, particularly two…

La dispensarización: una vía para la evaluación del proceso salud-enfermedad

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Ricardo Batista Moliner

2001-04-01

Full Text Available El proceso de dispensarización constituye el centro de la labor a desarrollar por el Equipo Básico de la Atención Primaria de Salud en Cuba y a partir de él se despliega la estrategia de atención ambulatoria del individuo en la comunidad. La dispensarización en su desarrollo, ha sufrido un profundo perfeccionamiento a partir de las experiencias y avances de los servicios ambulatorios en nuestro país, y como resultado de la incorporación y cumplimiento por parte de nuestro sistema sanitario, de los principios y objetivos establecidos internacionalmente para alcanzar las metas planteadas por la Organización Mundial de la Salud. En este trabajo realiza una breve exposición de la evolución histórica de la dispensarización y se presentan algunos elementos conceptuales y metodológicos relacionados con este proceso; así como su alcance y contenido fundamental en la actualidad. De forma particular se abordan aspectos relacionados con la consulta de evaluación del estado de salud del paciente ambulatorio, se enuncian los elementos más generales que se vinculan con la dispensarización en situaciones especiales, y se esbozan aspectos relativos a la coordinación horizontal en la atención primaria.The process of patient classification is the object of the work carried out by the Basic Team of Primary Health Care in Cuba and the strategy of ambulatory care to the individual in the community is laid down starting from it. The patient classification has been largely improved based on the experiences and advances of the ambulatory services in our country and as a result of the introduction into our health system of the principles and objectives internationally established to attain the goals proposed by the World Health Organization and their fulfilment. A brief exposition of the historical evolution of patient classification is made and some conceptual and methodological elements related to this process as well as its current scope and

Validación de un modelo intercultural de envejecimiento exitoso en población española

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Salvador Alberola

Full Text Available Resumen: Aportar evidencia empírica del ajuste del modelo de envejecimiento exitoso de Iwamasa e Iwasaki en una muestra española. El modelo contempla como indicadores de buen envejecer satisfacción con la vida y bienestar. Los resultados de la validación del modelo basados en una muestra de 593 adultos mayores cursando estudios a lo largo del ciclo vital (tasa de respuesta 77% señalan como factores más importantes para el envejecimiento con éxito la salud física para la satisfacción con la vida (38% y el apoyo social o red social (27% para ambos indicadores. Se destaca la importancia de la espiritualidad como elemento cohesionador, con fuertes relaciones con las variables predictoras de envejecimiento exitoso recogidas por el modelo teórico.

Yes, You Can!: A Critical Questions Approach for Developing and Incorporating Intercultural Sensitivity Efforts into ANY Classroom

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Osborne, Randall

2016-01-01

The educational literature has blossomed with information on becoming interculturally sensitive (e.g., Bennett, 2004, 2009), discussions on theory and practice for education aimed at enhancing intercultural sensitivity in students (e.g., Bleszynska, 2008), or how to identify and assess intercultural sensitivity as a learning outcome (e.g.,…

Improving forensic mental health care to Indigenous Australians: theorizing the intercultural space.

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Durey, A; Wynaden, D; O'Kane, M

2014-05-01

This paper uses the 'intercultural space' as an educational strategy to prepare nurses to work respectfully with Indigenous patients in a forensic mental health context; offers an educational approach that introduces nurses to Indigenous knowledge, beliefs and values, examines power relations in colonized countries between the dominant white cultural group and the Indigenous population and encourages nurses to critically reflect on their health care practice; and explores the intercultural space as a shared space between cultures fostering open and robust inquiry where neither culture dominates and new positions, representations and understandings can emerge. Given the disproportionately high number of Indigenous people imprisoned in colonized countries, this paper responds to research from Western Australia on the need to prepare forensic mental health nurses to deliver care to Indigenous patients with mental health disorders. The paper highlights the nexus between theory, research and education that can inform the design and implementation of programmes to help nurses navigate the complex, layered and contested 'intercultural space' and deliver culturally safe care to Indigenous patients. Nurses are encouraged to critically reflect on how beliefs and values underpinning their cultural positioning impact on health care to Indigenous patients. The paper draws on intercultural theory to offer a pedagogical framework that acknowledges the negative impacts of colonization on Indigenous health and well-being, repositions and revalues Indigenous cultures and knowledges and fosters open and robust inquiry. This approach is seen as a step towards working more effectively in the intercultural space where ultimately binary oppositions that privilege one culture over another and inhibit robust inquiry are avoided, paving the way for new, more inclusive positions, representations and understandings to emerge. While the intercultural space can be a place of struggle, tension

Interculturality in an Urban Setting.

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Ryan, Phyllis M.

This paper argues that a need exists, especially in urban universities, to focus on attitudes toward foreign language learning (in this case, the learning of English) and toward speakers of the language being learned as well as the cultures represented by its speakers. The concept of interculturality as a goal for learning challenges negative…

Colombia:educación, expropiación y salud. Tres alternativas de solución al conflicto

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Andrés Felipe López López

2015-06-01

Full Text Available El presente escrito tiene dos momentos y un propósito. El primer momento consta de un recorrido por la historia económica de Colombia de manera general, como una sola pincelada en un lienzo en blanco. En el segundo proponemos que la educación, la expropiación y la salud son elementos atómicos en la construcción de una sociedad justa y verdaderamente humana en Colombia. El propósito está en orden a defender la idea de que la educación para hombres libres, es el más importante recurso de transformación social en una nación que ha sufrido, más que vivido, sus cambios y sus problemas.

Centro Nacional de Salud Ocupacional y Protección del Ambiente para la Salud (CENSOPAS)

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Instituto Nacional de Salud

2005-01-01

En el mes de agosto del 2005, se atendieron en el servicio de salud de psicología del Centro nacional de Salud Ocupacional del INS, 45 personas de las cuales sólo una persona presentó alguna alteración de su salud mental (Síndrome Orgánico Cerebral)

Indigenous traditional medicine and intercultural healthcare in Bolivia: a case study from the Potosi region.

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Torri, Maria Costanza; Hollenberg, Daniel

2013-01-01

Indigenous peoples have the worst socio-demographic indicators and the largest inequalities in terms of access to social services and health in the Latin American region, Bolivia included. In the last few years, attempts to implement policies that support indigenous people's health rights led to the development of intercultural health approaches. Yet, acceptance and integration of indigenous medicine into the biomedical health system presents a major challenge to intercultural health in Latin America. The objective of this article is to analyze the case of a health center in Tinguipaya, one of the first and few examples of intercultural health initiatives in Bolivia. This intercultural health project, which represents a pioneer experience with regard to the creation of intercultural health services in Bolivia, aims to create a network between local communities, traditional healers, and biomedical staff and offer a more culturally sensitive and holistic health service for indigenous people living in the area. The aim of this article is to critically assess this initiative and to analyze the main challenges met in the creation of a more effective intercultural health policy. The extent to which this initiative succeeded in promoting the integration between indigenous health practitioners and biomedical staff as well as in improving access to health care for local indigenous patients will also be examined.

Negotiating Narrative Identity in Intercultural Contexts - the Role of Applied Theatre

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Heidi M. Haraldsen

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The aim of this study is to investigate how applied theatre can facilitate arenas and methods to support identity development particularly favorable to an intercultural context, explored through the concept of narrative identity. Identity and identity processes may be extra challenging to people with intercultural backgrounds. Research shows that how you master your identity affects how you master your life. A case study of two intercultural applied theatre projects was used to address the research question. The article builds on the experiences of two drama teachers and one teaching artist / artistic leader. The interpretation and analysis of the theory related to practice makes visible how aesthetic processes of negotiating and staging life stories (narratives, through applied theatre methods, facilitate participant's exploring, constructing, re-constructing and meta-reflecting own identity.

A critical analysis of intercultural communication research in cross-cultural management

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Bjerregaard, Toke; Lauring, Jakob; Klitmøller, Anders

2009-01-01

of anthropology from which it originated. This theory gap between intercultural communication research in CCM and anthropology tends to exclude from CCM an understanding of how the context of social, organizational and power relationships shapes the role of culture in communication. Practical implications......Purpose - Functionalist models of intercultural interaction have serious limitations relying on static and decontextualized culture views. This paper sets out to outline newer developments in anthropological theory in order to provide inspirations to a more dynamic and contextual approach...... - The paper proposes to substitute the view of culture as comprising of abstract values and codes as determinants of communication with concepts of culture as dynamically enfolded in practice and socially situated in specific contexts, in order to give new directions to theories on intercultural communication...

Communicative intercultural competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba

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Adela Hernández Díaz

2016-12-01

Full Text Available This article describes the results of the investigation “Developing Communicative Intercultural Competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba through English”, a master´s degree thesis whose aim was to design a postgraduate course of English for Specific Purposes which would focus on the development of the communicative competence of doctors going to health missions in English-speaking countries or where English is spoken as a lingua franca.This course is based on Developmental Pedagogy, the Communicative Approach and Task-Based Learning. It emphasizes cultural and important intercultural issues to be kept in mind during doctor-patient interviews, doctor-doctor relationships and doctor-family exchanges in a professional context so as to make it possible to establish cultural differences and similarities between the students´ culture and the foreign country´s culture.This is an exploratory investigation with a fundamentally quantitative focus using resources of the qualitative one. This design is a curricular document with all its didactic components, aimed at the development of intercultural communicative competence that responds to the current needs of the participants. 

Intercultural Communication and Disabilities from a Communication Complex Perspective

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Джон Пэрриш-Спраул

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Intercultural communication presents a number of challenges that are less of an issue in same-culture interactions. This is important because travel and technological capability enable more and more immigrants, business people, tourists, etc. to engage in such interactions. One group of people that comprises 10% of the world population, the disabled, is increasingly being mainstreamed within cultures as well as traveling to other countries. Research finds that the disabled are often marginalized and discriminated against within their own country. When the abled enter an intercultural interaction with the disabled the communication challenges are even greater. Communication Complex, a metatheoretical perspective on communication that embraces a constitutive definition of communication combined with a neuroscience understanding of interaction, offers a deeper, yet highly practical explanation of the level of complexity that such an encounter entails. This article offers a brief introduction to this way of understanding intercultural communication, along with the suggestion that future studies and practical guides should take disabilities into account when analyzing or building skills.

Rapa Nui: Tradition, modernity and alterglobalization in intercultural education

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Fidel Molina

2013-07-01

Full Text Available In this research are described, analyze and compare the manifestations of the intercultural education in a difficult situation as it is Rapa Nui Island (Easter Island, traditionally isolated, in the “navel of the world” (Te pito o Te Henua, but “discovered” and assimilated by the western people and recoveredfor the intercultural idea that it surpasses this assimilation and/or global homogenization, in a alterglobalization context. We have analyzed four depth interviews and two biographical stories (lifehistories, dividing of the hypothesis of the necessity of a clear link between interculturality and education, to rethink the identity and the cultural continuity of their citizens. The obtained results suggest them programs of immersion in the school are not sufficient if they do not go accompanied of a holistic institutional work in the diverse scopes: cultural, educative, economic, environmental politician, leisure, etc. The construction of the identity sends again to individual and collective scopes, with the participation of the subject and the community. In this sense, intergenerational solidarity plays a fundamental role.

"El proyecto PARTEA: una experiencia educativa para el desarrollo del diálogo intercultural en Europa" [PARTEA project: an educational experience to develop intercultural dialogue in Europe

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Juan Rafael Hernández Bravo

2011-01-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN:El proyecto PARTEA (Padres y Profesores: compañeros en el diálogo intercultural ha sido una experiencia educativa desarrollada en siete países de Europa (España, Dinamarca, Reino Unido, Bélgica, Grecia, Turquía y Rumanía, cuyo objetivo principal ha sido el de identificar y desarrollar métodos en el ámbito escolar para mejorar el diálogo intercultural entre padres de las culturas minoritarias y profesores de los diferentes países europeos participantes en este proyecto. Este proyecto ha sido financiado por el Programa de Aprendizaje Permanente de la Comisión Europea y se ha llevado a cabo durante los cursos académicos 2009 y 2011. Durante el periodo en el que se desarrolló la experiencia, se comprobó la necesidad de mejorar el diálogo intercultural entre los miembros de las comunidades educativas, constatándose que el acercamiento entre padres de diferentes culturas y profesores contribuía al incremento de dicho diálogo. De esta manera, el proyecto ha supuesto también una oportunidad para el intercambio de buenas prácticas educativas entre docentes y el establecimiento de nuevos canales de comunicación e interacción con las familias de diferentes culturas en el marco de una Europa culturalmente diversa.ABSTRACT:The PARTEA project (Parents and Teachers: Partners in intercultural dialogue has been an educational experience developed in seven European countries (Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and Romania, whose main objective was to identify and develop methods in schools to improve intercultural dialogue among parents of minority cultures and teachers from the different European countries participating in this project. This project, which was funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, was carried out during two academic years, between 2009 and 2011. Throughout the life-time of the project, we found the need to improve intercultural dialogue among the members of

Experiences of family members regarding the oral health care of children Experiencias del familiar en relación al cuidado con la salud bucal de niños Experiências do familiar em relação ao cuidado com a saúde bucal de crianças

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Célia Mara Garcia de Lima

2011-02-01

Full Text Available The aim of this study was to comprehend the experiences of family members regarding the oral health care of children. This was a qualitative study, conducted in 2007, in the health district of Ribeirão Preto, with 12 caregivers. The theoretical framework of vulnerability and the hermeneutical perspective were used. Three empirical categories were established: the meanings of oral health care, in search of the causes and prevention of oral diseases, and the reality of oral health services. Among other potentiating factors of infantile vulnerability to oral diseases, the overvaluation of biological causality, of high complexity care and of esthetic dentistry emerged, and among the protective factors, the valorization of popular knowledge and the integration of professional actions and knowledge were observed. This study indicates the necessity for a review of prevention and oral health promotion strategies and provides elements to assist health services to reorganize oral health care for children.Este estudio objetivó verificar la comprensión de las experiencias de los familiares en relación al cuidado con la salud bucal de los niños. Es un estudio cualitativo, realizado en 2007, en un distrito de salud del municipio de Ribeirao Preto-SP, con 12 cuidadores. Se utilizó el referencial teórico de la vulnerabilidad y la perspectiva hermenéutica. Tres categorías empíricas fueron elaboradas: los significados del cuidado con la salud bucal, en busca de las causas y de la prevención de daños bucales, y la realidad de los servicios de salud bucal. Entre otros elementos potencializadores de la vulnerabilidad infantil a los daños bucales, emergieron la supervalorización de la causalidad biológica, la atención de alta complejidad y la odontología estética; y, entre los protectores, la valorización de la sabiduría popular y la integración de acciones y conocimientos profesionales. Se señala que debe ser efectuada la revisión de las

Cross-Cultural Communication and the Continuity of Cultures: The Role of Intercultural Dialogue

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Bouchet, Dominique

2012-01-01

cultural contexts influence interpersonal communication. We need to know how intercultural communication affects the mobility and permanency of cultures. We need to know what sustains our core values and what might be harmful to them. We need a clear definition of what intercultural communication is about...

Open Source Software Development with Your Mother Language : Intercultural Collaboration Experiment 2002

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Nomura, Saeko; Ishida, Saeko; Jensen, Mika Yasuoka

2002-01-01

”Open Source Software Development with Your Mother Language: Intercultural Collaboration Experiment 2002,” 10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction (HCII2003), June 2003, Crete, Greece.......”Open Source Software Development with Your Mother Language: Intercultural Collaboration Experiment 2002,” 10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction (HCII2003), June 2003, Crete, Greece....

Historia del Instituto Nacional de Salud Ocupacional del Perú History of Instituto Nacional de Salud Ocupacional del Peru

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Juan M. Cossio-Brazzan

2012-06-01

Full Text Available En el Perú, el desarrollo de la industria ha generado mejoras económicas pero, a la vez, ha tenido un gran impacto en la salud de sus trabajadores por lo que era necesario implementar mecanismos de control. Por ello, en 1940 se crea el Departamento de Higiene Industrial, que en 1956 cambia a Instituto de Salud Ocupacional, que fue desactivado en 1994. Sin embargo, el 2001 reaparece en la estructura organizacional del Ministerio de Salud como Instituto de Salud Ocupacional "Alberto Hurtado Abadía". En la actualidad, es el Centro Nacional de Salud Ocupacional y Protección del Ambiente para la Salud (CENSOPAS, órgano del Instituto Nacional de Salud que continúa trabajando en sinergia con otras instituciones y sectores, generando evidencias para proteger la salud de las personas expuestas (trabajadores y comunidad a la contaminación y riesgos asociados con las actividades económicas.In Peru, the industry´s development has made economic improvements but at the same time, it has had a major impact on the health of the workers; for that reason, it was necessary to generate control mechanisms. So, in 1940 it was created the Departmento de Higiene Industrial, which in 1956 was changed to Instituto de Salud Ocupacional, but it was deactivated in 1994. However, in 2001 it reappeared into the Ministerio de Salud organizational structure with the name of Instituto de Salud Ocupacional "Alberto Hurtado Abadía". Actually, it is the Centro Nacional de Salud Ocupacional y Protección del Ambiente para la Salud (CENSOPAS, organ of the Instituto Nacional de Salud which continues working in synergy with other institutions and sectors, making research to protect the health of exposed persons (workers and community to contamination and risks associated with economic activities.

La salud sexual y la salud reproductiva desde la perspectiva de género

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Miguel Ramos Padilla

2006-07-01

Full Text Available Este ensayo busca introducir la categoría de género en el análisis de los procesos que producen la salud, la enfermedad y la atención, en el campo de la salud sexual y reproductiva, pues la considera un aporte valioso para develar una serie de componentes que, aunque están estrechamente relacionados con las categorías de clase o etnia, tienen una dinámica y una capacidad de explicación de la realidad relativamente autónoma. El género no es sólo un aspecto determinante de inequidad sino un eje explicativo de muchos de los factores que intervienen en el enfermar y morir de mujeres y hombres. En primer lugar, se exponen las implicaciones más importantes de las desigualdades sociales por razones de género y de las diferencias de género en la salud sexual y reproductiva para el caso peruano; en segundo lugar, se analiza la importancia de concebir e involucrar a los varones como sujetos de derechos y con necesidades específicas en sexualidad y reproducción, en discusión con los planteamientos de la Conferencia Internacional de Población y Desarrollo (CIPD de El Cairo al respecto, y las implicaciones de la salud sexual y reproductiva de los varones en la salud de las mujeres; en tercer lugar, se analiza el sinuoso camino de las políticas estatales en torno a la salud sexual y reproductiva y el respeto de estas a los derechos de las personas y a la equidad de género a partir de la CIPD; y por último, se concluye con algunas propuestas de lineamientos de políticas en salud sexual y salud reproductiva con perspectiva de género.

Back Cover: NIH MedlinePlus Salud

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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS AND LANGUAGE USE IN COMPUTER MEDIATED-COMMUNICATION

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Adriana Teodorescu

2012-11-01

Full Text Available This paper aims at analyzing the degree to which intercultural communication patterns are embedded in computer-mediated communication. Drawing on Hall’s and Hofstede’s intercultural communication dimensions, this study evaluates empirically high-versus-low context cultural orientations as reflected in the electronic medium, namely the blog, in three different cultures. Cultural variation is also analyzed in linguistic features and communication style in a synchronous mode of communication, by investigating data from several popular blogs from Japan, Germany and Italy.

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Mario Segura Castillo

2005-01-01

Full Text Available Con la creciente inmigración en nuestro país, se debe pensar en el desarrollo de políticas estratégicas de educación intercultural para atender los inmigrantes con justicia y dar mejores condiciones de vida a personas que dejan otras regiones del mundo en busca de mejores oportunidades, aparte de fortalecer los derechos humanos desde su base, es decir, desde el sistema educativo. El PEC es un “instrumento que recoge y comunica la propuesta integral para dirigir y orientar coherentemente los procesos de intervención educativa que se desarrollan en una intervención escolar” (Antúnez, S. 1992, p. 47. Se presenta a continuación un estudio de las condiciones que presenta un centro educativo de I y II ciclos de la Educación General Básica con base en un diagnóstico institucional que se realizó para determinar cuáles condiciones de dicho centro educativo favorecen y desfavorecen la puesta en práctica del PEC, centrado en la educación intercultural y en la transversalidad, de acuerdo con la opinión de los docentes y los estudiantes de dicho centro educativo

POLITENESS IN REQUESTS: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

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Aura CODREANU; Alina DEBU

2011-01-01

Full Text Available The major aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests. The research project supporting the findings of the paper was undertaken in order to find out to what extent politeness and indirectness are viewed as overlapping or mutually excluding categories by Romanians compared to other nationalities, such as the British and the Hebrew. Another inherent goal of the paper is to provide an example of the socio linguistics instruments that can be employed in the investigation of the differences and similarities likely to emerge in intercultural encounters. Thus, we believe that only through similar research undertaken in the fields contributing to the emerging field of interculturality one can actually trespass the theoretical assumptions and move on to the identification of the right tools and means through which intercultural discourse to be approached at a pragmatic level and thus better understood and taught in educational establishments.

Revisión de los orígenes de la responsabilidad social empresarial en el sector salud en Colombia

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María del Coral Pérez-Ordoñez

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Introducción: La responsabilidad social empresarial, RSE en el sector salud es prácticamente nula, más si hablamos específicamente de Colombia, a través de los años este concepto fue evolucionando y ha estado ligado a la importancia que tiene la RSE en los actores que intervienen en el desarrollo del Sistema de Salud Colombiano. Materiales y Métodos: Revisión de literatura. Resultados: Hoy en día algunas EPS´S han desarrollado políticas y algunas acciones orientadas al tema de la RSE, entre las cuales se encuentra fundaciones, incentivos, proceso de integración pero estas todavía no son permisibles en la satisfacción de los usuarios, no se han centrado en la promoción, prevención y seguimiento de los pacientes y sus diagnósticos.Discusión y Conclusiones: como se aprecia en la revisión, los conceptos de responsabilidad social empresarial han existido desde remotas épocas, en las que ya se trataban temas importantes para la actividad económica de las unidades productivas de esos tiempos, en el sector salud prácticamente no existe literatura que trate específicamente sobre Responsabilidad Social Empresarial pero se puede asociar a las diferentes pautas que han realizado autores sobre la importancia de la Salud como elemento fundamental en el desarrollo del Capital Humano. Es evidente que los diferentes actores del Sistema de Seguridad Social en Salud Colombiano, requiere de forma imperativa la implementación de prácticas de RSE efectivas cuyo eje central sea el Paciente y no los fines económicos de los diversos actores. (Rev Cuid 2011; 2(2: 206-15.Palabras clave: Ley, Paciente, Clínica, Hospital, Responsabilidad Social, Régimen. (Fuente: DeCS BIREME.

Identifying sensitive areas on intercultural contacts: An exploratory study

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Ignacio Ramos-Vidal

2011-06-01

Full Text Available This paper analyzes the negative influence that cultural friction areas can promote on intercultural contacts. First, we expose the critical incident method like cross-cultural training model (Arthur, 2001. Then we show the negative effects that sensitive cultural zones can exert on the formation of prejudices and stereotypes about culturally diverse groups, analyzing 77 critical incidents collected in two different formative contexts. The main cultural shock areas detected are a intercultural communication barriers, b gender roles, and c the cultural expressions statement. Strategies to improve the method validity are proposed.

[Intercultural aspects of the health system reform in Bolivia].

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Ramírez Hita, Susana

2014-01-01

This article is a reflection on how interculturality, understood as the way to improve the health of the Bolivian population and coupled with the concept of living well, is not contributing to improving the quality of life and health of the most vulnerable populations in the country. The discourse is coupled with the intention of saving lives in its broadest sense; however, for this it is necessary to make decisions about environmental health and extractivist policies that are not taken into account in the health issues affecting indigenous communities, a population targeted by the intercultural aspects of the health reform.

[Facilitators and barriers to implementation of intercultural health policy in Chile].

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Pérez, Camila; Nazar, Gabriela; Cova, Félix

2016-02-01

Objective To identify elements that either facilitate or hinder implementation of Chile's intercultural health policy. Methods A descriptive study was conducted with the participation of health services users from the Mapuche ethnic group, biomedical health professionals, intercultural facilitators, and key informants in two health facilities serving towns with a high density of Mapuche population. The information was obtained through semi-structured interviews that were analyzed thematically. Results Factors identified as facilitating the implementation of this policy include laws and regulations pertaining to the rights of indigenous peoples, the empowerment of users around their rights, the formation of implementation teams, the presence of professionals of Mapuche origin in health facilities, and the existence of processes for systematization of the work carried out. The asymmetric relationship between the Mapuche people and the state, and between the Mapuche health system and the biomedical model, constitutes a fundamental barrier. Other obstacles include the lack of theoretical and practical clarity around the concept of intercultural health and a lack of resources. Conclusions Despite the facilitators identified and the achievements to date, meaningful progress in implementation of an intercultural health policy is limited by barriers that are hard to change. These include the usual forms of government planning and the hegemony of the biomedical model.

Managing Communication within Virtual Intercultural Teams.

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Grosse, Christine Uber

2002-01-01

Suggests that business students need to be prepared to manage the communication of intercultural teams. Discusses strategies for success such as: developing a network of good relationships built on trust and understanding; showing respect for other cultures and languages; and understanding how diversity strengthens the team. (SG)

Representaciones sociales sobre la problemática de Chagas en un servicio de salud comunitaria del Gran La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Sanmartino, Mariana; Amieva, Carolina; Medone, Y Paula

2017-03-01

Hablar de Chagas es hablar de una problemática compleja, definida por elementos de carácter biomédico, epidemiológico, sociocultural y político, que se conjugan dinámicamente. En este trabajo buscamos identificar y analizar las representaciones sobre Chagas de los integrantes del equipo de salud de un centro de atención periurbano de la ciudad de La Plata, Argentina. Mediante un abordaje cualitativo, se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas y se analizaron las respuestas con la técnica del análisis de contenido. Los resultados mostraron que la mayor parte de las personas entrevistadas no contempla al Chagas como una problemática en su contexto laboral cotidiano y manifiestan un fuerte sesgo biologicista en su formación profesional. Con este trabajo señalamos la urgente necesidad de reflexionar críticamente en torno a la formación de los profesionales de la salud en relación a problemáticas socioambientales complejas de importancia regional, como lo es el Chagas.

Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability. Achieving optimal performance when leading \\ud a multicultural project team

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Prabhakar, G. P.; Walker, S.

2005-01-01

Our research helps to judge ‘maturity’ as an asset to projects and heightens awareness of situational leadership, using intercultural team maturity levels as a tool for optimal project leadership success.\\ud \\ud This study focuses on exactly how to analyse the team members’ ability to adapt to complex intercultural project environments, using an intercultural team maturity model.

Approaches and models of intercultural education

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Iván Manuel Sánchez Fontalvo

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Needed to be aware of the need to build an intercultural society, awareness must be assumed in all social spheres, where stands the role play education. A role of transcendental, since it must promote educational spaces to form people with virtues and powers that allow them to live together / as in multicultural contexts and social diversities (sometimes uneven in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, and foster the development of feelings of civic belonging shared before the neighborhood, city, region and country, allowing them concern and critical judgement to marginalization, poverty, misery and inequitable distribution of wealth, causes of structural violence, but at the same time, wanting to work for the welfare and transformation of these scenarios. Since these budgets, it is important to know the approaches and models of intercultural education that have been developed so far, analysing their impact on the contexts educational where apply.   

Intercultural Competence in the Context of Youth Non-Governmental Organisations’ International Activities

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Alvydė Palaimaitė; Asta Radzevičienė

2011-01-01

Increasingly growing necessity for international cooperation of Lithuanian youth non-governmental organization is analyzed in the article. The appropriateness of intercultural competence development for enhancing international activities of Youth non-governmental organization is examined. The results of empirical survey, which confirm the hypothesis that the lack of intercultural competence is the main barrier for international cooperation activities of youth non-governmental organizations, a...

Pedagogical Intercultural Practice of Teachers in Virtual Enviroments

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Carmen Ricardo BARRETO

2016-10-01

Full Text Available This paper presents some of the results of the project "Training and Development of Intercultural Competency of Teachers in Virtual Enviroments", carried out in the Colombian Caribbean region. It was performed in three steps: 1-diagnosis, 2-training, and 3-analysis of the pedagogical practice. The article shows the results of the third stage characterized by using a qualitative approach base on a cooperative action research design. The study was performed in ten Colombian Caribbean higher education institutions (HEI offering virtual programs. In these institutions, six cases were selected, which correspond to teachers who had participated in the two previous stages. The stage here reported aimed at analyzing and assessing virtual teachers' practice in virtual learning environments. Data were collected from each case’s Virtual Learning Environment, and they were analyzed by using documentary analysis of the teacher’s pedagogical practice. This analysis was performed by the participant teachers, the researcher, and external expert. Results show a changing process of intercultural conception both in the design and in the implementation and evaluation. In order to overcome some weaknesses observed, it is necessary to train the teachers not only in the intercultural education but also in topic such as curricular design and educational technology.

Promoting Intercultural Understanding among School Students through an English Language Based Reading Programme

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Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Marsani, Fatin Najwa Amelia binti; Jaganathan, Paramaswari; Abdullah, Ahmad Sofwan Nathan; Karupiah, Premalatha

2016-01-01

Malaysian intercultural society is typified by three major ethnic groups mainly Malays, Chinese and Indians. Although education system is the best tool for these three major ethnic groups to work together, contemporary research reveals that there is still lack of intercultural embedding education context and national schools are seen as breeding…

Gestión de proyecto participativo de centro comunitario intercultural

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Doble Vía

2012-01-01

La iniciativa, dirigida por la Arq. Karina Cortina, surge como una continuidad del Proyecto “Barrio Intercultural – Lote 27”, en las tierras restituidas en la región de San Martín de los Andes. En esta etapa, el proyecto se centra en la construcción compartida del Centro Comunitario Intercultural, que se construirá con tecnologías apropiadas y sustentables para dicha región. (Párrafo extraído del texto a modo de resumen) Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Alcance de las políticas públicas en el área de salud sexual y reproductiva dirigidas a los adolescentes en Colombia

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Ana Liliana Ríos García

2008-01-01

Full Text Available La población adolescente en América Latina constituye el 21% de la población general, y en Colombia es la quinta parte de 43 millones de habitantes. La Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud de Profamilia (ENDS, 2005 encontró que las mujeres menores de 20 años vienen aumentando su tasa de fecundidad en la últimas dos décadas. El Ministerio de la Protección Social formuló en 2003 la Política Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, entendida como un estado general de bienestar físico, mental y social, y no la mera ausencia de enfermedades o dolencias en todos los aspectos relacionados con la sexualidad y la reproducción, y entraña la posibilidad de ejercer los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Para implementar la Política Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, las entidades territoriales deber formular un Plan de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva que desarrolle los principios orientadores y estrategias, articulando las intervenciones de los diferentes planes de beneficios alrededor de las líneas prioritarias. Es urgente y prioritario preparar a los jóvenes para que desarrollen una actitud positiva y responsable relacionada con su sexualidad, con procesos de educación sexual que incluyan a la familia y comprendan tópicos como la formación integral de niños y jóvenes, incluyendo autoestima, información científica y elementos de reflexión para incorporar la sexualidad de forma plena, enriquecedora y saludable, en todas las etapas de la vida acorde con el entorno histórico, social y cultural en que se vive, que promueva un pensamiento crítico, con adopción de actitudes positivas hacia la sexualidad.

Medio Ambiente y Salud: perspectivas desde la gestión de salud pública

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José María Martín Moreno

2002-12-01

Full Text Available El impacto que sobre la salud tiene el medio ambiente constituye un área de interés primordial en el ámbito de la Salud Pública. Las competencias del Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo en materia de Salud Ambiental están operativamente delimitadas en el marco de las actuaciones de la Dirección General de Salud Pública (DGSP. En este artículo se examinan de forma sintética algunos de los principales riesgos ambientales y su efecto en la salud, haciendo referencia al papel de la DGSP en esos temas. Así, se revisan aspectos tales como la contaminación del aire, la seguridad química, el control sanitario de las aguas, la protección radiológica del paciente, los campos electromagnéticos de muy baja frecuencia, la exposición a campos de radiofrecuencias (telefonía móvil, o las crisis generadas por temas ambientales recientes. Por otra parte, se analizan brevemente las políticas de salud ambiental en el marco europeo e internacional y la coordinación institucional de este terreno en España. Además se exploran aspectos relativos a la gestión del riesgo y el principio de precaución. Por último, se avanza de manera preliminar algunas líneas del denominado “Plan de cooperación y armonización en el ámbito de la Salud Pública en España”, para la vertebración de las acciones de las Administraciones Públicas en este ámbito, teniendo en cuenta que este Plan está ideado para realizarse en estrecha coordinación no sólo con las CCAA y entidades locales, sino también con los diferentes agentes sociales, sociedades científicas y asociaciones profesionales, todo ello con la idea de buscar, desde una visión integral de la Salud Pública, la coordinación de sistemas de información epidemiológica, de prevención de enfermedades, y de promoción y protección de la salud.

La Escuela saludable, la Transversalidad y los centros escolares promotores de salud

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Gavidia Catalán, Valentín; Rodes Sala, María José

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El presente artículo muestra la evolución de la escuela en su contribución a la Educación para la Salud de niños y jóvenes. De una primera concepción tradicional, se pasa a enfocar la EpS con una perspectiva holística de la salud que engloba las dimensiones física, psicológica y social. Bajo estos principios se definen las características de «la escuela saludable». La necesidad de abordar el concepto de «transversal» ofrece a los centros escolares, la posibilidad de desarrollar un gradiente d...

Tomás Romay Chacón y Carlos J. Finlay Barres hitos de pensamiento cubano en salud

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María Elena Macías Llanes

Full Text Available El objetivo del texto radica en resaltar algunos elementos de pensamiento en salud de los notables médicos cubanos Tomás Romay y Carlos J. Finlay. Se analizan sus posturas y connotación acerca del nexo entre la ciencia y la sociedad. El método investigativo utilizado ha sido la revisión documental en publicaciones periódicas, libros y repositorio de tesis. Destaca en este acercamiento la conmemoración en agosto del centenario de la muerte de Finlay (La Habana, 20 de agosto de 1915. Por lo cual este sucinto trabajo constituye un homenaje a su obra y, a su vez, al ideario de vanguardia manifiesto en la labor médica de ambos hombres de ciencia.

Interculturality from above and Below: Navigating Uneven Discourses in a Neoliberal University System

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Collins, Haynes

2018-01-01

This article draws on data from an ethnographic account of the institutionalisation of 'the intercultural' within a large British university. The study finds that although the term 'intercultural' is frequently used in multiple forms, it is often aligned with the dominant discourses of the neoliberal university system in order to become an…

Can Library Use Enhance Intercultural Education?

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Pihl, Joron

2012-01-01

This article explores the questions to what extent educational research addresses library use in education and how the library can contribute to intercultural education. The focus is primarily on elementary education in Europe. Analysis of research publications was based on searches for peer-reviewed journals in international databases, literary…

The Symbolic Dimensions of the Intercultural

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Kramsch, Claire

2011-01-01

While communicative competence is characterized by the negotiation of intended meanings in authentic contexts of language use, intercultural competence has to do with far less negotiable discourse worlds, the "circulation of values and identities across cultures, the inversions, even inventions of meaning, often hidden behind a common illusion of…

Developing Intercultural Science Education in Ecuador

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Schroder, Barbara

2008-01-01

This article traces the recent development of intercultural science education in Ecuador. It starts by situating this development within the context of a growing convergence between Western and indigenous sciences. It then situates it within the larger historical, political, cultural, and educational contexts of indigenous communities in Ecuador,…

Salud ambiental: conceptos y actividades

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Gonzalo A. Ordóñez

2000-03-01

Full Text Available La finalidad del trabajo es aportar información y propuestas conceptuales que faciliten la tarea de quienes tienen a su cargo la sistematización institucional de la salud ambiental. Se hace un análisis de la noción de "ambiente" para la cual se sugiere una definición, y se examina el lugar de la salud ambiental en el contexto de los problemas ambientales y sus vertientes "verde" y "azul". Se examinan denominaciones equivalentes de salud ambiental y se introducen los servicios de salud ambiental. Se proporcionan varias definiciones y se da la oficial de salud ambiental adoptada por la OMS en Sofía, Bulgaria (1993. A continuación se transcriben las áreas básicas que a la salud ambiental le han asignado diversas organizaciones o reuniones, como la OPS, la OMS, el Programa 21 y otros. A partir de aquí se construye un repertorio bastante completo de áreas y subáreas y se encuentra que todos los listados son, en realidad, una reunión asistemática de tres tipos de constituyentes: determinantes (factores o hechos de la realidad física, procesos (conjuntos de intervenciones y funciones (conjuntos de acciones de gestión, los cuales pueden enfocarse matricialmente y llevan a individualizar actividades de los servicios de salud ambiental. Se proponen unas reglas de operación que permiten, en una especie de álgebra, construir expresiones para especificar con precisión las actividades y sus agregados. De este modo se logra disponer de un lenguaje simbólico común que puede ayudar a la intercomunicación, enseñanza e investigación en el ámbito de la salud ambiental.

Intercultural bilingual education in Nicaragua: Contextualisation for improving the quality of education

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Valiente Catter, Teresa

2011-12-01

For the past 35 years, various models of intercultural bilingual education (IBE) have been implemented in Latin American schools and adult education. While Spanish is the official language in Nicaragua, many indigenous languages, such as Miskito and Sumo-Mayangna, are also spoken - especially in the Atlantic coastal region. The Nicaraguan Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport recognises the need for a flexible curriculum that reflects individual local and regional linguistic and socio-cultural characteristics, through the use of mother tongue and second language learning. The contextualisation model applied in the Atlantic coastal region of Nicaragua is therefore based on the use of a languages strategy in preparing textbooks and basic technical materials with an IBE approach, as part of the process of improving the quality of education. Thus intercultural communication is enhanced, and the need to strengthen the systematic teaching of languages, differentiating between mother tongue, second language and foreign language, is recognised. As well as explaining the contextualisation process in detail, this article discusses the conceptual differences between intercultural bilingual education (IBE) and bilingual intercultural education (BIE). The paper concludes with several recommendations for the further development of BIE in Latin America.

Culture shock or challenge? The role of personality as a determinant of intercultural competence

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van der Zee, Karen; van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter

This paper provides a theoretical basis for the empirical link between traits and intercultural success indicators relying on the A (Affect) B (Behavior) C (Cognition)-model of culture shock. With respect to affect, we argue that intercultural traits can be differentiated according to whether they

Culture Shock or Challenge? The Role of Personality as a Determinant of Intercultural Competence

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van der Zee, Karen; van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter

This paper provides a theoretical basis for the empirical link between traits and intercultural success indicators relying on the A (Affect) B (Behavior) C (Cognition)-model of culture shock. With respect to affect, we argue that intercultural traits can be differentiated according to whether they

Teaching as Improvisational Experience: Student Music Teachers' Reflections on Learning during an Intercultural Project

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Westerlund, Heidi; Partti, Heidi; Karlsen, Sidsel

2015-01-01

This qualitative instrumental case study explores Finnish student music teachers' experiences of teaching and learning as participants in an intercultural project in Cambodia. The Multicultural Music University project aimed at increasing master's level music education students' intercultural competencies by providing experiences of teaching and…

Culture Shock or Challenge? The Role of Personality as a Determinant of Intercultural Competence

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van der Zee, Karen; van Oudenhoven, J.

2013-01-01

This paper provides a theoretical basis for the empirical link between traits and intercultural success indicators relying on the A (Affect) B (Behavior) C (Cognition)-model of culture shock. With respect to affect, we argue that intercultural traits can be differentiated according to whether they

Intercultural Sensitivity, Gender, and Nationality of Third Culture Kids Attending an International High School

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Morales, Antonio

2017-01-01

Due to the globalization and interconnectedness of people from different cultures, intercultural competence is a prerequisite to communicating effectively across different cultures. The Intercultural Sensitivity Inventory (ICSI) measures a person's ability to modify behavior in culturally appropriate ways when coming into contact with diverse…

Play the Game: gamificación y hábitos saludables en educación física

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Meritxell Monguillot Hernando

2015-03-01

Full Text Available El presente estudio muestra el impacto del uso de la gamificación como estrategia de aprendizaje en la asignatura de Educación Física para el desarrollo de conductas saludables. El estudio, diseñado en forma de unidad didáctica gamificada llamada Play The Game se ha implementado en segundo curso de la educación secundaria obligatoria de tres centros educativos de Barcelona y ha tenido como objetivo principal aplicar la frecuencia cardíaca saludable en la actividad física mediante la consecución de retos gamificados y organizados mediante un sistema de niveles, puntos, clasificaciones y badges. Además, Play the Game ha introducido elementos innovadores como la personalización, la cooperación, las emociones, la tecnología y la combinación de contextos formales e informales a fin de responder a las demandas educativas actuales y a las nuevas ecologías de aprendizaje (Coll, 2013. El estudio se ha basado en una metodología sociocrítica cualitativa y se ha implementado mediante un diseño de investigación-acción (I-A. Los instrumentos utilizados han sido el cuestionario y el grupo de discusión. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian el potencial de la gamificación como estrategia de aprendizaje emergente en educación física que aumenta la motivación y favorece el desarrollo de hábitos saludables.

Latinos' Collectivism and Self-Disclosure in Intercultural and Intractultural Friendships and Acquaintanceships

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Schwartz, Audrey Liz

2009-01-01

Self-disclosure is the process of sharing personal information with others and varies according to relationship intimacy, cultural norms, and personal values. Collectivism, defined as the tendency to define oneself in terms of social/cultural roles, may impact self-disclosure in intercultural relationships. The present study investigated whether Latinos/as reliably self-disclose more in intracultural versus intercultural friendships and acquaintanceships. An additional question was whether cu...

Dramaturgie et interculturel (Dramatics and the Intercultural).

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Feldhendler, Daniel

1990-01-01

The use of techniques from drama and psychodrama to explore intercultural differences and relations is described. The process used incorporates eight stages of discovery of perceptions, stereotypes, cultural identity, communication taboos, and bringing together individuals from different cultures. (MSE)

Determinants of intercultural adjustment among expatriate spouses

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Ali, Anees; Van der Zee, K.I.; Sanders, G

The adaptation of expatriate families to a host country seems crucial to successful fulfilment of international business assignments. The present study focused on personality, family characteristics and characteristics of expatriates' work life as determinants of the intercultural adjustment of

Descubriendo una falla trágica en las políticas revolucionarias de salud: Desde las inequidades en salud y comunicación a la justicia comunicativa en salud

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Charles L. Briggs

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza una contradicción enfrentada por los gobiernos de izquierda de América Latina en sus esfuerzos por transformar la salud en un derecho social fundamental. Las políticas y prácticas que confrontan las desigualdades en salud, en general, no llegan a dirigirse a las inequidades en salud y comunicación; las distribuciones jerárquicas de los derechos dan forma al conocimiento legítimo en salud. El artículo presenta un análisis etnográfico sobre la epidemia de una enfermedad misteriosa –identificada clínicamente como rabia trasmitida por murciélagos– en la selva del Delta Amacuro en Venezuela, en 2007-2008, centrado en cómo los padres y las madres que perdieron entre 1 y 3 hijos e hijas lidian con inequidades agudas en salud y comunicación en entornos clínicos, investigaciones epidemiológicas, trabajo con sanadores/as, la cobertura de las noticias, las políticas de salud y la comunicación en salud. A partir de demandas por parte de los y las residentes de la selva por una justicia comunicativa en salud, el análisis utiliza la noción de autoatención propuesta por Menéndez para explorar cómo la labor en salud y comunicación se coproduce con la labor de cuidado.

Intercultural competence: A key competence of The Third Millennium

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M. BAZGAN

2016-11-01

Full Text Available For the professionals of education, in general, and for those that form teachers, particularly, appears the explicit concern about what interculturalism should represent within the personality profile of graduates of nowadays. We enrolled ourselves in this context because we are trainers of trainers; we conduct the initial training of teachers. The research presented in this paperwork is part of a more complex strategy; it has well defined stages, carried out over several years and succeeds to dovetail quantitative and qualitative dimensions. In the context of this paper we present the summary of the results emerged from an ascertaining research that aimed to establish the determinants of intercultural competence.

The Role of Pedagogical Variables in Intercultural Development: A Study of Faculty-Led Programs

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Spenader, Allison J.; Retka, Peggy

2015-01-01

Study abroad is often regarded as an important curricular component for supporting intercultural development among college students. While creating rich cross-cultural experiences for students is of primary concern, it remains unclear exactly which programmatic features of study abroad influence intercultural growth in a positive way. Consensus…

A Working Model for Intercultural Learning and Engagement in Collaborative Online Language Learning Environments

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Lawrence, Geoff

2013-01-01

Given the emerging focus on the intercultural dimension in language teaching and learning, language educators have been exploring the use of information and communications technology ICT-mediated language learning environments to link learners in intercultural language learning communities around the globe. Despite the potential promise of…

"Into the Realm of the Politically Incorrect": Intercultural Encounters in a Service-Learning Program

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Palpacuer-Lee, Christelle; Curtis, Jessie Hutchison

2017-01-01

Now more than ever, teachers of world languages are encouraged to become intercultural mediators in their communities and classrooms. This study describes the impact of an innovative community-based teacher education program for developing participants' interculturality. Building on narrative methods of investigation, we explore the potential of…

Intercultural policy in times of crisis: theory and practice in the case of Turin, Italy.

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Caponio, Tiziana; Donatiello, Davide

2017-01-01

In this article we analyse how interculturalism, intended as a new paradigm of immigrant integration policies, has been taking shape in an Italian city, i.e. Turin, in the context of the current economic crisis. We argue for the necessity of going beyond official statements on intercultural policy by undertaking a comparative analysis of policy practices in three Neighbourhood Houses (NHs, Case del quartiere ), which are defined by the Municipality as open and intercultural spaces in which associations and citizens can develop activities aimed at expressing different cultural backgrounds, fostering participation and supporting social inclusion. The study shows how the three NHs pursue different approaches - social, cultural or more political - to interculturalism, somewhat reflecting the social and structural context in which the three NHs were established, as well as problem definitions and policy frames of the founding organisations.

Ambiente y salud: Reflexiones sobre la interacción entre el Derecho Ambiental y el Derecho de la Salud

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Gastón Casaux

2014-04-01

Full Text Available Desde el punto de vista sanitario se entiende por Ambiente “el conjunto de condiciones físicas, químicas biológicas, psicológicas, sociales, culturales y económicas en las que vive una población y sus interacciones”.Asu vez, la Salud Pública ha identificado al ambiente como un determinante de la salud, concibiéndolo como el de mayor significación del proceso salud/enfermedad.Por ende, puede llegar a constituirse en un entorno peligroso o saludable.La salud admite entonces cuatro influencias decisivas: el estilo de vida, la biología humana, el sistema de atención a la salud y el ambiente.Contenido: Caracteres. Organismos competentes. Código de Aguas. Competencias Municipales. Régimen legal de la Salud. Normas nacionales. Normas Internacionales. Normas MERCOSUR. Normas de Bioética

CONSTRUCCIÓN Y SIGNIFICADO DE LA INTERCULTURALIDAD EN LA ESCUELA NORMAL INDÍGENA INTERCULTURAL BILINGÜE «JACINTO CANEK»

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Sergio Iván Navarro Martínez

2011-12-01

The relatively recent emergence of the paradigm of interculturality has led to various difficulties in its application to different educational experiences. One of the main problems is the fact that interculturality is confounded with aspects that are reduced to reclaiming cultural traditions and elements or to the inclusion of indigenous languages in education processes. This paper analyzes what is understood by interculturality and intercultural education in the field of higher education. The study was conducted at the «Jacinto Canek» Intercultural Bilingual Indigenous Teacher Training School (Escuela Normal Indígena Intercultural Bilingüe «Jacinto Canek» / ENIIB located in Zinacantán, Chiapas. The methodology developed for this study is based on the meta-theorical approach of symbolic interactionism. It assumes that educational practices are a scenario where the subject interacts with other social groups and that it is these interrelationship processes that decisively contribute to the shaping of an individual’s personality.

Framing Interculturality: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Online Promotional Discourse of Higher Education Intercultural Communication Courses

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Hua, Zhu; Handford, Michael; Young, Tony Johnstone

2017-01-01

This paper examines how intercultural communication (ICC) and the notion of culture are framed in on-line promotional discourse of higher education (HE) ICC courses. It analyses a specialised corpus comprised of 14,842 words from 43 course websites of master's programmes in ICC in the UK and the US--internationally, the two largest providers of…

DocSaludMental en netvibes

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Onís, Ricardo

2011-01-01

DocSaludMental es un escritorio virtual que, a partir de la plataforma netvibes, permite el acceso a información especializada y actualizada mediante la sindicación de contenidos a todos los profesionales de la red de salud mental en el Principado de Asturias DocSaludMental is a virtual desktop that allows access to expert information and updated from content syndication to all professionals in the mental health network in the Principality of Asturias

Ambiente y salud: Reflexiones sobre la interacción entre el Derecho Ambiental y el Derecho de la Salud

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Gastón Casaux

2014-01-01

Desde el punto de vista sanitario se entiende por Ambiente “el conjunto de condiciones físicas, químicas biológicas, psicológicas, sociales, culturales y económicas en las que vive una población y sus interacciones”.Asu vez, la Salud Pública ha identificado al ambiente como un determinante de la salud, concibiéndolo como el de mayor significación del proceso salud/enfermedad.Por ende, puede llegar a constituirse en un entorno peligroso o saludable.La salud admite entonces cuatro influencias d...

A resource about fungi for intercultural dialogue in biology teaching

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Edilaine Almeida Oliveira Silva

2017-07-01

Full Text Available We are presenting results of a collaborative study with a teacher from a public school in the Bahia State (northeastern Brazil. The main objective was to develop a didactic resource that could be applied in biology teaching based on intercultural dialogue, between students’ cultural knowledge and the school’s biological knowledge about mushrooms. In other words, this didactics of biology links the knowledge inherited culturally. It was applied a questionnaire with students of this school, and from the answers it was prepared Comparative Cognition tables. Relations of similarity and differences between prior knowledge of students and school biological knowledge were scored in these tables. The results revealed relationships between these two forms of knowledge, being mandatory similarity relations. These revelations were important for planning and construction of an educational game based on intercultural dialogue. The present study aims to continue with the application of this teaching resource in the classrooms of the participating teacher, looking for its viability in educational interventions in relation to the intercultural dialogue between students’ preconceptions and school science knowledge about fungi.

The Development of Intercultural Competence in Saudi Academic Migrants: A Collective Instrumental Case Study

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Hagar, Trenton James

2016-01-01

In this collective instrumental case study, the focus was on understanding the issue of Intercultural Competence within Saudi academic migrants. The purpose of this study was to determine how Saudi academic migrants gain intercultural competence through the development of attitudes, knowledge, and skills, as defined by Deardorff's (2006) process…

Ethnic Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Intercultural Attitudes in East African and U.S. Youth

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Johnson, Laura R.; Kim, Eun Ha; Johnson-Pynn, Julie S.; Schulenberg, Stefan E.; Balagaye, Herieth; Lugumya, Douglas

2012-01-01

Positive intercultural attitudes and civic action are increasingly important for youth around the world given the economic, social justice, and environmental challenges they face. Among U.S. youth and emerging adults, ethnic identity and self-efficacy are related to positive intercultural attitudes and may prompt civic engagement. Youth's efficacy…

Foreign-Born Instructors in the U.S.: Intercultural Competence, Teaching Strategies, and Job Satisfaction

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Wasilik, Oksana

2011-01-01

This study examines intercultural competence, teaching strategies, and job satisfaction of foreign-born instructors in a small U.S. higher education institution. The research questions addressed by this study are: (1) How do foreign-born instructors score on intercultural competence? (2) How do foreign-born instructors' teaching strategies differ…

Intercultural Education of Tolerance and Hospitality

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Dasli, Maria

2017-01-01

This paper aims to make a theoretical contribution to the current debate on intercultural education by focusing on the nature and limits of tolerance. Drawing on contemporary theorisations of the concept, it is suggested that while tolerance appears fundamental for confronting issues of difference, it has several caveats. The paper discusses the…

Intercultural Pedagogy and Story-line as a Method

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Gregersen, Annette Søndergaard; Tiemensma, Britt Due

2006-01-01

The paper focuses on intercultural competence achieved through knowledge of the relationship of identity, culture and language. The theoretical approach will be combined with an outline of story-line as a method....

La promoción de la alimentación saludable en la infancia desde una perspectiva intercultural The promotion of the healthful feeding in the childhood from an intercultural view

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Mª de los Angeles Merino Godoy

2006-03-01

Full Text Available Esta investigación tiene como meta desarrollar la responsabilidad de los escolares y sus familiares en materia de alimentación. Se ha empleado un modelo mixto de naturaleza descriptiva, que está basado en la combinación de técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas. Este estudio se ha realizado en la infancia, además se ha considerado la diversidad cultural que hoy día convive en las aulas. Tras analizar el contexto educativo en todos sus ámbitos (comedor escolar, centros de salud, Delegación de Salud, Delegación de Educación, Ayuntamientos, familias… se ha diseñado una propuesta educativa. Este programa se ha elaborado a partir de las necesidades detectadas y pretende sensibilizar y formar a la comunidad educativa en relación a la relevancia de la alimentación saludable en la infancia, respetando y enriqueciéndonos a la vez con lo que otras culturas nos ofrecen. Consiste en un proyecto común que debe partir de la administración, por lo que se precisa de una cooperación constante entre las instituciones anteriormente nombradas. Está basado en una educación integral inmersa en todos los ámbitos (publicidad, establecimientos alimenticios, familias, etc e incluye la realización de un programa educativo a través de la televisión.The final end of this investigation is to develop the school-children's and their parent's responsibility about feeding. It has been used a nature description mix model, which is based in the combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques. This research has carried out on the childhood, also has considered the diversity cultural that is living together nowadays at the classroom. After analyse the educational context in all its fields (school dinning room, health centre, health and educational administrations, town halls, families, etc it has been design and educational proposal. These programmes have been elaborated from the detected needs and try to raise and train at the educational community

Salud global: una visión latinoamericana

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Álvaro Franco-Giraldo

Full Text Available RESUMEN En este artículo se presenta una visión latinoamericana de la salud global desde una perspectiva contrahegemónica, extensiva a varios países del mundo que viven circunstancias parecidas. Se parte del reconocimiento de varias concepciones y tendencias de la salud global y de las contradicciones entre la salud pública convencional, la salud internacional y la salud global sin antagonizarlas y logrando ubicarlas en un modelo construido desde la salud global que incluye las otras dos disciplinas. Se supone que lo global condiciona teorías, esquemas y modelos antecedentes de la salud internacional clásica y se subraya la importancia de varios hechos de la geopolítica mundial y de la globalización económica que confinan la salud mundial, así como la teoría de los determinantes sociales y ambientales del binomio salud– enfermedad, que inciden más allá del riesgo epidemiológico. El presente enfoque se apoya en el cosmopolitismo y en el holismo, corrientes filosóficas y políticas mundiales que permiten interpretar mejor los fenómenos mundiales y son más plausibles porque generan vertientes para la acción. Estructuralmente, se presentan las bases teóricas de la salud global en tres ejes analíticos: la justicia global y la equidad, la gobernanza y la preservación supranacional de los derechos, y el holismo y una nueva conciencia global. Se concluye resaltando la importancia de construir un enfoque acerca del ser y la praxis de la salud pública global desde la perspectiva latinoamericana, que destaca los movimientos sociales ciudadanos como una alternativa para conseguir un nuevo orden y una conciencia global por los derechos y redefinir la arquitectura de gobernanza global de la salud.

Self-assessment of intercultural communication skills: a survey of physicians and medical students in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Hudelson, Patricia; Perron, Noelle Junod; Perneger, Thomas

2011-09-01

Physicians working with multicultural populations need to know how to elicit the patient's understanding of the illness; determine the patient's sociocultural context and identify any issues that might affect care; communicate effectively across patient-provider social and cultural differences; and collaborate effectively with an interpreter. Skills self-assessment can contribute to identifying training needs and monitoring skills development in these areas. As part of a larger study exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Geneva physicians and medical students regarding the care of immigrant patients, we asked respondents to self-rate their ability to perform a range of common yet challenging intercultural communication tasks. Overall, respondents rated themselves less competent at intercultural tasks than at basic medical skills and less competent at specific intercultural communication skills than at general intercultural skills. Qualified doctors (as opposed to students), those with greater interest in caring for immigrants, and those who rarely encountered difficulties with immigrants rated themselves significantly more competent for all clinical tasks. Having a higher percentage of immigrant patients and previous cultural competence training predicted greater self-rated intercultural communication skills. Our self-assessment results suggest that students and physicians should be provided with the opportunity to practice intercultural skills with immigrant patients as part of their cultural competence training. To strengthen the validity of self-assessment measures, they should ideally be combined with more objective methods to assess actual skills.

Role of Interethnic Stereotypes in Intercultural Communication

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Guo Lijun

2014-01-01

The article is dedicated to research of ethnic stereotypes in intercultural communication. A key focus is made on development of ethnocultural stereotypes. Functions of ethnocultural stereotypes as well as effective communication are analyzed; here we study moments, which enable or hinder effective communications.

Oportunidades perdidas de atención en salud en instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud Sincelejo, 2003

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Gloria Villarreal Amaris

2005-04-01

Full Text Available Antecedentes: la nueva legislación en salud de Colombia, que parte de los principio de aseguramiento y solidaridad, plantea una ampliación de la cobertura y una mejor calidad de la atención en salud. Material y métodos: se realizó un estudio exploratorio, transversal y de contactos múltiples, mediante el cual se determinó el índice de oportunidades perdidas de atención en salud, sus posibles causas y el grado de satisfacción, en las diferentes instituciones municipales prestadoras de servicios de salud, de Sincelejo. También se realizó una observación participativa y verificación de registros de consultas en períodos posteriores a la realización de la entrevista, con el propósito de establecer la estabilidad o cambios en el fenómeno analizado. Resultados: se puso de manifiesto una oferta institucional de atención en salud menor que la demanda y una alta proporción de oportunidades perdidas de atención en salud y un baja satisfacción, relacionadas con factores institucionales. Conclusiones: se requieren acciones que mejoren la oportunidad de la atención en salud en la entidades municipales de Sincelejo.

Effects of German Language Teacher Professional Development on Pupils' Learning Outcomes in Intercultural Competence

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Golub, Ana Šenjug

2014-01-01

The development of intercultural competence is increasingly being perceived as a key goal in today's education. As a result of a strong emphasis on that competence in curricular documents, teachers are faced with demanding tasks. Confirming this, recent research in the field of intercultural competence in Croatian schools indicates the numerous…

Definition of Intercultural Competence According to Undergraduate Students at an International University in Germany

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Odag, Özen; Wallin, Hannah R.; Kedzior, Karina K.

2016-01-01

University graduates are required to possess intercultural competence in addition to strong academic skills in today's globalized world. Although such competence has been defined in various theoretical models by intercultural scholars, it remains unknown how the recipients of higher education (the students) define this concept. A total of 130…

O Complexo Econômico-Industrial da Saúde e a dimensão social e econômica do desenvolvimento El complejo Económico-Industrial de la salud y la dimensión social y económica del desarrollo The Economic-Industrial Health Care Complex and the social and economic dimension of development

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Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha

2012-01-01

Full Text Available O papel estratégico da saúde na agenda de desenvolvimento nacional tem sido crescentemente reconhecido e institucionalizado. Além de sua importância como elemento estruturante do Estado de Bem-Estar Social, a saúde é protagonista na geração de inovação - elemento essencial para a competitividade na sociedade do conhecimento. Contudo, a base produtiva da saúde ainda é frágil, o que prejudica tanto a prestação universal de serviços em saúde quanto uma inserção competitiva nacional em ambiente globalizado. Essa situação sugere a necessidade de uma análise mais sistemática das complexas relações entre os interesses produtivos, tecnológicos e sociais no âmbito da saúde. Consequentemente, é necessário aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o Complexo Econômico-Industrial da Saúde devido ao seu potencial de contribuir para um modelo de desenvolvimento socialmente inclusivo. Isso significa reverter a hierarquia entre os interesses econômicos e os sociais no campo sanitário, e assim minimizar a vulnerabilidade da política de saúde brasileira.El papel estratégico de la salud en la agenda del desarrollo nacional ha sido crecientemente reconocido e institucionalizado. Aunado a la importancia como elemento estructurador del Estado de Bienestar Social, la salud es protagonista en la generación de innovación - elemento esencial para la competitividad en la sociedad del conocimiento. Sin embargo, la base productiva de la salud aún es frágil, lo que perjudica tanto a la prestación universal de servicios en salud como en la inserción competitiva nacional en ambiente globalizado. Esta situación sugiere la necesidad de un análisis más sistemático de las complejas relaciones entre los intereses productivos, tecnológicos y sociales en el ámbito de la salud. Consecuentemente, es necesario profundizar en el conocimiento sobre el Complejo Económico-Industrial de la Salud debido a su potencial de contribución para un modelo de

O complexo econômico-industrial da saúde e a dimensão social e econômica do desenvolvimento El complejo económico-industrial de la salud y la dimensión social y económica del desarrollo The economic-industrial health care complex and the social and economic dimension of development

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Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha

2012-12-01

Full Text Available O papel estratégico da saúde na agenda de desenvolvimento nacional tem sido crescentemente reconhecido e institucionalizado. Além de sua importância como elemento estruturante do Estado de Bem-Estar Social, a saúde é protagonista na geração de inovação - elemento essencial para a competitividade na sociedade do conhecimento. Contudo, a base produtiva da saúde ainda é frágil, o que prejudica tanto a prestação universal de serviços em saúde quanto uma inserção competitiva nacional em ambiente globalizado. Essa situação sugere a necessidade de uma análise mais sistemática das complexas relações entre os interesses produtivos, tecnológicos e sociais no âmbito da saúde. Consequentemente, é necessário aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o Complexo Econômico-Industrial da Saúde devido ao seu potencial de contribuir para um modelo de desenvolvimento socialmente inclusivo. Isso significa reverter a hierarquia entre os interesses econômicos e os sociais no campo sanitário, e assim minimizar a vulnerabilidade da política de saúde brasileira.El papel estratégico de la salud en la agenda del desarrollo nacional ha sido crecientemente reconocido e institucionalizado. Aunado a la importancia como elemento estructurador del Estado de Bienestar Social, la salud es protagonista en la generación de innovación - elemento esencial para la competitividad en la sociedad del conocimiento. Sin embargo, la base productiva de la salud aún es frágil, lo que perjudica tanto a la prestación universal de servicios en salud como en la inserción competitiva nacional en ambiente globalizado. Esta situación sugiere la necesidad de un análisis más sistemático de las complejas relaciones entre los intereses productivos, tecnológicos y sociales en el ámbito de la salud. Consecuentemente, es necesario profundizar en el conocimiento sobre el Complejo Económico-Industrial de la Salud debido a su potencial de contribución para un modelo de

The Traditional Chinese Philosophies in Inter-cultural Leadership

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Lin, Li; Li, Peter Ping; Roelfsema, Hein

2018-01-01

cultural distance. To fill the gap in the literature concerning the leadership challenges for expatriate managers in an inter-cultural context, the purpose of this paper is to elucidate the leadership styles of Chinese expatriate managers from the perspectives of three traditional Chinese philosophies (i...... that the leadership style of Chinese expatriate managers is deeply rooted in the three traditional Chinese philosophies of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism, even in an inter-cultural context. Specifically, the study reveals two salient aspects of how Chinese expatriate managers frame and interact with a foreign...... managers also reported that their interactions with the Dutch culture are best described as a balance between partial conflict and partial complementarity (thus, a duality). In this sense, the leadership style of Chinese expatriate managers is influenced jointly by the three traditional Chinese...

Intercultural Competence in International Software R&D Cooperation. Toward a Conceptual Framework

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Skaates, Maria Anne

2001-01-01

As part of a research project on cooperation between software development subcontractors from small countries and foreign customers, the dynamics of intercultural competence are being examined. This paper builds a conceptual bridge by developing a definition of organizational intercultural....... It is envisioned that the presented novel framework could be helpful to software developing subcontractors from small national states who already use the competence terminology in discussions of their firms' capabilities and strategies....

Do Fraternities and Sororities Inhibit Intercultural Competence?

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Martin, Georgianna L.; Parker, Gene; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Blechschmidt, Sally

2015-01-01

This study explored the impact of fraternity and sorority affiliation on students' development of intercultural competence over four years of college at 11 institutions. Prior research admonishes fraternities and sororities for being largely heterogeneous organizations that detract from institutional efforts to create a culturally competent…

Preparing TESOL Students for the ESOL Classroom: A Cross-Cultural Project in Intercultural Communication

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Medina-López-Portillo, Adriana

2014-01-01

Intercultural communication classes for TESOL students give them a solid foundation for their work with their own ESOL students. This article presents the cross-cultural project that TESOL students have to complete in a required intercultural communication class at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the case study that was used to…

Best practices in intercultural health: five case studies in Latin America

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Mignone, Javier; Bartlett, Judith; O'Neil, John; Orchard, Treena

2007-01-01

The practice of integrating western and traditional indigenous medicine is fast becoming an accepted and more widely used approach in health care systems throughout the world. However, debates about intercultural health approaches have raised significant concerns. This paper reports findings of five case studies on intercultural health in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Suriname. It presents summary information on each case study, comparatively analyzes the initiatives following four main analytical themes, and examines the case studies against a series of the best practice criteria. PMID:17803820

"Going out" of the box: Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships spark creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship.

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Lu, Jackson G; Hafenbrack, Andrew C; Eastwick, Paul W; Wang, Dan J; Maddux, William W; Galinsky, Adam D

2017-07-01

The present research investigates whether close intercultural relationships promote creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship-outcomes vital to individual and organizational success. We triangulate on these questions with multiple methods (longitudinal, experimental, and field studies), diverse population samples (MBA students, employees, and professional repatriates), and both laboratory and real-world measures. Using a longitudinal design over a 10-month MBA program, Study 1 found that intercultural dating predicted improved creative performance on both divergent and convergent thinking tasks. Using an experimental design, Study 2 established the causal connection between intercultural dating and creativity: Among participants who had previously had both intercultural and intracultural dating experiences, those who reflected on an intercultural dating experience displayed higher creativity compared to those who reflected on an intracultural dating experience. Importantly, cultural learning mediated this effect. Extending the first 2 studies, Study 3 revealed that the duration of past intercultural romantic relationships positively predicted the ability of current employees to generate creative names for marketing products, but the number of past intercultural romantic partners did not. In Study 4, we analyzed an original dataset of 2,226 professional repatriates from 96 countries who had previously worked in the U.S. under J-1 visas: Participants' frequency of contact with American friends since returning to their home countries positively predicted their workplace innovation and likelihood of becoming entrepreneurs. Going out with a close friend or romantic partner from a foreign culture can help people "go out" of the box and into a creative frame of mind. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).

Understanding the Symbolic Capital of Intercultural Interactions: A Case Study of International Students in Australia

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Pham, Lien; Tran, Ly

2015-01-01

Intercultural interaction plays an important role in contributing to international students' learning and wellbeing in the host country. While research on international students' intercultural interactions reveals multifaceted aspects of personal and social factors, there is a tendency to consider language barrier and cultural differences as…

Early childhood teachers’ perceptions of intercultural education in state schools of Thessaloniki and surrounding areas

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Zotou Eleni

2017-09-01

Full Text Available This paper is going to argue that while early childhood teachers seem to have positive perceptions about intercultural education, the in-question students seem to be compelled to adopt different cultural habits. Data were gathered through a questionnaire distributed in 9 areas of Thessaloniki, completed by 161 teachers. The results showed that most teachers feel that they have enough knowledge about the curriculum regarding intercultural education, perform activities regarding interculturalism and diversity; they believe that students from different cultures feel welcomed and equally treated and participate in all class activities. Teachers suggest that students from different cultures build good relationships with all their peers and there is positive communication between students from different cultures as well as between their parents and teachers. However, the suggestion of most of the sample that students are compelled to adopt Greek cultural habits constrains this positive picture. It is possible that teachers feel that they are achieving positive results regarding intercultural education. It may be possible to recommend that the approaches that teachers report as part of their current practice should continue or that teachers’ own recommendations should be explored further to determine what sort of approach to intercultural education is being adopted.

De la educación intercultural al enfoque intercultural en educación: estado actual y prospectiva de futuro: el caso francés

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Marie-Gabrielle Philipp

1997-01-01

Full Text Available Desde la perspectiva de la Educaci6n Intercultural como instrumento a utilizar enla politica de integraci6n de los colectivos de inmigrantes a la sociedad que los «acoge», este articulo trata de aproximamos a la problematica que rodea la implantaci6ndeun sistema valido, mostrandonos los aspectos en los que conviene profundizar y poniendo sobre la mesa los planes de trabajo a debatir. Para ello estudia la Educaci6n Intercultural centrandose en el caso frances, y analiza las fases de su evoluci6n hist6rica dentro de un modelo educativo llamado tambien a ser evaluado. 

La salud en la población inmigrante : la política como determinante social de la salud

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González González, Javier

2013-01-01

Profundizar en el conocimiento de los Determinantes Estructurales de las Desigualdades de Salud con el fin de analizar su amplitud, estructura y consecuencias sobre la salud de la población inmigrante, a través del Modelo Conceptual de los Determinantes Sociales de las Desigualdades en Salud, es el objetivo principal de esta monografía. El concepto de salud adquiere diferentes significados dependiendo del contexto y de las personas. Es un derecho reconocido, así lo establece la Organización M...

Pautas orientadoras para la promoción de la salud bucal en la primera infancia para profesionales de salud

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Gloria Esperanza González C.

2012-11-01

Full Text Available La salud bucal es parte integral de la salud general del individuo. Lasafecciones bucales más prevalentes en niños son las alteraciones delcrecimiento y desarrollo bucodental, y la caries. Las primeras, generalmente están relacionadas con hábitos orales nocivos, patronesalimentarios inadecuados y la adquisición tardía de funciones comola masticación que generan maloclusiones. La caries, enfermedadcrónica más frecuente en la infancia, causa graves consecuencias enla salud del niño como dolor, infecciones faciales, hospitalizacionesy consultas frecuentes a los servicios de urgencia. Se pretende proponer una guía que permita detectar tempranamente los factoresde riesgo para la caries de infancia temprana y maloclusiones a losprofesionales de salud que entran tempranamente en contacto conel bebé y su familia para la promoción de salud bucal. Es esencial elcuidado de la salud oral de la madre gestante incentivando la lactanciamaterna como factor protector sobre la salud general y bucal delrecién nacido.

Towards the Development of Intercultural Competence Skills: A Pedagogical Experience with Pre-Service Teachers

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Ramos Holguín, Bertha

2013-01-01

Although interculturality has been the focus of several studies which reveal a tendency to include an understanding of students' home culture and cultures around the world in the English language classes, few studies focus on the inclusion of an intercultural component in a class different from the English one. This article aims to share a…

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION: ANALYSIS OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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Elena Achkovska Leshkovska

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The intercultural education is most explicitly accomplished trough textbook contents which encourage interaction, exchange, desegregation, interdependency and solidarity among people belonging to different cultural groups living in the same territory. The main goal of the research was to determine the quantity and quality of content that point to intercultural education in the textbooks used in elementary schools in the Republic of Macedonia, where the medium of teaching is in Macedonian. The analysis includes 44 textbooks. The research involved both quantitative and qualitative research methods, the late involved using deductive defining of categories. Nine categories, important for intercultural education were distinguished: identity, cooperation and friendship, respect, tolerance, cultural relativism, stereotype, prejudice, oppression and labeling. The results showed that the highest percent of contents promoting intercultural is found in textbooks for Civic education and History, while the lowest one in Nature and Geography. From the analyzed categories, identity is highly present, followed by cooperation, friendship and respect of the other. Themes regarding the categories such as: stereotype, prejudice, labeling and oppression are least represented and are not even mentioned as negative examples of behaviors which are not to be practiced. As a conclusion, we can say that it is very positive that depreciation and discrimination of other cultures, ethnicities or religious groups are not present. However, there is demand and need to enrich textbooks and syllabuses with large number of contents concerning above mentioned positive categories, in order to promote one set of values which are essential to build an intercultural society.  

Intercultural Communication: A Key Element in Global Strategies.

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Spinks, Nelda; Wells, Barron

1997-01-01

Cultural factors in global communication include differences in customs, space, dress, religion, class, work ethic, privacy, and other areas. Language differences in oral, written, and nonverbal communication as well as semantics also complicate intercultural communication. (SK)

Influencia de la salud bucal durante el embarazo en la salud del futuro bebé

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Díaz Valdés, Liuba; Valle Lizama, Raúl Luis

2015-01-01

Fundamento: El embarazo se relaciona con una mayor incidencia de caries y gingivitis. Objetivo: Profundizar en el conocimiento sobre la influencia de estas afecciones bucales en la salud del futuro bebé. Conclusiones: El embarazo genera adaptaciones en la fisiología femenina las cuales pueden repercutir en la salud bucal de la gestante. Las afecciones bucales más frecuentes son la caries dental y la gingivitis, estas si no son tratadas a tiempo pueden afectar la salud del futuro bebé. Back...

ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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Anna Horňáková

2014-03-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, contacts between people from diverse cultural backgrounds are becoming more frequent and much closer. Highly developed skills in intercultural communication have a significant bearing on the quality of relationships between people from different cultures and nationalities. A recent rapid development in multicultural relationships therefore puts new demands also on university graduates. They need to be adequately prepared for new social situations and future job opportunities in their home country and also abroad. Achievement of communication competence is the principal objective in foreign language teaching and therefore intercultural competence is incorporated into the university curriculum. The findings of our survey Implementation of Modern Technologies in Professional Language Teaching (a part of a research project funded by the Kultúrna a edukačná grantová agentúra (KEGA of the Slovak Ministry of Education, no. 049PU4/2012 highlighted the importance of professional communication teaching and emphasized intercultural competence as one of the key priorities in the university education. We used a specially designed questionnaire to find out if our respondents (students in the Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Prešov, Slovakia are sufficiently prepared to provide a proper care to clients/patients from different cultures. Our study showed that the language most used in professional practice was English, and that most respondents did not have any difficulty in communication with clients from different cultures. Sixty percent of the respondents also used non-verbal communication if verbal communication failed, and respected the cultural differences and individuality of patients; a small number of the respondents did not respect these factors. However, our findings also showed that there are still some language barriers between future healthcare professionals and clients/patients from diverse cultures, and that more

Ideological paradox and intercultural possibility: Andean language ...

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Paralleling recent developments in South Africa, initiatives in language policy and education reform in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia over the last three decades have opened up new possibilities for indigenous languages and their speakers through bilingual intercultural education. Examining the use and meanings of the term ...

Communicating interculturality in the world of work

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Lahti, Malgorzata

2015-01-01

Lectio praecursoria puheviestinnän väitöskirjaksi tarkoitetun tutkimuksen Communicating interculturality in the workplace tarkastustilaisuudessa Jyväskylän yliopistossa 24.10.2015. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori Fred Dervin (Helsingin yliopisto) ja kustoksena professori Maarit Valo.

Self-assessment of intercultural communication skills: a survey of physicians and medical students in Geneva, Switzerland

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Perneger Thomas

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Physicians working with multicultural populations need to know how to elicit the patient's understanding of the illness; determine the patient's sociocultural context and identify any issues that might affect care; communicate effectively across patient-provider social and cultural differences; and collaborate effectively with an interpreter. Skills self-assessment can contribute to identifying training needs and monitoring skills development in these areas. Methods As part of a larger study exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Geneva physicians and medical students regarding the care of immigrant patients, we asked respondents to self-rate their ability to perform a range of common yet challenging intercultural communication tasks. Results Overall, respondents rated themselves less competent at intercultural tasks than at basic medical skills and less competent at specific intercultural communication skills than at general intercultural skills. Qualified doctors (as opposed to students, those with greater interest in caring for immigrants, and those who rarely encountered difficulties with immigrants rated themselves significantly more competent for all clinical tasks. Having a higher percentage of immigrant patients and previous cultural competence training predicted greater self-rated intercultural communication skills. Conclusion Our self-assessment results suggest that students and physicians should be provided with the opportunity to practice intercultural skills with immigrant patients as part of their cultural competence training. To strengthen the validity of self-assessment measures, they should ideally be combined with more objective methods to assess actual skills.

DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE TOLERANCE IN THE UNIVERSITY MULTILINGUAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

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A. P. Beketova

2018-01-01

Full Text Available Introduction. Higher education involves a complex process for the development of cognitive, social, emotional and cultural characteristics of the individual of future specialists; including forming special behavior patterns that in the future will provide competitiveness and success of employment of the university graduates. Intercultural communicative tolerance is considered to be one of the individual’s significant social and professional qualities which are in demand of the modern society. The importance of intercultural communicative tolerance formation is caused not only by the processes of globalization of professional mobility in the modern world, but also the need to create comfortable coexistence of students in the university multilingual educational environment, to reduce conflicts and to prevent the clash of cultures – bearers of various systems of values and standards.The aim of the research is to reveal the role of intercultural communicative tolerance in the formation of the individual as well as to present a specially designed technology as part of “Foreign Language” learning. The relevance of this research highlights the necessity to shift the emphasis in the foreign language learning process towards practical-oriented learning targeting the development of personal qualities.Methodology and research methods. Methodological framework of the publication is based on the key conceptions of communication-oriented learning. In the process of designing and application of the authors’ technology, experimental methods and the method of comparative analysis were used.Results and scientific novelty.The authors’ definition to intercultural communicative tolerance is given. The urgency of formation of values and semantic attitudes towards improvement of communicative skills and corresponding world outlook objectives among students is proved. The authors described own technology of development of intercultural communicative

Intercultural Communication Apprehension and Emotional Intelligence in Higher Education: Preparing Business Students for Career Success

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Fall, Lisa T.; Kelly, Stephanie; MacDonald, Patrick; Primm, Charles; Holmes, Whitney

2013-01-01

Given the expanding globalized workforce, business educators continue to seek new ways to prepare students for intercultural encounters. Although immersion in other cultures is the optimal strategy, this method is not always feasible. As such, educators seek other mechanisms to simulate intercultural experiences. This study examines emotional…

Estado de Salud infantil en las comunidades indígenas, afrocolombianas y aisladas en Colombia.

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Francisco Nuñez L.

2002-04-01

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Se estima que Sur América en la época precolombina tenía entre 7 y 39 millones de habitantes(1. Como consecuencia del descubrimiento y la conquista de América la población indígena fue diezmada en gran proporción; entre las causas adicionales que explican esta disminución en la población, se encuentran múltiples patologías de diverso origen. A pesar de la reducción importante de las poblaciones aisladas Colombia cuenta hoy con una amplia diversidad étnica que motivó al Instituto de Genética Humana de la Universidad Javeriana, con su proyecto de Expedición Humana (EH, a indagar sobre los problemas que afectan estos grupos humanos.

Para cumplir este propósito los objetivos planteados fueron: realzar con elementos científicos la diversidad humana y cultural de nuestro país, prestar atención primaria en salud a las comunidades indígenas y afro colombianas diagnosticando sus principales problemas de salud e impulsando el desarrollo de proyectos que permitan el acceso de estas comunidades a los servicios de salud. Buscó también respuestas que puedan hacer aportes importantes al conocimiento universal para generar una conciencia de nuestra identidad biológica y cultural.

El objetivo de este estudio es describir la frecuencia de las enfermedades más comunes, el estado nutricional, los antecedentes médicos, familiares y los hallazgos de la evaluación oftalmológica practicada a niños entre 0 y 18 años pertenecientes a 37 comunidades indígenas, afro colombianas y aisladas en Colombia.

El proyecto, en lo que atañe a la evaluación del estado de salud infantil, cumple con los propósitos generales de la Expedición Humana y busca explicar la diversidad humana colombiana vista a través de la población infantil perteneciente a los grupos étnicos aislados que inicialmente poblaron nuestro territorio...

Desarrollo del método de los elementos finitos

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Luís Otero Pereiro

1997-02-01

Full Text Available El Análisis por Elementos Finitos constituye hoy día una herramienta de cálculo para resolver problemas de ingeniería, en estructuras, elementos de máquinas, mecánica de los fluidos y transferencia de calor, entre otros. Esto ha propiciado una gran difusión de los programas de cálculo asistidos por computadora, con los cuales seafirma es posible disminuir el costo de un proyecto hasta en 50%. En el artículo se demuestra que solo mediante la comprensión de los principios en que se basa el método de los elementos finitos se podrá hacer un empleo adecuado de cualquiera de estos sistemas de cálculo. Además, se explica porqué este método no constituye un descubrimiento dentro del campo de la resistencia de los materiales y la teoría de la elasticidad, sino que sienta sus bases sobre estos aspectos.

Reforma de salud en Ecuador: nunca más el derecho a la salud como un privilegio

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Miguel Malo-Serrano

Full Text Available El proceso de reforma de la salud que experimenta el Ecuador ha tenido logros importantes, porque se da en el marco de una nueva Constitución de la República, que permitió la incorporación de demandas sociales históricas surgidas de las críticas al neoliberalismo en la reestructuración y modernización estatal. Los ejes de la reforma consisten en tres componentes: por un lado, en organizar un Sistema Nacional de Salud que supere la fragmentación anterior, que constituya la Red Pública Integral de Salud; políticas encaminadas a fortalecer la atención primaria de salud, articulando la acción sobre los determinantes de la salud; y, por último, el incremento del financiamiento para consolidar las transformaciones. Concluimos que los desafíos en la reforma tienen que ver con la sustentabilidad de los procesos, sostenibilidad financiera del sistema y con la mayor activación de mecanismos de participación que permitan la veeduría iudadana de los servicios y el empoderamiento de los ciudadanos de su derecho a la salud.

Marketing in the United States and in Russia:Effects of Intercultural Differences on Strategy Formulation

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Konstantin B.Kostin; Ronald J.Adams; A.Coskun Samli

2016-01-01

This paper examines important intercultural differences between the United States (USA) and Russia impacting marketing strategy in the two countries.A brief overview of important intercultural differences between the two countries is first presented,followed by suggested strategic solutions to the problem of marketing in diverse cultural environments.

Una estrategia de enfermería escolar en la promoción de la salud y prevención de la enfermedad

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Gloria Patricia Gallego de Pardo

2003-01-01

Full Text Available Durante un gran e importante espacio de la vida, todos los niños son acogidos por la escuela, tiempo en el cual las capacidades de desarrollo y acumulación de aptitudes y actitudes son fundamentales para la formación integral de la personalidad. La etapa de la niñez y la adolescencia es delicada y vulnerable, pues la población se encuentra en proceso de formación de hábitos, creencias y competencias, que permitirán desarrollar el propio concepto como persona y ciudadano. Para el logro de este propósito es necesario un trabajo dinámico y permanente, a nivel interinstitucional y transdisciplinario, donde profesionales de la salud y la educación, familias, organizaciones comunitarias, autoridades estatales, el sector productivo y otros sectores de la sociedad trabajen unidos para ofrecer la mejor atención y cuidado a la población escolar. Es así como los programas de salud escolar desarrollados en las instituciones de enseñanza pueden ayudar a los estudiantes a responder a esos riesgos, para lo cual deben plantear: una educación en estilos de vida saludable; acciones para el cuidado y protección de los niños y adolescentes, y mecanismos para la construcción de una verdadera cultura de la salud. Para lograr un adecuado y completo programa de enfermería escolar, la promoción y la prevención deben considerarse como una estrategia fundamental e indispensable para el programa. La estrategia es un medio o instrumento para lograr los objetivos, que responden a la pregunta de cómo hacerlos. La estrategia exige la disposición de unos recursos y de las acciones para alcanzarlos. Esto nos permite reconocer la importancia de considerar como tal la promoción y la prevención, pues refleja los elementos anteriormente expuestos y es oportuna para lograr la salud integral del escolar.

Evaluación económica y toma de decisiones en salud ambiental

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Gutiérrez Zúñiga Cristina

1994-01-01

Full Text Available Ante el creciente deterioro ambiental y sus posibles consecuencias en la salud de la población resulta una prioridad indiscutible el diseño e instrumentación de políticas que controlen las actividades económicas bajo el criterio de protección a la salud humana y al ambiente mismo. Es preciso que dichas políticas consideren la factibilidad económica de las alternativas de protección existentes. Sin embargo, por la cantidad de intereses dentro del área ambiental, otros factores como el social y el político deben también ser considerados. La evaluación económica ha sido vista como un promisorio fundamento para la toma de decisiones en esta materia. Los autores analizan la capacidad de esta herramienta para organizar en forma sistemática y comparable los costos y los beneficios de alternativas para la solución de problemas ambientales. Se resumen las principales características de los estudios de costo-beneficio y costo-efectividad, las formas de evaluación económica del ambiente, y las particularidades de esta área para la aplicación de dichas técnicas de análisis. Se señalan los límites encontrados en estas herramientas para cuantificar los costos no monetarios de los riesgos ambientales y de los consecuentes daños a la salud, tales como el dolor, el sufrimiento ó la incapacidad de personas económicamente inactivas, constituyendo estos aspectos el reto metodológico de la evaluación económica en el área. Se reflexiona sobre la importancia de ampliar los insumos informativos para la toma de decisiones en materia de salud ambiental en aspectos como la distribución de los costos y los beneficios entre los distintos grupos sociales. Por último se señala tanto la creciente politización del tema ambiental, como la posibilidad técnica de manipulación de estas herramientas de análisis. Partiendo de estos elementos se señala la necesidad, por parte de los evaluadores, de ser conscientes sobre las implicaciones pol