Cross-cultural complexities of educational policies

Collaborative Ownership in Cross-Cultural Educational Digital Library Design

This paper details research into building a Collaborative Educational Resource Design model by investigating two contrasting Kenyan / UK design case-studies and an evaluation of end-users and designers’ perceptions of digital libraries and their usage patterns. The two case-studies compared are; case study 1 based on formal learning in an African university digital library. Case study 2 is cent...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDATION OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION OF THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOOL (PortENAT).

OBJECTIVES To undertake a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) into Portuguese. METHODS The first phase of this research (cross-cultural adaptation) utilised a well-established translation method comprising five sequential steps: forward-translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, expert committee and field-testing of the adapt...

Actual Issues of the Development of Life-Long Cross-Cultural Educational Environment

New socio-economic conditions impose specific requirements to the education system as a whole, including all stages and forms of vocational education. The article discusses the role and place of a diversified, multi-level system of training, which provides a variety of characteristics and volumes of educational and vocational programs that actualizes the problem of improving the system of life-...

Contributions of cross-cultural research to educational practice. Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.

The 40 years since the end of World War H have witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural research on cognitive development that has enlarged conceptions of the educational process. Colleagues in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition describe three phases in the relationship of cross-cultural psychology to education: the application of US. and Western European approaches to Third World co...