Linking Cultural Competency and Community Service

Competency-Based Curriculum: Linking Theory and Practice

Background and objective: Most higher education curricula do not provide the competencies graduates need in the occupational fields, resulting in waste of money and lower effectiveness while increasing the number of unemployed graduates. Competency-based education is an innovative educational model that can solve such problems and lead education activists to design competency-based curricula. T...

Culture and Identity: Linking Iranian Identity Components and Cultural Dimensions

Iranian identity cannot be conceived of as a uniform monolithic concept. But, thanks to certain upheavals in the history of the country, it has turned into the triple concept of national/Islamic/modern. Hofstede’s (2001) cultural framework represents a well-validated operationalization of culture based on six cultural dimensions  (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/feminini...

Cultural Competency in Nursing Research.

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2010), the demographics of the United States will change dramatically in the next 50 years. Non-Caucasians will more than double from 116.2 million in 2012 to 241.3 million by 2060, representing 57% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). The Asian population also is expected to double in the next five years and comprise 8% of the U.S. p...

Cultural competency in the trenches.

A core mission of health professions schools is to educate and train a workforce that will be optimally prepared to provide health care and public health services for the diverse communities that they serve. It is important to create and develop a health care workforce who can understand and assist in the battle against health care disparities. For health care workers and health profession scho...

Cultural competency in grief and loss.