Tolerance, Dissenting Beliefs, and Cultural Diversity

Teachers’ Dispositions and Beliefs about Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Teachers’ beliefs towards their students’ cultural backgrounds and languages affect all aspects of learning. Critical consciousness of attitudes and beliefs about the increasing culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) student population is necessary for aligning individual beliefs with effective teaching practices. Rethinking how to work with diverse students is central to how future teache...

Cultural Intelligence and Cultural Diversity

Today, in order to achieve an effective result in a globalized business environment, an understanding of cultural diversity is urgently needed. In this background, such a concept, cultural intelligence, is newly presented. This is an ability to socialize and work with people from different culture and background without cultural struggle. This article discusses about a concept and theory of cul...

Dissenting Opinion

Authored by Ingrid Schneider The essence of this Opinion is supported by Christoph Then This document is a dissenting opinion to the Report on patents in the field of human stem cells (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”) of the Expert Group on the development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering (E02973). As in the Report, this dissenting op...

O-19: Socio-Cultural Beliefs Affecting InfertileCouples

Balancing diversity and tolerance

The autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is caused by a failure of B cell tolerance. Recent studies in mouse models of SLE have identified several distinct tolerance checkpoints that must each function appropriately to protect against disease. However, studies of B cell repertoire selection in humans are essential to understand which checkpoints are defective in human autoimmun...