Chapter 3 provides an analysis of the survey outlining some of the challenges that institutions face in hiring diversity librarians. The area of job expectations is one challenge that can contribute to the difficulty in finding qualified applicants. Feedback from librarians emphasized the importance of making job expectations both clear and reasonable. The chapter concludes with suggestions for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present teaching strategies to enhance students’ cultural competence in non educational settings. Methods: Utilizing Purnell’s cultural competence model and Lattanzi’s cultural ladder the authors describe teaching strategies used to promote students’ understanding of the complex nature of culture and how the multiple layers of culture influence the healt...

Although principals in Swedish preschools treasure cultural diversity and multilingualism, also involves challenges to preschool staff. They may find themselves a position where there is no way of cooperating with parents, as prescribed the curriculum (Swedish National Agency for Education, 2018), without counteracting preschools’ fundamental values. These values concern promoting democracy, hu...

Since the early 2000s, Taiwanese government has been increasingly employing multiculturalism as a frame for imagining nationhood political and economic strategy, aiming at strengthening ties with Southeast Asian countries. In recent years, official imaginary of multicultural Taiwan taken new direction to include previously neglected groups minorities, such immigrants from 2019, seven languages ...

The authors examined the effects that differently framed and targeted health messages have on persuading low-income women to obtain screening mammograms. The authors recruited 752 women over 40 years of age from community health clinics and public housing developments and assigned the women randomly to view videos that were either gain or loss framed and either targeted specifically to their et...

The educational benefits of internationalisation in higher education are paramount importance for all students. Despite an increasing presence best practice guides and strategies, there appears to be a significant implementation gap terms lecturers’ engagement with their teaching practice. Through Action Research-informed Community Practice approach, this study aims provide new insights into In...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to assess predictor variables of husbands in multicultural families and examine the relationship among variables after setting up a hypothetical model including influencing factors, so as to provide a framework necessary for developing nursing interventions of domestic violence. METHODS The participants were 260 husbands in multicultural families in four citie...

Many studies have explored the social consequences of ethnic essentialism in recent decades. In addition, a few studies have focused on the impact of perceived cultural context on ethnic essentialism. However, it is not clear why perceived cultural context can lead to changes in ethnic essentialism. In the present study, we hypothesized that the cultural anxiety of ethnic minorities may trigger...