Context and goals: cultural competence is considered as the main and basic component of professionalism and has unique and special place in the medical sciences due to the cultural diversity of its clients. The goal of this research was surveying of the effectiveness of the experienced curriculum in developing of students’ cultural competency in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.  Methods:...

abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

In Iranian higher education, the university management system (UMS) has taken on an overly pyramidal and centralized structure and has created a minimal intervention space for stakeholders, especially students which have challenged some of the functional areas of universities. This research shows the lack of proper development of participatory culture in universities as one of the main reasons....