In human societies biological processes vital for man's survival acquire social and cultural significance. Intake of food, sexual intercourse or elimination physiological phenomena which are universal for the entire living world become institutions regulated by cultural values and social rules.... Human beings experience hunger for food and sexual desire, but culture and society dictate to the ...

The Cultural Artefacts in Education (CAE) questionnaire is used to determine the educational values of different cultures. In this paper I examine the results for ten countries, specifically focussing on their attitudes towards adaptive hypermedia in an educational setting. These results can inform the authoring process for adaptive systems & content, with Adaptive Hypermedia systems being able...

Cultural institutions increasingly see the need to play an important role in the lifelong learning of citizens. Recent trends, particularly in science museums, have been toward supporting visitors to actively learn rather than passively receive information. Here we propose how narrative can be used within the design of new technologies to support lifelong learning in a cultural setting. Narrati...

This study aimed at discussing and representing discourse analysis of classroom talk in two contexts. It is significant, since it considers different genres of talk, cultural and social identities, social relations, different ideologies and many other aspects in this analysis. It attempts to analyze the dominant classroom patterns in two contexts. Two cases of study were analyzed in this study:...