Cultural Literacy in Mother Tongue Education: an Action Research by Mazhar Bal, Filiz Mete

“…The research process was carried out in three stages: cultural awareness, cultural diversity and cultural literacy. It was observed that participants cultural literacy skills developed at each stage. …”
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Impact of Conservation and Development on the Vicinity of Nanda Devi National Park in the North India by Pratiba Naitthani, Sunil Kainthola

“…Both the hydropower and the conservation sectors are concentrating their focus on the Himalayas, which have high hydropower potential and rich bio-cultural diversity. The aim of this present study, carried out in villages adjacent to the Nanda Devi National Park in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India, is to understand the linkages between conservation- and development-induced displacement and the process of designing compensation packages for the local community. …”
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A industria do turismo: Pespectiva de desenvolvimento para o Amazonas by Joana D\u0092Arc Ribeiro, Sherre Nelson

“…Their ecosystems diversity of habitats, species and the socio cultural diversity could be one of the sustainable ways for its population, as long as, quality service, cultural and enviromental preservation were associated with.…”
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DIREITOS CULTURAIS E DESENVOLVIMENTO NA CALHA NORTE DO RIO AMAZONAS by Luciana Gonçalves de Carvalho

“…A bibliographical and documental review of the trajectory of the development planning in the Amazon, as well as the trajectory of the cultural rights, reveals that the marked ambiguity in the treatment of culture in successive programs and projects, or as a benefit or as an obstacle to development, continually threatens Brazilian cultural diversity. Despite being recurrent, however, the neglect of cultural rights in the PBRB innovates associating them with the delay, and explicitly suggests their revocation.…”
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Editorial: Back to the Future—Predicting Possibilities in Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning by Maggie Hartnett, Niki Davis, Alison Fields

“…These include our increasing cultural diversity and adoption of social media to offer more learner-centred education that also increases engagement with employers, professions, and iwi. …”
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Trilingual Love on the Bay of Naples: Philodemus AP 5. 132 and Ovidian elegy by Carole E. Newlands

“…This poem, short though it is, reveals a poet interacting with the linguistic and cultural diversity of Campania of the late Republic. It is well known that, in its description of the girl’s physical body, this epigram influenced Am. 1.5, the poem in which Ovid first introduces his girlfriend Corinna. …”
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Editorial: Back to the Future—Predicting Possibilities in Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning by Maggie Hartnett, Niki Davis, Alison Fields

“…These include our increasing cultural diversity and adoption of social media to offer more learner-centred education that also increases engagement with employers, professions, and iwi. …”
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Sociologie des échanges transnationaux : l’évolution du système mondial de traductions de 1979 à 2002 et la place de la langue bretonne by Germain Barré

“…This paper intends to explore the question of cultural diversity through the study of translation flows from 1979 to 2002, by using network analysis or the “structural” method, which analyzes how the structure and dynamics of translation flows evolve over time. …”
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Culturally sensitive neonatal palliative care: a critical review by Hayley Redman, Marie Clancy, Felicity Thomas

“…Although there are known disparities in neonatal and perinatal deaths across cultural groups, less is known about how cultural diversity impacts neonatal palliative care. This article critically reviews available literature and sets out key questions that need to be addressed to enhance neonatal palliative care provision for culturally diverse families. …”
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Social and International Identity of Students’ Personality in the Globalized World: Vietnamese Students’ Experience by O. A. Kulikova

“…This paper suggests that international educational programs originators consider cultural diversity, recognizing social and cultural influences as defining factors in foreign students’ learning and everyday life, to make the curriculum and use pedagogical methods which give a chance to foreign students to develop self-knowledge, openness and citizenship.…”
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Une mondialisation culturelle et linguistique ? Le cas des organismes de promotion culturelle et linguistique by Munoz Ludivynn

“…One of the major goals of these organizations is the promotion of a language and culture and the promotion of cultural diversity.The field of inquiry concerns geopolitics that characterized the power struggle between languages ​​and promotion agencies. …”
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Contextualising Historical and Cultural Identities with Exhibitions of the New National Museum in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Kwang-Su Kim

“…The objectives of the new museum are to promote the history and culture of various ethnic groups, protect heritage and exhibit cultural diversity in order to unify the people and the nation, and educate the public about the DRC history and culture. …”
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Homogeneidad del léxico agrícola en la Merindad de Campoo según el Atlas lingüístico y etnográfico de Cantabria by José Manuel Ruiz Núñez

“… In spite of its small dimensions, Cantabria has suffered a remarkable process of comarcalización (regionalization), reflected on its linguistic and cultural diversity. In this article we seek to emphasize the homogeneity of the agricultural vocabulary of Merindad de Campoo, a southern Cantabrian district, in contrast to the rest of the region; in addition to this, it is noticed the increasing incursion of the Castilian variety into the dialectal one. …”
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L’insularité comme paradigme de diversité culturelle ? Réflexions sur la construction littéraire d’une Méditerranée en fragments by Sara Izzo

“…Insularity does not automatically represent a concept of cultural diversity in the Mediterranean, but it is semantised in a different way each time.…”
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Meeting the social and emotional needs of first-year mathematics students through peer-tutoring by Irene Maitland, Eleanor Lemmer

“…Data gathered from a comprehensive sample of students, tutor-mentors and lecturers indicate that the programme assists students’ social adjustment in a multicultural setting; that cultural diversity among tutor-mentors is both a barrier and a resource, and that positive campus perceptions of the programme are essential to its continuation, thus forging a new community of mathematics practitioners. …”
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LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS AS BARRIERS TO THE TEFL SETTINGS IN PAPUA by Yohana Susana Yembise

“…The article further presents ongoing controversial issues on the impact of linguistic and cultural diversity in Papua towards the educational development including the TEFL program in this province. …”
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Globaliseringen hos Ernst Jünger by Jan T. Schlosser

“…Another reason was globalization's cultural homogenization with the following loss of cultural diversity.  …”
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Infusing an international online learning experience into the curriculum: a united states and Mexico collaboration by Flavia Iuspa

“…The purpose of this paper is to discuss how an international online learning experience enhances our awareness of different perspectives and cultural diversity, the challenges facing humanity and the world, and our role as globally competent citizens. …”
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INTERCULTURALITATEA CA DIMENSIUNE ACTUALĂ A CURRICULUMULUI PEDAGOGIC UNIVERSITAR by USM ADMIN

“…Its overall objectives are: • To promote a culture of tolerance through mutual cognition and development of the wits of accepting the diversity, as an essential element of an open society; • To know the principal problems, which bound the intercultural pedagogy; • To outline the possibilities and limits of the intercultural approach in education; • To identify and promote the intercultural dimensions of education; • To build up the ability of performing and judging the educational practices, from the point of view of respecting and bringing up the cultural diversity; • To build open and permissive pedagogical alternatives to cultural multiplicity. …”
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Language politics in Nepal: A socio-historical overview by Gautam Bhim Lal

“…It concludes that the diversified politics and multilingualism in Nepal have been functioning as a double-edged sword, which on the one hand promotes and preserves linguistic and cultural diversity and on the other hand squeezes the size of diversity by vitalizing the Nepali and English languages through contact and globalization.…”
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