Bridging Cultures

Bridging Cultures
Author: Harriett D. Romo
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623499763

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Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary. In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, editors Harriett Romo and William Dupont focus specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing together perspectives of architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, political scientists, geographers, and creative writers who span and encompass the border, its four sections explore the historical and cultural background of the region; the built environment of the transnational border region and how border towns came to look as they do; shared systems of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms of behavior, and customs—the way of life we think of as Borderlands culture; and how border security, trade and militarization, and media depictions impact the inhabitants of the Borderlands. Romo and Dupont present the complexity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands culture and historical heritage, exploring the tangible and intangible aspects of border culture, the meaning and legacy of the Borderlands, its influence on relationships and connections, and how to manage change in a region evolving dramatically over the past five centuries and into the future.

Bridging Cultures Between Home and School

Bridging Cultures Between Home and School
Author: Elise Trumbull
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135660476

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Introduces prospective/in-service teachers to an anthropological framework & to research & practice base that will help them be more successful in teaching students from various immigrant cultures. Focuses on home-school communication & parent involvemen

Bridging Cultures

Bridging Cultures
Author: Glen Aikenhead
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cross-cultural studies
ISBN: 9780132105576

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Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.

Bridging Cultural Conflicts

Bridging Cultural Conflicts
Author: Michelle LeBaron
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2003-04-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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"In our global society, challenging conflicts abound in personal, business, government, and international settings. Many of these conflicts are complicated by layers of miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and completely different ways of looking at the world. These conflicts cannot be solved by goodwill or sincere intentions alone. In our multicultural world, we need new tools to address gaps in communication and understanding and the conflicts that flow from them. This book answers this need in groundbreaking ways that cut through complexity, replacing confusion with clarity." - book jacket.

Global Social Media Design

Global Social Media Design
Author: Huatong Sun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190845589

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Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practice theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The "CLUE2 (CLUE squared)" framework extends from situated activity to social practice, and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life. Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have had been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design. Sun calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as design resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative design epistemes thrive from the local. This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.

Bridging Cultures

Bridging Cultures
Author: Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2003-10-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135635544

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Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is a professional development resource for teacher educators and staff developers to help preservice and in-service teachers become knowledgeable about cultural differences and understand ways of bridging the expectations of school settings with those of the home. In a nonthreatening, cognitively meaningful way, the Module is based on teacher-constructed and tested strategies to improve home-school communication and parent involvement. These innovations were developed as part of the Bridging Cultures Project, which explores the cultural value differences between the individualistic orientation of mainstream U.S. schools and the collectivistic orientation of many immigrant families. The goal of the Bridging Cultures Project is to support and help teachers in their work with students and families from immigrant cultures. The centerpiece of the Module is training resources, including an outline, an agenda, and a well-tested three-hour script designed as a lecture-discussion with structured opportunities for guided dialogue and small-group discussion. Throughout the script, "Facilitators Notes" annotate presentation suggestions and oversized margins encourage integration of the facilitator's personal experiences in presenting and adapting the Module. Ideas for using the Readings for Bridging Cultures are provided. A section of overhead transparencies and handout masters is included. The Module also provides a discussion of the role of culture in education and the constructs of individualism and collectivism, an overview of the effects of the Bridging Cultures Project, and evaluation results of the author's use of the Module in two sections of a preservice teacher education course. Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module brings the successful processes and practices of the Bridging Cultures Project to a larger audience in college courses and in professional development arenas. Designed for use in one or two class sessions, the Module can be incorporated in courses on educational psychology, child development, counseling psychology, and any others that deal with culture in education.

Bridging Cultures

Bridging Cultures
Author: Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2003-10-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135635552

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Professional development resource for teacher educators, based on the Bridging Cultures Project to improve homeschool communication and parent involvement.

Bridge the Culture Gaps

Bridge the Culture Gaps
Author: Robert Gibson
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529383021

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The highly practical self-help guide to optimize the performance of individuals working in an intercultural environment. Readers will learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations and how to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. Addressing the unique challenges of influencing across cultures and managing international projects, this is an indispensable toolkit for a key competence in business. Bridge The Culture Gaps provides readers with a framework for developing key skills essential for effective global collaboration in the VUCA world. These include reflecting on experience, understanding the nature and impact of culture and the importance of diversity for business success. Readers learn how to mitigate unconscious bias to create inclusive organizations, and to use key cultural dimensions to communicate and cooperate in intercultural teams. It addresses the challenges of leading diverse teams, influencing across cultures and managing international transformation projects, as well as making international assignments successful.

Bridging Cultural and Developmental Approaches to Psychology

Bridging Cultural and Developmental Approaches to Psychology
Author: Lene Arnett Jensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195383435

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This cutting-edge book brings together eminent experts from diverse disciplines and diverse parts of the world who integrate key insights and findings from cultural and developmental research on human psychology. The result is a book brimming with new and creative syntheses for theory, research and policy that are attuned to today's global world.

Bridging Cultures

Bridging Cultures
Author: Mario T. García
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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One of the fastest growing ethnic groups within the United States is the Chicano/Latino population. Chicanos are people of Mexican descent in the United States. The term Latino refers to all persons of Latin American backgrounds including Chicanos who reside in this country. With an estimated number of about 30 million, Latinos are expected to become the largest minority population in the country exceeding the African American community. Bridging Cultures is an introductory text containing a variety of articles and essays by key Chicano/Latino scholars and writers. It is intended to provide an introduction to some of the key issues facing Chicanos/Latinos from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Bridging Cultures provides students a broad understanding of the role that Chicanos/Latinos have played in the United States society and the increasing role they are playing into the 21st century.