Over the past 25 years, research in cognitive development has begun to embrace linguistic and cultural diversity. For example, the field has begun to move away from focusing on predominantly WEIRD, English-speaking populations, and rather, moved toward ...
Sirada Rochanavibhata, Natsuki Atagi
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Languages connect and the languages of the New Irish: potential responses from the higher education sector [PDF]
Ireland’s linguistic profile has been enriched by the arrival of the New Irish. It is incumbent upon the higher education sector to harness and support this linguistic diversity to aid the social, cultural and economic development of Ireland and all its ...
Bruen, Jennifer
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Citizenship and Education Policies in the post-Yugoslav States [PDF]
This paper explores interactions between citizenship and education policies in six post-Yugoslav contexts, focusing on group and individual education rights, ethnocentric, multicultural and civic elements of citizenship in education policies, and the ...
Pantic, Natasa
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Literature and Culture for an Intercultural Didactics of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) [PDF]
This work evolves around a main purpose: to analyze the role of literature in the pedagogy of Spanish as a Foreign Language from an intercultural perspective.
Ballester-Roca, Josep +1 more
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Cultural Diversity: Conceptual Approaches
Cultural diversity is, as biodiversity, an element of the common heritage of humanity, whose defense is an ethical imperative inseparable from respect for the dignity of the human person.
Сіміон Рошка
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MULTILINGUALISM AND THE IDEAL OF UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. KEY CONCEPTS AND CONTEXT
In a world challenged by cultural diversity, this article aims to look at the great diversity of languages and cultures that coexist within the European Union.
Roxana-Maria NISTOR-GÂZ +1 more
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Are ‘diversity management' and monolingualism compatible? About learning and using foreign languages in a context of globalisation: Sind ,diversity management' und Einsprachigkeit kompatibel? Vom Fremdsprachenlernen und -gebrauch unter dem Einfluss der Globalisierung [PDF]
Ideologies and communication practices vary hugely in multilingual workplaces. On the one hand, many companies include Diversity Management in their corporate culture because there are theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that a company which ...
Lüdi, Georges
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Religious, Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Female Labor Force Participation [PDF]
. There are numerous macro and micro level determinants of female labor force participation (FLFP) counted in the literature. Besides the other explanatory factors of FLFP, diversification in religion, ethnicity, language and culture in a society may ...
KOYUNCU, Cuneyt, ÖZEN, Eda
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Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution [PDF]
This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin +2 more
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Primo Levi Embraces Europe: A Precursor to Amin Maalouf’s 2008 European Language Treaty [PDF]
In the words of Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Europe is not something you discover; Europe is a mission’ (Bauman, 2013). The writing of the Italian Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, plays an important role in this ‘mission’, by promoting a European sense of belonging ...
Collings, R
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