Download or read book Cultural Compass written by Martin F. Manalansan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies consider traditional models for enthographic research. They explore the construction and displacement of self, community, and home integral to Asian American cultural journeys in the late 20th century
Download or read book The Culture Map written by Erin Meyer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Download or read book Navigating Global Business written by Simcha Ronen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Global Business integrates and synthesizes all available country cluster studies into a nested meta-structure accompanied by eco-cultural correlates that distinguish amongst clusters. The broad range of analyses will appeal to researchers and practitioners, seasoned multi-firm executives, those in small firms seeking internationalization, and anyone intrigued by the greater question of human diversity. The book covers key work-related cultural dimensions for much of the world, and includes examples of applications in most business areas. Also exhibited are the correlates of culture, some of which, such as language and religion, speak to the origin of cultural variations in addition to illustrating key variants of the global terrain. Finally, the authors examine how patterns might have changed over time, providing a rigorous and realistic assessment of the fruits of globalization.
Download or read book Culture Compass written by Robert Long and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-08-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for intermediate and advanced students who would like to improve their writing and speaking abilities in English, learn about a variety of grammar forms, and reflect and discuss current social and cultural issues throughout the world. This text has three units addressing cultural issues relating to Asia, Europe, and North America. There are three levels in which to engage students. The first involves a variety of information exchanges: Students discuss their values, background, families, social life and ideas. The second level provides either guided discussions (students are asked to give their own responses to a conversation), or a set of constructed issues / scenarios. In the third level, students can move up to critical discussions focusing on one or more cultural issues. To avoid the usual monotony that comes with a similar format, this book offers three different kinds of learning experiences: pair work, surveys / speeches, and group reactions.
Download or read book Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6 12 written by Nancy P. Gallavan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This well crafted, highly informative, and easy-to-read book is a must for teachers who are trying to find constructive and nonthreatening ways to engage with ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity. The author′s approach to the topic is encouraging and enlightening." —Geneva Gay, Professor of Education University of Washington "Gallavan effectively guides teachers through learning each child′s story, providing meaningful connections, and collectively sharing the responsibility for all students′ learning." —Linda D. Jungwirth, President, Convening Conversations, Inc. Pepperdine University, CA Chart your course with the Gallavan cultural competence compass All children have one important thing in common—the need to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6–12 shows teachers and administrators how to ensure that the cultures of all peoples are considered and valued. The author provides an eight-point cultural compass to guide you in crafting a respectful and inclusive curriculum. Each chapter includes frequently asked questions, specific strategies, and activities that help you: Broaden your knowledge about cultural diversity Become comfortable discussing culture Increase confidence in your teaching Create a welcoming school environment It is vital for you to infuse cultural competence into your instruction, build bridges between students in the classroom, and strive to connect students′ home and school lives. This book provides valuable tools for ensuring that all students feel accepted and engaged.
Download or read book Compass written by Mathias Énard and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources—nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie—and binds them together in a most magical way.
Download or read book Cultural Compass written by Yvonne Ann Kelly and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cultural Compass: A Handbook for Navigating Cultural Riches" is your exhilarating passport to the world's cultural treasures. Authored by the victorious explorer and serene wordsmith, Yvonne Ann Kelly, it is your definitive guide to understanding, appreciating, and engaging with diverse global cultures. Rightfully donned as a contemporary masterpiece, this special report is a vibrant tapestry of traditions, values, and practices that define societies across our mesmerizing planet. Bursts of African tribal dances, the calming serenity of Japanese tea ceremonies, and the rich murals adorning Mexican streets - each cultural landmark is thoughtfully unfurled in this comprehensive collection. Custom-curated by experts in the field, "Cultural Compass" plunges readers headfirst into the heart of various customs and art forms with an eloquence that transcends geographical boundaries. What's more? The heart-striking narratives don't just stop at cultural practices or art forms! Language, literature, and even global sports - all mirrors reflecting the heart of a culture - are reviewed, dissected, and celebrated in the handbook. The final stroke? A contemplative exploration of the future of these cultural riches. What we stand to preserve, adapt, and merge as our world grows more interconnected than ever before. So be it the inquisitive spirit yearning for a captivating read or the adventurous soul seeking to enrich their understanding of different cultures, this report is more than a collection of words. It's an adventure crafted to stir intellects, spark conversations, and give you the most thrilling armchair tour of the world! Unravel, discover, and be enraptured by the beauty of the cultural mosaic that decorates our world. It's a journey of discovery you simply can't afford to miss. Dive in, enrich your understanding, and let every page inspire you. Yvonne Ann Kelly awaits you. Let the journey begin...
Download or read book Coming to Our Senses written by Dierdra Reber and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture. Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, advertising, cultural criticism, and political discourse of the United States and Latin America, Reber shows how affect encourages the public to "reason" on the strength of sentiment alone. Well-being, represented by happiness and health, and ill-being, embodied by unhappiness and disease, form the two poles of our social judgment, whether in affirmation or critique. We must then reenvision contemporary politics as operating at the level of the feeling body, so we can better understand the physiological and epistemological conditions affirming our cultural status quo and contestatory strategies for emancipation.
Download or read book Compass and Clock written by John Wilmerding and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Wilmerding focuses on three turning points - around 1800, when America began to find its identity as a republic; 1850, a self-confident period of prosperity and growth; and 1900, a time of anxiety over profound changes in the psychological as well as the physical dimension. The author provides stimulating discussions of the great works of these three periods - from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Portrait to Thoreau's Walden and George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri to The Education of Henry Adams and the late paintings of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer - finding common threads and complementary expressions in the images that writers and visual artists alike drew upon to convey the mood and vision of each distinctive era."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades K 5 written by Nancy P. Gallavan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's eight-point cultural compass helps you ensure that young children feel welcome and that their cultures are valued. Included are strategies and activities.
Download or read book The Earth Memory Compass written by Farina King and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diné, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King’s search for her own Diné identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Diné Bikéyah—or Navajo lands—across the twentieth century. In her exploration of how historical changes in education have reshaped Diné identity and community, King draws on the insights of ethnohistory, cultural history, and Navajo language. At the center of her study is the Diné idea of the Four Directions, in which each of the cardinal directions takes its meaning from a sacred mountain and its accompanying element: East, for instance, is Sis Naajiní (Blanca Peak) and white shell; West, Dook’o’oosłííd (San Francisco Peaks) and abalone; North, Dibé Nitsaa (Hesperus Peak) and black jet; South, Tsoodził (Mount Taylor) and turquoise. King elaborates on the meanings and teachings of the mountains and directions throughout her book to illuminate how Navajos have embedded memories in landmarks to serve as a compass for their people—a compass threatened by the dislocation and disconnection of Diné students from their land, communities, and Navajo ways of learning. Critical to this story is how inextricably Indigenous education and experience is intertwined with American dynamics of power and history. As environmental catastrophes and struggles over resources sever the connections among peoplehood, land, and water, King’s book holds out hope that the teachings, guidance, and knowledge of an earth memory compass still have the power to bring the people and the earth together.
Download or read book Chup written by Deepa Narayan and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6 12 written by Nancy P. Gallavan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To become culturally competent, teachers and other school professionals must treat every student with fairness. This book for secondary teachers and administrators, presents an 8-point model of cultural competence which, if followed, will ensure that all individuals in the school are both respected and protected.
Download or read book Culture Compass written by Lily Kong and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook written by Kent D. Peterson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook provides a variety of sources of information, inspiration, and suggestions and includes more than forty field-tested exercises. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the features of culture and the symbolic roles of leaders and is followed by a set of examples that clearly illustrate the ideas. The book is filled with activities. Many are specifically designed as group activities with suggestions for how to organize the session, while others are meant to stimulate reflection and are often posed as questions. Most of the activities are designed be to used in a group setting and the questions provided in the chapters can become topics for dialogue or group brainstorming. This wonderful resource will help school leaders learn how to understand, assess, and transform their school culture for ongoing success.
Download or read book Poland Culture Smart written by Gregory Allen and published by Kuperard. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't just see the sights&―get to know the people. Culture Smart! guides provide travelers with vital information about the values and attitudes of the people they will meet, and practical advice on how to make the most of their time abroad. Travelers to Poland in particular, a country in transition from its Communist past, need to be open-minded and well-informed. Today's Poland is very much a mix of the old and the new, and the two are not always in harmony. Background knowledge of the land, people, and history is crucial to understanding who the Poles are today: the Polish sense of identity has been forged by history, and the reader is introduced to the main events of Poland's turbulent past. A chapter on values and attitudes provides essential insights into this relationship-based society, and will help visitors understand why things are done the way they are. Further chapters describe important festivals and rites of passage, as well as how Poles go about their daily social and work lives. Valuable advice is also offered on how to get along with them. The Polish people are warm and generous and place great value on personal relationships. Show an interest in their history and an awareness of their culture, and your welcome will be warmer still. Have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
Download or read book Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany written by Bernd Widdig and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
