Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches

Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches

Francisco José García-Peñalvo

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 382

ISBN13: 9781466621015|ISBN10: 146662101X|EISBN13: 9781466621022

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2101-5

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García-Peñalvo, Francisco José, ed. Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2101-5

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Our differences in language, cultures, and history around the world play a vital role in the way we learn. As technology-based education continues to be used worldwide, there is an ever growing interest in how multiculturalism comes into effect.

Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches explores the multidisciplinary approaches to transculturality and multiculturalism and its influence on technology-based education. This comprehensive reference source is a collection of education cases which investigate transcultural education using theoretical aspects and practical applications inside a technological framework. This book aims to be a reference for university professors, students, and researchers alike.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

List of Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

The MIH Project and Outcomes

Chapter 1

Multicultural Approach to Learning History and Geography at School in Europe (pages 1-8)

Valentina Zangrando, Antonio M. Seoane Pardo, Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Alicia García Holgado, Lucía García Holgado

MIH project (Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook: Tools for Learning History and Geography in a Multicultural Perspective) is a Comenius Multilateral Project funded with support from the European Commission that was developed...

Chapter 2

About the Use of the DMs in CLIL Classes (pages 9-27)

Anna Consonni

This chapter is a contribution to the discussion regarding the implementation of the CLIL methodology in school classes, particularly as far as the traditional tension between language and content learning is concerned. It starts...

Chapter 3

Learning Object Model and Framework Design for the Digital Modules Production (pages 28-36)

Alicia García Holgado, Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Valentina Zangrando, Antonio M. Seoane Pardo

The MIH (Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook) project provides new tools for helping teachers and pupils plunge deeper into the culture and the language of another nation via its history and its landscape/geography. The Digital...

Multiculturality and Interculturality

Chapter 4

The Role of ICTs in Rural Schools of Patagonia (pages 38-58)

Flavio Caldas, Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso

UNESCO indicates that one of the biggest problems we have to solve in the early twenty-first century is the abolition of differences between individuals and cultures. Intercultural education is a necessary and urgent alternative in...

Chapter 5

Intercultural Education with Indigenous Peoples and the Potential of Digital Technologies to make it Happen (pages 59-78)

Evaristo Ovide

Internet and the technologies linked to it (ICTs) have greatly expanded the linguistic and cultural domains of the most widely spoken languages in our global world. At the same time, endangered languages that were already excluded...

Chapter 6

Gender Violence Experiences of Urban Adult Indigenous Women: Case Study (pages 79-99)

M. Cruz Sánchez Gómez, Antonio V. Martín García, Ana María Pinto Llorente, Paula Andrea Fernández Dávila, Pamela Zapata Sepúlveda

This chapter deals with the problem of gender violence, especially in Chilean Aymara women. The aim of the study is to make a diagnosis of the indices and forms of domestic violence against women on the basis of gender in a sample of...

Chapter 7

Promoting Multiculturalism in Technology Based-Education: A Framework for the Improvement of Compatibility between Educators of Special Groups and their Learners and a Case Study on Educators of Roma in Greece to Prove its Efficiency (pages 100-124)

Maria Pavlis-Korres, Elena García Barriocanal

In multicultural education and especially in the education of special groups (Roma, immigrants, etc.), the compatibility between educator and learners directly affects the efficiency and the outcome of the educational programs. This...

Chapter 8

Closing and Opening of Cultures (pages 125-142)

Joaquín García Carrasco, Evaristo Ovide, Miriam Borham Puyal

This chapter describes an objective concept of culture and catalogues, from a pedagogical point of view, large categories of facts that identify cultures. The idealistic perspective of culture is confronted with the perspective of...

Cases and Experiences in Multiculturalism, Interculturality, and Transculturality

Chapter 9

Understanding Culture and its Implications for E-Learning (pages 144-159)

Enric Serradell-López, Cristina Casado-Lumbreras, David Castillo-Merino

Universities around the world are facing the task of adapting to a changing environment. In a contemporary global context, universities must respond to new educational needs, leading to a global process of enhancing lifelong...

Chapter 10

E-Mentoring in Global Software Development Teams: Success Factors to Develop a Common Culture (pages 160-175)

Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Alok Mishra, Cristina Casado-Lumbreras, Pedro Soto-Acosta

Global Software Development (GSD) teams face communication and coordination problems due to spatial, temporal, and cultural separation between team members. Cultural diversity and cross-cultural management are significant issues...

Chapter 11

Teamwork and Project Experiences in Multicultural Environments for Computing Students (pages 176-188)

Luis Fernández-Sanz

This chapter presents several multicultural education experiences in Higher Education devoted to computing education and developed under IP and other international specific sessions where students’ teamwork is analyzed while...

Chapter 12

Online Networking: Integrating International Students into First Year University through the Strategic Use of Participatory Media (pages 189-210)

Josh McCarthy

This chapter explores the use of Facebook in helping immerse international students into Australian university culture at a first year level by furthering the development of academic and social relationships between peers. The study...

Chapter 13

Technology-Based Values Teaching in Secondary Education (pages 211-227)

Miriam Borham Puyal, Susana Olmos-Migueláñez, Paola Perochena González, María José Rodríguez-Conde

This chapter presents a case study of the use of ICTs, and in particular the blog, in a Spanish Secondary School classroom in order to promote the teaching of values such as solidarity or tolerance. The aim was to enhance coexistence...

Chapter 14

An Enquiry into the use of Technology and Student Voice in Citizenship Education in the K-12 Classroom (pages 228-249)

Venus Olla

This chapter describes a case study conducted in a high school setting. A students as researchers’ approach is used to explore the use of technology in the citizenship education classroom. The case study demonstrates how starting...

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