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The current state of research on eGovernment in developing countries: A literature review
2012
Published version of a chapter in the book: Electronic Government. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33489-4_1 This paper reports a review of literature on eGovernment in the context of developing countries published between 2005 and 2010. The insights emerging from this review may guide researchers in their continued investigation of eGovernment implementation, especially in the context of developing countries. From a review of 108 papers, the study found some substantive changes in the field of eGovernment research. These included increased adoption of interpretive paradigm and increased use of theories in the research. Some future research directio…
The Undesired Other
2019
Over the recent years, the theme of abortion has set in the agenda of many countries. Although the abortion law was already present in France, the US and the UK, in some other countries the law was recently sanctioned just after the 2000s. This chapter deals with the problem of hospitality in the days of terrorism. From different angles, this chapter explores the question of abortion and the ideas of hospitality and multiculturalism, points that modern terrorism has instilled as necessary debates. We hold the thesis that the modern self has serious problems to understand the alterity when it confronts the own desires. The right of legal abortion should be framed as a decline of hospitality,…
Medizinethische Aspekte im Umgang mit muslimischen Patienten
2007
In today's world, the plurality of values is considered to be a constitutive feature of modern societies. In these societies, transcultural patient-physician relationships are a part of daily medical practice. Culturally determined value systems can be crucial for understanding the perception of notions such as "health" and "illness", leading to fundamental differences in assessing medical interventions and therapeutic objectives. Therefore, transcultural conflicts of interest are presenting medical ethical decision-making with new challenges. Time and again, medical practice demonstrates that cultural differences between physician and patient are correlated with the complexity of medical e…
Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality
2022
This multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relatio…
Dagens Rødhette i en flerkulturell kontekst – mulighet for en ny identitet?
2013
The starting point for this article is the tendency in recent Norwegian children’s and Ya fiction to thematize cultural encounters in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world. The picturebook Little Miss Eye Flap ( Skylappjenta , 2009) written by the Pakistani-Norwegian author and actor Iram Haq and illustrated by Endre Skandfer, presents a modern version of traditional folktales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel . However, the traditional structure of home – away – home gives particular emphasis to the phase of homelessness, not providing any safe return to harmony. This condition of liminal space between cultures is discussed in light of the concepts of reflexive ident…
Dialogo, Reciprocità, Integrazione:I dilemmi della differenza
2016
Sicurezza, equità, immigrazione, differenze etniche, globalizzazione, sono i termini in base ai quali le società occidentali europee, cercano di trovare nuovi modelli di convivenza per governare i cambiamenti della post-modernità. L’aumento della visibilità delle differenze sociali, multietniche e culturali, ha prodotto un aumento dell’attenzione sulla necessità di dare “voce alla diversità”. Le forme di comportamento sociale tipiche delle città europee “creative” di media grandezza che progressivamente trasformano la loro identità post-moderna industriale, in artistica, turistica, finanziaria,ecc, si sono confrontate, tra contraddizioni e conservazione di egemonie culturali, con la possibi…
DEVELOPMENT OF A BLENDED COURSE FOR ONLINE TEACHING: PROCESS AND OUTCOMES
2019
In this study, we outline the different steps and strategies followed to develop an online formation program aimed to higher education teachers. The aim of this program is to provide with teaching competencies to face the challenges of the next decade’s classroom, with a special focus on the role of digital technology in learning environments, through a combination of a self-managed course with a guided on-site training with real cases. A multicultural, multidisciplinary team conceives this blended learning format, which applies a storytelling approach for content generation and communication. A detailed description of the different factors and stages followed to undertake the project is pr…
Diritti fondamentali, famiglia e multiculturalismo
2013
Il contributo tende a verificare se e come la coesistenza di elementi di multiculturalità sia in grado di incidere sul modo di intendere la portata dei diritti fondamentali e sui limiti che devono presiedere al loro esercizio. L'attenzione è focalizzata su taluni profili di criticità messi in luce dalla tensione - determinata dal diverso significato che al livello individuale e/o di gruppo può assumere la dignità - tra il concreto esercizio dei diritti personalissimi e il nucleo minimo di valori essenziali condivisi in un ordinamento, sintesi del contesto socio-culturale e politico-economico di riferimento. Si ritiene, infatti, che l’identità culturale, quale patrimonio connotativo dell’ess…
Diritti umani e pluralismo tra argomentazione e negoziazione
2010
Fare i conti seriamente con il pluralismo impone di confrontarsi con il problema dell’incommensurabilità e, dunque, impone di non dare per scontato che, per ogni situazione di conflitto tra rivendicazioni confliggenti, sia possibile rinvenire un’unica soluzione corretta supportata da argomenti di principio. La nozione di ragione pubblica (come linguaggio comune o, per usare un’espressione di Gutmann, come «grammatica universale» ), così come quella di pluralismo comprensivo, muovono un passo importante nella direzione giusta. In alcuni casi, tuttavia, l’esistenza di un linguaggio comune ci aiuta soltanto ad acquisire la consapevolezza di trovarci di fronte ad un conflitto genuino. Proseguir…
Revisión y análisis de las distintas interpretaciones de la interculturalidad en el aula musical
2018
En este artículo se ofrece una revisión de las distintas propuestas de trabajo de la música en contextos educativos pluriculturales. Un análisis en profundidad permite comprobar que el uso de la terminología relacionada con la diversidad cultural es muy libre por parte del profesorado de música, lo que demuestra la necesidad de revisar su formación. Estas experiencias denominadas indistintamente multiculturales y/o interculturales sirven como excusa para presentar como modelo una breve síntesis de la experiencia propia en estos contextos, que sí se ajusta a los principios de la educación intercultural. Se ha intentado mostrar cómo esas interpretaciones de la terminología han llevado a usos …