Report of the United States Broad of mediation and conciliation.

Mode of access: Internet.

Urgent supplemental appropriations for 1935 : hearing before the subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in charge of deficiency appropriations. Seventy-fourth Congress, first session. Federal Communications Commission, National Mediation Board, National Railroad Adjustment Board, Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mode of access: Internet.

Compilation of laws relating to mediation, conciliation and arbitration between employers and employees.

Subtitle varies slightly.

Arbitration between carriers and employees. Boards of adjustment. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on interstate commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, on S. 2646, a bill to provide for the expeditious and prompt settlement, mediation, concilation, and arbitration of disputes between carriers and their employees and subordinate officials, and for other purposes. March 18, 28, 29, April 4, and 7, 1924 ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Stenographers' minutes before the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Presidential Board of Inquiry in the matter of labor disputes affecting the copper and non-ferrous metals industry.

Hearings held: Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1951.

The New York State Board of Mediation and its predecessors; 1886 to 1950, a compilation of facts and statistics,

typewritten copy.

An act to provide for the mediation of labor disputes in public utilities... House Bill no. 180, 64th General Assembly.

Mode of access: Internet.

Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service 1947-1997 : 50 years of conflict resolution.

Published in conjunction with a symposium held in Washington, D.C., 1997.

Annual report of the National Mediation Board

Mode of access: Internet.

International Experiences – is there an effect on intercultural sensitivity? : An explorative study conducted at Stockholm University

The presented research is an explorative study, aimed to identify differences in intercultural sensitivity of Swedish students with international experience, Swedish students with no international experiences and international students studying at Stockholm University. The research is placed within the field of higher education. International experiences are seen to be a key to intercultural competences and it is universities who need to prepare students for the demands of the globalized job market. The research is of qualitative nature and relevant data was collected by the means of semi- structured interviews. The data was coded according to qualitative thematic analysis and then analyzed and discussed in accordance to the researcher questions and existing literature in this field. The study revealed that there is no general difference in intercultural sensitivity between the three groups analyzed. However, international students show higher sensitivity in terms of respect of cultural differences and open-mindedness, while students with no international experiences show less sensitivity in terms of interaction involvement and suspending judgment. The identified themes offer valuable information on individual perceptions of cultural differences. This information can be used to improve measures and actions to increase intercultural sensitivity at Stockholm University.

Teachers’ perception of the concept of intercultural competence in teaching English

Intercultural competence (IC) as an essential part of conceptualization of the cultural dimension in FLT has been promoted by educationalists as the most preferred type of competence. One of the challenges of incorporating IC into FLT is to move from the recognition of IC as a model of teaching (Byram, Nichols and Stevens, 2001) to the development of practical applications. This can be due to the fact that teachers do not have sufficient knowledge of the theory behind the concept and consequently, have difficulties to implement the curriculum requirements with regards to IC into their teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers of English in upper secondary schools in Sweden interpret the concept of IC and, accordingly, what is their view of culture in English language teaching. In order to answer the research question, I used an exploratory investigation by adopting a qualitative research method in form of semi-structured interviews. The results are similar to the previous studies (Lundgren, 2002; Larzén, 2005) and suggest that teachers lack theoretical background and central guidance with regards to IC and do not always integrate language and culture into an intercultural model of the English language pedagogy.

Memoria e identidad cultural : Expresión y construcción de la ciudadanía intercultural en los pueblos Misak, Nasa e Inga

El proceso de reconstruir la identidad cultural, parte de evidenciar la memoria como el elemento dinamizador del reconocimiento personal, colectivo y cultural. En este sentido, el documento se basa en el reconocimiento cultural de los pueblos indígenas Misak, Nasa e Inga, a partir del análisis y reflexión de sus prácticas culturales fundamentadas en la memoria colectiva, pretendiendo evidenciar ésta como mecanismo de preservación dentro y fuera de los territorios ancestrales a los que pertenecen. Es así, como la identidad cultural sustentada en la memoria colectiva se constituye como referente político de las comunidades, es decir, los indígenas politizan la identidad cultural con la finalidad de preservar, mantener y ubicar su cultura en una sociedad mayoritaria y homogénea, lo que se denominaría "ciudadanía intercultural". La ponencia busca analizar los anteriores elementos, y a su vez, establecer como históricamente las políticas públicas emanadas por el gobierno han asumido al indígena en Colombia, a partir de las distintas posiciones de lamemoria colectiva, de la identidad cultural y de la ciudadanía nacional por medio de la narración de tres líderes indígenas para así, depositar en las dinámicas sociales colombianas una herramienta en la vindicación de los pueblos indígenas colombianos

Telenovelas coreanas en América Latina : ¿una nueva forma decomunicación intercultural?

La distribución de telenovelas coreanas en distintos países latinoamericanos es un fenómeno relativamente nuevo que, a diferencia de otros vinculados al audiovisual, no ha sido demasiado investigado desde la academia. Sonata de Invierno, Otoño en mi corazón y Escalera al cielo, entre otras, son las telenovelas que posibilitaron el acercamiento de audiencias tales como la mexicana, la peruana, la paraguaya, etc. a la cultura coreana, distante y disímil. Cautivaron a la audiencia en su diversidad al punto de fomentar, en ciertos casos, la conformación de comunidades de fanáticos. Este trabajo se plantea como una primera aproximación al tema postulando que las telenovelas constituyen una forma apropiada de comunicación entre culturas. El abordaje se basa en el tratamiento de los siguientes ejes: a) las telenovelas como industria cultural y género seriado de ficción; b) descripción del fenómeno del Hallyu como contexto general de surgimiento y propagación de las telenovelas coreanas; c) la presencia de las telenovelas coreanas en América Latina, y d) la ficción popular como forma de comunicación intercultural en la era global. El análisis permite concluir con una valoración del aporte al entendimiento intercultural que propaga la participación de las telenovelas coreanas en América Latina, y esboza algunas propuestas que favorezcan el intercambio entre culturas desde enunciados democráticos y plurales

La educación de jóvenes en perspectiva intercultural : Sexualidades y discapacidad

Fil: Barletta, César M.. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.