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There are different types of cultures with increasing of immigrant brides to bring lots of impacts on Taiwan. However, those female spouses have never got the respect from Taiwan¡¦s society, no matter how they strive for keeping their existence value. Besides discriminative reports from media, the difficulties those female spouses meet are also caused by deficient policy planning and implementation. There are two research methods as secondary data analysis and in-depth interview in the study to discuss the role played by local governments in Taiwan on the immigrant brides policy implementation and other related issues. The study intends to figure out social policy implementation of immigrant brides and its substances. Moreover, it also discusses the process while the policy is being planned and executed to realize formation and response of such a social issue in local governments in Taiwan with feminism and multiculturalism in the study. With multiculturalism, the study shows out real existence value and positive meaning of new immigrants. Furthermore, as exploration and analysis mentioned as above, it hopes to offer and promote development and active view of social policy of new immigrants to actually practice multivalue in the policy further in the study.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether and how some teachers in primary education in a multicultural area discussing the interculturality in their teaching with students from grades 1-3. It also aims to examine how students’ cultural interactions in the classroom are expressed.

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The human factor/human element starts to have a key role in accidents and incidents during shipments at sea. Investigations show that poor communications increasingly are the root for many tragedies. A possible reason for communication constraints is the growing trend to employ multicultural crews. This thesis aims to document this new challenge in the maritime industry and to endeavour to show how the Maritime Education and Training (MET) can address the problem. The lack of a company crewing policy entails a variation in management standards; it causes confusion. Therefore, it is commonly advised that a common working language be used and expressed in the company policy. It is not only substandard communication that lies behind accidents but also a lack of cultural awareness and “wrong” stereotyping. This is a worrying situation. Researchers in the maritime field have tried to quantify and describe the risks and identify possible benefits with multicultural crews. Disappointingly, the results show a strong disharmony. The industry appears not to be capable of coping with diversity or hesitates to balance eventual advantages with eventual risks. The reason could be that past research studies rather confuse the industry, instead of giving useful guidance. The research strategy, that has been used to find pros and cons in multicultural crews, perhaps has not been the best suited. This thesis aims to propagate for a professionally applied inductive strategy to phenomena related to human factor constraints in the shipping industry. This thesis is also urging MET institutions to conduct courses in cultural awareness and increase the learning goal in English to something more than bare basic. With World Maritime University (WMU) students as the prime research object, it has been found that studying in a multicultural environment is not problem free but instead creates an opportunity to increase the students’ communicative competence. This research study looks at the aspects of psychology, language and pedagogy to conclude that there is a need for courses in cultural awareness. Most likely, multicultural crews in the shipping industry are an irreversible trend. The solutions presented in this thesis focus on communications and cultural awareness and the point made is that, if courses in these two subject areas are not introduced in MET, a mixed crew will continue to be a risk factor hazarding safety at sea. The implication of the results, from a WMU point of view, is that extended understanding of different cultures is a needed subject for both students and teachers. The present, high level of study contact time makes the need for such courses even more important.

Detta arbete är en studie av hur undervisningen i historia ser ut utifrån ett mångkulturellt perspektiv. Jag har gjort en undersökning på en svensk gymnasieskola och intervjuat elever med utomeuropeisk bakgrund för att ta reda på om deras bakgrund nämns i historieundervisningen. Jag har även intervjuat lärare på samma skola för att höra hur de resonerar kring historieundervisningen ur ett mångkulturellt perspektiv. Arbetet diskuterar också kring vems historia som förmedlas i skolan samt om det finns skillnader på hemmets och skolans historieförmedling vad gäller utomeuropeiska invandrarelever. Tanken var att sätta fokus på hur historia förmedlas till invandrarelever samt på om dessa elevers historia tas upp i undervisningen. Intervjuerna har gjorts i form av kvalitativa intervjuer. Även frågor om identitet och historiemedvetande är med i detta arbete. Resultatet av min undersökning visar att det är hemmets historieförmedling som är viktigast för elever med invandrarbakgrund. Huvudanledningen till detta är att deras egen historia inte nämns i undervisningen. Lärarna utgår inte heller från de mångkulturella perspektivet när de planerar eller håller lektioner.

This thesis deals with the evaluation of educational outcomes in multicultural education in elementary schools. The theoretical part of this thesis in its content focuses on the characteristics of multiculturalism, development and characteristics of multicultural education in the Czech republic and abroad. Also characterizes the possible variables that influence the effectiveness of the implementation of cross-cutting theme of multicultural education into the school curriculum. The last theoretical chapter presents possible methods for evaluating learning outcomes in multicultural education. Practical part is directed to the preparation of evaluation tools designed to streamline the implementation of inclusive characteristics of multicultural education in schools, and the possibility to verify the development of multicultural competencies of teachers and pupils.

My thesis is based on a qualitative study. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the educationalist at an especially chosen school in Stockholm promotes the students multicultural background in the education or not. This is due to the fact that the Swedish school to a considerable degree reflects the multicultural Swedish society. The socio-cultural starting point is when people come together and meet. The language is the tool of the socio-culture and it is the dialogue, discussion and sympathetic understanding that makes people meet. The cultural concept is diffuse and very wide. Everyone has their own definition of it. The cultural concept in this thesis involves identity, ethnicity, background, conception of life and nationality. I have interviewed two pedagogues and a school manager. The content of the interviews was recorded and transcribed. In addition to theses interviews, the steering documents of the chosen school have been analyzed. The parental collaboration and influence is an important issue and it is up to the school manager to make an effort increasing parental interest and collaboration. When I made the interviews it became clear that the student’s different cultural background and knowledge was not something the school took benefit of to any larger extent. The pedagogues had thoughts and points of views about how to stimulate and use the students varied multicultural background in the education, for example by being more perceptive and use dialogue as a tool and learn from the students. The most important issue for the school concerning multiculturality is how to behave and live in the multicultural society. The school is the platform where different cultures meet every day and therefore it is natural that the school finds a balance between cultural pluralism and mutual understanding for different cultures.