Learning and acting on social conventions is problematic for low-literates and non-natives, causing problems with societal participation and citizenship. Using the Situated Cognitive Engineering method, requirements for the design of social conventions learning software are derived from demographic information, adult learning frameworks and ICT learning principles. Evaluating a sample of existing Dutch social conventions learning applications on these requirements shows that none of them meet all posed criteria. Finally, Virtual Reality is suggested as a possible future technology improvement.
In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op de volgende vragen: welke studenten vallen onder de groep allochtonen? Hoe is het gesteld met de maatschappelijke en etnische positie van allochtoonen? Welke cijfers van allochtonen over blijvers en uitvallers binnen het hbo zijn bekend? Mogelijke oorzaken van uitval en gestarte projecten binnen Fontys en andere hogescholen om instroom en prestaties van allochtonen te verbeteren. ook wordt ingegaan op mogelijke oplossingen om uitval te voorkomen.
Whilst until the late 1980s most migration issues developed in a parallel manner but with national specifics, important differences showed up during the 1990s and at the beginning of this decade. Since the middle of the 1990s, there has been an obvious change in policy towards migrants and foreigners in the Netherlands, and those changes have been more or less “exported” to our neighbouring countries and even to the level of the EU. Integration into society with the maintenance of the immigrant’s own culture has been replaced by integration into the Dutch society after passing an integration examination. The focus of this article is to investigate those changes and to compare the implementation of those policies in the Netherlands/Limburg and Germany/NRW, where the official understanding of not being an immigration country was dominant until the end of the 1990s, and where integration has only recently become an important political issue. Both countries are now facing similar challenges for better integration into the society, especially into the educational system. Firstly, the autors describe migration definitions, types, the numbers of migrants and the backgrounds of migrant policies in Germany and the Netherlands up until the middle of the 1990s. Secondly they discuss the integration policies thereafter: the pathway to a new policy and the Action Plan Integration in Germany, and the central ideas of the Civic Integration of Newcomers Act (WIN) in the Netherlands. Integration policy in the Netherlands is highly centralised with little differentiation on the local governmental level when compared to South Limburg. Thirdly, the autors investigate the cross-border cooperation between professional organisations and educational institutions in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and the involvement of social work institutions and social workers in their process of integration into the local society and the exchange of each others’ experiences (the ECSW and RECES projects).
De BEP – applicatie voor zorgverleners is de oplossing voor een goede kwaliteit van communicatie met de allochtone zorgvrager in de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg en daarmee de oplossing voor de gebrekkige zorg aan allochtonen. BEP realiseert het bovenstaande door verbetering van communicatie tussen zorgverlener en zorgvrager, door middel van het beschikbaar stellen van vertaalzinnen en pictogrammen in diverse talen en door de culturele competentie van de zorgverleners te verbeteren door hen de kennis met betrekking tot culturele aspecten te geven die zij nodig hebben.
