More than 6.6 million refugees live in camps located largely in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In these camp communities, unique cultural practices can arise. In our new research, we found the oral ...

The study of indigenous education increasingly highlights the integral role of cultural practices and active community engagement in the learning process. Recent conceptualisations advocate moving ...

Culture refers to the ideas, customs, and behaviors of a group of people or a society (1). It influences just about everything you do — the way you speak, the foods you eat, what you consider to be ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. This is an adapted excerpt from “Democracy as Creative Practice ...

What is happiness, why is it so important, and why is it so hard to achieve? Together, individuals and communities will go through many measures to achieve happiness. Starting in the late 1990s, ...

Biologists used mathematical models to show that societies that favor generalists, who have a wide range of skills, are less well-connected than those societies that favor specialists, who are highly ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cremation, "air burial," grave cairns, funeral mounds, mummification, belief in life after death -- death practices sacred to one culture are often considered "odd" or even terrifying ...

Organizational performance depends on thoughtful policies and practices with respect to employees and culture. That may seem obvious, but we have all had our experiences with less-than-stellar ...

Although much attention has been focused on individual-level drivers of burnout in primary care settings, examining the structural and cultural factors of practice environments with no burnout could ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who should be allowed to find their “spirit animals.” By Kwame Anthony Appiah I work as an art therapist at a hospital, where I invited a group of patients to ...

Ireland's Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, has announced formal State recognition of four additional practices as part of Ireland’s living cultural ...