Anglistics as a Dialogic Discipline

The Relationship between Academic Discipline and Dialogic Behavior in Open University Course Forums

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between disciplinary difference (exact and natural sciences versus humanities) and the dialogic behavior that occurred in Open University course forums. Dialogic behavior was measured in terms of students’ and instructors’ active participation in the forum (posting a message) as well as amounts and proportions of “teaching presence,”...

Defining family medicine as a scientific discipline.

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Asian neurology as a discipline of study

Asian neurology should be viewed as a discipline of study. This is because ethnic, geographical, environmental, social and cultural factors influence neurological disease causation, manifestation, outcome, treatment, and clinical practice. Ethnic factor affecting disease pathology is reflected in severe spinal cord involvement as a universal feature of Asians with multiple sclerosis, and intrac...

Nature of Geography as a Discipline

The proposed course aims at explaining the nature of the subject. It throws light on the importance of geography and describes the nature of geography as a subject. It attempts to enrich knowledge and illustrate basic concepts as well as technical terms which are building blocks of geographic knowledge. Effort, however, has been made to develop the concepts in a graded and sequencial manner and...