Education for Environment in School Curriculum

Need for Injury-Prevention Education in Medical School Curriculum

Injury is the leading cause of death and disability among the U.S. population aged 1 to 44 years. In 2006 more than 179,000 fatalities were attributed to injury. Despite increasing awareness of the global epidemic of injury and violence, a considerable gap remains between advances in injury-prevention research and prevention knowledge that is taught to medical students. This article discusses t...

An Experience in Curriculum Design for High School Statistics Education

This paper reports on an exercise of laying out a series of teaching sequences aimed at developing statistical reasoning in high school students. From a conceptual perspective, we examined the distinctions concerning the notions of statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking and considered three working scenarios reported in literature (data sets, sampling and probability situations) as refere...

Development of a Vocational Education Curriculum for the High School

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...

Positioning Secondary School Education in Developing Countries: Expansion and Curriculum

Perceptions of Nutrition Education in the Current Medical School Curriculum.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although the National Academy of Sciences has recommended a minimum of 25 hours of nutrition education, the majority of medical schools offer very little to no training or education in nutrition to medical students during their tenure in medical school. In order to assess the relevance and efficacy of current levels of nutrition training as viewed by students, resident...