Implementing, embedding and sustaining simulation‐based education: What helps, what hinders

Parent's information seeking in acute childhood illness: what helps and what hinders decision making?

CONTEXT Acute illness is a universal experience in early childhood. Parents find it difficult to determine whether or not their child requires medical care and seek information to inform their decision making. Little is known about parents' information seeking behaviour and what helps or hinders their decision making. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore parents' use of information resources...

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

Mastering malaria: what helps and what hurts.

Paul Russell’s Man’s Mastery of Malaria (1), written in 1955, opens with these wistful words: “While keeping in mind the realities, one can nevertheless be confident that malaria is well on its way toward oblivion. Already as a malariologist, I feel premonitory twinges of lonesomeness, and in my own organization I am now a sort of ‘last survivor’.” However, Russell was misguided in thinking tha...

Expectation both helps and hinders object perception

We examined how expectation influences perception of complex objects. Participants discriminated between normal and distorted images of famous faces or places. Word cues (mostly valid) indicated either the general category or the exact identity of the upcoming image pair. Whereas category cues did not affect performance, valid exemplar expectation led to performance benefits. Furthermore, discr...

Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining What Agriculture? For What European Bio-Economy?