Romance scholarship: Current perspectives

Perspectives on the scholarship of teaching.

Educators were catapulted forward in their thinking about scholarship in 1990 when Boyer proposed a broader definition. Research, the discovery of new knowledge, is the traditionally recognised form of scholarship. Boyer conceptualised research as representing only a single form and identified the areas of application, integration and teaching also as scholarship. Any type of scholarship advanc...

When the Romance is Over: Follower Perspectives of Aversive Leadership

While leadership is indisputably one of the most pervasive topics in our society, the vast majority of existing research has focused on leadership as a positive force. Taking a follower-centric approach to the study of leadership, we integrate research on the Romance of Leadership and the dark side of leadership by examining followers’ perceptions of aversive leadership in the context of public...

Practicing nurses perspectives of clinical scholarship: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND There is a scarcity of research published on clinical scholarship. Much of the conceptualisation has been conducted in the academy. Nurse academics espouse that the practice of nursing must be built within a framework of clinical scholarship. A key concept of clinical scholarship emerging from discussions in the literature is that it is an essential component of enabling evidence-bas...

Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described ...

erdosteine therapy for renal failure: current perspectives