Students and children learning from each other during a pediatric field trip program

Design and Implementation of a Genomics Field Trip Program Aimed at Secondary School Students

With the rapid pace of advancements in biological research brought about by the application of computer science and information technology, we believe the time is right for introducing genomics and bioinformatics tools and concepts to secondary school students. Our approach has been to offer a full-day field trip in our research facility where secondary school students carry out experiments at ...

The four UK health systems: Learning from each other

Perspectives on inclusive education: learning from each other

address inclusive education and, increasingly, distance education is seen as a flexible and appropriately inclusive way to deliver such courses. In this article a team of colleagues, Kieron Sheehy, Jonathan Rix, Melanie Nind and Katy Simmons, discusses the development of an Open University course, E243 Inclusive Education: Learning from Each Other, which was launched in February 2004. The team ...

Outcomes research in the global environment: learning from each other.

As the United Nations and the world recognize the global importance of noncommunicable disease, with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease at the forefront,1 it is an opportune time to declare the commitment of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes to serve as a resource to the international community and as a welcoming venue for international content. In the interest of collabo...

Dialogue Journals and Transformational Learning: Latino Students and Their Professor "Talk-back" to Each Other

This article explores how dialogue journals can lead to a transformative learning experience. Adult Latino students enrolled in a community college developmental reading class agree to speak truth to power through this critical writing process. Using Mezirow’s(2002) transformational learning theory, Brookfield’s (2000) concepts on teaching for critical thinking, and Cranton’s (2000) ideas of in...