Online forum participation Whereas ‘back in the old days’ individuals depended on experts and close relatives for health information, nowadays individuals are turning to the Internet to look for information about health-related issues (Rice, 2006). A rapidly increasing number of healthrelated support groups provide users with ample opportunities to share their personal stories online. Online su...

The aim is to assess the impact of YouTube videos about academic writing and its skills on the writing performance of students. Theoretical perspectives from constructivism and associated learning models are used to inform the purpose of the research. The contextual setting is matriculation students awaiting admission to higher institutions. The population is 40 students belonging to a class ai...

Terror management theory posits that individuals respond positively to people and ideas that bolster their cultural worldviews and negatively to those that threaten their cultural anxiety buffers (Rosenblatt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski & Lyon, 1989). Repeated studies have shown that people exposed to awareness of immanent death write different kinds and varying lengths of story narratives ...

This paper explores teachers’ experiences of professional development in a creative writing group. The data was collected group and consist semi-structured interv...

Abstract When it comes to science writing, narrative has attracted little attention. This paper attempts fill this gap by presenting a brief pilot survey on in the Aristotelian Corpus. My main concern here is understand workings of process knowledge creation. Aristotle, apart from his paradigmatic role history knowledge, offers broad and varied corpus. The proceeds three steps: After few introd...

The paradigm shift from testing the outcome to assessing the learning of process shines a light on the alternative assessment approaches, among which portfolio-assessment has sparked researchers’ interest in writing instruction. This study aimed at investigating the effect of portfolio-assessment on Iranian EFL students’ writing achievement through the process-centered approach to writi...

Drawing on insights from philosophy and theology, we explore the relationship between religion, data global education policy through an analysis of career Sir Michael Barber, widely regarded as authority reform public services influential entrepreneur. The provides a novel perspective which illuminates how secularised salvation narratives apocalyptic symbolism have become more prominent in his ...

There has been growing interest regarding the 'medical humanities' in most medical schools in Korea. Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of humanities, social science, and the arts that aims to have a critical or supplementary role in medical education and practice. Thus, diverse educational methods should be applied to achieve the goals of medical humanities. The illness narrative...