A lack of understanding of the importance of public health both within the community and in the tertiary education setting is a significant impediment to improvement in population health. The international campaign "This is Public Health" (TIPH) has been promoted widely as a strategy to increase community awareness and attract and inspire the next generation of public health professionals. This...

Different aspects of identity have been investigated across various educational fields. Although many studies have been done to investigate different aspects of EFL teachers’ identity development, there is a paucity of research on identity-oriented EFL teacher education programs. Hence, the purpose of the current study was to investigate EFL teacher educators’ and EFL teachers’ perspectives abo...

The discourse of reflection is now firmly embedded in a range of teacher education programs in Australia and overseas. Reflective frameworks have been used by teacher educators to offset the perennial emphasis on technically prescriptive interpretations of ‘being a teacher’. Whilst these undoubtedly contribute to the personal ‘meaning making’ of neophyte teachers, particularly in relation to pr...

Efficient and effective occupational therapy curricular course design is essential to develop competent reflective practitioners. The intentional use of metacognitive strategies could improve the development higher-order thinking learning outcomes. study explored in students within higher education. A targeted search for journals only was primary method identify studies. Arskey O’Malley’s (2005...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

Reflective writing is unarguably an essential component in experiential learning. For this reason, its usefulness as a communicative tool nurturing students’ inclusivity, agency and sense of belonging needs further academic engagement. Additionally, the surrounding access, participation success students higher education importance reflective require adequate exploration within South African spa...

Perhaps a better (rhetorical) question would be: “What wasn’t feminist about our project?” These days, there are certainly many different cultural feminist events in general (eg: women’s poetry readings, women’s folk music festivals, women’s art exhibits, the Vagina Monologues, etc). Many music schools and other music organizations (eg: Eastman School of Music, Indiana University of Pennsylvani...

Researchers and professors across the globe have acknowledged significance of peer observation in recent decades. In tertiary institutions or universities, is compulsory for all professional teachers, tutors, even administrative staff. However, growing importance raises questions about whether practical enough improving teachers' teaching quality helping teachers who work on front line receive ...

This study explores a multimodal approach to teaching contemporary Chinese culture foster university students' intercultural awareness and communication competence via third space. Two universities in the UK took part where course contents moved from static notions of culture-as-fact terms national traditions digital presentation live discussion about China. The pedagogy includes discussing cel...