RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

This article reframes the debate on validation of non-formal and informal learning by connecting it to sociology education curriculum studies literatures. Building these literatures, differentiates between four types validation: (a) covert implicit, (b) but embedded, (c) overt functional (d) institutional. Based this classification, I problematise widespread view that there is little in formal ...

There are two recognized systems of the education. One is called formal system where face to teaching- learning process arranged in classroom under prescribed scheme studies for time. Other known as non-formal system, which delivered outside framework educational institutions. Both provide not only academic but professional programmes also, such PTC, CT, B.Ed and M.Ed etc. This study designed c...

in the almost new literature of social capital, the concept has mainly been considered domestic, while we can find social capital beyond state borders. in this article social capital has been connected to international relations through micro and macro aspects. the effect of information technology on social capital is then mentioned on both domestic and transnational scales. information technol...

BACKGROUND An assessment of self-efficacy and social capital may have the potential to detect an effect of dynamic, complex and comprehensive collective actions in community-based health promotion. In 2003, a healthy village project was launched in Santa Cruz, Bolivia with technical assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The originally developed FORSA (Fortalecimient...