Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease with several modifiable lifestyle factors. The Extension ‘Live well, Eat be Active Diabetes’ curriculum provides four 90-minute lessons teaching individuals to live eat and active diabetes. Fourteen educators implemented evaluated the 107 participants. Participants reported program helped them feel better able take care of their health. We observed significa...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the attributes that students and educators believe are important to being a good health educator in a non-clinical setting. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of first-year health science students and educators involved with a Health Science course in Melbourne, Australia was performed. A convenience sampling approach was implemented, with part...

After creating and delivering an educational curriculum, medical educators must ultimately evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented curriculum. Seasoned educators can benefit from using an established framework to help them structure a thorough, complete curricular evaluation; however, novice educators may have difficulty in transforming the concept of evaluation into a concrete process. T...

This paper outlines the role of information use in society to illustrate the process of developing a learning society as envisaged by the Information Literacy Research Centre which is located within the Linköping University Library. The section on the theoretical framework discusses learning from different pedagogical perspectives, the importance of reality-based scenarios and also proposes a n...

The Khanya project has been equipping schools and educators with ICT skills and equipment to be used in the curriculum delivery in South Africa. However, research and anecdotal evidence show that there is low adoption rate of ICT among educators in Khanya schools. This interpretive study sets out to analyse the factors which are preventing the educators from using the technology in their work. ...

The #PassTheMicYouth multimedia program is a youth-centered, youth-led podcast and blog that amplifies the voices lived experiences of young people across social identity groups. Grounded in positive youth development framework informed by critical pedagogical tradition, shines spotlight on sociopolitical issues important to provides platform supports creativity candor. Archived episodes posts ...

Background Self-management education is critical to the development of successful health behavior changes related to chronic illness. However, people in high-risk groups attend less frequently or benefit less from patient education programs than do people with more socioeconomic advantages. Aim The aim was to test the feasibility of a participatory person-centered education approach and tool-...

This paper presents a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Primary School Educators’ dialogue on the use of ICT in an under-resourced schooling context. Educators play a pivotal role in the education system. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) interventions in schools will be effective only if educators are willing and able to appropriate the intervention to their existent needs, and...

In North Carolina, secondary agricultural education programs can now offer a state adopted integrated biotechnology course entitled Biotechnology and Agriscience Research. Empirical evidence was needed to identify and describe factors related to the intent of agricultural educators to adopt this curriculum in order to assist teachers during this transition. North Carolina agricultural educators...