The inconsistent professional socialization of students is a growing concern among pharmacy educators. Numerous commission reports highlight the need for curricular reform designed to inculcate strong professional values. Student-centered learning methods aimed at developing affective skills need to be integrated into the predominantly cognitive teaching practices that currently exist. A “self-...

This paper describes a school’s participation in a project designed to support critical reflection of teachers’ beliefs about best practice in early childhood education, and how these beliefs and practices intersected with shifting policies and trends in the broader early childhood field. The “Professional Learning” Project (PL project), was conducted in collaboration with a local university. A...

BACKGROUND Capacity building partnerships between healthcare institutions have the potential to benefit both partners particularly in staff development. Previous research suggests that volunteering can contribute to professional development but there is little evidence on how learning is acquired, the barriers and facilitators to learning in this context or the process of translation of learnin...

in the current turbulent environment, sustainable organizational success cannot be achieved without considering organizational learning. due to the global pressures, higher education institutions including agriculture colleges should turn to learning organizations to face the challenges ahead. hence, the purpose of this descriptive correlational study is to investigate organizational learning a...

Teaching ethics to nurses leads to their involvement in providing high quality care, enable them to duly encounter ethical issues. One of the key elements of educational systems is nursing instructors. Even though lots of studies show the role of instructors in students' learning, their role in promotion of professional ethics has been attended to less. The objective of this study is surveying ...

Topic area focus. As part of the Southwestern Regional Educational Laboratory’s (REL Southwest) fast-turnaround projects, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will conduct a systematic review of research-based evidence on the effects of professional development on growth in student learning. The main focus of the review will be how students’ achievement in three core academic subjects (En...

The research suggests that teachers need to keep abreast of new ideas about student learning and effective strategies for enhancing that learning, and that professional learning is an essential aspect of improving practice at the classroom level. Furthermore, the evidence suggests that traditional approaches to professional development, usually delivered away from the school and focusing on tea...

This paper reports on the value of the HR Professional Group at NHS Digital. A partnership between an academic researcher and an HR practitioner was adopted to bring together organizational knowledge with extant research. The study examined the lived experiences of members of the HR Professional Group in relation to social learning activities. Thirteen interviews were conducted with members of ...

The content of this article includes experiences and results of a comprehensive development project for schools and kindergartens in Denmark. The project includes all pedagogical professionals within the organization and contains a professional development sequence based on among other things e-learning where pedagogical professionals collaboratively develop their common and individual practice...