The current virtual and physical mobility of humans, ideas, knowledge and epistemologies has major implications for education, especially in settings where English is seen as the default medium of instruction. While diversity is inherent in mobility, English-only pedagogy is a denial of the richness and potential of diverse resources learners bring with them through their mobility. This paper r...

Studies on transnational healthcare tend to focus on the flows of institutions, practices and people rather than on the flow of knowledge. This article seeks to fill this gap by exploring the modes of instruction in siddha medicine and, in particular, varmam or " vital spot " manipulations. It compares the instruction of hereditary practitioners in South India and their intimate, long-term lear...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine how and what women learn about breast cancer and screening practices and which factors influence women's breast cancer screening practices. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of questionnaire data collected at the time of enrollment in a clinical trial. SETTING Breast care center of a mid-Atlantic academic health sciences center. SAMPLE 185 women in a predominantl...

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This study presents comparative case studies of preservice and first-year teachers’ and expert teachers’ conceptions of the concept of prior knowledge. Kelly’s (The Psychology of Personal Construct, New York: W.W. Norton, 1955) theory of personal constructs as discussed by Akerson, Flick, and Lederman (Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000, 37, 363–385) in relationship to prior knowledg...

During the last few decades, several studies have analyzed and described knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of populations regarding dengue. However, few studies have applied geometric data analytic techniques to generate indices from KAP domains. Results of such analyses have not been used to determine the potential effects of sociodemographic variables on the levels of KAP. The objecti...

The purpose of this article is to review and synthesize the literature linking metacognition and reading in children who are deaf. Although this body of research is sparse, three issues emerge. First, the research implies that current instructional practices used to teach reading to deaf children might actually hinder their development of mature metacognitive knowledge and control. Second, the ...