Globalization has brought both risks and opportunities to the sustainability of diverse language communities and has fostered new and increasingly dynamic linguistic identities. Global languages have emerged as a means of international communication. Alongside this comes the subsequent threat to many indigenous and minority languages, and the uneven distribution of power across different langua...

One challenge facing dental hygiene, as well as dental, education is to identify clinical teaching strategies promoting critical thinking and clinical reasoning. These skills are crucial elements in the practice of dental hygiene. A two-group design (intervention, n=28, and control, n=30) assessed first-year dental hygiene students using pre-and post-Health Science Reasoning Test (HSRT) scores ...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED Medical students in training are rarely encouraged to engage in reflective thinking around clinical encounters. Writing exercises can be an effective route for encouraging student reflection. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The purpose of this pilot project was to determine if using reflective writing in teaching the CanMEDS roles helps to increase students' understanding of the roles ...

Introduction: The phenomenon of knowledge explosion has led teachers to feel the necessity of training students so that they become reflective thinkers. This issue is more important for nursing students who are responsible for providing care for patients.This study is a part of another study arming at exploration of Nursing Students’ views on reflection on practice. Methods. 20 senior nursing...

conceptualization reflective observation Figure 3. "Kolb's cycle of experiential learning" ([3], cit. after [4], p. 32) Best results can be achieved, when the training of transdisciplinary skills is connected to subject-specific topics ([4], p. 27). This point is of particular importance because it has to be emphasized that the integration of new qualification targets must not lead to the negle...

We introduce a method for promoting reflective conversations during collaborative work which enables participants to explore their cognitive goals and processes and thereby develop a metacognitive understanding of their practice. This method, termed "cognitive facilitation," seeks to provide a conceptual and linguistic basis for metacognitive reflection by "seeding" conversations with a cogniti...

Theoretical and reflective study based on scientific literature and critical analysis of authors related to teaching strategies through simulation for training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Current teaching methodologies CPR involve realistic simulation strategies and simulations in virtual environments, but the first method provides the best results, allowing proactivity of individua...