In society, there is a perception of young teachers as the future Russian education system who need constant patronage due to their lack professional experience and skill. However, present not only resource for but also social group with its own interests values that able make significant contribution development general in present. Study proposes multidimensional methodological construct socio...

This paper reports on doctoral research investigating whether Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are being used to facilitate student-centred learning in UK Higher Education (HE). The focus is on lecturers (HE teachers) teaching in a face-to-face context. It is claimed that the use of Web or Internet-based technology can facilitate the creation of a student-centred learning environment [1] an...

for the current research the records of 62 farms in isfahan province were available. to estimate genetic and phonotypic trends of reproductive traits such as age at first calving, calving interval, days open and number of insemination to conception rate the records of 63,866 cows including 167793 reproductive records were employed. farms were covered by vahdat industrial agriculturists and dair...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian efl teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching in foreign language classrooms. more specifically, the study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of teaching effectiveness in efl classrooms by looking at iranian efl teachers’ own beliefs. to this end, 90 iranian efl instructors of the english language voluntarily participated i...

Professor Sollman's Pharmacology needs no introduction; ever since its first appearance in 1917 the book has been used as a standard book of reference, most dependable, instructive and elucidative, by teachers, investigators, physicians and advanced students. In the preface to the present edition, the author modestly states 'that the manual ' aims to furnish a rather comprehensive outline of cu...

Acupuncture is a model case for teaching the cultural contexts of science. Acupuncture has been practiced in China for centuries, but American scientists were largely skeptical of its efficacy when exposed to it in the early 1970s. Chinese doctors explain the phenomenon using a conception of the body unfamiliar to Westerners. Western physiologists have in the past few decades been able to expla...

The main aim of this study was to examine twin specific risk factors that influence educational achievement in primary school. We included prenatal factors that are not unique to twins, except for zygosity, but show a higher prevalence in twins than in singletons. In addition, educational achievement was compared between twins and their nontwin siblings in a within-family design. Data were obta...

This paper examines the changing role of the teacher in the use of educational Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Several key issues are explored, including the effects of ICT on teaching and learning, the changing role of the teacher in constructivist learning environments, and the new skills teachers may be expected to acquire in order to make fruitful use of the new technologi...