The purpose of this project was to carry out a comprehensive literature review of nursing science, with the goal of making recommendations for incorporation of a nursing science based curriculum. The literature review revealed nursing science, knowledge created within the discipline of nursing, distinguishes what is unique about nursing. It is imperative that nursing, —not other disciplines or ...

Abstract This article considers the impact that Swanwick-Tillman spiral (Swanwick & Tillman, 1986) has had on contemporary thinking in music education England. Building a discussion concerning antecedents of notion spiral, ways which generalist curriculum can be planned and organised are discussed. Drawing example Model Music Curriculum (DfE, 2021), then charting this as arising from graded...

INTRODUCTION The faculty of Medicine, (FOM) Makerere University Kampala was started in 1924 and has been running a traditional curriculum for 79 years. A few years back it embarked on changing its curriculum from traditional to Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Community Based Education and Service (COBES) as well as early clinical exposure. This curriculum has been implemented since the academi...

BACKGROUND During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and important questions concerning the curriculum could not be answered. This also applied to Occupational and Environmental Medicine where teachers of bo...

This article describes the evaluation of an innovative, concept-based baccalaureate nursing curriculum. Curriculum evaluation is an ongoing process that serves to ensure the delivery of quality education. Findings from surveys and focus groups identified strengths of the new curriculum as the conceptual approach, interactive small-group learning activities, clinical intensives, and early patien...

Background: In order to improve ontology quality, tooland languagerelated tutorials are not sufficient. Care must be taken to provide optimized curricula for teaching the representational language in the context of a semantically rich upper level ontology. The constraints provided by rigid top and upper level models assure that the ontologies built are not only logically consistent but also ade...