AIMS To examine the effects of individual video-feedback on the generic communication skills, clinical competence (i.e. adherence to practice guidelines) and motivational interviewing skills of experienced practice nurses working in primary care. BACKGROUND Continuing professional education may be necessary to refresh and reflect on the communication and motivational interviewing skills of ex...

background: several studies have established that all nurses need continuing education, especially those who are working in oncology wards. in the current programs, there are just two general patterns for teaching: teacher-centered and student-centered patterns. in this study, the effect of teacher-centered (lecture) and student-centered (module) teaching methods in relation to safety standards...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

INTRODUCTION Worldwide Family Medicine has gained an important place in the undergraduate medical curriculum over the last few decades and general practices have become training centers for students. Exposure to patients early in the disease process, out patient management of common problems, follow up of chronic diseases and psychosocial aspects of health and disease are educational advantages...

Teacher self-efficacy and teacher interest are two key facets of motivation that important for high-quality teaching. Little is known about the relative strength effects on teaching quality when compared with one another. We extend previous research by examining relations linking mathematics several relevant dimensions as perceived teachers students. Participants were 84 (61.2% female) their st...

This study is an extension of a previous study (Fogarty et al. 1987) that investigated student teacher stress in practice teaching for final year pre-service students in one teacher education program. Stage two set out to discover whether the patterns of stress were similar or different for subsequent third year groups and across different year levels of the one programme. To carry out the stud...

Feminist pedagogy is a teaching practice, philosophy and process that seeks to confront deconstruct oppressive power structures both within outside of the classroom using gendered lens. As Women’s Studies departments continue grow in many universities, feminist seems be gaining popularity as an approach engaging students liberatory practices. However, language (feminist second learning context)...