Master‟s programmes in arts and cultural management require a wide range of skills (solid academic results in multiple disciplines, personal experience and involvement in the arts field, linguistic skills, personal and relational abilities) but they prepare students for an uncertain future in terms of employment and remuneration. Nevertheless they enjoy great success among French students. This...

Web 2.0 integration requires a high level of learner-centered skills to create a personal learning environment (PLE). The pedagogical capability of Web 2.0 could support and promote self-regulated learning (SRL) by enabling the constructions of PLEs. This study investigated how will each of the six aspects of self-regulated online learning (i.e., environment structuring, goal setting, time mana...

A meta-analysis of after-school programs that seek to enhance the personal and social skills of children and adolescents indicated that, compared to controls, participants demonstrated significant increases in their self-perceptions and bonding to school, positive social behaviors, school grades and levels of academic achievement, and significant reductions in problem behaviors. The presence of...

A Study of the Relative Importance of Training on the Employability of the Mentally Retarded as Rated by Employers and Educators in Cache Co unty, Utah by John F. Hurst , Master of Science Utah State Un iversity, 197 2 Major Professor: Dr. Devoe c. Rickert Department: Special Education Relative differences in attitudes between educators and employers concerning training of the mentally retarded...

education satisfies the human primary need for knowledge. it is a mean helping to meet other fundamental needs and it facilitates continuance and expedition of community overall development. education provides required skillful labor for modern and traditional devisions and it increases the labor' skills and its production capacities. it is not olny a mean to improve current generation's income...

A global developmental delay is expected from Down syndrome, affecting motor, cognitive, linguistic and personal-social skills. However, not always these delays are proportional; different conditions occur due to several intrinsic and extrinsic variables that must be controlled to form groups of greater homogeneity.Objective To enhance personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, gross motor and lingu...

The introduction of a new domain of learning for Personal and Professional Skills in the medical program at the University of Auckland in New Zealand has involved the compilation of a portfolio for assessment. This departure from the traditional assessment methods predominantly used in the past has been challenging to design, introduce, and maintain as a relevant and authentic assessment method...

Background. Previous research has indicated that there is improvement in pain relief when the staff is more conscious about everyday pain management. Aim. This study was designed to gain insight into the way the personal experience of pain affects the attitude of Health Care Professionals towards pain management. The research was undertaken between May and September 2004. It was conducted in a ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain a list of desirable skills and attributes of prospective educational programme directors as judged by potential employers of future directors. DESIGN An international mail survey was conducted worldwide, using a one-page, open-ended questionnaire. SETTING University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. SUBJECTS Deans, department heads and chief e...