The Journal of Business Research special issue (61/12) covers controversy about formative versus reflective model specification. This essay comments on that special issue and illustrates specific points relating to the controversy by discussing recent studies of business-tobusiness relationship value, comparing their differing specifications, and noting that the variations of specification resu...

A lack of understanding of the importance of public health both within the community and in the tertiary education setting is a significant impediment to improvement in population health. The international campaign "This is Public Health" (TIPH) has been promoted widely as a strategy to increase community awareness and attract and inspire the next generation of public health professionals. This...

Nearly all of us who participate in constitutional argument in subjective good faith share a second-order methodology of constitutional decision-making—that is, an approach to working out both our first-order theories of constitutional interpretation and our judgments about appropriate results in particular cases. That shared method involves a search for reflective equilibrium between our prior...

Despite a longstanding commitment to the notion of reflection as an integral part qualitative research, there are few explicit learning tools or published assignment guides aid understanding this important aspect student learning. Reflection both researcher and within context educational perspective can be challenging; however, creating reflective assignments help students consolidate assess re...

Narrative medicine has been well described as practiced with narrative competence. I illustrate its application in anesthesiology by exploring three discourses: the one between patient and provider, anesthesiologist surgical team, learner self. Furthermore, draw on my personal experiences, others’ research satisfaction, to examine impact of competence both patients providers.

This essay offers a critical review of some key theoretical issues relevant to second language acquisition and considers the practical implications of these issues on language teaching. The discussion advocates a renewed communicative approach to language pedagogy, which entails the educators’ readiness to act as teacher-researchers, their cautious considerations of individual learner differenc...