We do not know to what extent the needs of caregivers involved with patients at the end of life are being met by care providers and whether caregiving at life's end can be a positive experience. We used the Hospice Experience Model of Care as a framework for understanding the effect of transformative tasks on caregiving at life's end. We compared current and bereaved caregivers and then, holdin...

This article explores how technical and vocational learning may spiral into transformative learning. Transformative learning theory is reviewed and the learning tasks of critical theory are used to integrate various approaches to transformative learning. With this as a foundation, the article explores how transformative learning can be fostered in adult vocational education. DOI: 10.4018/javet....

Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, researchers and practitioners have engaged in a series of efforts to shift health programming with men from being gender-neutral to being more gender-sensitive and gender-transformative. Efforts in this latter category have been increasingly utilised, particularly in the last decade, and attempt to transform gender relations...

There is an instinctive drive among all humans to make meaning of their daily lives. Because there are no enduring truths, and change is continuous, we cannot always be assured of what we know or believe. It therefore becomes imperative in adulthood that we develop a more critical worldview as we seek ways to better understand our world. This involves learning “how to negotiate and act upon our...

This paper presents an interdisciplinary hybrid design that explores boundaries between mathematics, art, fashion and textile design using modular systems of materials based on geometric shapes. The intention behind this work is to encourage user participation in the design process through interactive and playful experiences using modular designs.

Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare, potentially life-threatening disease characterised by hypomineralisation of bones and teeth. The fundamental defect is reduced functional activity of the enzyme tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (usually just termed alkaline phosphatase [ALP] in clinical practice). Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the ALPL gene result in the most severe ph...

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Douglas Yacek’s recent book The Transformative Classroom proposes a useful aspirational model of transformative education. In this critical commentary, I review and suggest that while it succeeds in overcoming some ethical shortcomings other dominant models education, would like to focusing on more subtle gestures could have the benefit being less dependent teacher’s intention transform constra...

This study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of Iranian EFL teachers about the role of grammar in English language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. Data were collected through a questionnaire developed by Burgess and Etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. The first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...