Education for innovation requires innovation in education. To innovate in education implies new pedagogical models. It is not enough to just apply teaching/learning methods or strategies in a mechanical or procedural approach. It requires the conception of new pedagogical models based on theories that allow for processing of different interpretations of diverse complexity educational phenomena,...

he history of education is the history of teaching and learning. Each generation, since the beginning of human evolution and writing, has sought to pass on cultural and social values, traditions, morality, religion and skills to the next generation. The history of the curricula of such education reflects human history itself, the history of knowledge, beliefs, skills and cultures of humanity. T...

Kommalage M, Imbulgoda N. Introduction of student-led physiology tutorial classes to a traditional curriculum. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 65–69, 2010; doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2010.—The curriculum in the University of Ruhuna Medical School is of the traditional type. Most teaching activities are faculty member-led activities. Since student-centered learning processes are considered to improve certain ...

Purpose: For medical students to have a meaningful learning experience, the curriculum must integrate what students are learning in class with the skills and knowledge required in the clinicalsetting. To satisfy these needs, an integrated curriculum (IC) has been operating at Chonnam National University Medical School since 1999. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the changes in IC stude...

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and educational approach called Effective School Improvement (ESI) is coming forth whose objective is the increase in the quality of education by improving the efficacy of the Centres (Muñoz-Repiso & Murillo, 2003; Thrupp, 1999). This increase in quality, following Negro (2006), has as its closest references “the movement of school efficacy”, which pays special attention to the atmosphere, scho...

This paper describes the process of developing a generic model for integration across the curriculum. Authors have introduced PBL approach in order to design the course work for the integrated curriculum in Science and Technology Education in the Teacher Education Programme. In this research the authors have envisaged a conceptual framework for implementation of integrated curriculum. The PBL a...

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been implemented as a teaching methodology in which contextualized problems are presented to students so that, by working in small groups, they can explore possible solutions. “PBL is an instructional (and curricular) learner-centered approach that empowers learners to conduct research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop a vi...

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We propose to emphasize the opportunities of using e-learning instruments of teaching/learning in the high school education and to prove, from the perspective both of the teacher and of the formatter who offers courses of continuous education to adults, referring to this theme, the way in which there can be conceived and evaluated some digital curriculum products/e-portfolios, starting from a s...