The paper focuses on substantiating the institutional significance of humanitarian component University education and demonstrating opportunities for its implementation through non-profit activities community. Transition to new technological order accentuates relevance personal communicative competencies formed basis in humanities. Humanitarization is a priority task, which reflected practices ...

Mark Hugo Lopez is research director at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (www.civicyouth.org, CIRCLE). He is also a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1996. His work concentrates on youth civic engagement, language policy, and bilingual educat...

Patient engagement has become a primary care research and practice priority. Little guidance exists, however, on how best to engage patients in primary care practice improvement, or how to measure the impact of their engagement. We present an overview of group concept mapping as a method for engaging patients in primary care practice improvement. We detail the group concept mapping process as a...

The present study was aimed at investigating the relationships between students’ perceived classroom achievement goals, school engagement and substance use in terms of smoking and drinking, and at investigating gender differences regarding these issues in a sample of 1,239 Norwegian 10 grade students. A multivariate analysis showed that motivational and affective school engagement was predicted...

Online social networking has deeply penetrated university campuses, influencing multiple aspects of student life. We investigate the impacts of individual online social networking engagement (e.g., on Facebook) from a pedagogical standpoint. Based on social learning theory, we argue that two socialization processes, social acceptance and acculturation, bridge individual online social networking...

Background: Nurses play an important role in the healthcare system and constitute the highest number of healthcare workers. A positive attitude or a positive state of mind at work may increase the ability to carry out the organization's duties, tasks and plans. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between work effectiveness and work engagement of nurses working in the selec...