In a highly diverse world, cultural literacy is an essential tool for living together in harmony, and dialogic teaching may be way to promote develop it among children adolescents. We define as set of attitudes (inclusion, tolerance, empathy) skills (dialogic argumentation) needed understand others our everyday lives. This paper focuses on the effect professional development programme dialogue ...

Abstract A significant aspect of computational thinking is as a way reasoning about the world in terms data. This mindset channels number-crunching toward an ambition to discover knowledge through logic, models and simulations. Here we show how cognitive science can be used reconstruct analyse structure mindsets (forma mentis Latin) complex networks. As case study, investigate networks tied key...

In this essay, Leonard Waks contributes to a reconceptualization of ‘‘fundamental educational change.’’ By distinguishing sharply between educational change at the organizational and the institutional levels, Waks shows that the mechanisms of change at these two levels are entirely different. He then establishes, by means of a conceptual argument, that fundamental educational change takes place...

background and aims. since most orthodontic patients are children and adolescents, it is believed that teachers can help find these patients and make them aware of their orthodontic problems. therefore, teachers are expected to have proper knowledge about these problems. the aim of this study was to determine teachers’ awareness about orthodontic treatments in tabriz and saqqez and compare it i...

BACKGROUND Lower socioeconomic and minority racial/ethnic status have been linked to delays in surgical care and thus higher appendiceal perforation rates. HYPOTHESIS Equal access to health care eliminates the previously reported socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in rates of appendiceal perforation. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using discharge abstract data and US census data...