Library instruction is predicated on the assumption that transfer learning can take place, but how do librarians determine whether occurring? This study examines use of reflection as a theory within one-shot library classroom to facilitate metacognition and learning. Through analysis student work, researchers demonstrate students connect past skills with current are able assess what they know n...

The aim of this essay is to give a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological characterization some central characteristic features comparative philosophy as general way doing through cross-tradition engagement toward world philosophy. This elucidated by presenting holistic account the conditions for maintaining adequate methodological guiding principles appropriately effectively considering di...

Background: The history essay, and historical writing, are crucial forms of assessment in History throughout primary high school education. This article draws from an autoethnography teachings a pre-service teachers’ classroom. discusses obstacles students experience conceptualising writing the essay. A tool is introduced to overcome these obstacles. Aim: presents possible intervention form cla...

in most of the education systems throughout the world, art is viewed as a subject of study with secondary importance. this is while art, understood in light of its profound impact on the development of human cultures, can perform unique educational functions that are out of the reach of other subjects. all-round education, therefore, is only obtained through an art-reach education program. art...

This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, “story pass on”, “story chameleon” and “thousand ideas”, to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of students. Three assessment mechanisms, expert assessment, self-assessment and ...

Some two decades after an earlier review essay of mine, the time seems ripe to revisit the international political economy (IPE) of money. How has the study of money evolved in more recent years, and what is the understanding of international monetary politics today? The main message of this essay is – to be blunt – disappointment. Research has become increasingly insular and introspective, lar...

This reflective essay draws a sketch of the theoretical and philosophical foundations in preparation for conducting a research project that investigates how German school learners deal with the memories of Shoah survivors. The essay explores some communication challenges and opportunities presented by the use of the double linguistic medium—German and English. The central philosophical argument...

Khalil MK, Kibble JD. Faculty reflections on the process of building an integrated preclerkship curriculum: a new school perspective. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 199–209, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00055.2014.—This is a reflective essay based on the experience of developing a structure and function module within a new integrated medical curriculum. Our hope is that the insights we gained during a 4-yr jo...

BACKGROUND As life expectancy increases, dementia incidence will also increase, creating a greater need for physicians well-trained to provide integrated geriatric care. However, research suggests medical students have limited knowledge or interest in pursuing geriatric or dementia care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the PAIRS Program and its effectiveness in enhancing medical educat...

BACKGROUND Poetry plays an age-old role in the art of healing. Although medicine today seems distant from the world of poetic expression, there are surprising commonalities between the two. OBJECTIVES In this essay we reflect on three aspects of healing that are fostered by poetry. OBSERVATIONS Practicing medicine with too many facts and not enough poetry leads to dissatisfaction, disappoin...