This paper discusses undergraduate ethics education from the point of view of a learning-outcomes-centered approach to curriculum design. It aims to identify the kinds of learning-outcomes that Ethics Across the Curriculum programs ought to aim at and be judged successful by. The first section explains the learning-outcomes-centered approach to designing and evaluating curriculum proposals. The...

Despite recent developments, the gap between Eastern and Western Europe childhood cancer survival rates and quality of care often persists. This one-year program aims to improve the quality of life of children suffering from cancer and reduce the burden of childhood cancer in four countries of CEE (CzR, Hu, Ro, Pol) via better coordination of medical and psychosocial care. Through a practice-or...

Issues of pedagogy are critical in all aspects of early childhood education. Early childhood mathematics is no exception. There is now a great deal of guidance available to teachers in terms of high-quality early childhood mathematics teaching. Consequently, the characteristics of high-quality early childhood mathematics education are clearly identifiable. Issues such as building on young child...

The maintenance of current knowledge in physiology in community colleges is very difficult to accomplish. The absence of a research environment, limited library facilities, and heavy teaching loads often result in the instructor utilizing the teaching textbook as the primary source of information. A cooperative program between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and San...

introduction. the capability of the academic staff in teaching has a significant relationship with their awareness of educational process and curriculum. taking the necessity of the curriculum and precise implementation of its parts as a system into account, reveals the academic staff’s thinking system and educational process. education experts believe that the university student is the center ...

The Department of Physical Therapy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, recently implemented a Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) entry-level degree program. As part of the curriculum design, two models were developed, a Model of Best Practice and the Clinical Decision-Making Model. Both models incorporate four key concepts of the new curriculum: 1) the concept that theory, research...

Games are one of the basic activities in kindergartens, so what do “Curriculum gamification” and based Game” mean? Could kindergarten games become curriculum? Combined with history curriculum development China, Piaget’s play-stage theory Vygotsky’s scaffold teaching theory, this paper discusses differences understanding concept “the transformation games”. Using representative cases Jiangsu Zhej...

Fifty-six physiologists from fourteen countries participated in the sixth International Union of Physiological Sciences Teaching Workshop. The four-day program included a poster session, a debate on integrative versus disciplinary curricula, and interactive lectures on evidence-based education, inquiry laboratories, and student preparation for physiology courses. Participants worked in small gr...

In North Carolina, secondary agricultural education programs can now offer a state adopted integrated biotechnology course entitled Biotechnology and Agriscience Research. Empirical evidence was needed to identify and describe factors related to the intent of agricultural educators to adopt this curriculum in order to assist teachers during this transition. North Carolina agricultural educators...