The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of practice teaching in Second Life on the change of preservice teachers’ teaching efficacy, and the difference of changes between individual teaching practice and collaborative teaching practice in their teaching efficacy. Participants were placed into the individual teaching practice or collaborative teaching practice group as a part ...

A survey of phonetics education in Europe has been carried out by the Phonetics Working Group of the Thematic Network in Human Communication Sciences. Information about the contents of current phonetics curricula across different areas of specialisation was collected from responses to a web-based questionnaire by 89 European institutes. This information was used as a point of departure in the f...

Interprofessional teamwork is widely advocated in health and social care policies. However, the theoretical literature is rarely employed to help understand the nature of collaborative relations in action or to critique normative discourses of teamworking. This paper draws upon Goffman's (1963) theory of impression management, modified by Sinclair (1997), to explore how professionals 'present' ...

During the process of university development, many people’s understanding to university teaching and country practice chain only stayed in their own function field, and they didn’t establish real humanism thoughts and even didn’t recognize the heritage and correction function so that it caused the disjoint between university teaching and country practice and can’t reach the prospective effect o...

BACKGROUND Health care is increasingly provided in general practice. To meet this demand, the English Department of Health recommends that 50% of all medical students should train for general practice after qualification. Currently 19% of medical students express general practice as their first career choice. Undergraduate exposure to general practice positively influences future career choice....

OBJECTIVES To explore stakeholders' perceptions of learners teaching (near-peer teaching) in general practice in order to inform training policy. DESIGN Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 general practice stakeholders. Interviews continued until data saturation was reached. Transcribed interviews underwent thematic analysis. SETTING Nine general practices in NSW, ...