A "Revolutionary" Project of an Educational Reform

An Educational Project

Developing strategies, methods, and criteria for changing educational practices requires a methodological and “scientific” warrant. This article explores transdisciplinarity as a methodological basis for working with paradox and contradictions as the inevitable result of reflective human consciousness. Transdisciplinary thinking is discussed as a conscious and concerted effort to conduct scient...

Nationalization of an educational reform: evolution of training and development in research

Many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.Some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.They changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and Student-centered learning. This process is ai...

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The hypertension primer project : An educational experiment

The Hypertension Primer, Essentials of High Blood Pressure, 2nd edition, released in November 1998, is a major professional, educational, and service effort of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association. The Primer is actually an educational experiment that addresses several problematic issues in information organization and dissemination that are likely to b...

From a Research Project to an Internet-based Educational Package

A newly developed method in the mapping sciences is presented by means of an educational package. Animations and hypertexts are used for the explanations, and experiments with changing data sets can be carried out. In such learning by experiments the new mapping method is easier to understand. The Internet-based interactive program can be used by means of a browser and are therefore available f...