Ayurveda education: Evaluating the integrative approaches of teaching Kriya Sharira (Ayurveda physiology)
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Ayurveda education: Evaluating the integrative approaches of teaching Kriya Sharira (Ayurveda physiology)
BACKGROUND 'What is the ideal way of teaching Ayurveda?' - has been a debated question since long. The present graduate level curriculum lists out the topics from 'contemporary medical science' and 'Ayurveda' discretely, placing no emphasis on integration. Most of the textbooks, too, follow the same pattern. This makes learning not only difficult, but also leads to cognitive dissonance. OBJEC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0975-9476
DOI: 10.4103/0975-9476.118683