Bullying Of Educators By Educators: Incivility In Higher Education

Exploring bullying: Implications for nurse educators.

This article examines briefly the issue of workplace violence and bullying in the hospital environment, but more importantly how the same and different styles of bullying and intra-staff bullying are emerging in nurse education. The content describes the aetiology of violence and bullying and their place in the National Health Service (NHS) including nursing. It explores bullying as the princip...

Competency-Based Evaluation in Higher Education—Design and Use of Competence Rubrics by University Educators

Competency-based learning requires making changes in the higher education model in response to current socio-educational demands. Rubrics are an innovative educational tool for competence evaluation, for both students and educators. Ever since arriving at the university systems, the application of rubrics in evaluation programs has grown progressively. However, there is yet to be a solid body o...

Educators' Perspective on Library Education in Nigeria

Strategies for Managing Nursing Students’ Incivility as Experienced by Nursing Educators: a Qualitative Study

INTRODUCTION Students' incivility is an impolite and disturbing behavior in education and if ignored could lead to behavioral complexities and eventually violence and aggression in classrooms. This study aimed to reveal the experiences of Iranian educators regarding the management of such behaviors. METHODS In this qualitative study, qualitative content analysis method was used to evaluate th...

Computer-mediated communication in higher education: educators’ agency in relation to technology

In this paper I focus on the notion of communication and develop the idea that it is important for the educator involved in computer-mediated teaching to reflect on how an information-cybernetic notion of communication can affect her/his professional identity, understanding of teaching and learning, and the students’ experience of social interaction. I outline some of the ways in which the info...