Can schools teach citizenship?

Citizenship Education from Schools

The characteristics of current society and the interest about citizenship education in the context of lifelong learning are essential for a study that aims to describe and understand the development of social and civic competence in the educational field. A Delphi study can make a proposal in which the social and civic competence is composed of 89 items organised into five areas: knowledge, ski...

Why teach modeling & simulation in schools?

Advancements in science and technology take place on a global scale without much consideration of the exact implications that they may essentially have on the species or our planet. Over the last few decades, things are moving very fast and not always in a good way. The climate of the planet is changing drastically. Ice caps are melting faster than ever. Known animal species around the world ar...

What pediatrics can teach us.

As acknowledged in the excellent review by Rabin and Poplack,[1] we don't really understand all of the reasons for the discrepancies between outcomes in children and outcomes in adults; however, one fascinating and disturbing observation has emerged from studies comparing outcomes in adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with ALL enrolled in pediatric clinical trials with the outcomes of th...

Can we teach emotional intelligence?

We conduct a field experiment to test whether (and how) emotional intelligence can be taught effectively in a short course. We randomly assign MBA students to an emotional intelligence course, a resiliency course, and a “placebo” course. We compare their emotional intelligences, as measured by the MSCEIT, before and after the sixteen-hour course. We find that students in the emotional intellige...

Schools can be desegregated