Conduct Becoming

Physician codes of conduct becoming a norm.

Hospitals in North America and around the world are increasingly asking doctors to sign codes of conduct as a precondition of hospital privileges. Supporters of this trend say it will improve professionalism and reduce disruptive behaviour. Critics warn that it reeks of authoritarianism and is insulting to physicians. In some jurisdictions, codes of conduct are relatively new. The Ottawa Hospit...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Becoming syntactic.

Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) ...

Becoming aware

We examine a logic that combines knowledge, awareness, and change of awareness. An agent can become aware of factual propositions but also of other agents or of herself. The dual operation to becoming aware, forgetting, can also be modelled. We show that the logic is decidable, and we present a complete axiomatization.

Becoming "Official"