Creating Meaningful Learning Opportunities through Incorporating Local Research into Chemistry Classroom Activities

Job enrichment: creating meaningful career development opportunities for nurses.

AIM This paper presents an evaluation of a career development policy in South Australia which increased the number of senior staff nurse positions and provided senior registered nurses with time away from clinical duties to undertake agreed projects. We use Kanter's model of structural power and commitment theory to understand the dimensions of this policy. BACKGROUND Development strategies f...

Computerized Molecular Modeling: Enhancing Meaningful Chemistry Learning

Model perception and understanding the spatial structure of organic molecules has been a source of difficulty for many chemistry students. To alleviate these problems we have introduced an innovative teaching/learning approach that employs a combination of virtual and physical models in an organic high school chemistry curriculum. We studied the effect of this approach on enhancing meaningful l...

Learning from the grandmothers: incorporating indigenous principles into qualitative research.

In this article, the author describes the process she undertook to incorporate Indigenous principles into her doctoral research about the midlife health experiences of elder Aboriginal women in Nova Scotia, Canada. By employing qualitative methods within the context of an Indigenous worldview, she gained knowledge of and developed competence in Aboriginal health research. The emergent partnersh...

Moving Research Into the Classroom

Whisking research into the classroom.

The marriage between research and teaching has been loving. Information from the laboratory is translated to the classroom to increase the wisdom of future generations. Conversely, students’ questions sharpen our research. Disappointingly, the information flow from research to class is meandering. In one pathway, research results are re-written in books and then included in lectures. This is ch...