Critical policy scholarship in education: An overview

Critical theory and the scholarship of medical education

The essential aspects of the scholarship of medical education are reflection and research of the endeavour of medical education.1,2 The endeavour of medical education covers a range of activities, from making policy decisions to curriculum design and its implementation. All of these activities should prompt the medical educator to reflect on the purpose of education and the methods that are use...

Representation of Critical Education in Humanities (an Ethnographic Study)

   The development of critical thinking by faculty members is a necessity in the higher education system. It takes on an added importance in Humanities. The purpose of the present study is to represent the approaches of critical education in humanities. To this end the present study treats the representation of critical thinking by the university professors, ways of challenging students, and te...

An Overview: Metacognition in Education

Metacognition refers to “thinking about thinking” or our ability to know what we know, what we don’t know and how to regulate as well as control such thinking. This article seeks to give an overview of some issues related to metacognition, a construct which received a considerable attention on the part of teaching theoreticians and researchers. It starts with a brief introduction of metacogniti...

WWW in Education: An Overview

Less than ten years since its release, the World Wide Web has become a prominent new space for people to communicate, work, trade or spend leisure time. And increasingly, too, a place to learn. Aware of the potential of the WWW for education, an increasing number of educational agents (e.g., schools, community centers, special interest groups, organizations, homes), enter on a daily basis the c...

Geoscience education: an overview