Editorial: Socio-Scientific Issues and Education for Sustainability in Contemporary Education

Exploring issues in contemporary Ayurvedic education

the Tridanda of education is not in proper balance, and more importantly, the Atman component of education, i.e., the teacher factor has become the leanest and weakest, which was strongest in Gurukula system of ancient times. Our universities and colleges will yield the desired results only when the quality and status of teaching faculty improves to the level of a Gurukula. A Guru is not merely...

Contemporary issues in the workforce and education of Australian midwives.

This paper, which is based on the preliminary findings of the Australian Midwifery Action Project (AMAP), outlines the issues around the midwifery labour force and education in Australia. One of the most alarming features is the lack of comprehensive data on midwives. Where data is available it demonstrates the shortage of midwives and the lack of consistency in educational programs for midwive...

Education for Sustainability

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing: Issues, Developments and Education

Text-based plagiarism, or copying language from sources, has recently become an issue of growing concern in scientific publishing. Use of CrossCheck (a computational text-matching tool) by journals has sometimes exposed an unexpected amount of textual similarity between submissions and databases of scholarly literature. In this paper I provide an overview of the relevant literature, to examine ...