Education par excellence: Developing personal competencies and character through philanthropy-based education

The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education

Excellence in Patient Rights in a Physiotherapy Clinic through an Education-Based Program

Background & Objective: Patient’s rights seem to be accepted theoretically, but often neglected in practice. Respect to patient’s rights by health care providers may optimize health outcomes and quality of life and create a perfect connection between health care services and patients needs as well as their expectations. This study was aimed to identify deficits in respect to patientschr('39') r...

Improving social competence through character education.

Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competen...

Excellence and Equality in Education

I am very pleased to be able to participate in the inauguration of a new university, a new institution for the dissemination and development of knowledge old and new. This is the latest in a long list of similar organizations that, with their innovation and knowledge, have constituted a particularly important contribution to the Western world since the especially creative period that was the Mi...

Nursing education: seeking critical-reflexive education and professional competencies.

The study describes changes that are noted in students during training and which contribute to define a professional profile. We carried out a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, based on dialectics as a theoretical-methodological framework. The data was obtained from documented analysis and through focal groups with teachers, students and service nurses. The results show...