Family accounts, narratives, social values and history education

Personal Accounts and Family Retirement

This paper constructs a model of retirement and saving by two earner couples. The model includes three dimensions of behavior: the joint determination of retirement and saving; heterogeneity in time preference; and the interdependence of retirement decisions of husbands and wives. Estimation is based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study covering the period 1992 to 2000. When husba...

Entertainment-education and social change: History, research, and practice

Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice // Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido // 2003 // 320 pages // 1135624550, 9781135624552 // Routledge, 2003 Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of e...

Family History, Social Media, and a Diagnostic Surprise.

Family narratives, culture, and patient-centered medicine.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES As part of our family medicine clerkship seminar on the patient-physician relationship, third-year students write about an illness episode within their own families. METHODS Using a grounded research approach, we examined 260 student narratives to extract the most significant meanings. RESULTS Significant themes that emerged include the role of family members in il...

Enhancing Quality Education for Transformation of Character and Values through Social Studies Education

The Nigerian educational system is based on the objectives that the system should be able to build a free, just and egalitarian society and a united, strong and self reliant nation among others. Achievement of these objectives depends largely on the quality of education given to the citizens. To develop capacity to learn, acquire knowledge and skills that are essential for transformation of ind...