General Education in Action (Book Review)

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Book review: Basics in medical education

(page number not for citation purposes) 2011, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health...

Book Review Action Editor: Stefan Wermter

The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of of modelling and scientific explanation, the physics Cognitive Science, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, translated by of dissipative processes, aspects of neurophysiology M.B. DeBevoise, Princeton University Press, 2000, and embryology, and more, all without once trivializ$29.95 / £19.95, 240 pp. ISBN: 0-691-02574-6 ing his subject or falling victim to the us...

Book review: Summing up mathematics teacher education

This review examines two recent collective publications that set out to survey and synthesise knowledge in the field of mathematics teacher education. Both allude to the timeliness of such an enterprise given the growth and institutionalisation of research in this field since the early to mid 1990s. They feature an extensive (and often overlapping) authorship drawn from active researchers in th...

Book Review: Populist Systems: A General Introduction