Goddess Puja in California: Embodying Contemplation Through Women’s Spirituality Education

Contemplation on Competency-based Curriculum in Medical Education

Introduction: One of the approaches to explaining the relationship between education and the world of work, and reducing the gap between students’ knowledge and their professional needs is competency-based curriculum. Due to its unique characteristics, competency-based curriculum has been noticed recently by educational systems of various countries especially in medical education. Given the imp...

Spirituality and Contemporary Higher Education

Though religion played a central role in the founding of U.S. higher education, over the centuries, its influence was diluted by competing secular emphases. In recent decades, religion has seen a resurgence in academic and co-curricular attention on campuses. In addition, a spirituality not based on religion has gained increasing attention. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of t...

Embodying Diagramming through Pen + Touch Gestures

Ideation, the process of generating new ideas, is central to design tasks in which the goal is to find novel solutions around a set of requirements. Designers create diagrams as external representations of ideas. Ideas and the design process from which they emerge are embodied by both the gestures used to create diagrams and the diagrams themselves. Interaction design needs to leverage embodime...

Goddess across the Taiwan

The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflec...

California fish and Game “ Conservation of Wildlife Through Education ”