Grade 11 Students’ Reflections on their Euclidean Geometry Learning Experiences

Learning to become a nurse: students' reflections on their clinical experiences.

OBJECTIVE To expose the significant events undergraduate student nurses reflect on during clinical experiences as they learn to become nurses. DESIGN A qualitative study using reflective instruments of unstructured debriefing sessions and journal writing. SETTING Conducted in a tertiary hospital in South-eastern Queensland, Australia. SUBJECTS Forty voluntarily consenting students were in...

Dental students' reflections on their community-based experiences: the use of critical incidents.

Dental schools are challenged to develop new learning methodologies and experiences to better prepare future dental practitioners. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the community-based experiences of dental students as documented in their critical incident essays and explore what learning outcomes and benefits students reported. Following two required community-based clinical r...

Dental students' reflections on their experiences with a diverse patient population.

Recent developments, including national reports and new accreditation standards, have emphasized the need for dental students to be prepared to address the needs of a diverse patient population. The purpose of this study was to explore students' descriptions of and reflections on their day-to-day interactions with a diverse patient population in the clinical setting, using a qualitative approac...

Euclidean Geometry before non-Euclidean Geometry

In [3], in my argument for the primacy of Euclidean geometry on the basis of rigid motions and the existence of similar but non-congruent triangles, I wrote the following: A: “The mobility of rigid objects is now recognized as one of the things every normal human child learns in infancy, and this learning appears to be part of our biological progaramming.” B. “. . . we are all used to thinking ...

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