Learner-Centered Instruction in Pre-Service Teacher Education: Does it Make a Real Difference in Learners’ Language Performance?

Education provision in wound care - does it make a difference?

In 1992 Bennett (1) carried out a UK based postal survey of 27 medical schools to determine how much teaching there was on wound care, the dismal truth was that very little wound care was included (from 19 responses 2 said definitely no teaching, 4 probably no teaching and the average amount was 6 hours). Almost 20 years later when there is widespread acknowledgement of the increasing number of...

Teacher and Learner in Humanistic Language Teaching

Since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. Meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

Does Peace Education Really Make a Difference?

An inconsistency is pointed out between formidable and thus discouraging hurdles facing peace education in the context of intractable conflicts and actual, encouraging research findings of such programs. It is suggested that the hurdles pertain to the most deep-seated and thus unchangeable convictions constituting the backbone of a group’s collective narrative. On the other hand, the change-obj...

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

teacher and learner in humanistic language teaching

since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...