Nurturing Children’s Humanity: Partnership Education

Education for Humanity

Humanity is facing nearly insurmountable challenges, risks, and crises. Resource depletion, global pollution of the entire biosphere, and climate change due to our excessive and uncontrollably growing human population may be the most difficult long-term problems that urgently need to be solved. However, the current influenza pandemic and other unforeseen but inevitable health emergencies includ...

A Partnership in Mathematics Education

riculum Framework of 1985. At the elementary school level, broadening the primary focus of the mathematics curriculum on arithmetic skill and learning through memorization to develop mathematical thinking and understanding of concepts as well will require a major shift in emphasis for many teachers. Unless teachers themselves are given an opportunity to reconsider their own images of mathematic...

Mother's education and child health: is there a nurturing effect?

In this paper, we examine the effect of maternal education on the health of young children by using a large sample of adopted children from China. As adopted children are genetically unrelated to the nurturing parents, the educational effect on them is most likely to be the nurturing effect. We find that the mother's education is an important determinant of the health of adopted children even a...

Humanity before Science: Narrative Medicine, Clinical Practice, and Medical Education.

Innovations in Integrative Healthcare Education Regaining Our Humanity through Story

h h p t t H t c t s t i t i t T a c i i p t o e h w e h c r s o c l c h s b s d g a v t t m t e n this issue of Innovations in Integraive Healthcare Education, we are dearting from our usual format of spotighting specific projects or programs in ieu of presenting a more extended piece y MacKenzie on relationship-centered are and narrative medicine. The imporance of these topics cannot be overes...