Online Postgraduate Teaching: Re-Discovering Human Agency

(re)discovering Marx’s Materialism

With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

Online discussion for block teaching in postgraduate health professionals’ curriculum: the Ethiopian experience

BACKGROUND Online discussions as a method of instruction are a new approach in Ethiopia. There is no previous study in the Ethiopian context that has assessed students' engagement and learning experience using this instruction method, which may offer a valuable complement to other instruction methods for intensive block teaching in a resource-limited environment. The aim of this study was to as...

Re-discovering the Quechua adjective

This article describes the adjective class in Quechua, countering many previous accounts of the language as a linguistic type with no adjective/noun distinction. It applies a set of common crosslinguistic criteria for distinguishing adjectives to data from several dialects of Ecuadorian Highland Quechua (EHQ), analyzing examples from a natural speech audio/video corpus, speaker intuitions of gr...

Psychiatry in a postgraduate teaching hospital.

An overview of British urological postgraduate teaching.

SUMMARY The author explains that Surgery, and Urology in particular, began as crafts. He shows how they were and, to some degree still are, disciplines taught by masters to their apprentices; but today's urologist can no longer be entirely a lone figure or simply a master craftsman. The British system is used by the author as a point of reference for discussing training experience, course teach...