Selected Dissertations on Christian Higher Education

Preparing Tomorrow's Classroom Leaders: Challenges for Christian Higher Education

Christian Keysers -selected References

1 Keysers, C. & Gazzola, V. (2014). Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions. Philos.Trans.R.Soc.Lond B Biol.Sci., 369, 20130175. Notes: Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is considered the neurophysiological basis of Hebbian learning and has been shown to be sensitive to both contingency and contiguity between preand postsynaptic activity. Here, we wil...

Models of Christian Education

From 2004 to 2010 I served as a researcher and advisor in the Australian Government’s values education projects. During the task of helping schools implementing and conducting research on values education, I took the opportunity to observe the importance explorative and imaginative modes of teaching and learning might have in the formation of values. In this essay, I argue that imaginative teac...

Classroom-Oriented Higher Education System or Workshop-Oriented Higher Education System (Based on Cost & Economic Approach)

The most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. As the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

Analyzing higher education accreditation results with an emphasis on internationalization of higher education

Internationalization is an important phenomenon in 21st century higher education. Numerous researches in this field have carried out in different countries as well as in Iran. One of the significant aspects of internationalization is the quality of higher education. Essentially, entering the world community and internationalizing higher education is not possible without considering its quality ...