STANDARD CURRICULUM FOR JEWISH WEEK‐DAY RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS

Curriculum innovation in schools

This report focuses on curriculum innovation in schools and the factors that contribute to its success. The small scale survey that formed the basis of the report found that the innovations that most of the schools visited had made had improved pupils’ achievement and personal development. Successful change relied on strong leadership at all levels, a shared understanding of the reasons and nee...

The Intelligence of Applicants for Admission to Jewish Day Schools

Religious commitment in medical practice: a Jewish perspective.

The physician-patient relationship, which is the cornerstone of medical practice, is based upon a transaction between a sufferer and a healer. The healer is not only confronted with the patient's immediate medical needs but also with psycho-social problems which the illness causes, or is caused by. The physician therefore fulfills many functions: those of a technologist, philosopher, priest, so...

The Function of Curriculum in Schools

S chool is about learning the values, norms, rituals, symbols, and designated knowledge of the dominant groups in power in any particular society. There are always many histories that exist in any given nation, and all of them are not always recognized or taught in the schools. So school learning is both written and unwritten. For example, schools teach an approved form of history, but they als...

The WHO patient safety curriculum guide for medical schools.

BACKGROUND The urgent need for patient safety education for healthcare students has been recognised by many accreditation bodies, but to date there has been sporadic attention to undergraduate/graduate medical programmes. Medical students themselves have identified quality and safety of care as an important area of instruction; as future doctors and healthcare leaders, they must be prepared to ...