explaining trust: society- centered approach versus institutional- centered model

Teacher-centered Approach Vs. Student Centered Approach

Approach Increase Student Achievement? teaching styles (teacher-centered instruction versus student-centered instruction) and examined whether teaching. I believe that student-centered learning arose in reaction to this scenario. Students who went It's a blend of both Teacher-and Student-centered approaches. Others argue that learner-centered is idealistic, unrealistic, and irresponsible. While...

“Way-Centered” versus “Truth-Centered” Epistemologies

In recent years, a criticism of “indigenous knowledge” has been that this idea makes sense only in terms of acquaintance (or familiarity) type and practical (or skills-type) knowledge (knowledge-how). Understood in terms of theoretical knowledge (or knowledge-that), however, it faces the arguably insurmountable problems of relativism and superstition. The educational implications of this would ...

A Trust-Centered Approach for Building E-Voting Systems

eVoting is a challenging approach for increasing eParticipation. However, lack of citizens’ trust seems to be a main obstacle that hinders its successful realization. In this paper we propose a trust-centered engineering approach for building eVoting systems that people can trust, based on transparent design and implementation phases. The approach is based on three components: the decomposition...

Midwife-centered versus woman-centered care: a developmental phase?

Centered-Lindelöfness versus star-Lindelöfness

We discuss various generalizations of the class of Lindelöf spaces and study the difference between two of these generalizations, the classes of star-Lindelöf and centeredLindelöf spaces.

The American Society for Patient-Centered Physicians.

Dear Editor: I’m always thrilled, and a little surprised, when surgeons request that I perform a palliative care consult on one of their patients. They rarely ask. But there it was. Monday morning and my pager displayed the surgery resident’s callback number. Palliative care physicians don’t usually have access to surgical patients, yet oftentimes their patients are the ones who need us the mos...