rethinking university educations

Rethinking University Teaching in the Digital Age

Teaching in the T he nature of teaching has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. The transmission model—that is, the passing on of knowledge or information—has prevailed throughout fundamental innovations including writing, books, computers, and the Internet. The teaching professions have adopted each of these technologies, but thus far only in service of the transmission model. Diana La...

The Idea of a University: Rethinking the Malaysian Context

This article explores the idea of a university with a specific focus in the Malaysian context. We begin the article guided by these questions—“What is a university?” and “What are universities for?”—in examining the historical and conceptual development of universities. This is followed by asking a more specific question—“What are Malaysian universities for?”—in which we discussed the overarchi...

Managing information and knowledge sharing cultures in higher educations institutions

Abstracts: Information and knowledge (IK) are very important for any institution including education higher institution. Those IK are stored in every single individual in organization in the form of experiences, skills, etc. The growth of the higher education institution nowadays relies on how an institution manage the dissemination of those IK over the organization by using information technol...

Recent development in health educations in schools in Northern Ireland.

FOR many years teachers in both primary and secondary schools have been making their contribution to the health education of their pupils. In the primary schools this has largely been in the context of the general curriculum and in secondary schools as relevant application of the subject matter in particular subject areas, such as home economics, biology and physical education. Generally this h...

Work on Oneself: Rethinking Authenticity

This article addresses the concept of authenticity, a characteristic of late modern Western culture. This characteristic is viewed by some as an ideal and by others as a root of the problems inherent within Western culture. After discussing various viewpoints, the author supports the idea that authenticity should not be totally accepted or rejected and sets forth a proposal based on the so-call...

Rethinking Perspective : ' Rethinking Medicare Reform ' Needs