Nothing is as practical as a good theory
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This is the third issue of Perspectives on Medical Education. PME aims to share with you, our reader, the growing body of knowledge and understanding in the broad domain of health professions education. We aim to inspire you to conduct (more) research yourself and to contribute to the building of a coherent body of evidence. Additionally we hope to increase a further understanding of learning in this domain and to better inform the decision making on educational matters in your institute. To accomplish this PME strives to publish papers that are of high quality, addressing innovative topics and challenging research questions through welldesigned studies. PME values the richness of the health professions educational domain, literally intertwining health professions and education, with authors and readers from a wide variety of backgrounds. Practitioners and scientists from both the biomedical and the social science domains collaborate in creating the best possible education and to provide the evidence base that informs practice [1]. As the professionals who are involved in medical education come from such diverse backgrounds, PME will cherish and publish papers with a wide variety of perspectives on learning, teaching and assessment, preferably well grounded in theoretical/conceptual frameworks. Perspectives from disciplines such as psychology, education, sociology and anthropology are used more and more to understand and explain learning and to guide the design of educational activities [1]. The diversity displayed by the papers in this issue truly lives up to our aim of sharing that broad range of perspectives that exists in our domain. The papers live up to the title of our journal!
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Kurt Lewin's leadership studies and his legacy to social psychology: is there nothing as practical as a good theory?
• This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: BILLIG, M., 2015. Kurt Lewin's leadership studies and his legacy to social psychology: is there nothing as practical as a good theory? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour,45(4), pp.440-460., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12074. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in a...
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