Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, other. In this article, we lay groundwork for naturalistic form constructivism by (1) dissociating presumed link value-free conceptions broadly approach; (2) offering argument constructivism; (3) suggesting av...

With the popularity of accelerated pre-licensure nursing programmes and the growth in nursing student enrolments, traditional clinical education continues to be a challenge to deliver. Nursing faculty members are required to develop and implement educational innovations that achieve effective learning outcomes, while using fewer resources. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore th...

In 1974, W. J. McKeachie published a brief article in The Educational Researcher called, “The Decline and Fall of the Laws of Learning.” This article was primarily about the decline and fall of the behaviorist laws of learning and radical behaviorism, both of which were never quite the same in psychology or education after this article as before it was published. The purpose of this paper is to...

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...

One obvious alternative is to have students construct their own AVs, rather than having them interact with AVs constructed by someone else. While not motivated by learning theory, a few computer science educators have already explored so-called “animation assignments,” in which students are asked to construct their own AV of a given algorithm. For example, Brown (1988, Appendix A) describes ani...