This study aimed to assess if a module on an undergraduate degree programme had challenged students’ perspectives on ageing and older adults. Courses on gerontology are on the increase within the UK to support increasingly ageing populations, with agendas to promote ethical care and to challenge the incidence of elderly abuse. Research consistently reports society’s often negative attitudes tow...

The article conceptualizes the phenomenon of performance in context academic and public philosophy as an innovative practice teaching a means to encourage wider communities participate events philosophical communication. performative nature is traced back Antiquity when involved both dramatic action alongside logical theorization. author argues that turn second part 20th century provides theore...

nurses are often faced with serious situations that require high levels of legal and ethical knowledge, and should therefore be sensitive to the moral issues in their profession in the decision making process. some studies have investigated nurses’ moral self-concept as an effective factor in moral sensitivity, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. the purpose of this study was ...

Knowledge and human liberation are epochal challenges and a key question here is what the meaning of knowledge and the meaning of human liberation are. This article argues that knowledge means not only knowledge of self, society and nature as conceived within the predominant dualistic logic of modernity but also knowledge of transcendental self beyond sociological role playing, knowledge of nat...

This mixed-method study aimed to investigate the efficacy of an intervention unit that integrates perspectives from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) foster plant awareness, within context botanical lessons trainee science teachers. Third-year undergraduate students (n = 91) studying become lower secondary school (grade 7–9) teachers a public university in East Java, Indonesia, partic...

Most law school mediation courses teach a set of problem-solving skills that are seen as useful in lawyering and that are also taught in other lawyering skills courses. By contrast, some mediation courses present a relatively new approach called “transformative mediation” and teach a different set of skills focused primarily on “interactional support” rather than on problem solving. This Articl...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To use transformative learning to investigate what experiences serve as catalysts for mammography screening, the cognitive and affective responses that result from the catalyst, and how screening behavior is impacted. RESEARCH APPROACH A descriptive qualitative study. SETTING Southeastern Wyoming. PARTICIPANTS 25 low-income, rural women aged 40 years and older. METHOD...