In response to recent concerns expressed by Indian industry about the ‘employability’ of school and university graduates, this article examines role pedagogy in developing life skills (or twenty-first-century skills) how these can be incorporated school/university curriculum. Recent curricular frameworks have within curriculum stressing importance inquiry collaborative work through all subjects...

The professional nature and professionalisation of the street-level delivery activation policies have received increasing attention in academic debate. study reported this article contributes to debate two ways. first way is elaborate a multidimensional conceptualisation practising professionalism work, distinguishing eight dimensions: knowledge acquisition, sharing, use, innovation, accountabi...

Abstract Taking Poland as a case study, this article examines the sociological and historical-institutional factors that determine relationship between process of medical professionalisation reproductive rights in transitional societies. Focusing on three periods Polish history, (a) Partition era (1772–1918), (b) Second Republic (1918–1939), (c) post-war period (1945–1989), it identifies ruptur...

Increasing migration-induced language diversity is putting pressure on the teaching of regional and minority languages in official bi- or multilingual regions. This study presents an in-depth analysis teachers’ teacher trainers’ beliefs views towards awareness translanguaging approaches as possible ways to enhance pupils’ attitudes motivation learn a language, such Frisian Netherlands. The appl...

BACKGROUND Orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) who grow up in institutional care often show communication and language problems. The caregivers lack training, and there are few language didactics programmes aimed at supporting communication and language development in OVC in institutional care in Tanzania. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to adapt the German concept of relation...

Medical education has evolved to become a discipline in its own right. With demands on medical faculties to be socially responsible and accountable, there is now increasing pressure for the professionalisation of teaching practice. Developing a cadre of professional and competent teachers, educators, researchers and leaders for their new roles and responsibilities in medical education requires ...

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities in enabling them to deliver multiple agendas in complex environments (Gordon & Whitchurch, 2007). In recent years, many governments have proceeded with deregulation and developed schemes to assure the quality of higher education. Today, universities have a greater autonomy under the new quality assurance systems b...