An educational system and its curricula are shaped by the culture and epistemology in which it is embedded. It is influenced by the societal knowledge, but it also instrumental in shaping the knowledge of the society. Culture influences learning style. Based on cultural diversities and social needs, different societies have distinct curricula. As such, Oromo students ought to be taught now to i...

Educate to Eradicate is a K-12 curriculum project using termite biology and control as the basis for science education that has been implemented in over 350 Hawaii public school classrooms. To encourage sustained implementation of the project, we aimed to identify factors that influence the adoption and continuation of pest management curricula in public school classrooms. Regression analysis o...

The rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is shaking up education. For science professors, the Internet offers new opportunities and technological tools to develop new materials, rethink curricula, and teach more effectively, benefiting students both on campus and on the web.

An educational curriculum using adult learning principles in an active learning format was developed for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist clinical educators (CRNACEs) to help improve the quality of the clinical learning experiences for student nurse anesthetists (SNAs). This exploratory study sought to determine the extent to which an 8-hour educational course modified the behavioral perc...

Health assessment has been an integral component of nursing education in Australia for over a decade. New Zealand has only recently embarked down this path and might benefit from the Australian experience. This article will discuss health assessment in the context of three issues currently topical in nursing in New Zealand. The issues are annual registration based on evidence of competence to p...

I would like to thank Staffan Rodhe for introducing Ozanam to me, Cécile Thuillier for validating my interpretations of the texts in French, and David Sumpter for valuable input. Synopsis In this paper, I explore recreational mathematics from two perspectives. I first study how the concept appears in educational policy documents such as standards , syllabi, and curricula from a selection of cou...

Interdisciplinary courses on science, engineering and society have been successfully established in two cases, at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In both cases there were institutional and perceptual barriers that had to be overcome in the primarily disciplinary departments. The ingredients of success included a clear vision of interdisciplinary th...

BACKGROUND Herbs and other dietary supplements are among the most commonly used complementary medical therapies. However, clinicians generally have limited knowledge, confidence and communication about herbs and dietary supplements (HDS). We compared diverse clinicians' expertise about HDS to better target future curricula. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of physicians, pharmaci...

INTRODUCTION Tusculum College has engaged in a process of examining and reviewing its programs which has resulted in a significant and far reaching transformation of the curriculum and the campus culture. Under the heading, Civic Arts, five principal reforms have been inaugurated since the fall of 1991: the Commons, a set of interdisciplinary courses required for all students; the Competency Pr...