ROBERT GLYNN practised as a physician at Cambridge throughout the whole of the second half of the eighteenth century. The reputation of the university was then lower than at any time in its history and there were few students. Glynn was one of a small group of men who made an attempt to maintain the continuity of medical teaching at Cambridge. In his day he enjoyed an excellent reputation as a ...

The need for effective communication among the people of the world has never been more pressing than it is at the start of the 21st century in this post-911 world. Recent breakthroughs in the fields of transportation, computing and telecommunications have combined to increase the ease and frequency of communication among members of different cultures. At the same time, developments in world pol...

“I’ve never touched the hard stuff, only smoked grass a few times with the boys to be polite, and that’s all, though ten is the age when the big guys come around teaching you all sorts to things. But happiness doesn’t mean much to me, I still think life is better. Happiness is a mean son of a bitch and needs to be put in his place. Him and me aren’t on the same team, and I’m cutting him dead. I...

In this article, Lewin’s (1951) social field theory is used as a framework for analyzing the potential for implementing scalable and sustainable e-learning initiatives in the academy. Powerful external economic and social forces coming to bear on academic leadership decisions are considered. The impacts of the emergence of the global learning society, knowledge economy, and information technolo...

The purpose of this qualitative research study is to gauge the current state of the academic developments in Educational Technology in order to identify pivotal issues and offer suggestions for future planning in Canada. This article explores the professional literature and the views of 25 senior faculty members from the twelve Canadian universities which offer or offered graduate degree progra...

the field of character education is rife with controversy as debates question whether the focus should be on virtues, values, behaviors, or reasoning capacities. Controversy swirls around the varied approaches to implementing character education: experiential learning, peer debate, indoctrinative teaching, community service, participatory governance, reading about character, and so on. Many of ...

In response to this insightful editorial, we wish to provide commentary that seeks to highlight recent successes and illuminate the often unspoken hurdles at the intersections of culture, politics, and taboo. We focus on sexual transmission and draw examples from Lebanon, where the pursuit of data in quality and quantity is teaching us lessons about the way forward and where we are experiencing...

Comparative Cultures and Politics “addresses one of the major challenges facing public and international affairs specialists in the 21st century: the need to understand the complex relationship between international affairs and culture.” This is accomplished by “approaching culture and politics through systematic interdisciplinary study across the social sciences and humanities.” (http://jmc.ms...

With the development and changes in society, traditional teaching methods can no longer fully meet needs of students' comprehensive quality training. Therefore, education sector has started to explore new modes, change concept, cultivate thinking political awareness, innovation ability practical ability, integrated mode "curriculum political, competition, practice innovation" come into being. T...