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Advancing Leadership Education and Development: Integrating Adult Learning Theory
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Allen, Scott J.; Rosch, David M.; Riggio, Ronald E. – Journal of Management Education, 2022
Leader development serves as a strong focus in the mission statements of many business school programs. Looking at business school leader development programs through the lens of adult learning theory, we assert that there is an overreliance on cognitive training (e.g., lecture) as the primary form of education used in preparing future business…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Business Schools, Adult Learning, Lecture Method
HPE and Capabilities: Towards an Active National Curriculum
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Reid, Alan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
This article presents a transcript of the 21st Fritz Duras Memorial Lecture, presented at the 27th ACHPER International Conference on Tuesday April 19 2011, at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia. In this lecture, the author focuses on Physical Education, rather than the broader field comprising all those areas that, at least in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
End-of-Life and Palliative Care Issues in Medical and Nursing Schools in the United States
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Dickinson, George E. – Death Studies, 2007
Medical and nursing schools in the United States have traditionally had a limited emphasis on end-of-life care. The present study is a comparison of these 2 professional programs' current offerings on death education. Data were gathered via a mailed survey from the 122 medical schools in 2005 and the 580 baccalaureate nursing programs in 2006.…
Descriptors: Death, Medical Schools, Medical Education, Nursing Education
An Evaluation of the Use of Continuous Assessment in the Teaching of Physiology.
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Tan, C. M. – Higher Education, 1992
A study of 30 first-year medical students in a physiology course found that frequent evaluation had a profound negative effect on learning, with students adopting a surface reproductive approach geared to passing exams rather than integrating knowledge. Lectures and curriculum organization failed to affect student use and structure of knowledge.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education
Building Structure Design as an Integral Part of Architecture: A Teaching Model for Students of Architecture
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Unay, Ali Ihsan; Ozmen, Cengiz – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2006
This paper explores the place of structural design within undergraduate architectural education. The role and format of lecture-based structure courses within an education system, organized around the architectural design studio is discussed with its most prominent problems and proposed solutions. The fundamental concept of the current teaching…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Fundamental Concepts, Building Design, Architecture
Medical Student Perception of the Academic Environment: A Prospective Comparison of Traditional and Problem-Based Curricula.
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Lieberman, Steven A.; Stroup-Benham, Christine A.; Peel, Jennifer L.; Camp, Martha G. – Academic Medicine, 1997
A study investigated medical students' expectations of the medical school environment and opinions of their academic experience in three areas (teaching/administration, psychological aspects of student life, intellectual climate) near the end of their first year in two parallel curricula: a problem-based learning program and a traditional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies