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Academic blogging: academic practice and academic identity [PDF]
This paper describes a small-scale study which investigates the role of blogging in professional academic practice in higher education. It draws on interviews with a sample of academics (scholars, researchers and teachers) who have blogs and on the author's own reflections on blogging to investigate the function of blogging in academic practice and ...
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This article focuses on a moment of the (re)intellectual and academic construction of Sufism as an object in Turkey through a particular historicization of the tasavvuf, a term referring to the Islamic mystical tradition or Sufism.
Dilek Sarmis
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Academic family medicine--redefining academic [PDF]
This was a comment that I received for a seminar on research and teaching in family medicine that I gave to primary care doctors a few years ago. One of the meanings for ‘academic’ defined by the Oxford Dictionary is ‘abstract; theoretical; not of practical relevance’. Academic work especially research is traditionally regarded as the luxurious pursuit
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Conceptualizing and Researching the Professionalization of Religious Education Teachers: Historical and International Perspectives [PDF]
Current discussions on Religious Education (RE), both in Germany and England, focus on the quality of teaching and the professionality of teachers, but neglect the historical and institutional process of professionalization upon which conceptions of ...
Freathy, R. +3 more
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A key concern in international educational policy during the 21st century has been the impact of teacher professionalism on outcomes of schooling.
Christer Larsson, Lena Sjöberg
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Abstract Background A growing proportion of older people in Germany receive long‐term care from informal and professional caregivers at home. Their personal assessment of the individual care situation is scarcely considered. Aim This study aimed to explore the subjective views of care recipients, informal and professional caregivers on the adequacy of ...
Anna‐Henrikje Seidlein +3 more
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Interpreting studies: a critical view from within [PDF]
The paper describes and discusses the historical evolution of IS from a profession-driven, narrow-focused independent entity towards a wider academic discipline addressing all types of interpreting within the discipline of Translation Studies (TS).
Gile, Daniel
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Christopher Lasch's the culture of narcissism the failure of a critique of psychological politics [PDF]
Christopher Lasch's bestseller The Culture of Narcissism had, beyond doubt, a significant impact-it was even read in the White House. Today it is not only still frequently taught and referenced, there are also still empirical studies conducted which try ...
Anderson, K. +23 more
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The health professions in the German-speaking region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the so-called D-A-CH area, are in dynamic phases of their professionalization due to their shift towards education at universities.
Brandes Cindy +4 more
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A web-survey assessed attitudes toward evidence-based practice among psychotherapists in Austria
Evidence-based practice (EBP) means integrating the best available scientific evidence with clinical experience and patient values. Although perceived as important by many psychotherapists, there still seems to be reluctance to use empirically supported ...
B. Nussbaumer-Streit +13 more
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