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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Nurses Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summarizes discussions from a 2008 interdisciplinary panel convened to identify facilitators and barriers to nurses' involvement in culture change in nursing homes and actions to promote nurse competencies in resident-directed care.
Bonnie Kantor   +9 more
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A paradigmatic map of professional education research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article maps out research in professional education with reference to a threefold typology of paradigms i.e. the positivist, interpretivist and critical paradigms. The rationale for such an endeavour is fourfold.
Humphrey, Caroline
core   +2 more sources

Environmental Management Accounting in Private Hospitals: Navigating Competing Strategic Priorities for Sustainable Decision‐Making

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental management accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as essential for carbon governance, accountability and net zero transitions, yet research has overlooked how sustainability is negotiated within mission‐driven but commercially exposed service organisations such as private hospitals in developing economies, a sector often ...
M. M. Swalih, Ronita Ram, Edward Tew
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the theory practice gap: an innovative approach to praxis in professional education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The notion of a ‘theorypractice gap’ in nursing has been the subject of debate for many years and is well documented in the nursing literature (Crane, 1991; Landers, 2000).
Chapman, FB, Clegg, P
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Butterflies of curriculum realisation: Investigating early implementation of the Curriculum for Wales

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Curriculum reform provides a vital opportunity for nations to ensure learners are equipped to fully participate as citizens in the 21st century. This paper presents an understanding of educators’ response to curriculum reform, and some of its enablers and barriers.
Alison Glover   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internationalising the teacher education curriculum: An analysis of syllabi and student experiences

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Internationalisation has increasingly become a key dimension of quality in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. Although it is recognised as a means to strengthen future teachers' competencies and expand their professional knowledge, it remains underdeveloped in practice.
Nafsika Alexiadou, Mai Trang Vu
wiley   +1 more source

The creativity of ‘unspecialisation': a contemplative direction for integrative scholarly practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Within the context of health and social care education, attempts to define 'scholarship' have increasingly transcended traditional academic conceptions of the term.
Galvin, Kathleen Theresa, Todres, Les
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Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics: a case for an effective model for international bioethics education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully ...
A Leysen   +18 more
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Psychological Treatment for Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) and Avoidant Restrictive Feeding Intake Disorder (ARFID)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To produce a consensus statement on the psychological treatment of feeding/eating aversions seen in pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), diagnoses that share common symptoms and psychological mechanisms but have historically been addressed separately in the literature. Method To help
Colleen T. Lukens   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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