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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Education as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti‐Marshallian politics that sees the language of ...
Margaret Kohn
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Discover EducationUsing Bayesian network analysis to analyze datasets from Japan’s National Assessment of Academic Ability, we examined how academic performance in junior high school students (aged 14 and 15) in Japan is predicted by students’ everyday and study behaviors.
Teppei Suzuki +2 more
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Making the Case for Open Dental Education
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dental education as a field and dentistry as a profession are facing significant challenges, including workforce shortages, ever‐rising costs, unmet student and community needs, as well as quality of pedagogical practices. Open educational resources are learning objects that are freely accessible and are able to be retained, reused, revised ...
Casey D. Wright +7 more
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ATTITUDE OF HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS TOWARDS PRIVATE TUITION
EPRA International Journal of Research & Development (IJRD)The aims of education encompass holistic child development, fostering confidence and enthusiasm through timely advice, motivation, and support from parents, guardians, teachers, and members of society. In today's competitive era, younger generations are striving for success in various fields, particularly in education.
null Premananda Sarkar +1 more
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Evaluating the Prevalence of Academic Entitlement in Dental Students
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To evaluate the prevalence of academic entitlement (AE) and its correlation with academic performance and demographic factors across five US dental schools. Methods: Predoctoral dental students were assessed for AE level using two validated survey instruments (A and B).
Skylar Mai +7 more
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SCHOOL CHOICE IN RURAL GEORGIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Previous empirical studies of school choice have been at the national level, or have focussed on northeastern states. We estimate the demand for private education in rural Georgia, using proportion of private school attendance as an indicator variable ...
Keeler, Andrew G., Kriesel, Warren
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A comparative analysis of the demand for higher education: results from a meta-analysis of elasticities [PDF]
Studies of the demand for higher education have produced numerous estimates of the tuition and income elasticities. Because of widespread variation in the models estimated, this paper performs a meta-analysis of the literature to uncover the extent to ...
Craig Gallet
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Normalizing private tuition in Myanmar : implications of embodied dispositions and forms of capital
, 2022 Private tuition, called kyushin (ကျူရှင်) in Burmese, is a common outside-school-hours academic activity in Myanmar. The enactment of a private academic training law in 1984 indicated that the phenomenon had been prevalent for over three decades ...
Kam, Tung Tuang
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Valuing Medical Schools in Japan: National versus Private Universities [PDF]
Medical school usually has the highest tuition fees among the university departments. The reason why students pay such expensive fees is that they estimate that their earnings will greatly increase after graduation.
Hideo Yunoue, Mototsugu Fukushige
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