Search results for "Teaching strategies"
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Metaphors in the mirror: The influence of teaching metaphors in a medical education programme
2016
Medical students often face problems in using and understanding metaphors when communicating with a patient or reading a scientific paper. These figures of speech constitute an interpretative problem and students need key strategies to facilitate metaphor comprehension and disambiguation of meaning. This article examines how medical students' strategies of metaphor comprehension could be improved by specific teaching on metaphors using a Cognitive Linguistics approach. Medical students' ability to comprehend mirror neuron metaphors was assessed comparing the performance of students who did not receive any instruction about metaphoric extension strategies after a lesson on mirror neurons wit…
Innovative teaching strategies in sciences teaching. Case study: teachers of the Rural Education Foundation of Valencia (1958-1985).
2017
Este trabajo aborda la reintroducción de estrategias didácticas en ciencias experimentales en el mundo rural de la provincia de Valencia que tuvo lugar a partir de los años 60 del siglo pasado. Para ello se han analizado documentos relativos al Patronato de Educación Rural (1958-1985), organismo dependiente de la Diputación de Valencia constituido con el objetivo de mejorar la educación en zonas rurales de la provincia. La metodología utilizada en la investigación se fundamenta en el método analítico descriptivo mediante la búsqueda, revisión y análisis de fuentes históricas e iconográficas depositadas en el Archivo de la Diputación Provincial de Valencia. La investigación pretende poner de…
English for Nurses: Needs Analysis and Syllabus
2021
In recent years, health profession degree courses entirely taught in English have become more and more frequent in Italy. Among these degree courses, the Associate Degree in Nursing has gradually spread in Italy since nursing is a profession that is highly required all over the world. As a matter of fact, Nursing is a profession that requires much specialized clinical competences and advanced communication skills (Schmidt 2003; Collins, 2005). From a linguistic standpoint, nurses have been defined as a sort of ‘communication broker’ (Bourhis et al. , 1989) becoming linguistic mediators between doctors and patients (Garone & Van de Craen, 2017) since they have both to understand the doct…
Learning Design for Future Higher Education – Insights From the Time of COVID-19
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges in higher education. All teaching and learning activities were moved online. Universities had to provide adapted solutions to facilitate learning and maintain students’ engagement. Online education implies creating new learning environments with the help of digital technologies. Beyond the process of acquisition of knowledge, teachers needed to facilitate cooperative learning, build positive relations, and reduce negative emotions. We provide some expert insights based on empirical observations on teaching and assessment practices connected with psychology models applied in education. The aim of the paper is to formulate specific learning design…
What can discourse psychology say about teachers' music talk and their teaching strategies?
2009
The teaching in music and culture schools is an activity that involves approximately one third of the children in Sweden, but there are only a few scientific studies conducted on the subject. The most of its participants will have music as a hobby in their future lives, but the vast majority of the students in higher music education once started their carriers in those schools. In this way music and culture schools can be seen as having a great impact on both cultural and musical activities in Sweden. This also points at the importance of knowledge concerning this institution, which this paper hopefully supplies for. The study has a social constructionist and post-structuralistic approach w…