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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"educational initiative"”.
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An Educational Initiative to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
… study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention, the Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EPBI), to teach nurses the process of EBP for project implementation to improve nursing and patient outcomes. This descriptive study used a mixed-method design and previously collected …
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Improving Palliative Care Consult Volume Through an Educational Initiative with Hospitalists [paper]
In 2019, the Centers for Advanced Palliative Care (CAPC) reported that 12 million people in the United States (U.S.) were currently living with a chronic or life-limiting illness. This number is expected to increase to 63 million by 2035 (Morrison & Meier, 2019). Palliative care is a subspecialty …
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Impact of A Primary Care-Based Organ Donation Practice Initiative On Individual Willingness to Donate
… <p>Overcoming these barriers through educational initiatives could significantly increase donations. Health professionals are the preferred educators in regard to answering questions about organ donation (Gallup, 2005). Therefore, a primary care organ donation educational initiative …
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Becoming part of behind the scenes: patients' experiences of co-learning with primary health care teams.
… of being a patient to contribute to an educational initiative about quality improvement and back pain. That study – the Learning to Improve the Management of Back Pain in the Community (LIMBIC) project, utilised a mixed methods approach to evaluate the impact of the educational …
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Engaging apartheid : the teachers' league of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1985-1989
… to the 1985-1986 school boycott and to the educational initiative 'People's Education For People's Power'. Key sources for the study are interviews conducted with League members who were active during the 1985-89 period, and an examination of The Educational Journal among other relevant …
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Antisemitism in British football : examining good practice in anti-discrimination educational initiatives
… at fans of specifi c teams. While numerous initiatives in sports address issues of inequality and discrimination, relatively few have focused specifi cally on combating antisemitism. Given the rise of antisemitism in the UK, it is crucial to better understand this societal issue and propose …
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Learning to teach in the operating room
… and the learner. The ALG acted as an effective educational initiative for anaesthetic trainees to enhance and develop good educational practice in the OR. The experiences of a group surgical trainees lent support to the wider generalisability of the use of ALGs. The survey of 36 anaesthetic and …
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Global poverty, women’s empowerment, and higher education pedagogies: a pedagogical case study on an international experiential education initiative for sustainable development
… interdisciplinary experiential education initiative at a large Midwestern US land grant university, this dissertation combines conceptual and empirical work to develop a “capabilities pedagogy” aimed at helping university students engage the broader impacts of poverty and working with …
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Supporting multilingualism in Michigan schools: Educator perspectives on language education and the seal of biliteracy
… monolingual language ideologies that enact educational policies favoring English-only education to multilingual language ideologies that create policies in support of multilingual education. Surprisingly, despite the longstanding monolingual hegemonic pull by conservative lawmakers, one …
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Being in Deep, Authentic, Dramatic Celebration: Narratives of Community Cultural Workers for Social Change
… purpose of education and gaps in our mainstream educational system? For the purposes of this study, cultural work based education may be defined as an educational initiative, project, or program whereby people who are involved in artistic and sovereignty endeavors practice spoken word poetry, …
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Fostering Inclusion; Challenging the Illusion Critically Reflective Educational Stories: Facilitated by students and graduates with different learning abilities on a Fully Inclusive Higher Education Initiative in Ireland.
… and who registered on a fully inclusive educational initiative in Ireland. A learning process was co- designed with the contributors who were also the co researchers in this study, which would support the expression of story through creative learning methodologies. If we are to construct …
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At the Core of School Reform: A Culture of Commitment, Collaboration, and Collective Leadership
… system to match their ideals and beliefs. Educational reform efforts to improve learning for all students have been an issue of debate since the founding of America – seeking for equality and quality of education. The most recent educational initiative an emphasis on accountability via …
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The Educational Effectiveness of Gülen-inspired Schools: The Case of Nigeria
… the perceptions of the efficacy of the Gülen educational initiative and provides an analysis of the educational viability of "Gülen-inspired" schools in Nigeria using interviews of members of four groups of stakeholders in the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges (NTIC). This study employed …
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The Impact of Reading Programs as a Map Project Strategy
… education. Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 1996 to 2000, obtained from a national sample of 8th- and 12th- grade students indicated that for each grade level, black and Hispanic students scored significantly lower than whites in reading, mathematics, and …
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PEDAGOGY OF POST 9/11 UNITED STATES: MUSLIM AMERICAN STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES, TEACHERS' PEDAGOGIES, AND TEXTBOOKS' ANALYSIS
… students about their social, cultural, and educational experiences post 9/11 and about how these experiences impacted their religious and national identity and sense of belonging as Muslim Americans. Furthermore, from interviews with 5 teachers from different high schools in New Mexixco the …
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A comparison of secondary and postsecondary school teachers' and administrators' attitudes toward tech-prep programs
<p>The tech-prep program is a educational initiative to improve the quality of instruction and employment potential of students. It also represents a trend in educational reform with strategies for articulation and integration between secondary and postsecondary schools or from school to the …
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The competencies required by hospital doctors to care for older adults
… Simulation-based education was presented as an educational initiative to deliver these competencies to all hospital doctors in a way that can facilitate transformative learning. We recommend that the competencies described in this research programme should undergo expert validation to develop an …