Palliative care education and its effectiveness: a systematic review
- Authors: Li, Wendy , Chhabra, Jasleen , Singh, Smita.
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Public Health Vol. 194, no. (2021), p. 96-108
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- Description: Palliative care education (PCE) is an important public health approach to palliative care and is crucial to improving its utilisation. The present study aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of PCE and its effectiveness. A systematic review approach, including narrative synthesis, was used to review qualitative and quantitative studies published in the English language between January 1969 and January 2019, focussing on PCE programs. Thirty-nine research studies were included in the systematic review. The target audience of the included studies were mostly healthcare professionals, followed by family caregivers. Definitions of death and palliative care, symptom management and communication were leading themes in the reviewed PCE programs. The educational resources used in PCE programs were mainly self-developed teaching materials, with some programs utilising eLearning resources. The included PCE programs were effective in improving knowledge, attitude and confidence in palliative care and the satisfaction of participant learning experience. PCE is a useful tool to improve knowledge of, confidence in and attitudes towards palliative care amongst healthcare professionals and carers. To make palliative care a public health issue, PCE should be expanded to the public and policy-makers.
Why 'that' question? Reimagining classroom reading activities from the basis of what we understand about engaged reading
- Authors: McGraw, Amanda , Mason, Mary , Lee, David
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Literacy learning Vol. 27, no. 3 (2019), p. i-vi
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- Description: The authors offer a series of strategies around re-engagement of students in reading, framed by the findings from a 6-year project. Listening carefully to what younger readers themselves say about reading, they interrogate ways that a number of school practices work against the pleasure of immersing readers in books. [Author abstract]
Correct or global english : an instrument of social control or the great equaliser
- Authors: Terry, Daniel , Lê, Thao
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Linguistics and Language Education in New Horizons: The Link between Theory, Research and Pedagogy p. 3-15
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- Description: The English language has developed to become one of the more commonly languages globally. It is used for commerce, science and within the media; however, not all =Englishes' are equal. This chapter provides a brief overview of the development of English; its use as an international language, and to highlight the issues borne through =correct' English which leads to linguistic prejudice, superiority and judgment. Using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) perspective, the chapter will focus on the discourse of English as social practice while examining the social injustices as they manifest among those who use the English language. Through this process, using CDA, the chapter seeks is to uncover the power relationship and social inequities among groups that use the English language. The example of non-native English authors is used to demonstrate that a more inclusive rather than divisive and exclusive English is advocated to be recognised. In so doing the dominance and hegemony of native users of standard English needs to be moderated. © 2015 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
A great leap forward : EFL curriculum, globalization and reconstructionism - a case study in North East China
- Authors: Zhang, Xiaohong
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: I have used the name, The Great Leap Forward in relation to my study of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform as I have linked economic, political and social developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in China with education developments that have occurred at the same time as the reform has been implemented.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Struggling to make a difference in an imperfect world
- Authors: McGraw, Amanda
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Only connect: English teaching, schooling and community Chapter p. 308-318
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A computational story model based on a story grammar that represents conflict
- Authors: Hall, Richard
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The work in this thesis investigates whether a computational story model can be formulated that can overcome the limitations of existing story models and also interact with stories in multiple ways, similar to the ways in which people interact with them."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The reading/spelling connection : case studies of readers and spellers
- Authors: O'Brien, Terence
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The thesis argues that reading and spelling are interdependent and complex processes, and that "good" readers. but "poor" spellers, read in ways which do not assist in their developing spelling repertoires: their reading behaviours contribute to overall text meanings wihout contributing to individual word knowledge. As well, their writing behaviours do not allow for this knowledge to be used, practised, or displayed."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy