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Maria Liljeholm Bång; Ola Lindberg; Oscar Rantatalo; Sara Lilliehorn – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
While there is broad agreement about their importance, courses in professionalism have proven difficult to teach and assess. Furthermore, there is currently a lack of knowledge regarding problems that are common across professional boundaries. The purpose of this article is to examine what teaching and assessing professionalism in higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Professional Development, Medical Education
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Lönngren, Johanna – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: Engineering education must prepare students to assume professional and ethical responsibility for the societal impacts of technology, but most engineering students do not receive adequate ethics teaching. In fact, engineering education has been described as characterized by a "culture of disengagement" in which ethical and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Engineering Education, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students
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Woon Chia Liu – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2024
International teaching experiences, even if short-termed, are great opportunities for student teachers to challenge their assumptions and scrutinise their beliefs, to discover different ways of approaching teaching and learning, and to better understand their own education system through a global education lens. They offer student teachers the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, International Educational Exchange, Teaching Experience, Teaching Assistants
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Eriksson, Anita – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
The use of mentoring group conversations as a tool to support pre-service teachers' professional development has become more common. However, there is still a lack of research that shows how conversations are used to develop knowledge. The present paper is based on ethnographical observations of mentoring group conversations, and describes how…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Development
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Nyström, Sofia; Dahlberg, Johanna; Edelbring, Samuel; Hult, Håkan; Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The increasing complexity of health care practice makes continuing professional development (CPD) essential for health care professionals. Simulation-based training is a CPD activity that is often applied to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of care. The aim of this study is to explore simulation as a pedagogical practice for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Health Services, Professional Development, Simulation
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Eriksson, Anita – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
The use of mentoring within teacher education has become more common in recent years, however, there still seems to be a lack of research about formal group mentorship models as a pedagogical process. In my study, I presented knowledge about how a formal group mentorship model used during a teacher education program at a Swedish university has…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Student Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
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Turunen Olsson, Pernilla; Weurlander, Maria; Mattiasson, Anne-Cathrine; Wärn Hede, Gunnel; Panagiotidis, Georgios; Broberger, Eva; Hult, Håkan; Wernerson, Annika – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Traditionally, nursing students learn medical subjects and nursing separately, which makes it difficult to develop an integrated understanding. This study aimed to explore nursing students' experiences of participating in a case seminar integrating medical and nursing sciences and if, and how, it contributed to their learning. A case seminar…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Seminars, Medicine
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Peterson, Tiina; Veisson, Marika; Hujala, Eeva; Härkönen, Ulla; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Bakosi, Eva Kovacsne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The current study investigated the ratings of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian preschool teachers and principals regarding the professionalism of preschool teachers within a cross-cultural context. According to reports commissioned by the European Commission and OECD, the professionalism of preschool teachers is a key factor in ensuring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professionalism, Principals
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Avery, Helen; Nordén, Birgitta – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The paper aims to provide a conceptual map of how to mediate between sustainability theory and practice in higher education and how disciplinary divides can be bridged. It further looks at issues linked to knowledge views and drivers for institutional change that affect opportunities for whole institution development promoting action…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Sustainability
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Buschor, Christine Bieri; Kamm, Esther – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Following a major shift in Swiss teacher education in the 1990s, teachers are now educated at the university level with a more research-oriented focus than before the reform. Furthermore, the curriculum in teacher education is not only more academically oriented, but also concurrently practice-focused. Swiss student teachers are highly involved in…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Student Research, Student Interests
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Mc Hugh, Elaine; Starke, Mikaela – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Training for support workers who work with parents with intellectual disability can be aided by understanding how they perceive the training process and their competence development. This study explored the perceptions of competence development and the training process in Swedish support workers trained in the evidence-informed programme…
Descriptors: Parents, Intellectual Disability, Training, Competence
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Pombo, L.; Smith, M.; Abelha, M.; Caixinha, H.; Costa, N. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
The work reported in this article is part of a wider project that aims to develop and implement a web-based, pan-European, in-service professional development platform for teachers to enhance their role in promoting education through science. This article aims to evaluate the implementation of the e-module on Assessment of Children's Learning in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Trainees
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Knutsson, Hans; Thomasson, Anna; Nilsson, Carl-Henric – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Reality-Based Learning, RBL, is a teacher-driven initiative introducing the core business administration subjects to first-year business students by means of making business plans. This paper empirically accounts for the development of RBL over three years. RBL is scrutinized for pros and cons by a proposed education development framework. When…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Models
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Hardy, Ian; Ronnerman, Karin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
This paper explores and challenges the rationale for current, mainstream approaches to teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) within schooling systems. Such approaches are significantly influenced by neoliberal and managerial pressures, evident in advocacy for generic, individualistic models of teacher learning, often focused on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Roxa, Torgny; Martensson, Katarina – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
Conditions for teaching and learning in higher education are changing and, thereby, demand development in teaching practices and the student learning experience. This paper explores some issues and processes in relation to strategic change in higher education institutions (HEIs), with a focus on educational developers and their ability to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods
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