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Do, Chi-wai; Chan, Lily Y. L.; Wong, Horace H. Y.; Chu, Geoffrey; Yu, Wing Yan; Pang, Peter C. K.; Cheong, Allen M. Y.; Ting, Patrick Wai-ki; Lam, Thomas Chuen; Kee, Chea-su; Lam, Andrew; Chan, Henry H. L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
A vision care-based community service subject is offered to general university students for fulfillment of a service-learning compulsory credit requirement. Here, a professional health subject is taught in a way that caters to generalist learners. Students gain basic skills they can apply to provide vision screenings for the needy population. All…
Descriptors: Community Services, Human Body, Health Education, Service Learning
Moraes, Marcia – Disability & Society, 2012
This paper presents some results of research carried out with a group of blind and partially sighted youths who are enrolled in a school for people with visual disabilities in Brazil. This research aims to promote different articulations between the body and cognition. Based on actor-network theory, it considers that having a body means learning…
Descriptors: Partial Vision, Foreign Countries, Blindness, Visual Impairments
Laasch, Oliver; Conaway, Roger N. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
Cinepolis, an international movie theatre chain based in Mexico City that believes that people go to the movies in order to learn about better eyesight, has successfully demonstrated the business practice of corporate social responsibility to the public through its visual health campaign known as "Del Amor Nace la Vista" (Love Gives…
Descriptors: Marketing, Foreign Countries, Social Responsibility, Social Development
Morawski, Cynthia M.; Williams, Andrew – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2013
One day, over four centuries ago, Daniele Barbaro, a Venetian nobleman, tried an interesting experiment (Upton & Upton, 1980). He decided to use a convex lens from a farsighted man's spectacles to expand the viewing power of his camera obscura. To his delight, "the lens projected images much superior to those previously supplied by the…
Descriptors: Photography, High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Art Education
Brundiers, Katja; Wiek, Arnim – Innovative Higher Education, 2011
Readers are invited to imagine students helping to solve real-world sustainability problems brought to them by societal stakeholders and simultaneously learning about and contributing to sustainable changes in society. Effective sustainability research education engages students in just that. Higher education institutions are implementing this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vision, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving
Bajunid, Ibrahim Ahmad – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This paper addresses the contemporary development and reform challenges in tertiary education in Malaysia in both national and global contexts. The critical role exercised by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency in driving strategic change in higher education cultures, both in public and private universities is described and analysed. The paper…
Descriptors: Universities, Private Colleges, Vision, Educational Quality
Moller, Jorunn – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2009
This article aims at providing insight into ways of constructing leadership for learning within a Norwegian context. The focus is on how a Norwegian principal talks about educational leadership and learning. The principal's story is juxtaposed with references to how her deputies and a group of teachers frame their experiences about leadership for…
Descriptors: Vision, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Educational Change
O'Kane, Brian – Primary Science Review, 2006
The eyes are the most complex organs in the body. Children's eyes are still developing until they are around 8-9 years old; therefore it is important to check that they are working properly before it is too late to rectify any problems. So how do they work, and why do they sometimes go wrong? In this article, the author explains children's eye…
Descriptors: Vision, Vision Tests, Optometry, Science Activities
Evenhuis, Heleen; van der Graaf, Gabrielle; Walinga, Margreet; Bindels-de Heus, Karen; van Genderen, Maria; Verhoeff, Marleen; Lantau, Kathleen; van der Meulen-Ennema, Helen; Meester, Nelleke; Wienen, Lien; Schalij-Delfos, Nicoline – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Children with intellectual disabilities have an increased risk of visual impairment, caused by both ocular and cerebral abnormalities, but this risk has not been quantified. The same applies to preterm children and children with cerebral palsy with a normal intelligence. Many cases probably go unidentified, because participation of these children…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Mental Retardation, Vision Tests, Screening Tests
Katzman, Avi; Marom, Daniel – Journal of Jewish Education, 2007
The following is a translation of the introduction to "Medabrim Chazon" (Jerusalem: Keter, 2006), the Hebrew translation of "Visions of Jewish Education," edited by Seymour Fox, Israel Scheffler, and Daniel Marom (Cambridge, 2003). "Visions of Jewish Education" is an effort by leading scholars to improve the quality…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Translation, Judaism
Sendova, Evgenia; Grkovska, Slavica – Educational Media International, 2005
The paper deals with the possibility of enriching the curriculum in mathematics, informatics and art by means of visual modeling of abstract paintings. The authors share their belief that in building a computer model of a construct, one gains deeper insight into the construct, and is motivated to elaborate one's knowledge in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation, Geometric Concepts, Vision
Forster, Colin – Primary Science Review, 2006
The scientific model of how people see things is far removed from children's real-world experience. They know that light is needed in order to see an object, but may not know that light is reflected off the object and some of that light enters the eyes. In this article, the author explores children's understanding of reflection and how to develop…
Descriptors: Models, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Principles
Kullberg, Kjell; Lindstrom, Jan-Ingvar – 1977
The document reports on a 10-day tour to study rehabilitation facilities for the visually handicapped in the Soviet Union. Briefly described are the programs of the following institutions that were visited: Helmholtz Institute of Opthalmology, Specialized School Number 5 for Partially Sighted Children, Scientific Research Institute of Defectology,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Foreign Countries, Low Vision Aids, Medical Services

Hall, A. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
The paper describes issues involved in a project to assist providers of services for the visually impaired to plan and initiate programs directed toward Nepal's low vision population. Discussed are demographic factors; organization of prevention, education, and rehabilitation programs; development of a systematic and coordinated national plan; and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Partial Vision
Cicekoglu, Feride – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2003
This paper focuses on the difference between Eastern and Western ways of visual narration, taking as its frame of reference the novel "My Name is Red," by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This book is particularly important in terms of visual narration because it highlights the…
Descriptors: Portraiture, Photography, Personality, Narration
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