Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mathematics and the Body

This book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an 'inclusive ma...

On Mathematical Problem Posing.

In mathematics classes at all levels of schooling in all countries of the world, students can be observed solving problems. The quality and authenticity of these mathematics problems has been the subject of many discussions and debates in r...

Mathematics Teacher Noticing

Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. In the mids...

The relationship of teachers' conceptions of mathematics and mathematics teaching to instructional practice

MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCIES AND THE LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS: THE DANISH KOM PROJECT

This paper presents the Danish KOM project (KOM: Competencies and the Learning of Mathematics), initiated by the Ministry of Education and other official bodies in order to create a platform for in-depth reform of Danish mathematics educati...

Mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematics education

I am one of a growing number of research mathematicians who are substantially engaged with school mathematics education. Such outreach has a long and honor-able tradition. In this lecture, I illustrate some of the ways that I think this can...

Teachers of Mathematics

There are persons who do not like to teach who are conducting classes in our schools. There are persons who do not like mathematics who have been assigned to handle algebra classes and to instruct in arithmetic. There are men and women who ...

Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and the Mathematical Quality of Instruction: An Exploratory Study

This study illuminates claims that teachers' mathematical knowledge plays an important role in their teaching of this subject matter. In particular, we focus on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT), which includes both the ma...

What Is Mathematics?

Abstract For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in educat...

India cardiology training curriculum- a critical reappraisal: Is it the time to rethink?

The challenges and rigors of the modern-day health care systems demand a critical reappraisal of our training paradigms in cardiology. Today, modern day DM and DNB Cardiology training needs to seamlessly amalgamate traditional teaching meth...

Knowledge sharing of health technology for students in universities of technology

Knowledge sharing of technology innovation is the main developmental force in the 21st century knowledge-based economy. This study aims to research the factors of students' knowledge sharing of health technology in universities of technolog...

Operationalizing preparedness: bridging the “Know-Do” gap in Rwanda’s infectious disease policy

Skilled antenatal care services utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled analysis of demographic and health surveys from 32 countries

Abstract Background Each day, an estimated 800 women die from preventable pregnancy and childbirth related complications, where 99% of these avoidable deaths happen in low-and middle-income countries. Skilled attendance during antenatal car...

Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology

The provision of “closer-to-patient” services has increased in most industrialized countries. However, the migration of services in non-traditional health care settings implies redefining the role of technical and human entities and transfo...

The status of medical informatics in Canadian medical schools.

Many have suggested that information technology in its various forms will continue to have an effect on all aspects of medicine, including medical education. If so, the introduction of information technology into medicine brings with it cri...

Medical Informatics Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract: Medical informatics, as a separate medical discipline, is quickly developing in our country, both in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In our country, medical informatics has been a separate subject for the last ten years with regard to Med...

Training residents in medical informatics.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A number of medical educators have called for an increased emphasis on medical informatics training, but few family practice residency programs have provided more than cursory teaching efforts in this area. This p...

Standardization in Health and Medical Informatics

Standard is a thing or quality or specification by which something may be tested or measured. The development of standards is organized on a global, international level, existing also on a national level, well harmonized with an internation...

Caring for Computers: The Hidden Work of Clinical Nurses during the Introduction of Health Information Systems in a Teaching Hospital in Taiwan

Implementing health information systems for enhancing patient care and management occurs worldwide. Discovering how nurses, as important system end-users, experience technology-reliant clinical practice involved focus groups (n = 25) and in...

Classroom Management Strategies of Multigrade Schools with Emphasis on the Role of Technology

Introduction : It appears that the effectiveness of a multigrade school class is dependent on the type of class management. Therefore this study aims to determine the classroom management strategies in multigrade schools with emphasis on th...