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Imagining the Future of Lifelong Learning
In this chapter I highlight key points in a continuum of lifelong education that enable individuals and their communities to thrive and live,...
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Notes on Being a Black Woman in STEM: A Review of Existing Research Concerning the Experiences of Black Women Pursuing Undergraduate STEM Degrees
This chapter focuses on the experiences of Black undergraduate women, with an emphasis on factors that hinder and help to promote their successful...
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Social Participation in a Postdigital–Biodigital Age
This chapter introduces the concept of social participation and analyzes its recent transformations in a postdigital–biodigital reality. It explores...
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Wealth Creation in the Third Generation of Medical Universities
This chapterChapter focuses on wealth and wealth creationCreation in the universities of medical sciencesScience. The chapter presents the results of...
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An Introductory Framework for Acknowledging and Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Medical Education
Throughout the world, health disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups have existed and continue to persist despite advances in medicine...
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An Overview of Science Education in Latin America
This chapter offers an overview of science education in Latin America, considering how public policies, curricula, instruction, assessment, and...
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Smart Food and Sports Policies in the Digital Age: Re-defining Nutrition Economic, Education Designs, and Governance
Food is more than just a means of survival; it is also a form of communication. Social, economic, and political relations are defined and maintained...
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Reconceiving the Digital Network: From Cells to Selves
The concept of the postdigital and current conceptions of the biodigital stem from an understanding of computer networks which itself has a history...
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An Introduction to Simulation Training Through the Lens of Experience and Activity Analysis
This opening chapter offers an overview of the conditions under which experience and activity can be fruitful objects for examining what occurs in...
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Curriculum Design Based on Big Ideas: Connotations and Implementation
Human knowledge continues to increase, but the contents of school curricula are limited. In recent years, the national curriculum standards of the...
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A Biologist by Chance and Necessity
Jacques Monod’s Chance and necessity was my life-changing book. It turned me from being a prospective student in humanities, as I had always thought...
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Toward Antifragile Manufacturing: Concepts from Nature and Complex Human-Made Systems to Gain from Stressors and Volatility
Taleb coined the term “antifragility” to describe systems that benefit from stressors and volatility. While nature provides several examples of...
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Teaching Physiological Psychology
Physiological psychology in North America is an undergraduate course that introduces students to the neurobiology that controls behavior. It...
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Embracing Nature, Meaningful Experiences for Teaching and Learning Endeavors: Lessons from the Northern Gulf of California
Mexico’s Northern Gulf of California is defined by its beauty, tremendous biodiversity, and conservation challenges that are the focus of worldwide...
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The Laws of Intellectual Development and Mathematics Learning
As a part of psychological development, the intellectual development of children and adolescents has its inherent and essential connections, which...
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Transformative Learning and the Affordance of Flexible Habits of Mind
Transformative learning, as Jack Mezirow understands it, goes beyond the transmission of factual knowledge; it is the process by which we alter...
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Towards a Science/Education of Late Neoliberal Bodies
Matthew Weinstein. This chapter reflects on the evolution of an analysis and practice of science education that makes the relational and material...
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The State of Current Integration of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Education
Currently, medical students frequently learn about race without the crucially important context of systemic and historical racism. As a result, these...
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Assessing self-reported core competencies of public health practitioners in Lebanon using the WHO-ASPHER validated scale: a pilot study
BackgroundThe World Health Organization and the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region recommend the self-assessment of...
