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This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States. One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada helped establish the modern paradigm of premedical and medical education. Barr’s research finds the system of premedical education that evolved to be a poor predictor of subsequent clinical competency and professional excellence, while simultaneously discouraging many students from underrepresented minority groups or economically disadvantaged backgrounds from pursuing a career as a physician. Analyzing more than fifty years of research, Barr shows that many of the best prospects are not being admitted to medical schools, with long-term adverse consequences for the U.S. medical profession. The root of the problem, Barr argues, is the premedical curriculum—which overemphasizes biology, chemistry, and physics by teaching them as separate, discrete subjects. In proposing a fundamental restructuring of premedical education, Barr makes the case for parallel tracks of undergraduate science education: one that would largely retain the current system; and a second that would integrate the life sciences in a problem-based, collaborative learning pedagogy. Barr argues that the new, integrated curriculum will encourage greater educational and social diversity among premedical candidates without weakening the quality of the education. He includes an evaluative research framework to judge the outcome of such a restructured system.This historical and cultural analysis of premedical education in the United States is the crucial first step in questioning the appropriateness of continuing a hundred-year-old, empirically dubious pedagogical model for the twenty-first century.

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Os artigos aqui reunidos possibilitam o acesso aos resultados da pesquisa realizada sobre o ensino superior e o desenvolvimento regional: reconfigurando as relações entre as cidades e o campo. Dentre esses destaca-se a importância das políticas governamentais que promoveram a ampliação do ensino superior tanto através da criação de instituições de ensino superior federais, como de ensino técnico (IFs), mas também da rede privada que também se beneficiou de tal política. Tais repercussões vão além das cidades e municípios estudados, uma vez que atingem diretamente os municípios da região, mas também municípios de diferentes unidades federativas desde o sistema de acesso SISU. Acrescenta-se que o conjunto de textos que compõe este livro é apenas um registro da importância da temática eleita e da necessidade de se pesquisar a problemática abordada sob diferentes perspectivas analíticas, trata-se, pois, de um convite à continuidade da pesquisa.

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La Decanatura del Medio Universitario de manera concertada con la Dirección de Extensión y la Escuela de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad del Rosario desarrolló un estudio, comprendido entre el 2009 y el 2011, con el objetivo de establecer lineamientos para construir una política cultural en la universidad. Este trabajo se plasmó en un documento que definió la forma de cumplir el objetivo de “fortalecer la proyección del Medio Universitario” a través de la inserción de políticas, estrategias, programas y líneas de acción cuyo foco esté puesto en el concepto de Universidad Promotora de Salud. Este programa se desarrolló mediante varios ejes, entre ellos el cultural, lo que dio espacio para el diseño de una política en ese sentido. Este texto presenta la ruta que se siguió para construir dicha política. La publicación de las memorias de este proceso aporta a la discusión sobre cómo abordar la cultura desde las Instituciones de Educación Superior –IES, la importancia que esta tiene y, la experiencia del Rosario, sirve de referente para los procesos de construcción de política que adelantan otras IES.

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This book traces the development of a fully marketised higher education system in England over a 30-year period and identifies five distinct stages of market reforms culminating in the Higher Education and Research Act (HMSO, 2017). The Act shifted the risks of institutional failure (and the prospect of market exit) onto applicants, presenting them with ever more applicant choice information and encouraging them to use their consumer behaviour to oblige weaker providers lower tuition fees or lose market share to new competitors. The new regulatory regime represents a marked departure from previous attempts to introduce market dynamism into the sector and places the English HE system at the forefront of a global trend of system marketisation. The book employs a critical policy discourse analysis and addresses several key aspects of the current higher education policy landscape. It considers the extent to which there been a continuity of policy from the encouragement of efficiencies and accountability in the 1980s to the emphasis on competition and risk in 2017; whether the marketisation process is designedly cumulative or has developed in response to factors beyond the control of policymakers; and what the English case can tell us about the nature of neoliberalism and the future trajectories of other national systems in the process of marketising and differentiating their institutions.

Education, Higher --- Education --- Higher & further education, tertiary education. --- Higher.

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This book, written by authors representing 12 countries and five continents, is a collection of international perspectives on distance learning and distance learning implementations in higher education. The perspectives are presented in the form of practical case studies of distance learning implementations, research studies on teaching and learning in distance learning environments, and conceptual and theoretical frameworks for designing and developing distance learning tools, courses and programs. The book will appeal to distance learning practitioners, researchers, and higher education administrators. To address the different needs and interests of audience members, the book is organized into five sections: Distance Education Management, Distance Education and Teacher Development, Distance Learning Pedagogy, Distance Learning Students, and Distance Learning Educational Tools.

Distance education. --- Distance learning --- Education --- Open learning --- Telecommunication in education --- Higher & further education, tertiary education