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Brief Guide to Critical Reading: Seminar Notes

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The essays on physician-assisted suicide and the two chapters from Biology as Ideology will introduce you to a different treatment of scientific topics. Rather than giving information for you to memorize or concepts for you to master, these essays are trying to convince you of a point of view. To critically analyze this kind of writing you need to be able to identify and evaluate the ideas being advocated. This takes us to the realm of critical reading and thinking.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Psicología›Conciencia y Cognición

Education for sustainable development: a challenge for biology teachers

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"Sustainable development is a prior task for societies in the 21st century. As a demanding societal transformation
process it is understood as both a bottom-up and a top-down process where individual and structural
developments interact and interfere. Within those processes the role of schools has to be newly examined.
Within the research framework of the Swiss Priority Program Environment case studies were conducted in four
upper secondary and tertiary schools asking the question if and how schools can become active partners in

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• Ciencias Sociales

A hierarchy of effective teaching and learning to acquire competence in evidenced-based medicine

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"A variety of methods exists for teaching and learning evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, there is much debate about the effectiveness of various EBM teaching and learning
activities, resulting in a lack of consensus as to what methods constitute the best educational practice. There is a need for a clear hierarchy of educational activities to effectively impart and acquire competence in EBM skills. This paper develops such a hierarchy based on current empirical
and theoretical evidence."

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• Ciencias Sociales

Research in language didactics: a model for the evaluation of oral discursive competence in secondary education

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"Research concerning oral language teaching is one of the most unattended fields in linguistic education, both in general terms as well as specifically in Secondary education. This paper tries to take one step towards improving this state of affairs. "

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• Ciencias Sociales

What Works in Developing Children’s Emotional and Social Competence and Wellbeing?

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"In January 2002, the Department for Education and Skills commissioned Southampton University’s Health Education Unit to undertake a study examining how children’s emotional and

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• Ciencias Sociales

Caux Round Table

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The Caux Round Table (CRT) is an international network of experienced business leaders, who work with business and political leaders to design the intellectual strategies, management tools and practices to strengthen private enterprise and public governance to improve our global community.

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• Ciencias Sociales

The Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable

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The Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable (GHBER) is a voluntary professional organization dedicated to promoting ethical business practices and serving as a forum for the exchange of information and strategies regarding implementation, administration and compliance of ethical business conduct programs. GHBER was founded at the University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business, with the leadership of Dr. Bette Ann Stead, to provide a level playing field for companies and organizations to discuss problems and share best practices.

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• Ciencias Sociales

Dartmouth College Ethics Institute

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The Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics was established in 1982 by a group of faculty who recognized the primacy of ethics in a liberal arts education. One of the founders, John Hennessey of the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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• Ciencias Sociales

Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University

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The Center for Ethics and Business is an arm of the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Our mission is to provide an environment for discussing issues related to the necessity, difficulty, costs and rewards of conducting business ethically.

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• Filosofía y Religión

Center for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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The Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE) , formally inaugurated on 13 May 1992, strives to stimulate critical reasoning about fundamental ethical concerns in contemporary society, to raise awareness of moral values, and to further strengthen the University's commitment to research and whole person education. The Centre actively promotes and coordinates research in the areas of bioethics, business ethics, professional ethics, and social ethics. It encourages the development of ethics across the curriculum.

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• Ciencias Sociales