..., the book looks at the supply of personal health services, the rates of return on medical education, the role of incentives in pharmaceutical innovation, whether physicians can and do induce demand for their products, pay for performance, and public provision of information about hospital quality. Economics...

...This chapter examines whether the rates of return on medical education in general and specialty training in particular are excessive, and whether they affect career choices in medicine. It discusses the importance of money in medical career decisions: the extent to which college graduates enter...

...This chapter examines how media education can leverage one game to support its twin goals of cultivating media production and analysis competencies. It begins by reviewing how twenty-first-century media literacy has been defined and framed. Next, it demonstrates how the process of machinima making...

...This chapter, which reviews the opportunities for redefining expert roles provided through an emerging trend in higher education, reveals that environmental justice (EJ) activists’ urge to transform science and technology requires engineers who participate in the problem-solving process. It shows...

... they are connected to working-class information and communication technologies (ICTs) in general terms. The chapter shows that the have-less young people and their families have been affected by education reform. To have-less seniors in China today, rapid commercialization of health care and the collapse...

...This chapter examines bilingualism and second language (L2) learning in multilingual and multicultural educational institutions. It looks at child language development in bilingual and multilingual contexts in relation to the debate over language policy and considers how the concept of diglossia...

... Harm Fears Youth Technology Media high school education teens moral panics inequality No one expects a zero-risk childhood, yet society seems loath to specify a level of acceptable risk when it comes to children. One result is that media panics effectively construe all risk as unacceptable...

... of society. However, the research also reveals that outside of traditional higher education, there remain disconnections between students’ aspirations and economic opportunities. Through an in-depth analysis of four immigrant students, the chapter identifies the key connections that help students learn...

... narratives and reflected in policies. Second, young people’s practices must be taken seriously by educational institutions. Third, adults should be ready to help young people navigate not only risks, but also opportunities. Without dismissing legitimate concerns to young people’s safety, the chapter argues...

...This chapter discusses schools and education reform, and how technology fits into the academic world. It considers the perception that schools in the United States are unable to provide students with the necessary skills to meet the demands of the global economy. It identifies the information...

... is in these schools. This suggests a rapid expansion of private schooling, although it could also, in part, reflect turnover among schools in the sector. The chapter aims to show that private fee-charging schools play a significant role in the primary education sector even if primary education policy in developing...

...This chapter illustrates the lack of available data that impedes the analysis of education in India in general, and of private and public schools in particular. In spite of recent developments in the education sector, the official data collection exercise on schools still only collects information...

... schools, and research on its experience might shed light on such a controversy. The chapter begins with a brief description of Chilean education, then reviews the research on the systemic effects of school choice on private versus public schools’ effectiveness. An analysis of some key methodological...

...Research on immigration has extensively investigatedthe consequences of low-skill labour immigration on native workers. Less attention has been paid to other immigrants. This chapter considers the effects of student immigration on the higher education sector. Though with a focus on England...

...Presenting a novel channel for brain gain, this chapter expands the coverage of the book. It raises the question whether the countries of origin also benefit from education policies determined by the host country. How does increasing student migration from a less developed to a developed country...

... thinking.” An understanding of this mode of thinking offers a more comprehensive grounding for the discussion about the inherent problems of medical education and practice. Privileging calculative thinking closes one off to other truths, those truths that are unverifiable, unquantifiable, or intangible...

...This chapter examines why privileging calculative or technical thinking is particularly problematic in medical practice. Because medicine and medical education focus on the “real” and the “scientific” (assessing and treating biological disease), the lived experience of illness...

... humanism Narrative approaches Narrative medicine movement Paternalism medical Stanford Ann Folwell Jones Anne Hudson Reductionistic medicine Elmore Sheknah Empathic imagination Imagination Levinas Emmanuel Education Dying patients terminal patients Frank Arthur W Suffering See also specific...

... Bourdieu Pierre Polanyi Michael Tacit knowledge Enrollment block outsourcing information technology education Indiana University costs This chapter is about transfer—but not the kind of transfer one might expect from two specialists in science and technology studies (STS). We do not consider...

...This chapter explores how user-driven software, learner-centered education, and visitor-led museum provision address the challenges of online museum learning. It considers a model of increased personalization, localization, and constructivism that is more aware of and responsive to the experiences...