Effect of social practice on holistic education philosophy for medical graduate students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Holistic education is an important philosophy of medical education.Medical graduate students can show their skills of medical specialties,improve their abilities of communication and cooperation,and promote their sense of social responsibility through social practice.Through conducting questionnaire among medical graduate students of Peking University Third Hospital who major in internal medicine,we have got to know the effect of social practice on holistic education philosophy.Meanwhile,social practice is a crucial approach to implementing holistic education.

A cross sectional study of adjustment of disadvantagead children in an urban school setting

Background: Age six to twelve years is a very critical stage in a child’s life when the child develops a sense of inferiority or confidence depending on the nurturing and the milieu he is brought up. Many children belonging to disadvantaged families do not get proper education and care to enable their complete development. In this study, we aimed to examine the importance of education institutions that cater to disadvantaged children and their role in cultivating identity and confidence in children. Aims: To study if there is any difference in the adjustment between I standard and III standard students enrolled in a school that provides free holistic education for the children growing up in the slums of an urban city. Methods: Our study sample consisted of eighteen students each from I and III standards from a school for disadvantaged children from an urban city. Preadolescent adjustment scale (PAAS) was administered and the scores were noted and subjected to statistical analysis. Results: There was a significantly higher general, school and peer scores on PAAS suggesting better adjustment in the students of III standard than I standard students, but no change was observed in teacher scores of PAAS. Conclusion: The programs and tutelage given by the school is ameliorating student’s attitude towards education and making them more adjusted and comfortable with going to school. This is critical in bringing the slums of India forward and decreasing the gap between the rich and the poor.

¿La bioética en la educación ambiental? / The environmental education in bioethics?

Introducción: En el área del medio ambiente, se ha percibido la bioética como una interdisciplina en la construcción de un pensamiento crítico, que debería concluir en un saber ambiental con ética y en un planteamiento epistemológico donde se reafirmen los valores existenciales y axiológicos, para finalizar analizando los derroteros de la educación ambiental. Objetivos: Demostrar cómo la bioética reivindica los valores del humanismo y plantear la educación ambiental como una oportunidad de acción y generación de acciones en el desarrollo sostenible de las comunidades colombianas. Metodología: Mediante revisión bibliográfica, se elaboró un ensayo acerca de la relación de la bioética con la educación ambiental, en cuanto a los aspectos del ambiente, el desarrollo socioeconómico y la pedagogía ambiental. Resultados: Se realizaron descripciones acerca del concepto holístico en el medio ambiente; conceptualización sobre ética ambiental; conceptualización acerca del desarrollo sostenible, la globalización y la sustentabilidad; y conceptualización acerca de la educación ambiental y la bioética. Conclusiones: Del análisis realizado hay un primer epílogo que conduce a asumir la responsabilidad por nuestro accionar en el mundo y ser capaces de entender que la calidad de vida alcanza su plenitud, cuando se trasciende desde la conciencia individual hacia una forma de conciencia capaz de sentir como propia no sólo la necesidad sino, la de todo otro ser humano y de toda otra forma de vida. Y un segundo epílogo en el plantear estrategias de una educación ambiental, diferentes a las tradicionales, como una evolución hacia la educación para la sostenibilidad, sobre el cómo continuar el desarrollo al mismo tiempo que se protege, preserva y conservan los sistemas de soporte vital del planeta.

Introduction: In the area of the environment, it has been perceived the Bioethics like an interdisciplinary in the construction of a critical thought that should conclude in an environmental knowledge with ethics and in a position epistemologist where the existential values and axiological are reaffirmed, to conclude analyzing the courses of the environmental education. Objectives: To demonstrate how the Bioethics claims the values of the humanism and to outline the Environmental Education as an action opportunity and generation of actions in the sustainable development of the communities of our region. Methodology: By means of bibliographical revision, a rehearsal was elaborated about the relationship of the Bioethics with the Environmental Education, as for the aspects of the atmosphere, the socioeconomic development and the environmental pedagogy. Results: They were carried out descriptions about the Holistic concept in the environment; conceptualization on Environmental Ethics; conceptualization about the Sustainable Development, the Globalization and the Sustainability; and conceptualization about the Environmental Education and the Bioethics. Conclusions: Of the carried out analysis we have a first epilogue that drives to assume the responsibility for our to work in the world and being able to understand that our quality of life reaches its fullness, when we transcend from our individual conscience toward a form of conscience able to not feel as own alone our necessity but, that of all other human being and in all other way of life. And a second epilogue in outlining strategies of an Environmental Education, different to the traditional ones, like an evolution toward the Education for the Sustainability, on the as continuing the development at the same time that it is protected, it preserves and they conserve the systems of vital support of the planet.