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Research-Based Teacher Evaluation
A Special Issue of the Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Conceptual Profiles
A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline. This book presents the authors’ theories on using ‘conceptual profiles’ to make the teaching of context-dependent meanings more effective....
Characterizing Pedagogical Flow
An Investigation of Mathematics and Science Teaching in Six Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each...
Phenomenological Psychology
Lectures, Summer Semester, 1925
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
THE TEXT In the summer semester of 1925 in Freiburg, Edmund Husserl delivered a lecture course on phenomenological psychology, in 1926127 a course on the possibility of an intentional psychology, and in 1928 a course entitled "Intentional Psychology. " In preparing the critical edition of...
Making Teaching and Learning Matter
Transformative Spaces in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the contributors illuminate the often perplexing debates...
Moral Responsibility
Beyond Free Will and Determinism
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza – and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett – defended responsibility from the threat of determinism. But defending responsibility from determinism is a potentially endless and largely negative enterprise; it can go on for as long...
To Know or Not to Know
Beyond Realism and Anti-Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
l. THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF EPISTEMOLOGY There is a philosophical issue that surely precedes all other possible questions. It concerns the very possibility of our thinking about some thing to some purpose. Short of this no philosophy, theory or research would be possible. But it is not immediately...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This volume presents both a historical and a systematic examination of the philosophy of classical Confucianism. Taking into account newly unearthed materials and the most recent scholarship, it features contributions by experts in the field, ranging from senior scholars to outstanding early career...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the Confucian thinker Xunzi and his work, which shares the same name. It features a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offers divergent interpretations. The disagreements reveal that, as with any other classic, the Xunzi provides fertile ground...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label. The collection of original essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book offers a critical outline of the sources of the history, of the spirit and of the doctrines of present-day Soviet Russian Dialectical Materialism ('Diamat'), i.e. of the philosophical foundations of Marxism Leninism. It is scarcely necessary to stress the usefulness of a short outline...
Cause, Mind, and Reality
Essays Honoring C.B. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
T is said that there is no progress in philosophy. The illusion of standing I still, however, arises only when we lose sight of our history and so fail to notice the distance we have travelled. Philosophers nowadays find obvious ideas and themes that, as it happens, emerged slowly and painfully and...
Alternative Action Theory
Simultaneously a Critique of Georg Henrik von Wright’s Practical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is connected...
Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon
Individuation, Technics, Social Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher’s entire oeuvre. The publication, which breaks new ground in its thoroughness and breadth of analysis,...