The paper discusses the challenges individualisation and detraditionalisation represent for professional learning and commitment. We point to the fact that integration via human bonds, face-to-face interaction and stable communities has become increasingly less effective in modern society, and to the need for professionals to establish modes of…

Reflecting on Bill Foster's influence on the author's work leads to reflections about the lifelong dialogue among scholars whose thinking and writing is continually refreshed and deepened by a scholarly field of dialogue. Over time, a dialogue between two scholars illuminates earlier scholarly influences on each of them, leading to the enrichment…

The many authors debating whether computers can understand often fail to clarify what understanding is, and no agreement exists on this important issue. In his Chinese room argument, Searle (1980) claims that computers running formal programs can never understand. I discuss Searle's claim based on a definition of understanding that is empirical,…

The problem of the study was to determine college freshmen's financial knowledge. The entire freshman English 101, College Reading and Writing class at Texas A&M University--Commerce was surveyed. There were a total of 407 students enrolled in these classes. There were 20 multiple choice questions dealing with basic knowledge of financial issues,…

Attempts are currently being made to create a European Higher Education Area and a European Research Area, which are the two pillars of the so called "knowledge-based society". Since 1998 there has been a flurry of EU initiatives affecting higher education. Out of these, the Bologna Process is probably the most well known. Related to…

The aim of this research is to devise a cognitive tool for meeting the diverse needs of learners for comprehending new procedural knowledge. A model of affordances on teaching fraction equivalence for developing procedural knowledge for adding/subtracting fractions with unlike denominators was derived from the results of a case study of an initial…

We studied the relations between English as a foreign language teachers' grammar knowledge and their in-action mental models (MMs) of children's minds and learning. The grammar knowledge we examined was English wh-constructions. A total of 74 teachers completed an assessment task and were classified to have deep, intermediate or shallow knowledge.…

Argues that notwithstanding recent survey findings to the contrary, knowledge of history among today's elementary and secondary school students is no less---and probably more--than that of previous generations. Compares results of earlier history surveys to support argument. (Contains 28 references.)(PKP)

Today childhood takes place within a multimedia context where education, marketing and entertainment operate together in one big melting pot. Childhood is commodified, a situation not everybody seems happy with. Due to increasing exposure with violence and sexual activities, for example in children's games, children seem to lose the chance to be…

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' knowledge and skills in phonological awareness (PA). The sample included 145 teachers teaching first to 3rd grade elementary public schools in United Arab Emirates (UAE). A valid and reliable instrument was developed together the data. The instrument included to major sections; knowledge and…

A typical tutorial system functions by means of interaction between four components: the expert knowledge base component, the inference engine component, the learner's knowledge component and the user interface component. In typical tutorial systems the interaction and the sequence of presentation as well as the mode of evaluation are…

At first glance, the title seems to be a bit contradictory. Isn't art "supposed" to be nonrational? Isn't that the point? These questions are what this essay aims to reconsider. It is a wide topic indeed, and widely covered as well. Here, the author will offer a few thoughts about rationality in general, and point out a possibly fruitful direction…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to elucidate information on what creates the different types of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: In the conceptual model it is argued that the concept of social capital provides an interesting view on the creation of market-specific and firm-specific knowledge. Findings: The major finding from the paper…

This study is intended to review some of the selected researches carried out on students' understandings of enthalpy and spontaneity. The review puts together the important findings of the researches, summarises the misunderstandings identified so far and the possible sources of these misunderstandings. Therefore, this study would be beneficial…

This paper addresses the issue of engineering education for sustainable development. In an attempt to facilitate a better integration of sustainability teaching into the engineering curriculum, it seeks to provide answers to the following fundamental questions: (1) How much do engineering students know about sustainable development? (2) What are…