A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: Making wise educational judgements

engineering education as a foundation for development

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Transition-Focused Education: Foundation for the Future

In response to information regarding students' postschool outcomes, the past 15 years have reflected an increased focus on improving transition education and services for youth with disabilities. Three specific initiatives characterize this development: (a) federal special education and disability legislation; (b) federal, state, and local investment in transition services development; and (c) ...

Strategic Thinking: Educational Use & Cognitive Foundation *

Strategic thinking is at the intellectual core of the calculus for the 21st century, which is not the mathematical calculus that emerged in the 17th century, but rather the logical calculus that was conceived in the same period by Leibniz, one of the two inventors of the mathematical calculus. Leibniz put great emphasis on a universal language to organize concepts, on rules to guide thinking an...

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

Epistemic Foundation of Decision Making under Ambiguity

In the seminal works, Mukerji (1997) and Ghirardato (2001) explain the notion of ambiguity in terms of incompleteness of what the decision maker (DM) knows and demonstrate that such limitation may lead to a non-additive specification of DM’s beliefs. However, these theories do not relate this issue to well established formal models of knowledge. We show that translating the decision theoretic s...