III.—BEING AND BECOMING

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Becoming Immortal Becoming Immortal Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy

Absolute becoming, relational becoming and the arrow of time

The first and main claim of this paper is that physics cannot provide, empirical evidence for the objectivity (mind-independence) of absolute becoming, for the simple reason that it must presuppose it, at least to the extent that a classical (i.e., non-quantum) spacetime theory presupposes a priori an ontology of events. However, the fact that a theory of absolute becoming must be situated in t...

Becoming, relativity and locality

It is a central aspect of our ordinary concept of time that history unfolds and events come into being. It is only natural to take this seriously. However, it is notoriously difficult to explain further what this ‘becoming’ consists in, or even to show that the notion is consistent at all. In this article I first argue that the idea of a global temporal ordering, involving a succession of cosmi...

Becoming syntactic.

Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) ...