Introducing Challenging Women

Introducing a Challenging Teachable Agent

This paper explores the potentials of a new type of pedagogical agent – a Challenger Teachable Agent. The aim of such a pedagogical agent is to increase engagement and motivation, and challenge students into deeper learning and metacognitive reasoning. It is based on the successful implementation of the Learning by Teaching approach in Teacheable Agents, and in addition it draws on previous wor...

Challenging perspectives: women, complementary and alternative medicine, and social change

This article presents an analytical review of literature that examines women’s practice and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). To interrogate this body of literature, I draw on new social movement scholarship and a feminist understanding of the notion of “the personal is politica”’. Although women’s prominence in CAM is consistently noted, our understanding of the relationship...

Challenging the Status Quo Meaning of Educational Quality: Introducing Transformational Quality (TQ) Theory©

Dedicated to Maria-Teresa Gomez, my beautiful children Liam and Jessica Barry, my brother Greg Barry and his beautiful family, my mother and father, Sue Wallace, Stevie Vanhegan, Margo Marvin, Frank Ledwith, Jack Whitehead, Robert Pirsig, Paulo Freire, Robert LaRochelle, Ed Duclos, Phil Harak, Coach Jude Kelly, Joe Ehrmann, Mrs. Ward, and Laura Hayes without whom the creation of TQ Theory would...

An International Approach to Challenging Violence Against Women in India

Challenging wisdom

Received: 10 October 2005 Revised: 11 October 2005 Accepted: 11 October 2005 ‘After all, an improviser must anticipate before playing, and composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often, one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.’ The central part of this sentence from ‘Brahms the Progressive,’ one of Arnold Schoenberg’s most renowned and influential writings (in Style a...