This paper unpacks the assumptions underpinning England’s new Core Content Framework (CCF) in respect of educational research required for teacher expertise, with particular attention to sources referenced final part CCF and claims that these constitute ‘best available research’. Drawing on sociological studies knowledge, assessments quality England, addition philosophy expertise as related tea...

This article has as its theme the relationship between "power", "reason" and "religion" in O alienista, one of central texts Machado de Assis, written 1881 initially published eleven chapters, October March 1882. It is intended to identify analyze power relations State ("Throne") Catholic Church ("Altar"); well highlight (science) "absence" (madness); without neglecting Machadian denunciations ...

Assuming that science alone could represent reality and the facts of proclamation nature, materialistic paradigm originated in West divorced from religion viewed Islamic as being opposed to relativity affirmation transcendence. This research intends demonstrate how Qur'anic construction serves foundation for advancement science. study also highlights several issues brought about by Scientism's ...

Abstract While tens of thousands Koreans were subject to the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, early peninsular analysis bombings rarely grappled with existence these individuals. The general exclusion colonial subjects from story has long been identified as part a nationalization wartime years, move that situates history specifically Japanese experience. Less understood is how postcolo...

In this paper we consider the conflicts between two traditions of political ecology. The two traditions might be crudely characterised as physicalist and culturalist. The first is apparent in much of the work in ecological economics in particular, but also in the materialist left and more practically in conservation policy. It is concerned with the physical and biophysical conditions for human ...

The Western world has seen a significant shift in the epistemic values of spiritual seekers in the past quarter of a century; many have referred to the new epistemic approach as postmodern spirituality. Among the attributes unique to this growing cultural force are the prominence of mystery, enchantment, and the prehension of a numinous other (which need not be a theistic other) as key means of...

Studies of the brain in neuroscience led to two claims about human beings: the brain is what makes them human, and the soul is no longer needed to explain life, consciousness, and human nature. In order to deal with these issues, this study commences with a brief introduction to the thought forms that underlie these claims. It then presents a biblical picture of the soul and created kinds. The ...