This article explores how dialogue journals can lead to a transformative learning experience. Adult Latino students enrolled in a community college developmental reading class agree to speak truth to power through this critical writing process. Using Mezirow’s(2002) transformational learning theory, Brookfield’s (2000) concepts on teaching for critical thinking, and Cranton’s (2000) ideas of in...

Words do not all connect to the world in the same way. Some words basically point and refer to things in the world, while others organize the world into semantic systems and name according to the system. According to the natural partitions hypothesis, the noun class has the privilege of naming the highly cohesive bits of the world, whereas verbs and prepositions have the job of partitioning the...

Under many conditions auditory input interferes with visual processing, especially early in development. These interference effects are often more pronounced when the auditory input is unfamiliar than when the auditory input is familiar (e.g. human speech, pre-familiarized sounds, etc.). The current study extends this research by examining how auditory input affects 8- and 14-month-olds' perfor...

Craver‟s (2007) account of explanation in neurobiology offers one of the most sophisticated explications of the mechanism concept. This paper argues that despite groundbreaking advances in understanding mechanistic explanation, serious challenges remain. The first goal of this paper is to address the notorious problem of explanatory relevance concerning mechanistic explanation. I argue that Cra...

Phenotype variability, phenotypic plasticity, and the inheritance of phenotypic traits constitute the fundamental ground of processes such as individuation, individual and species adaptation and ultimately speciation. Even though traditional evolutionary thinking relies on genetic mutations as the main source of intra- and interspecies phenotypic variability, recent studies suggest that the epi...

Jung's individuation process is associated with the shadow, anima, self, sage, and persona archetypes, during which protagonist achieves self-discovery self- awareness. Abdel Khaliq Al-Rikabi’s The Seventh Day of Creation one most popular Arabic novels in twentieth century has postmodern techniques including polyphony time travel to present two main distinct narratives. If these intertwined nar...

Findings from research on parent-child and adult mate relationships suggest that there are different paths of development in Japan and the United States. In Japan, the path is one of symbiotic harmony, as seen in the emphasis on union in infancy, others' expectations in childhood, the stability of relationships with parents and peers in adolescence, and assurance about the mate relationship in ...

ion should not surprise us: to the contrary, as Castagno points out, portraiture as well as religious and allegorical painting during the period reflected the “hegemony of typification over individuation” (Early Commedia dell’Arte, 165); and Katritzky reminds us that “a sixteenth-century artist is rarely or never concerned with presenting an accurate ‘snapshot’ of a particular performance” (“Re...

Sortal concepts, lexicalized as count nouns in languages with a count/mass distinction, pro , criteria for individuation and numerical identity . This paper examines Quine's and Piaget's cla that babies and young children lack the logical resources to represent sortal concepts . Evidence is marshalled against the Quine/Piaget position, in favor of a view that even yo infants represent at least ...

In this modern world, a significant increase in people’s wish to lead on an independent life has been plain truth since technological advancements have gained acceleration. Hence, it is thought that searching the relation between separation/individuation and psychological well-being of people important problem field. The purpose study investigate levels university students. 285 University stude...