Philosophy contests proliferate today. The Olympiads are the most common. In International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) community there is some concern about a possible contradiction between cooperative and community-centred approach to practice philosophy in education intrinsic rivalry competitions. arguments against these focus on their main risks. It thought that th...

The framework of inquiry community theory provides a unique perspective, method and tool for online learning blended research. Based on this, this paper first introduces the origin connotation theory, then reviews researches under at home abroad in recent years, divides into four categories, which are focusing itself three components framework, aiming to provide reference framework. It is concl...

This paper seeks to reconstruct the role of schooling in a moment accelerated social, political, economic, geo-political, climatic, indeed planetary crisis. It identifies school as potentially prefigurative institution, an evolutionary social frontier, capable nurturing democratic character, form sensibility apart from which authentic political democracy is not possible. As theorized by Herbert...

In this paper I have followed the practice I learnt while a consultant at Microsoft: that is “eating your own dog food”. At Microsoft it means running the business on your own software including the latest beta software. I have used Benefits Management as a framework to explore the huge challenges involved in transforming research into practice and to clarify some of the changes required. I hav...

There are two main issues I want to address in this response to Peter Cheeseman's \An inquiry into computer understanding" (hereafter, abbreviated as Inquiry) and \In defense of`An inquiry into computer understand-ing' " (hereafter, abbreviated as Defense): (1) the \right" approach to reasoning about uncertainty and (2) the relationship between logic and probability. 1 Cheeseman's positions on ...

Wiki use may help EFL instructors to create an effective learning environment for inquiry-based language teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wikis on the EFL learners’ IBL process. Forty-nine EFL students participated in the study while they conducted research projects in English. The Non-wiki group (n = 25) received traditional inquiry instr...

BACKGROUND A community-based longitudinal study was conducted to investigate whether personality disorders (PDs) during adolescence increase the risk for Axis I psychiatric disorders and suicidality during early adulthood. METHOD Psychosocial and psychiatric interviews were administered to a representative community sample of 717 youths and their mothers from 2 counties in the state of New Yo...

The sociocultural ways of conceptualizing human learning in general education have given rise to various sensitive and time-consuming tools of knowledge production for both the researcher and the researched. The gravity of the situation is more noticeable in narrative inquiry methodology, which has gathered momentum in both general education and second language teacher education (SLTE) because ...

Despite decades of effort, biodiversity has not attracted effective political discourse, policies, or action to halt its decline. In cities in particular, conservation is challenged by short-term approaches, separately focusing on community well-being rather than their interconnection, and pervasive beliefs that urban citizenry lack the requisite ethic skills for governance. We describe how a s...