Long after Pyrrho, epistemology wrestles with scepticism about our knowledge of the external world. We know about the external world through perception. But that knowledge is hard to understand. Because perception seems to be our only means to assess its own reliability, we appear to be caught in a kind of epistemic circle: how can we rationally trust a faculty whose trustworthiness can be know...

What does it take to turn a learner into a discoverer? Or to turn a teacher into a co-adventurer? A handful of experiences—from teaching a middle-school math class to doing research with undergraduates—have changed the way that I would answer these questions. Some of the lessons I’ve learned have surprised me. The title of this article may seem a little puzzling. After all, the words teaching a...

Promises are unique and perplexing in that, by promising, we can voluntarily transform the moral status of an action. A promise can change an optional act into an obligatory one.1 By promising, it seems that we can create moral rights and obligations “from nothing.” Specifically, we can create the promisee’s right to have the action performed and the promisor’s self-imposed obligation to perfor...

BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...