We are attracted by our heart's desires. In love we passionately desire to possess the good, or at least what we perceive to be the good. But what we seek soon comes to possess us in thought, feeling, and action. It becomes who we are, the content of our character. In this paper I want to talk about education and Eros. I want to talk about Eros as a creative poetic force that makes new meanings...

Donald A. Schon is among our generation’s most influential philosophers of design and design education, yet remains uncelebrated in both philosophy and design education. This paradox dissolves when we consider Schon’s specific contribution. He was, by his own account, a displaced philosopher working in (among other places) a management consulting firm, a governmental agency, a non-profit center...

While most universities have focused on graduate education to create public health leaders, undergraduate public health education is another way to ensure a prepared workforce at all levels. This article provides examples of three Council on Education for Public Health accredited graduate programs outside schools of public health (University of Southern California, Temple University, and New Yo...

Scerri and Erduran (2002) recently resurrected the question: How is knowledge developed and justified in chemistry? Scerri (2003) denies a role for constructivism in chemical education even though chemistry courses use humanly constructed models to represent sub-microscopic particles. The unobservable nature of most chemistry means that humanly constructed mental imagery is an essential element...

This article presents the results of an investigation that examined a teacher education experience in general bioethics conducted by the University El 1 This research was possible thanks to the funding of the Bioethical Program of Universidad El Bosque. This article presents the results of an investigation that examined a teacher education experience in general bioethics conducted by the Univer...

Introduction: This research aimed to design and validate the education model of philosophy of life for students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from the point of view of professors. Method: This qualitative research was performed on eight university professors selected through the purposeful sampling method. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview tool was used to coll...

In their recent paper, Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton evaluate seven volumes of the Oxford University Press series "International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry," an international book series begun in 2003 focusing on the emerging interdisciplinary field at the interface of philosophy and psychiatry. According to Natalie Banner and Tim Thornton, the series represents a clear indicat...

CDIO is on behalf of Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate. The carrier of CDIO engineering education philosophy is a project which allows students to take the initiative, practical, organic link between the curriculums for learning. E-Business specialty has a property combination of management and engineering. Therefore, with CDIO educational philosophy, to promote E-Business specialty and i...