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The quest for appropriate teaching and learning practices for children and young people is ongoing and ever present. A major challenge is to make maths teaching more inclusive and maths itself more accessible to a wider cross section of children and young people. This is essential if we are to successfully meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality educ...

After a historical review of the discussion of the concept of strangeness and alienation since the beginning of the 19th century, the question of the background of the current discussion of "the alien" arises. The assumption is that the experience of strangeness and self-alienation took a qualitative and quantitative leap at the point in technological development when the dialectic between huma...

One of the ways to model contraction functions for belief sets is epistemic entrenchment. The first step was provided by Gärdenfors in [5], who defined epistemic entrenchment and a contraction function in terms of it and related the latter with the AGM contraction function. Later Hans Rott in [16] presented an entrenchment based contraction function that does not satisfy recovery. In this paper...

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