Praxis is the ability of the brain to develop an idea for action and plan, organize, and execute unfamiliar motor actions. It enables purposeful interaction with people and things in the environment. Ideation is central to praxis but has been little researched. This study investigated the reliability of the Test of Ideational Praxis (TIP) and examined ideational praxis in typical preschoolers. ...

Background: The Mirror System Hypothesis offers the mirror system for grasping (i.e., neural mechanisms active for both execution and observation of grasping) as a neural ‘‘missing link’’ between the brains of our non-human ancestors of 20 million years ago and the modern human language-ready brain, stressing the importance of manual gesture in the evolution of mechanisms supporting language. A...

A principle is a law or rule that has to be, or usually is to be, followed, or can be desirably followed, or is an inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature or the way that a system is constructed. Principles are at the fundamental of praxis. The principles of every system must be understood by its users as the essential characteristics of the system, or reflectin...

This study explored whether young children with Down syndrome show praxis deficits that impact activities of daily living, and whether these deficits are specific to Down syndrome. We compared the performance of young children with Down syndrome, a mental age-matched group of children with developmental disabilities of mixed or unknown etiologies, and a group of typically developing infants and...

The purpose of this paper is to articulate a rationale for value-based praxis in community psychology. Although values need to promote personal, collective, and relational wellness at the same time, it is argued that community psychologists pay more attention to personal and relational wellness than to collective wellness. In order to address this imbalance it is important to promote the value ...

This paper shares a story of community, vulnerability, art-making and possibility that arose within the context of a Social Foundations of Education course. Drawing on arts-informed epistemologies, the authors began the semester by inviting students to critically engage with the central ideas of the course through the process of creating a mandala. At the end of the semester, students were once...

Während sowohl in wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten als auch in der Praxis des Projektmanagements Einigkeit über die Wichtigkeit der Aufwandschätzung herrscht, ist die Diskrepanz bezüglich der Verbreitung verschiedener Methoden zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis erheblich. Dieser Beitrag schildert einen systematischen Ansatz zur Auswahl geeigneter Aufwandschätzmethoden in der Softwareentwicklung. Hierb...