0039-3 doi:10 E-m So, the further I get with the description of the radical social constructionist programme and a particular version of postmodernism, coupled to the acid tools of critical discourse in the human sciences, themore nervous I get.Like all neuroses,mine is rooted in the problem of metaphor, that is, the problem of the relation of bodies and language. (Donna Haraway, 1991, p. 185, ...

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine if there is a relationship between middle school students’ epistemological beliefs and Piagetian stages of cognitive development and (b) if there is a relationship between epistemological beliefs and academic performance. Epistemological beliefs were defined as how individuals come to know and the beliefs they hold about this knowledge. A ...

We provide a construction which co-freely adds elementary structure to a primary doctrine in the sense of Lawvere. We show that the construction preserves all the first order logical structures that the starting doctrine may have. Moreover it forces the Principle of Propositional Extensionality when applied to tripos.

This case involves two proceedings, one pending in state court, the other in federal court. Each seeks review of an Iowa Utilities Board (IUB or Board) order. And each presents the question whether Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream), a local telecommunications carrier, may impose on Sprint Communications, Inc. (Sprint), intrastate access charges for telephone calls transported vi...

This study investigated the role of knowledge building in fostering conceptual and epistemological changes in the context of Grade 10 chemistry students collaborating on Knowledge Forum in a Hong Kong classroom. Participants were 40 experimental and 39 comparison students experiencing knowledge building and traditional instruction respectively. Students engaging in knowledge building posed ques...