Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) brought about a significant paradigm shift in the education and training of learners in South Africa. OBE requires a shift from focusing on the teacher input (instruction offerings or syllabuses expressed in terms of content), to focusing on learner outcomes. OBE is moving away from 'transmission' models to constructivistic, learner-centered models that put emphas...

Kevin Dunbar, McGill University (now at Dartmouth College) Scientific thinking refers to the thought processes that are used in science, including the cognitive processes involved in theory generation, experiment design, hypothesis testing, data interpretation, and scientific discovery. Many of these aspects of scientific thinking involve cognitive processes that have been investigated in their...

Sunan Kalijaga is one of the members Wali Songo (nine sunans) who have an influence on spread Islam in Indonesia, especially island Java. has a different style preaching from other Sunans because he uses cultural media. The long process that went through spreading made him philosophical thoughts were relevant many ways, which was strengthening character education. Character education becomes ed...

As a student new to the study of philosophy, I found the reading of writings such as those by MerleauPonty, Husserl and Heidegger to be complex. Fortunately, through narrative writings, I was able to explore these ways of thinking, being and knowing in my doctoral programme. Our Philosophy of Nursing Science course was structured with a robust reading list, Socratic discussion of philosophical ...

This work analyzes the sanitary question in the modernity-postmodernity debate. Such analyses are performed form a philosophical position that states the crisis of Modernity and questions the ideological twist that to itself propitiates postmodernity, shutting out questioning views or visions. It propitiates an alternative view of politics, thinking of it from the potency plane and giving a rol...