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7The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of ArgumentUniversity of Wisconsin Press. 1996.Argues to reestablish the traditional role of rhetoric in education and discusses the importance of a student's ability to write a reasoned argument.
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A History of Pan-African RevoltCharles H. Kerr Publishing Company. 1995.A welcome reissue of the pioneering work on Black resistance, with a superb new introduction by Robin D G Kelley. "No piece of literature can substitute for a crystal ball, and only religious fundamentalists believe that a book can provide comprehensive answers to all questions. But if nothing else, A History of Pan-African Revolt leaves us with two incontrovertible facts. First, as long as Black people are denied freedom, humanity, and a decent standard of living, they will continue to revolt. …Read more
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2Many teachers do not conform to the views of teaching espoused by professors of education. Yet these teachers are often judged as outstanding by colleagues, students, parents, and administrators. This thoughtful, timely book is a qualitative inquiry that addresses this contradiction. It focuses on two outstanding high school teachers, Laura and Jim, who were observed and interviewed by Kagan over a five month period. Two education professors who teach methods courses in corresponding fields (Eng…Read more
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105Mental terms, theoretical terms, and materialismPhilosophy of Science 35 (March): 45-63. 1968.Some materialists argue that we can eliminate mental entities such as sensations because, like electrons, they are theoretical entities postulated as parts of scientific explanations, but, unlike electrons, they are unnecessary for such explanations. As Quine says, any explanatory role of mental entities can be played by "correlative physiological states and events instead." But sensations are not postulated theoretical entities. This is shown by proposing definitions of the related terms, 'obse…Read more
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10Science and Reality: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Science : Essays in Honor of Ernan McMullinUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1984.
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5Integer Linear Programming for the Bayesian network structure learning problemArtificial Intelligence 244 (C): 258-271. 2017.
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2Bringing Greater Transparency and Narrative Content to Constructionist StudiesConstructivist Foundations 14 (3): 284-285. 2019.Open peer commentary on the article “Studying Conceptual Change in Classrooms: Using Association Rule Mining to Detect Changes in Students’ Explanations of the Effects of Urban Planning and Social Policy” by Arthur Hjorth & Uri Wilensky.: What could be more important than exploring how students construct knowledge? The authors have taken a major step in using constructionist tools to analyze how students change their concepts after interacting with a multiagent model in a course on urban design.…Read more
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2Constructionist Space Should Be Inclusive, Non-Dogmatic and Open to Multiple SourcesConstructivist Foundations 14 (3): 248-249. 2019.Open peer commentary on the article “Constructionism and De-Constructionism: Opposite yet Complementary Pedagogies” by Jean M. Griffin.: Reading Griffin’s clearly written article has led me to think about some questions that I would like to address particularly to members of the constructionist community. Constructionists have never sufficiently outlined a proper theory of learning; they have failed to document and report on their successes and failures in the classroom, thus making evaluation o…Read more
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22Secondary Worsening Following DYT1 Dystonia Deep Brain Stimulation: A Multi-country CohortFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2020.
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7Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to DecolonizationRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.Blackening Britain explores the key moments, figures, and patterns of radical black political development among Caribbean and African migrants in Britain after World War II. Ultimately, the move away from British identity and a radical, revolutionary consciousness rooted in the West Indian background was forged in the contentious space of Britain.
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164Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics. Andrew PickeringPhilosophy of Science 52 (4): 640-641. 1985.
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