(144) ePortfolios: A Philosophy for Improving Education in Horticulture

Future Learning Strategy and ePortfolios in Education

Based on the experience of a long running eLearning initiative the “Futur(e)Learning”-strategy was started October 2007: New forms of learning and “Web 2.0” didactics were launched at Austrian schools. The current results of this educational project will be outlined. The introduction of ePortfolios in education is part of this strategy: Portfolios are powerful tools to realize individualised le...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Education calls for a new philosophy

Let us have a glimpse of what has happened during the last 75 years in the most important branches of human activity. Life expectancy has increased from less than 45 to almost 80 (Encyclopedia Encarta, 1998). Medics are routinely making transplants of heart and other organs, several diseases have been eradicated by methods of genetic engineering (eradication of malaria, which used to cause 3 mi...

Philosophy of medical education

Introduction: Education is defined as an art with scientific principle. It isdescribed as a form of learning by which knowledge, skills and attitudes of an age group are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research and practice.Method: This is a historical review about the philosophy of medical education and its changes during the time.Results: It is unfortun...

Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Philosophy of Mathematics Education