Causally productive activities

Causally productive activities

This paper suggests and discusses an answer to the following question: What distinguishes causal from non-causal or coincidental cooccurrences? The answer derives from Elizabeth Anscombe’s idea that causality is a highly abstract concept whose meaning derives from our understanding of specific causally productive activities (e.g., pulling, scraping, burning), and from her rejection of the assum...

Running head : COACHING ACTIVITIES 1 Identifying Potentially Productive Coaching Activities

Instructional improvement initiatives in many districts include content-focused coaching as a primary form of job-embedded support for teachers. However, the current coaching literature provides little guidance about the types of activities in which coaches should engage teachers in order to support their development of ambitious instructional practices. Furthermore, when researchers do propose...

Productive activities and development of frailty in older adults.

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to examine whether engagement in productive activities, including volunteering, paid work, and childcare, protects older adults against the development of geriatric frailty. METHODS Data from the first (1988) and second (1991) waves of the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging, a prospective cohort study of high-functioning older adults aged 70-79 years (n = 1,072), was us...

Productive-collaborative Potential of Wiki Activities in Moodle

The focus is the potentiality of the collaborative-production of Wiki activities in Moodle, available as a backup system to the presence and distance learning on the Education Degree formation at Santa Catarina Federal University. The starting point is the analysis of the education mediated by the Information Technology and Communication presented on the national curriculum as a guideline in pu...

Productive Activities and Support Systems of Single Mothers