Educational Guidelines from Antiquity – as Incentives for Contemporary Upbringing

Medicine as techne--a perspective from antiquity.

The objective of this article is to investigate whether the concept of techne is fruitful as a framework to analyze some of the pressing challenges in modern medicine. To do this, the concept of techne is scrutinized, and it is argued that it is a concept that integrates theoretical, practical and evaluative aspects, and that this makes it particularly suitable to analyze the complex activity o...

Crystal arthritis: contemporary approaches to diseases of antiquity.

within articular and periarticular tissues are among the most common causes of acute mono/polyarthritis and, less frequently, chronic arthritis. The two most common types of microcrystal synovitis are those associated with: • monosodium urate monohydrate (MSUM): gout • calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD): pseudogout. These arthritides are frequently encountered in medical inpatients in whom ...

1 A socio - historical overview of the creativity – pathology connection : from antiquity to contemporary times 1

Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby (2002) refines this argument and sug...

Contemporary educational argumentation: a multimodal perspective

In contemporary educational contexts there is considerable variation in how argumentation works and what forms and styles it takes. Influencing factors include the educational purpose and task, the level of education, and the discipline or curriculum subject in which it occurs. This paper offers a theoretical framework and a set of multimodal analytical tools which can provide a rich and system...