How to Understand What Passes All Understanding: Using the Documentary Papyri to Understand εἰρήνη in Paul

To Understand Your Understanding, You Must Understand What Understanding Means

Although critical for the regulation of many reading and studying behaviors, metacomprehension accuracy is generally observed to be quite low. The present research examined how metacomprehension accuracy would be affected by practice tests designed to give readers expectations about the kind of tests they would be given, and self-explanation instructions to give readers access to valid cues for...

Using Activity Theory to Understand How People

In a typical workplace in the United States, two knowledge -producing activity systems are in motion. Each produces knowledge about how to do the work of that workplace, but they are differently motivated: one toward productivity, and the other toward earning a living. The conflict between these two systems is addressed through the process of negotiation. A.N. Leont’ev’s insight on the power of...

Learning how to understand language

To understand how babies breathe...

Facilitating communication: how to truly understand what patients mean.

1. Patients experience greater satisfaction with nursing care when they are truly understood. 2. Being aware of taken-for-granted meanings and committing the time to seek clarification and explore meanings are two basic principles that can facilitate understanding. 3. Techniques nurses can use to facilitate understanding include restating what was heard to ensure understanding and to demonstrat...