In Which Sense, If Any, Is Educational Theory ‘Political’? A Pragmatist Perspective

Preoperative hemostatic evaluation: which tests, if any?

W HEN THE WHOLE BLOOD clotting time and the Duke bleeding time were the tests used to screen hemostatic function preoperatively, the question posed in the title of this brief review was easy to answer: Do not bother with these insensitive tests, rely on the patient’s history. However, the reliability today of screening techniques that can detect virtually all patients with hemostatic abnormalit...

A pragmatist theory of learning

This paper suggests that Peirce’s pragmatism might be a more suitable underpinning of educational research than the currently prevailing constructivism, in particular with respect to science and mathematics education. Using examples from the educational literature, a case is made for a notion of “truth”, a pragmatist scientific method, Peirce’s doubt-belief cycle and his semiotics and logic in ...

Is there any sense in antisense editing?

Several recent studies have hypothesized that sense-antisense RNA-transcript pairs create dsRNA duplexes that undergo extensive A-to-I RNA editing. We studied human and mouse genomic antisense regions and found that the editing level in these areas is negligible. This observation questions the scope of sense-antisense duplexes formation in-vivo, which is the basis for several proposed regulator...

Making sense of dissensus A pragmatist approach to the plurality of explanations in International Relations Theory

In social science (and beyond of course), disagreement and debate are ubiquitous. Within IR there was for example the interparadigm debate and, more recently, the controversy between positivists and critical realists. Scholars commonly feel they need to take stance in these discussions, but often lack understanding of the exact nature of the disagreement they are having. For what exactly is at ...

Paediatric respiratory training in Europe: political, educational and historical perspective*