Philosophy of Education: Becoming Less Western, More African?

Is the Labor Market Becoming More or Less Gradational?

ity within the United States has led to much debate about its sources and causes. It is hardly surprising that such a sudden takeoff in inequality, one that reversed what had been a decades-long decline, would generate so much research on its causes. Important as the resulting causal agenda has been, it is perhaps equally important to examine the consequences of the takeoff, especially its cons...

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...

Are we becoming less disposable?

Time and again we see not only does our mean life expectancy keep increasing (Fig 1), but also that this linear increase means that all predictions of our maximum life expectancy so far have turned out to be gross underestimates (Oeppen & Vaupel, 2002). Today, citizens in developed countries can easily expect to live beyond the age of 75 years—81 for women—but if we take Fig 1 as an indication,...

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

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