Teaching Methods in Pesantren to Tackle Religious Radicalism

Epidemiological methods to tackle causal questions.

It is a dull day when there is not at least one media report of a claim that research has identified some new environmental cause of disease. Such claimed causes concern a wide range of supposed hazards including medical interventions such as the measlesmumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, the thimerasol (mercury) preservative in other vaccines, dietary factors of many different kinds (coffee, alcohol,...

specialized methods to teach spelling: comparing three methods

چکیده: بررسی ادبیات مربوطه در کشور در زمینه یادگیری زبان انگلیسی نشان می‎دهد که علی‎رغم اهمیت املا در فرآیند یادگیری به طور عام و یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به طور خاص، این مولفه از جایگاهی متناسب با اهمیت آن برخوردار نیست و عمدتاً نادیده گرفته شده است. تحقیقات گسترده‎ای در خارج از کشور در مورد ماهیت این مولفه صورت گرفته است، در حالی که به جرأت می‎توان گفت در داخل کشور گامی در مورد درک ماهیت آن و فرآی...

Speaking to a higher authority: Teaching philanthropy in religious settings

Teaching evolution: challenging religious preconceptions.

Teaching college students about the nature of science should not be a controversial exercise. College students are expected to distinguish between astronomy and astrology, chemistry and alchemy, evolution and creationism. In practice, however, the conflict between creationism and the nature of science may create controversy in the classroom, even walkouts, when the subject of evolution is raise...

Subverting the Anarchical Society – Religious Radicalism, Transnational Insurgency, and the Transformation of International Orders

In this paper, I attempt to chart a via media between transformationalist and sceptical positions on the long-term transformative significance of the 9/11 terror attacks and the ensuing war on terror for the Westphalian state system. I argue that in the absence of comparisons with prior episodes of transformative change in the history of the state system, debates on the transformative significa...