Walking to school in Connecticut is now so atypical that the experience makes news each October on National Walk School Day. Students at schools throughout state are dropped off designated meeting spots less than a mile from their destination. At chosen moment, procession moves out along sidewalk under supervision of teachers, parental chaperones, and sometimes police. An exercise promotion wit...

Two laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate success/failure attributions within competing groups. In both studies, attributions to the own team or to opponents were egocentric in that members of winning teams assigned responsibility for success primarily to their own team whereas members of losing teams assigned responsibility for the loss primarily to the opponents. Within-team at...

Examining from a gender perspective religious education within a prominent branch of Dutch Protestantism, this article investigates the interplay between oppressive and emancipating educational forces. The so-called Neo-Calvinists--progressively minded, yet orthodox--sought successfully to update traditional Calvinism and keep it abreast with modern developments from circa 1870 onwards, notably...

and summarize some main features that are pertinent in the present context.2 This tool interprets rationalism as a highly selective and ideological focus on: structures, laws, norms, principles, universality, objectivity, science, logic, formalization, and other items that fit this kind of rationality ideal. According to the model, rationalism in this sense detracts from: factuality, subjectivi...

The approach to transition policy taken in the last few years can generally be characterized as top-down. After a period of almost exclusive preoccupation with mapping problems on a national scale, scholars and policy-makers have become more interested in regional differences and local problems. With the support of international organizations, such as the World Bank and PHARE programs, etc., co...

Two mysteries of brains are focussed in this article from a roboticist's view. The rst is the brain's capacity to make sense of real-life sensoric input, which di ers strongly from experimentally administered stimuli. Another riddle posed by biological brains lies in the fact that brain subsystems are functionally indeterminate when seen in isolation, and acquire di erent functions when they in...