This paper draws upon critical theories and the capabilities approach. It argues for a conceptualisation of development as a process designed to enable people to free themselves from structural disadvantage. Amartya Sen has argued that people’s ‘critical-agency’ to question and reject unjust social norms is ‘pivotal’ to human development and important for tackling inequalities of any kind. Frei...

This article proposes to investigate perceptions on how migration is contributing to the rise of overweight and obesity mainly among female staff and students of Zulu ethnicity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban. Through a cultural anthropology lens, this article interrogates the perceptions against the backdrop of rural-urban migration, and vice versa. From a public health persp...

the main issues in any society are teaching and learning and main elements of this story are the teacher and the learner. there are different psychology schools in which any of them in turn, have taken many extensive researches about behavior, and facts and theories of learning have been studied from a particular perspective. rationalism asserts that the human intellect has the highest energy a...

This article examines the previously unexplored current of Freethinking feminism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the women's movement of this period, Freethinking feminists were nonetheless viewed as a liability—an attitude that contributed to their exclusion from much of the subsequent historiography. Such marginalisation was due not only to their vocal opposition to al...

Distinct to today's society is rapid change, exemplified in the swift demands that confront professionals and working life. As this ripple challenges educational set up mold competent individuals, changes occur as education paradigm shifts. One such change Constructivism which asserts learning be an active process where learners actively build on their experiences knowledge. Students' perceptio...

N. Marõ  n, Dpto. de Dida  ctica de la Matematica y de las Ciencias Experimentales, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educacio  n, Universidad de Almerõ  a, Spain A. Benarroch, Dpto. de Dida  ctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, Escuela de Magisterio de Melilla, Universidad de Granada, Spain E. Jime  nez Go  mez, Dpto. de Dida  ctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, Facultad de Educacio  n, U...

Introduction This paper offers a feminist critique of corporate law and corporations. It will discuss some of the more traditional legal theories of corporate law and argue that these theories are inadequate in evaluating the effects that corporations have on people because they do not question the political and economic context they exist in. These theories treat capitalism as a given and, the...

In the field of education, virtual reality (VR) offers learners an immersive and interactive learning experience, allowing them to comprehend challenging concepts ideas more efficiently effectively. VR technology has enabled educators develop a wide range experiences, from trips complex simulations, that may be utilized engage students help learn. Learning theories approaches are essential for ...

Introduction:This article is an attempt to show the constructivist learning environment as a model, concept that assumes student active, not passive participant in process of gaining in-depth, flexible and systemic knowledge rather than fragmentary, rigid or mechanically reproduced. The text focuses on contemporary needs students based radical social constructivism. main dimensions critical con...