According to the report of TIMSS (1999), Japanese children’s performance in mathematics is relatively high, but their attitudes towards mathematics are extremely negative; in fact they are at the lowest in the world. This is a serious problem for mathematics education in Japan. This article discusses ways to improve the current mathematics education system, presenting concrete examples. To impr...

Primitive man was overwhelmed and horrified by nature and natural phenomena just as animals are when they face an unknown situation. He could not give a naturalistic explanation so he looked for explanations in his imagination filling the world with imaginary forces, then to creatures hypostasizing these forces. At the same time, however, man was making real observations of the world and natura...

Over the past year, the steady drumbeat of reported breaches has escalated into a hail storm of media attention. From mainstream mass publications to the trade press, the number of stories and the depth of coverage on security have ballooned as the media seeks to shed light on the shadowy, evolving threat landscape. While stories about “hackers” and “breaches” have captured the public‟s imagina...

Access to medication emphasizes the availability of the product at the expense of providing a service. The goal of this paper is to propose a theoretical model for a drug dispensing service, beginning with a reflection on the current realities of the Unified Health System and drug dispensation in Brazil. A conceptual analytical research made by a methodological course called disciplined imagina...

This symposium volume begins with a simple provocation: race and racism are central to the development of medicine and the health sciences. If pursuits of health equity are to be taken seriously, this repositioning of race as central rather than peripheral to science and medicine suggests that improved health outcomes and reduced disparities cannot be attained until we acknowledge that these fi...

PURPOSE Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have difficulty participating in role-pretending activities. The concept of adaptive play makes play accessible by modifying play materials for different needs or treatment goals for children with CP. This study examines the affective expressions and imagination in children with CP as a function of ordinary versus adaptive pretend play. METHOD The Aff...

Much current naturalistically inclined philosophy of mind has set up its defining problem in such a way as to echo Frege's puzzle of the informativeness of identity statements.1 To take but one of dozens of examples, Fodor (1987) goes to some pains to ensure that his theory of content will entail that a cognitive token can have the content 'Jocasta' without having the content 'Oedipus' Mother',...

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes...