Despite much research on teaching, (preservice) teachers in the field still experience a considerable gap between theory and the prescriptions for teaching and their own day-today practice. We conceptualize this gap in terms of the difference between descriptions of practice and practice itself. Descriptions are problematic because they (a) can not include the tacit understanding (background, p...

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), an Army pharmacist, single-handed promoted the introduction of the potato as a cultivar and food in France. His main activities were in agriculture, nutrition, and public health. He was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign, pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, founding the first governmental school of bread ma...

What does it mean to say that one is listening to a piece of music, to a performance, or an artist? Initially, it may seem that there is little or no difference between these three questions. Upon closer reflection, though, there may be significant differences and these may be contingent on a variety of variables pertaining to musical content. This paper examines the case of listening to Bob Dy...

Inference has long been the concern of assorted disciplines that vary in focus, rationale, apparatus, terminology, and achievement. There would appear an inverse proportion between the range and the orderliness of the knowledge accumulated by the various disciplines. Literary study tends to the first extreme, logic and its heritage in modern pragmatics to the second, either imbalance precluding...