Although the study of how learners approach emergent phenomena is relatively new, a consistent set of misconceptions associated with emergence have been documented. However, little consideration has been given as to whether some misconceptions manifest more frequently in one domain than another, or take on a different character depending on the agents or phenomenon involved. We examined partici...

In Finland, folk high school education began in 1889 and consisted of non-formal adult education in Finland. The aim of the study is to research the role of folk high school education into Finnish culture.The study introduces the history of Finnish folk high school education and discusses the role of folk high school education in the Finnish educational system, especially arts education. The pu...

The article offers an insight into the practical implementation of Soviet folk art policy in everyday life in the Estonian SSR. Bureaucratic rules, state control, material aid, social prestige and motivation, the ““folk art”” competitions, media coverage, the folklore protest movement, etc., are the topics of this article. By looking closer at the ways of dealing with, interpreting and adopting...

BACKGROUND Sorghum is one of the main staple food crops for the poorest and most food insecure people of the world. As Ethiopia is the centre of origin and diversity for sorghum, the crop has been cultivated for many thousands of years. Hence, indigenous knowledge based sorghum classification and naming has a long tradition. METHODS In order to assess folk taxonomy, various research methods w...

This essay in the "anthropology of science" is about how cognition constrains culture in producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive universals that provide the historical backbone of systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and animals in highly structured ways. People have similar folk-biological...

Anthropological enquiry suggests that all societies classify animals and plants in similar ways. Paradoxically, in the same cultures that have seen large advances in biological science, practical knowledge of nature has dramatically diminished. Here we describe historical, cross-cultural, and developmental research on the ways in which people ordinarily conceptualize organic nature (folk biolog...

Malay Folk Literature in early childhood education served as an important agent in child development that involved emotional, thinking and language aspects. Up to this moment not much research has been carried out in Malaysia particularly in the teaching and learning aspects nor has there been an effort to publish “big books.” Hence this article will discuss the stance taken by university under...

The consideration of folk medicine places us in a hazy domain where meanings are clouded by interests and assumptions which are often at odds with one another. This article on folk medicine in the Iberian Peninsula reveals that while there is no doubt of the vitality of the practice and the relevance of the concept, its content and function depend on the context in which it is used. Folk medici...