Historically, PBL has been deemed a functional method for the instruction of the sciences. Hence, its pedagogical strategy has been used by more than 80% of medical schools. In the teaching of the humanities, however, the method has taken a longer time to be assimilated. This paper then explores the application of PBL in the teaching of the humanities particularly in the field of literature. It...

BOTH professional and lay readers in America seem to share an intuitive belief that English literature has suffered a steady decline in the twentieth century and, moreover, that the decline can be correlated to and even explained by the contraction of British power. Yet few would argue that geopolitical power corresponds in a predictable way to literary creativity. If anything, the evidence fro...

OBJECTIVE It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis. METHODS We collected family background data on 50 Nobel Prize lau...

The main aim of required reading in schools is to educate the reading audience who is capable of aesthetic communicating with a literary work. Supposing that the freedom of choice substantially defines pupil relationship towards required reading, the author reflects upon the effectiveness of planning and realization of the current curriculum. As for the system of required reading in the Croatia...

Practising arts has been linked to lowering stress, anxiety and blood pressure. These mechanisms are all known to affect the ageing process. Therefore, we examine the relation between long-term involvement in arts and life expectancy at age 50 (LE50), in a cohort of 12,159 male acoustic, literary and visual artists, who were born between 1700 and 1899 in the Low Countries. We compared the life ...

Since rock became the subject of academic study, its attendant ideology has been scrutinised and its mythical and Romantic components exposed. Largely absent from this account has been a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of the ‘band’. The role of individual acts and the wider contexts in which they worked has been discussed at the expense of an examination of an important form of music-makin...

OBJECTIVE In a previous study of literary creative achievement, we presented evidence refuting the still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius and also described a family background constellation of creativity. This study aims to assess empirically the hereditary transmission hypothesis with respect to creative achievement in the natural sciences. METH...

People identified as idiot savants have long comprised an identifiable group (a high level of skill in the context of perceived mental deficiency) whose story has mostly been told by psychiatrists and psychologists within a medicalized model of disability that assumes deficiency and seeks remediation and normalization. More recently, people identified as savants have become common figures of li...