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For Enquiring Minds

Author : S. Elizabeth Bird
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497292
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book For Enquiring Minds written by S. Elizabeth Bird and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people read weekly supermarket tabloids. Yet little serious effort has been made to understand why so many Americans make a valued place for these papers in their lives. Instead, the tabloids are dismissed as the epitome of "trash"--sensational, gossipy, stereotyped, ephemeral. Libraries shun them. As the papers are "trashed" by critics, so by extension are their largely working-class readers, who are viewed as unworthy of consideration. This book, the first full-length analysis of the tabloids within their historical and cultural contexts, examines the interplay among tabloid writer, text, and audience. Drawing on anthropology, communications, folklore, and literary theory, Elizabeth Bird argues that tabloids are successful because they build on and feed existing narrative traditions, much as folklore does. Men and women, to judge from letters and interviews, read the tabloids from different perspectives. And while people buy the papers for various reasons, readers tend to be alienated from some aspects of the dominant culture. The tabloids are popular precisely for the reasons they are despised: formulaic yet titillating, they celebrate excess and ordinariness at the same time. After beckoning readers into a world where life is dangerous and exciting, the tabloids soothe them with assurances that, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Thus, while readers are active, playful consumers, we cannot assume that the papers offer a real opportunity to resist cultural subordination.

Enquiring Minds

Author : Rene Saran
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
ISBN 13 : 9781858563367
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Enquiring Minds written by Rene Saran and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in English to set out the theoretical underpinnings of modern Socratic Dialogue as a self-directed learning process. Central to the Socratic Method are the opportunities it gives educators and others to * learn about the Socratic Method as a new approach to their work * foster rational critical thinking skills * develop the learners' autonomy * nurture emotional intelligence and qualities such as empathy As a process of philosophising in groups, Socratic Dialogue is attracting growing interest in the US, Mexico and Europe because of its potential contribution to developing learning. It will be relevant to courses in citizenship, personal and social education, health, social work and community issues. Inspired by the philosophy of Socrates, the German philosopher Leonard Nelson began to apply the Socratic Method to thinking and learning in the 1920s. By the 1950s Socratic Dialogue was being developed into a learning/teaching process, initially in Germany. Part 1 of the book deals with theoretical aspects of Socratic Dialogue and suggests possible applications, particularly in the school sector. Part 2 presents a range of Socratic Dialogue experiences in Britain and Germany and offers guidance about the organisation, rules and phases of the Socratic process. The foundation text by Leonard Nelson makes up Part 3. There is information about organizations involved with the promotion of Socratic Dialogue in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands and a survey of relevant literature. The work will be of interest to all those working in education, especially teachers of philosophy, ethics, religious studies and mathematics. It will provide an authoritative guide to educators who want learners to develop enquiring minds.

The Inquiring Mind

Author : Jason S. Baehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960407X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Inquiring Mind written by Jason S. Baehr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology.

Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds

Author : Julius Sumner Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859022804
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Enchanting Questions for Enquiring Minds written by Julius Sumner Miller and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

OCR GCSE (9–1) Geography B: Geography for Enquiring Minds

Author : Alan Parkinson
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 147185261X
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book OCR GCSE (9–1) Geography B: Geography for Enquiring Minds written by Alan Parkinson and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: Geography First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 An OCR endorsed textbook Build your students' subject knowledge and cross-disciplinary enquiry skills with this modern, topic-based approach, brought to life through clear explanations and skills-focused activities that are tailored to the new assessment requirements; produced by one of the leading Geography publishers and OCR's Publishing Partner for Geography. - Maps the content against the reformed specification, providing an easy-to-follow teaching pathway designed by an author team of experienced teachers and examiners - Equips students with the subject knowledge and up-to-date case study examples they need to maximise their potential, with opportunities to undertake developmental activities for each topic - Offers you a whole-class solution to teaching the non-tiered papers with extension activities to stretch high achievers and scaffolded questions that support lower ability students - Embeds a focus on mathematical and statistical skills throughout by including opportunities to analyse a range of maps, graphs, GIS material and data sources - Prepares students to approach assessment confidently with practice questions of varying difficulty and handy tips for successfully answering enquiry questions - Highlights possible fieldwork projects and contains guidance on carrying out fieldwork, making it easier to integrate practical and theoretical learning

Solve It!

Author : Karl Jacklin
Publisher : Blake Education
ISBN 13 : 1921015306
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Solve It! written by Karl Jacklin and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...students are presented with a scenario that poses a problem to be solved, then provided with evidence to analyse and assess, and asked to complete a report in which they give their solution and justify their problem-solving processes." -- Book 1 back cover.

Physics for the Inquiring Mind

Author : Eric M. Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics for the Inquiring Mind written by Eric M. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of physics so that they can enjoy those contacts with science and scientists that are part of our civilization both materially and intellectually. They need knowledge and understanding instead of the feelings, all too common, that physics is dark and mysterious and that physicists are a strange people with incomprehensible interests. Such a sense of understanding science and scientists can be gained neither from sermons on the beauty of science nor from the rigorous courses that colleges have offered for generations; when the headache clears away it leaves little but a confused sense of mystery. Nor is the need met by survey courses that offer a smorgasbord of tidbit--they give science a bad name as a compendium of information or formulas. The non-scientist needs a course of study that enables him to learn real science and make its own--with delight. For lasting benefits the intelligent non-scientist needs a course of study that enables him to learn genuine science carefully and then encourages him to think about it and use it. He needs a carefully selected framework of topics--not so many that learning becomes superficial and hurried; not so few that he misses the connected nature of scientific work and thinking. He must see how scientific knowledge is built up by building some scientific knowledge of his own, by reading and discussing and if possible by doing experiments himself. He must think his own way through some scientific arguments. He must form his own opinion, with guidance, concerning the parts played by experiment and theory; and he must be shown how to develop a taste for good theory. He must see several varieties of scientific method at work. And above all, he must think about science for himself and enjoy that. These are the things that this book encourages readers to gain, by their own study and thinking. Physics for the Inquiring Mind is a book for the inquiring mind of students in college and for other readers who want to grow in scientific wisdom, who want to know what physics really is.

Solve It!

Author : Karl Jacklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846181948
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Solve It! written by Karl Jacklin and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fire in the Minds of Men

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0765804719
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Minds of Men written by James H. Billington and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.

The Magic of Awareness

Author : Anam Thubten
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083482910X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Awareness written by Anam Thubten and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tibetan Buddhist teacher offers guidance on maintaining a state of awareness—demonstrating how enlightenment can be found at any time, in our everyday lives The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. It can't be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitation. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thought or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither good nor bad. No matter where we are, no matter what we are doing, we always have an immediate access to that inner stillness. It can be experienced in an instant in all circumstances once we know how to pay attention to it. It is utterly peaceful and it is also insightful, so it sees through all illusions. Whenever there is a moment of being deluded, we can use that moment to practice settling in the very perfect sphere of the Buddha mind without trying to change anything. When we reside in that liberated mind, we find the very thing we have been seeking all along.

The Best of Inquiring Mind

Author : Barbara Gates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861715519
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Inquiring Mind written by Barbara Gates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiring Mind has been a pathblazer at the forefront of Buddhism in the West Rich in insight, humor, and world-renowned expertise, The Best of Inquiring Mind is an unprecedented gathering of wisdom from the minds of some of the most influential thinkers in the realm of modern Dharma. Book jacket.

An Enquiring Mind

Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiring Mind written by Paul G. Bahn and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Marshack single-handedly revolutionized the field of Paleolithic art research. His astounding photographs of portable art objects caused us to see them with fresh eyes, to ask new questions, and to understand their technology and production far more precisely; and his pioneering use of infrared and ultraviolet light in the caves revealed startling new facts about the paintings. In addition, he carried out important, provocative and challenging work on archaeoastronomy, calendar sticks, female imagery, and other topics. Alexander Marshack was able to do what nobody else ever had before, or perhaps ever will again - i.e. travel all over Europe, visiting not only many decorated caves but also all the portable art objects scattered throughout the continent, including Russia. This unique experience and knowledge, together with his unrivalled and amazing documentation of all this material, made him by far the USA's foremost specialist in Paleolithic imagery. To honor his memory, in this book, scholars from many parts of the world contribute papers about some of the many problems that interested him and to which he made such a massive contribution.

Some enchanting questions for enquiring minds

Author : Julius Sumner Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some enchanting questions for enquiring minds written by Julius Sumner Miller and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes of questions and brainteasers whose solutions require the application of various scientific principles or performance of simple experiments.

Explanatory Pluralism

Author : C. Mantzavinos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316668487
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Explanatory Pluralism written by C. Mantzavinos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive account of the explanatory activity of scientists in different domains and shows how they differ from commonsensical explanations offered in everyday life by ordinary people and also from explanations offered in religious contexts. He also shows how an evaluation and a critical appraisal of explanations put forward in different social arenas can take place on the basis of different values. Explanatory Pluralism provides solutions to all important descriptive and normative problems of the philosophical theory of explanation as illustrated in sophisticated case studies from economics and medicine, but also from mythology and religion.

Some more enchanting questions for enquiring minds

Author : Julius Sumner Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some more enchanting questions for enquiring minds written by Julius Sumner Miller and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes of questions and brainteasers whose solutions require the application of various scientific principles or performance of simple experiments.

An Inquiring Mind's Journey Into Wisdom, Compassion, Freedom and Silence

Author : Bhante Kovida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiring Mind's Journey Into Wisdom, Compassion, Freedom and Silence written by Bhante Kovida and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pocket PAL: Creating Enquiring Minds

Author : Sara Stanley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472909593
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Pocket PAL: Creating Enquiring Minds written by Sara Stanley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring, intelligent and practical, this user-friendly guide provides a wonderful introduction to using P4C (Philosophy for Children) in primary schools. This extremely accessible book provides an introduction to philosophy for children. It explains how you can encourage children to ask the right questions, reason effectively, think for themselves, and begin to understand more about themselves and the world around them. Inspiring and intelligent, with clearly presented, practice-based examples, it is full of fun and engaging activities that work right across the curriculum.