Extending Experience
Extending Experience emphasizes the vital role our past experiences play in shaping our current understanding.
Tag: education
Testing Theories
Testing Theories investigates ten different perspectives associated with the process of gaining knowledge by testing our theories.
Encountering Assumptions
Encountering Assumptions highlights the numerous biases and assumptions that are regularly encountered during the search for knowledge.
Personal Perspectives
Personal Perspectives offers candid glimpses of the motivations, passions and frustrations of a variety of researchers at the front lines of knowledge.
Making Models
Making Models examines various aspects of how models are constructed and applied across different disciplines in the arts and sciences.
Communicating Concepts
Communicating Concepts focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the communication of knowledge.
Heeding the Signs
What makes a language a language? Simple, right? Any time humans get together and use a collectively-recognized series of utterances
Recognizing Defeat?
When is it time to discard a scientific theory? Well, when it no longer works properly, of course. After all,
Emotional Rescue
To most scientists, human emotion is something to be minimized at all costs in their pursuit of rigorously objective understanding
Talking Democracy
University of Cambridge political scientist John Dunn’s insights on the role of etymology in his research.
Imagining the Past
University of Oxford historian John Elliott on the key role of imagination when historians examine historical records since they are usually written from only one perspective.
Falling Trees
If a tree falls in a forest with nobody to hear it, does it still make a sound? For many, this
Redefining Progress
Princeton University historian of science Michael Gordin on falsification and science vs. pseudoscience.
Discovering the IBDP
A decade later, a friend of mine mentioned in passing that, given my interests in education, I should check out the IB’s Diploma Programme.
Perpetual Reform
Education is one of those curious topics that manages to display unparalleled consensus and divergence simultaneously.