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Which Knowledge Do Pre‐Service Teachers Need to Meaningfully Engage in Modeling?
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modeling involves a set of scientific practices that pre‐service science teachers struggle with. These practices involve constructing, predicting, testing, and revising models. Engaging meaningfully in modeling practices leads modelers to gain new insights about phenomena.
Paul Engelschalt +4 more
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Solidarity and the Absurd in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 This article examines Kamel Daoud’s treatment of solidarity and the absurd in Meursault, contre-enquête and posits that the question of how to live in solidarity with others is central to the novel, although the word ‘solidarity’ never appears in it ...
Sarah Horton
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, 2009 As Christianity grows ever more diverse, is unity an absurd hope – or even desirable? A recent international conference in Durham confirmed that although progress is slow, a new way of ‘doing’ecumenism is starting to bear ...
Clague, Julie
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"Not only defended but also applied": The perceived absurdity of Bayesian inference
, 2011 The missionary zeal of many Bayesians of old has been matched, in the other direction, by a view among some theoreticians that Bayesian methods are absurd-not merely misguided but obviously wrong in principle. We consider several examples, beginning with
Gelman, Andrew, Robert, Christian P.
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Teaching Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract Statistical hypothesis testing (SHT) is widely employed across numerous scientific disciplines, and a clear understanding of its underlying logic is essential for the broader scientific community. Here, drawing upon both epistemological and statistical perspectives, we aim to clarify—primarily for educational purposes—the logical relationship ...
Maria Cristina Amoretti +1 more
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Externalism and A Priori Knowledge of the World: Why Privileged Access is Not the Issue [PDF]
, 2006 I look at incompatibilist arguments aimed at showing that the conjunction of the thesis that a subject has privileged, a priori access to the contents of her own thoughts, on the one hand, and of semantic externalism, on the other, lead to a putatively ...
Lasonen-Aarnio, Maria
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Ironing the Bugs Out : Mixed Metaphors [PDF]
, 2001 The mixed metaphor has long been vilified by language lovers. After all, a metaphor per se is often a stretch. The attempt to combine two or more vastly dissimilar figures of speech usually result in a jarring incongruity and an absurd image.
Hauptman, Don
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“Mad as Hell”: The Corruption of Personal Humanity in Network through Satire [PDF]
, 2018 A film has the power to connect to its viewers through dark or absurd humor, revealing truths we may not want to face.
Watson, Sophie J.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH VICTORIAN NONSENSE IN THE 20TH CENTURY: LEWIS CARROLL AND JOHN LENNON
Филологический класс, 2019 The author of this article analyzes the fiction by the world famous musician John Lennon from the perspective of the literary nonsense. Despite the fact that the influence of L. Carroll’s texts on the works by J.
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