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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Evidencialidad y modalidad epistémica en dos variedades de toba habladas en Formosa, Argentina

Lexis, 2017
This paper analyzes morphosyntactic strategies that encode evidentiality and epistemic modality in eastern and western Toba (Formosa, Argentina), from the functional typological perspective (Chafe 1986; Bybee et al.
María Belén Carpio, Raúl Eduardo González   +1 more
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Showing the drawing hand of the teacher in an anatomy video lecture—Effect on the student's learning, motivation, and cognitive load

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing is a classical teaching strategy in anatomy. While teachers' drawings can foster learning, teaching anatomy using video lectures can be challenging. According to the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML), the learning effect of a video lecture could be related to the presence of the drawing hand of the teacher.
Martin M. Bertrand, Alexis Besseyrias, Fares Gouzi, André Tricot   +3 more
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(Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2017
This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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Attainable Knowledge

, 2017
The article investigates an evidence-based semantics for epistemic logics in which pieces of evidence are interpreted as equivalence relations on the epistemic worlds. It is shown that the properties of knowledge obtained from potentially infinitely many
Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
core   +1 more source

The professionalisation of teachers in France at a time of new reform: A comparative perspective of teacher‐trainers and students in pre‐service training

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The latest reform of initial teacher education (ITE) in France, introduced in 2021, aims to make teacher training less theoretical and therefore more ‘practical’. New elements, such as the replacement of the Écoles Supérieures pour le Professorat et l'Éducation (ÉSPÉs) by the Instituts Nationaux Supérieurs du Professorat et de l'Education ...
Eric Maleyrot, Thérèse Perez‐Roux
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Content: Representations of Epistemic Modality in Biosemantics [PDF]

, 2018
A central idea in Ruth Millikan’s biosemantics is that a representation’s content is restricted to conditions required for the normal success of actions that it has as its function to guide. This paper raises and responds to a problem for this idea.
Björnsson, Gunnar
core  

‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Health Monitoring of a Unidirectional Isolation Bridge: Bidirectional Seismic Behavior, Stochastic Model Updating, and Prediction

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Accurate mechanical characterization of civil engineering structures after construction remains challenging due to the unique complexities of each structure, including geometric configurations, imperfect design modeling assumptions, soil conditions, and pervasive uncertainties in actual operational environments. Leveraging actual measurements,
Xinhao He, Shigeki Unjoh, Takuya Makino, Chiaki Nagao, Akira Shibasaki, Tadayuki Noro, Shinsuke Yamazaki, Hiroshi Ogami   +7 more
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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