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Some Varieties of Superparadox. The implications of dynamic contradiction, the characteristic form of breakdown of breakdown of sense to which self-reference is prone [PDF]
, 1993 The Problem of the Paradoxes came to the fore in philosophy and mathematics with the discovery of Russell's Paradox in 1901. It is the "forgotten" intellectual-scientific problem of the Twentieth Century, because for more than sixty years a pretence was ...
Ormell, Christopher
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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Idealism as an educational philosophy of mathematics teachers in Al Ain City Schools of the United Arab Emirates. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Khasawneh OM +3 more
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Making mathematics phenomenal : Based on an Inaugural Professorial Lecture delivered at the Institute of Education, University of London, on 14 March 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Mathematics is often portrayed as an 'abstract' cerebral subject, beyond the reach of many. In response, research with digital technology has led to innovative design in which mathematics can be experienced to some extent like everyday phenomena.
Pratt, David
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Praxis matemática: reflexiones sobre la cognición que la hace posible [PDF]
, 2018 Mathematics is a unique body of knowledge. Among others, it is abstract, exact, efficient, symbolizable, and it provides astonishing applications to the real world.
Núñez, Rafael
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Dialectica, 1974 Summary This note attempts to give a description of mathematics in terms of a process applied to certain ideas. The process is split into a number of distinct stages, each of which is considered seperately. Also, some philosophical problems are briefly discussed in the light of this view of mathematics.
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Principals' Leadership Content Knowledge in STEM contexts
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we consider the nature of school principals' leadership content knowledge (LCK) for STEM subjects and for integrated STEM. We present a conceptualisation of STEM LCK based on aspects of principals' STEM capability and consideration of the differences between LCK and pedagogical content knowledge.
Kim Beswick, Vince Geiger, Sharon Fraser
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Aristotelianism in the Philosophy of Mathematics [PDF]
, 2011 Modern philosophy of mathematics has been dominated by Platonism and nominalism, to the neglect of the Aristotelian realist option. Aristotelianism holds that mathematics studies certain real properties of the world – mathematics is neither about a ...
Franklin, James
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
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PHILOSOPHY, MATHEMATICS AND EDUCATION
Revista de História da Educação Matemática, 2018 From Aristotle up to the Baroque knowledge was considered as essentially determined by its object. Since Kant and his so-called Copernican Revolution of Epistemology the epistemic subject and the method and means of its activities become equally, or even more important.
Otte, Michael Friedrich +1 more
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