Introduction This unit discusses the future of Europe, and it looks particularly closely at what may happen to the smaller political units presently existing below the level of the nation-state. These include nation-regions like Scotland and Wales, larger entities like the German Länder, and smaller more recently created regions with less existing cultural unity. Despite the very large differences between them, for our purposes all these political entities are called ‘regions’. The un
6.2 Shaping knowledge It seems inevitable that any understandings we have will have been shaped and influenced by other (past and present) members of the same culture(s) we belong to. Most of these influences ‘just happen’: they arise out of our experiences as part of a culture whose members have had their experiences and shared them over many centuries. However, knowledge can also be deliberately influenced by powerful elements within a society: as we saw in Section 5.3, the church suppressed Galileo's r
5.7 Summary This section of the unit has made you aware that: science is formed by a community of practice, creating knowledge and requiring a special language for its communication; there is a difference between objective scientific methods and subjective ways of knowing; political power influences scientific discoveries, and scientific knowledge is always socially embedded; public understanding and perception of scien
5.5 How society constructs scientific thinking To understand science, it is important that we appreciate the contexts in which discoveries are made or suppressed. We can see from the account on the previous page that human understanding of the universe has changed significantly over time. The social and political climate in which scientists work has always had a profound influence on what can and cannot be said, done, published or even postulated as worthy of further investigation. (You could undertake a similar study of the debates on hu
5.2 Scientists as a community of practice Science has been described as involving observation, description, categorisation, investigation, experimentation and formation of theoretical explanations for naturally occurring phenomena – activities performed by scientists using scientific methods. Jacob Bronowski (1973) said, ‘That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer’ – an apt way to put it, as with science, we set off from a starting point of curiosity an
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4.4 An international definition of social work The function of social work is not only defined by the philosophies and beliefs of individual nations' governments or assemblies. The following definition of social work was issued jointly by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) in 2001: The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and th Research 102 What I didn't learn in my research methods course Sergei Gukov, Quantization and Categorification, Lecture 2 Narcotics and Corruption in Afghanistan Derived copy of Bohr’s Theory of the Hydrogen Atom Alcohol Problems: A Health Promotion Approach Module Guide This module explores strategies for a population wide (Public health) approach to alcohol problems rather than an individual approach. It explores various consequences of alcohol abuse and presents the research processes used to measure this. The focus is on approaches to preventing alcohol problems, ranging from policy and environmental changes to educational and rehabilitation programmes. Some of the readings were chosen to illustrate the main concepts of the module using the follo 2012 African Health OER Network Impact Study The current impact study follows on from two earlier evaluations of the project. A formative evaluation of the Design Phase completed at the end of 2009 focused mainly on OER ‘take-up’ and production in the partner institutions (OER Africa 2009). This evaluation concluded that expectations and contractual targets had been met, or exceed Zombie Maker Europe Day Ahead: euro zone crisis expected to hurt earnings Strawkets and Thrust DFT as a Matrix Operation Reading and Writing The Writing Process Peer Conferencing in the Classroom
By: UP Los Baños Documentation of the special seminar of Dr. Mia Lustria, Associate Professor at the College of Information and Communication, Florida State University during the DEVC 299 Graduate Seminar Series held July 19, 2012 at SEARCA, UPLB Campus, Philippines
Both "quantization" and "categorification" have influenced many recent developments in pure mathematics and modern mathematical physics, ranging from applications in knot theory to geometric representation theory.
Yet, these deep and fundamental concepts can be explained in simple and concrete examples, which will be one of the main goals in my lectures. I will follow a "hands-on" approach, aimed at understanding explicit calculations in addition to learning the general theory. For example, we
Col. Lou Jordan presents Narcotics and Corruption in Afghanistan as part of the second residence phase for the USAWC Distance Education Class of 2012.
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In this activity, students investigate the effect that thrust has on rocket flight. Students will make two paper rockets that they can launch themselves by blowing through a straw. These "strawkets" will differ in diameter, such that students will understand that a rocket with a smaller exit nozzle will provide a larger thrust. Students have the opportunity to compare the distances traveled by their two strawkets after predicting where they will land. Since each student will have a slightly diff
This module introduces linear algebra, DFT, FFT, matrix and vector.
Ideas for alternative approaches to reading and writing in a classroom context.
Outlines the steps involved in the writing process approach.
Lesson where children are encouraged to respond to a piece of writing in a constructive manner.
