From the authors of the best-selling Habits of Mind… Two leading consultants present a game-changing look at why and how to “mind the gap” between what we claim are educational essentials, and how we evaluate results. Dispositions builds on the authors’ influential Habits of Mind writings, including new evidence of why influencing students’ dispositional habits is their key to finding meaning in classroom content. Topics include: Making dispositions come alive in the minds of students Shifting the thinking of educational leaders, parents, politicians and the public How to align day-to-day classroom practices with larger dispositional outcomes
These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
Part 2, Regional Perspectives, take us across the globe, providing us with insight as to the impact of teaching dispositions within both teacher education programs and online educational environments. Our journey begins in Northern ...
Mumford puts forward a new theory of dispositions, showing how central their role in metaphysics and philosophy of science is. Much of our understanding of the physical and psychological world...
The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions.
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This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examine the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science.
This book guides and supports teachers to fulfill these two goals.
In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study.
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Provides a straightforward, simplistic introduction to the field of education.