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A costly gap exists between what we claim to value as educational essentials and how we evaluate results. In Dispositions, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present a game-changing look at why and how to "mind the gap".
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These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
defined so far were permanent dispositions without exception. Many dispositions, however, are not assumed to exist throughout the time of existence of their bearer, but (a) only (at least) within the test interval (a judgment on longer ...
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...
Armed with only a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, Wark tracks the secret passage free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life.
Education must include the development of the human elements in our children. Costa and Kallick present a reasonable, practical and positive alternative-- the cultivation of dispositional thinking, the very core of being human.