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A History of the Modern Fact
Author | : Mary Poovey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226675181 |
How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge
Author | : Paul Wright |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1472965590 |
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you! The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers. Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners. _______________ With the new developments across all secondary curriculum areas, there is greater emphasis on building depth of subject knowledge; stretching and challenging students of all abilities is essential to achieving this deep level of learning. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge presents innovative and exciting ideas, techniques and activities to embed stretch and challenge strategies into everyday classroom practice, regardless of subject area. Developing good stretch and challenge practices enables the cognitive process that helps learners retain new information more easily and work more productively. Looking at questioning, marking and feedback, starters, plenaries and technology-based teaching, Paul Wright explains why the strategies presented in this book are so effective. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge is the must-have guide to implementing stretch and challenge practices in the classroom with ideas designed to raise attainment for all students and keep them engaged in the classroom. Accompanying online resources are also available to download from a companion website.
Fostering Integrity in Research
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-01-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309391253 |
The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship. Integrity in science means that the organizations in which research is conducted encourage those involved to exemplify these values in every step of the research process. Understanding the dynamics that support â€" or distort â€" practices that uphold the integrity of research by all participants ensures that the research enterprise advances knowledge. The 1992 report Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process evaluated issues related to scientific responsibility and the conduct of research. It provided a valuable service in describing and analyzing a very complicated set of issues, and has served as a crucial basis for thinking about research integrity for more than two decades. However, as experience has accumulated with various forms of research misconduct, detrimental research practices, and other forms of misconduct, as subsequent empirical research has revealed more about the nature of scientific misconduct, and because technological and social changes have altered the environment in which science is conducted, it is clear that the framework established more than two decades ago needs to be updated. Responsible Science served as a valuable benchmark to set the context for this most recent analysis and to help guide the committee's thought process. Fostering Integrity in Research identifies best practices in research and recommends practical options for discouraging and addressing research misconduct and detrimental research practices.
The Wisdom of the Many
Author | : Johannes-Paul Fladerer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3750476241 |
You have lost your key in a meadow of high grass. Who do you ask for help? A genius like Einstein or 99 idiots? The answer to questions like this often lies in the wisdom of many. Not in the wisdom of one single genius. In nature we can find a lot of fascinating examples where the crowd prevails over the individual. Birds are flying in exact formations and ants are managing their resources in a way that even economist are impressed.
The Hilbert Challenge
Author | : Jeremy Gray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780198506515 |
David Hilbert was arguably the leading mathematician of his generation. He was among the few mathematicians who could reshape mathematics, and was able to because he brought together an impressive technical power and mastery of detail with a vision of where the subject was going and how it should get there. This was the unique combination which he brought to the setting of his famous 23 Problems. Few problems in mathematics have the status of those posed by David Hilbert in 1900. Mathematicians have made their reputations by solving individual ones such as Fermat's last theorem, and several remain unsolved including the Riemann hypotheses, which has eluded all the great minds of this century. A hundred years on, it is timely to take a fresh look at the problems, the man who set them, and the reasons for their lasting impact on the mathematics of the twentieth century. In this fascinating new book, Jeremy Gray and David Rowe consider what has made this the pre-eminent collection of problems in mathematics, what they tell us about what drives mathematicians, and the nature of reputation, influence and power in the world of modern mathematics. The book is written in a clear and lively manner and will appeal both to the general reader with an interest in mathematics and to mathematicians themselves.
Algorithms of Oppression
Author | : Safiya Umoja Noble |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1479837245 |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Encyclopedia of Special Education
Author | : Cecil R. Reynolds |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 2233 |
Release | : 2007-02-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0470174196 |
The Third Edition of the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Special Education has been thoroughly updated to include the latest information about new legislation and guidelines. In addition, this comprehensive resource features school psychology, neuropsychology, reviews of new tests and curricula that have been developed since publication of the second edition in 1999, and new biographies of important figures in special education. Unique in focus, the Encyclopedia of Special Education, Third Edition addresses issues of importance ranging from theory to practice and is a critical reference for researchers as well as those working in the special education field.
Problems of Life and Mind
Author | : George Henry Lewes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : |
Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians
Author | : Michel Talagrand |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2003-07-11 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9783540003564 |
In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science). This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing.