Learning: The Microgenetic Analysis of One Student’s Evolving Understanding of a Complex Subject Matter Domain

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan H. Schoenfeld ◽  
John P. Smith III ◽  
Abraham Arcavi
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Complex Subject

scholarly journals Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uskali Mäki
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Scientific Realist ◽  
Philosophy Of Economics ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Special Challenge ◽  
Complex Subject

The special challenge the philosophy of economics must meet is to provide a scientific realist account that is realistic of a discipline that deals with a complex subject matter and operates with highly unrealistic models. Unrealisticness in economic models must not constitute an obstacle to realism about those models. This article gives a selective and somewhat abstract summary of its author's thinking about economics, outlined from two perspectives: first historical and autobiographical, then systematic and comparative. The first angle helps understand motives and trajectories of ideas against their backgrounds in intellectual history. The story of this article turns out to have both unique and generalizable aspects. The second approach outlines some of the key concepts and arguments as well as their interrelations in this chapter's philosophy of economics, with occasional comparisons to other views. More space is devoted to this second perspective than to the first.

scholarly journals A “complex” subject matter asks for a clear lead

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verhagen
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Complex Subject

scholarly journals Maska jako aktorka

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Mirosław Kocur
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Complete Discussion ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Complex Subject

Mask as an actorThis paper proposes a performative analysis of a mask in order to research its agency, an active role in initiating world events. I will study four, in my opinion, basic “doings” of the mask: transformation, inspiration, transmission, and relocation. I am going to look at ancient masks as well as at Japanese, African and Asiatic ones. Of course, in a short paper the complete discussion of so complex subject matter is impossible. So, I will refer to selected case studies that most clearly expose the mask’s agency. I will use my own field research, my experience of directing plays and relevant scholarship — following a renown British social anthropologist Alfred Gell and archaeologist Ian Hodder.

Adventure and Superheroes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maaheen Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Complex Subject ◽  
Adventure Stories

This chapter begins with one of the earliest consecutive comics adventure stories to be published, namely Hugo Pratt’s La Ballade de la mersalée.Analyses of Dave McKean and Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum and Neil Gaiman’sSandman: Preludes and Nocturnes then explore how conventions of the typical superhero adventure that have characterized American comics since the 1930s are overturned. The analysis of Edmond Baudoin’sLe Voyage, where the adventures develop in the interlinked internal and external worlds of the protagonist, highlights the scope of meaning harbored in abstract imagery. Since, like Voyage, the adventures in Sandman and Arkhamunfold on more psychological than physical terms, the analyses of the last three comics illustrate the inclination towards more complex subject matter in more comics since the 1980s.

scholarly journals Bilješke uz naronitanski spomenik CIL 3 8438

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dražen Maršić
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Ordinal Number ◽  
Front Side ◽  
Complex Subject ◽  
Typological Classification

This paper discusses the notable, but unfortunately lost Naronitan tombstone CIL 3, 8438 with dona militaria and centurion insignia on the front side. It describes the interesting way in which the tombstone was lost, as well as its typological classification, pointing out an iconographic element that has remained unnoticed (a vitis), and finally proposing a dating for it. At the same time, it touches upon the complex subject matter of the unit in which the deceased served at the time of his death, i.e. the question of whether the Camp. cohort without or with the ordinal number I was a single unit or two units.

scholarly journals A Manifesto for Messy Philosophy of Technology: The History and Future of an Academic Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Morgan Swer ◽  
Jean Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Analytical Structure ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy ◽  
Complex Subject

Philosophy of technology was not initially considered a consolidated field of inquiry. However, under the influence of sociology and pragmatist philosophy, something resembling a consensus has emerged in a field previously marked by a lack of agreement amongst its practitioners. This has given the field a greater sense of structure and yielded interesting research. However, the loss of the earlier “messy” state has resulted in a limitation of the field’s scope and methodology that precludes an encompassing view of the problematic issues inherent in the question of technology. It is argued that the heterodox disunity and diversity of earlier philosophy of technology was not a mark of theoretical immaturity but was necessitated by the field’s complex subject matter. It is further argued that philosophy of technology should return to its pluralistic role as a meta-analytical structure linking insights from different fields of research.

Shifting Roles of Science Journalists Covering Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brüggemann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Expert Science ◽  
Complex Subject

Climate journalism is a moving target. Driven by its changing technological and economic contexts, challenged by the complex subject matter of climate change, and immersed in a polarized and politicized debate, climate journalism has shifted and diversified in recent decades. These transformations hint at the emergence of a more interpretive, sometimes advocacy-oriented journalism that explores new roles beyond that of the detached conduit of elite voices. At the same time, different patterns of doing climate journalism have evolved, because climate journalists are not a homogeneous group. Among the diversity of journalists covering the issue, a small group of expert science and environmental reporters stand out as opinion leaders and sources for other journalists covering climate change only occasionally. The former group’s expertise and specialization allow them to develop a more investigative and critical attitude toward both the deniers of anthropogenic climate change and toward climate science.

Past, present, and future in the Gothic graveyard

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Trowbridge
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
Constructed Self ◽  
Complex Subject

This chapter examines the development of a Gothic aesthetic of mortality in Graveyard poetry that in turn provided a significant influence for later Gothic novels. In its reflective, psychologically complex subject matter, poetry provides rich material for Gothic, and the genre drew upon the work of the graveyard poets, including Gray, Young, Blair and Parnell. Not only are the aesthetics of graveyard poetry significant in the development of Gothic, but also the structures of Christianity which emphasise life after death. The locus of death provides a focal point where the poetic and the constructed self meet, uniting the rational and the sublime in contemplating the terrible and unknowable, replacing the pre-Reformation prayers for the dead with a Protestant contemplation of Heaven.

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