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Selected Abstracts

The Unacknowledged Socrates in the Works of Luce Irigaray

HYPATIA, Issue 2 2006
SHAUN O'DWYER
In Luce Irigaray's thought, Socrates is a marginal figure compared to Plato or Hegel. However, she does identify the Socratic dialectical position as that of a ,phallocrat' and she does conflate Socratic and Platonic philosophy in her psychoanalytic reading of Plato in Speculum of the Other Woman. In this essay, I critically interpret both Irigaray's own texts and the Platonic dialogues in order to argue that: (1) the Socratic dialectical position is not ,phallocratic' by Irigaray's own understanding of the term; (2) that Socratic (early Platonic) philosophy should not be conflated with the mature Platonic metaphysics Irigaray criticizes; and (3) that Socratic dialectical method is similar in some respects with the dialectical method of Diotima, Socrates' instructress in love and the subject of Irigaray's "Sorcerer Love" essay in An Ethics of Sexual Difference. [source]

Metacognitive engagement during field-trip experiences: A case study of students in an amusement park physics program

JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 3 2009
Wendy S. Nielsen
Abstract This article reports on a study that investigated students' metacognitive engagement in both out-of-school and classroom settings, as they participated in an amusement park physics program. Students from two schools that participated in the program worked in groups to collectively solve novel physics problems that engaged their individual metacognition. Their conversations and behavioral dispositions during problem-solving were digitally audio-recorded on devices that they wore or placed on the tables where groups worked on the assigned physics problems. The students also maintained reflection journals on the strategies they employed to manage their own understanding as well as learning processes. Prior to the amusement park physics discourse, the students completed a specially developed questionnaire instrument. This provided signposts of the students' metacognitive engagement during group problem-solving at the park and subsequent related physics learning tasks back in the classroom. This data, added to field notes arising from observations, and formal and informal interviews during post-visit learning activities provided the data corpus on the students' metacognitive engagement. Analysis of this data revealed three types of metacognitive engagement during group learning tasks: collaborative and consensus-seeking, highly argumentative, and eclectic, resulting from high levels of dissonance. In both cases, evidence of individual students' deeper understandings, which manifested through students' cognitive and social behaviors, demonstrated the invocation of metacognition to varying degrees. The novel physics problems tackled by the students created situations where discrepancies between their prior knowledge and the direct experiences enabled them to explicate their thinking through dispositions of behavior. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 46: 265,288, 2009 [source]

Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination of Sadness in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 2 2004
Ian Almond
The article undertakes an examination of melancholy and sadness in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, concentrating on the forlorn figures of Tridip and the narrator in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the melancholy atmosphere of the novel. Bearing in mind Freud's own understanding of melancholy as the unconscious mourning for a lost love object, the article suggests the moments of sadness in Ghosh's text could be better understood as a form of postcolonial melancholy for the lost colonial object , not in any nostalgic sense, but rather the sadness which arises from the crisis of identity both Tridip and, in a larger sense, the postcolonial intellectual faces who wishes to avoid both the imperial identity forced upon him by colonial powers and, at the same time, the narrow, bullying hegemony of an artificially constructed nationalism. The sadness of The Shadow Lines, the article suggests, does spring from the irresolvability of this dilemma. [source]

Aristotle's Account of Anger: Narcissism and Illusions of Self-Sufficiency

RATIO, Issue 1 2002
Stephen Leighton
This paper considers an allegation by M. Stocker and E. Hegeman that Aristotle's account of anger yields a narcissistic passion bedevilled by illusions of self-sufficiency. The paper argues on behalf of Aristotle's valuing of anger within a virtuous and flourishing life, showing that and why Aristotle's account is neither narcissistic nor involves illusions of self-sufficiency. In so arguing a deeper appreciation of Aristotle's understanding of a self-sufficient life is reached, as are some interesting contrasts between Aristotle's understanding of anger, its connections to value and our own understanding of these matters. [source]