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A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
Mindfulness is practice, not words
Mindfulness is about experience, not just words and concepts. To get the most from this book, you’ll need to do more than read – you’ll need to actually do the practices. Take your time. See if you can resist the urge to rush through to the end and ‘get somewhere’ quickly. It’s…
Mindfulness is like brushing your teeth
Mindfulness practice is sometimes described as being a bit like brushing your teeth. It’s something you can do every day as part of your basic mental hygiene. It’s better to brush your teeth every day for 5 minutes, rather than for an hour on Sundays. In the same way, it’s good…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Effort separates high from low performers
What separates high performers from low performers is not some divine spark. It is, the most recent findings suggest, a much more boring—but ultimately more controllable—factor. All other things being equal, it is effort. Good old-fashioned neural elbow grease. Deliberate…
Impact Of Social Sciences – Metadata Is The Key To Collaboration
Libraries and the digital revolution
UK libraries are currently experiencing a ‘perfect storm’ in which user expectations continue to rise and technological and licensing options become ever more sophisticated, while budgets decline. At the same time publishers continue to wrestle with the full implications of a…
Improving The Human Factors Aspect Of Database Interactions.
Field study (hci research method)
Field studies or case studies are an attempt to study practitioners in a realistic environment. The goal is to evaluate actual performance in a precise manner, with minimal interference to standard practice. Not all the variables can be carefully controlled, but unexpected…
Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy
Epistemic practices in philosophy
In this paper, I wish to consider how some of these technologies are affecting the teaching and learning of philosophy, as integral aspects of what it is to do philosophy, that is, its epistemic practices. By this I mean the means for the achievement of key epistemic goals of…
Philosophy engines and epistemic practice
The examples of computational technologies which could be viewed as potential 'philosophy engines' that I have given are meant to show how the mundane processes for accessing, organising, arranging and analysing electronic processes, even if not directly taken up for doing…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Principles are not practices
Principles are not practices. A practice is a specific activity or action. A practice that works in one circumstance will not necessarily work in another, as parents who have tried to raise a second child exactly like they did the first can readily attest. While practices are…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Gramsci's philosophy of praxis
Although in very poor health and initially forced to share a cell with five other prisoners, Gramsci’s brain kept working and he produced the posthumously published Prison Notebooks which offer a powerfully consequent critique and reconstruction of the basic concepts of…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Enjoying children beats college theory
“When I hire those college students, they are full of theory but don’t know what to do in the classroom. I’d rather hire someone with no college but a true enjoyment of young children.”
Teachers need both joy and theory
We need teachers who have both a true enjoyment of children and a true understanding of how they grow and learn. It seems that we have not been successful at presenting child development as a usable tool for working with young children more effectively. Perhaps we need to take…
Who Pays For Academic Publishing? Some Data Trails… | Ouseful.info, The Blog...
Vanity publishing as academic publishing
If you aren’t in academia, you may not realise that what used to be referred to as ‘vanity publishing’ (paying to get your first novel or poetry collection published) is part of the everyday practice of academic publishing. But it isn’t called that, obviously, because your work…