How ever did they manage?
(by Eileen Dombrowski, from OSC blog, Sept 20, 2014) “How ever did they manage?” I ask myself. I’ve spent today at the Mesa Verde World Heritage Site in Colorado, tromping around pueblo sites and...
View ArticleWho’s an “Indian”?: classification and implications
Classification carries implications. (by Eileen Dombrowski, from OSC TOK blog) Who’s indigenous? And does it matter? These are significant questions, with significant answers. They are relevant to TOK...
View ArticleBackward Brain Bicycle: memory and knowing how
(by Eileen Dombrowski) “Knowledge”. “Understanding”. “Truth”. Your students might want to argue with the way Destin Sandlin uses the terms — and so will you — as he struggles to learn how to ride...
View Article“It shakes your guts.”: TOK knowing in an adventurous ice climb
(by Eileen Dombrowski, first published in my TOK blog, Oxford University Press) Ice climbing to precipitous heights is not everyone’s idea of a good time. Certainly – most certainly – not mine! But...
View ArticleReliability in psychological science: methodology in crisis?
(by Eileen Dombrowski, from OUP IB blog) “Scientific truth is a moving target,” wrote the editors of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) a decade ago. “But is it inevitable, as John Ioannidis...
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