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E-learning platforms and humanities education: an African case study
(Edinburgh University Press, www.eupjournals.com/ijhac, 2011)
The advent of e-learning has been a welcomed development in
African universities, especially in countries where the demand for university
education far outstrips capacity. This form of instruction not only has helped
in ...
Towards a thinking military philosophical practice and Botswana military training
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)
Obedience is traditionally the supreme virtue of the military and, for many people, a soldier is an
unthinking automaton that has been conditioned to respond to commands and operate in strictly hierarchical
environments. ...
Prolegomena to a Critical Thinking Therapy
(Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University, Korea, http://www.kangwon.ac.kr/english/menu3/sub_03_01_02_14.php, 2014)
Thinking may be a universal feature of human beings but correct, strategic and directed thinking is something that eludes a large section of humanity. Yet it is this kind of directed thinking that is needed in organizations ...
Confronting a culture of silence in an African classroom: an exercise in philosophical Pptice
(Humanities Institute, Kangwon National University, Korea, http://www.kangwon.ac.kr/english/menu3/sub_03_01_02_14.php, 2017)
Can Philosophy perform a useful function in contemporary society? This question is usually answered in the affirmative by philosophy teachers who point to the development of the mind as its most important tool, claiming ...
Reasoning and the military decision making process
(Center for Cognition and Neuroethics, http://cognethic.org/, 2014)
The archetypal view of the military is that of a hierarchical organization whose members are conditioned to respond to command without question. Its election of obedience as “the supreme military virtue” portrays it as ...
Between the just and the expedient: the problem of conflict resolution in Africa
(Philosophy Documentation Center; https://www.pdcnet.org/, 2015)
This paper is about African conflicts and their tendency to persist despite attempts to resolve them. Such persistence has in the past been attributed to various causes but it is the contention of this paper that African ...
Mediating conflicts, promoting peace and preserving relationships: lessons from traditional African justice systems
(Philosophy Documentation Center; https://www.pdcnet.org, 2017)
Why do Conflicts occur? Why do they recur? Why do conflicts escalate and why do they become protracted? These questions have been variously posed by scholars of conflict and there is a rich body of theory that answers them. ...