odwaga-i-dzialanie: Seneka Młodszy

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What We Learn in School, We Learn for Life: Learning Opportunities as Moderators of the Relationship Between Prior Knowledge and Learning in Post-School Contexts. A commonly held belief is that knowledge acquired in school (KAS) matters for later stages of education because it enables individuals to make better use of new learning opportunities. The current study approached this question by examining the role of domain-specific KAS for the development of professional knowledge (PK) in vocational education and training (VET). Our analyses recurred on (1) school achievement tests that assess domain-specific KAS in chemistry, physics, and math, (2) occupation-specific achievement tests in the…

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What we learn in school, we learn for life: Learning opportunities as moderators of the relationship between prior knowledge and learning in post-school contexts

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School mathematics in work and life: what we know and how we can learn more

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It takes the whole of life to learn how to die: Seneca and self-mastery. This brief paper examines the idea of self-mastery in Seneca’s ‘On the Shortness of Life’. The paper explains how Seneca renders the Ancient Greek notions of eternity (Aion) and time (Chronos) into a social register to argue for the ideal life of the Sage who has learned to live and to die.