Truth and the Capability of Learning

This paper examines learning as a capability, taking as its starting point the work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. The paper is concerned to highlight the relation between learning and truth, and it does so by examining the idea of a genealogy of truth and also Donald Davidson's coherence theory. Thus the notion of truth is understood to be not only built into the capability of learning but also translated across into other capabilities.     

Dramatic Play and the Training of Teachers

'Genetically, play is an integral part of life and to isolate it as modern man has done is to destroy the true, natural spirit and the ultimate value of play to man and society.' Huizinga: Homo Ludens