In a brief filed on Jan . 19 of this year the Clinton Administration's solicitor general, Seth P. Waxman, said that changes in the program had made Adarand's appeal "somewhat divorced from the concrete context of an actual application".
The primary goal of metalearning is the understanding of the interaction between the mechanism of learning and the concrete contexts in which that mechanism is applicable (Giraud-Carrier 2008 ).
Although the implementation literature offers general insights into what works to achieve change, these also need to be rooted in the concrete contexts of specific problems within their cultural, organisational and professional environments.
For example, in The Fragility of Goodness Martha Nussbaum has described the virtues of an Aristotelian ethics with its emphasis on the importance of concrete context, emotion and care for others in an ethical life (Nussbaum 1986).
The medical courses include lessons on experimental and clinical research methods, which may be difficult to integrate out of a concrete context.
As suggested by the theory of concreteness fading, starting with a concrete context and then gradually removing context-specific elements can support learning and transfer.
The use of the relation of satisfaction, or being-a-model-of, between a structure and a theory (or a sentence) can be traced to the book Wissenschaftslehre (1837; Theory of Science) by Bernhard Bolzano, a Bohemian theologian and mathematician, and, in a more concrete context, to the introduction of models of non-Euclidean geometries about that time.
In order to use values and principles to assist and steer policy, rather than "rubber stamp" existing plans, greater discussion of the meanings of values is required, situated in a concrete context (in this case, breast screening).
The first thing that it has to do is hold its own in an unforgiving context of the concrete slabs that typify much contemporary building in Israel.
The aim of the case reports is to link the themes more clearly with a concrete context and history.
