Currents: Book review—Consuming ethically: The role of fair trade

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
Gillian Rice
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade

Creating Shared Resilience: The Role of the Church in a Hopeful Future by David M. Boan and Josh Ayers. Langham Global Library, 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Pieter Nijssen
Keyword(s):  
The Church

Book review of Creating Shared Resilience.  

Book Review: Promoting Community Renewal through Civic Literacy and Service Learning

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Persons ◽  
David Lisman
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Community Renewal ◽  
Academic Instruction ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Civic Literacy

This is an optimistic, and useful, book written at a pessimistic time. In an era when the nation faces many social problems - including alienation from the government and work, the fragmentation of the family, and an expanding materialism - this book promoting civic literacy approaches to service learning and seeks to help educators in their efforts to redefine the role of civics in contemporary society. The civic literacy approach to service learning is defined as pedagogy that combines community service and academic instruction and that focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsiblity. The editors challenge community colleges to act as catalysts for a national movement of community renewal, suggesting that they may be our best hope for finding ways to solve our social problems.

scholarly journals Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Browning ◽  
Walter Veit
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Essay Review ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Evolution Of Consciousness ◽  
Initial Resistance ◽  
Metaphysical Claim ◽  
Mode Of Being

AbstractIn this essay, we discuss Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constituting perhaps the longest treatise on the evolution of consciousness, Ginsburg and Jablonka unite their expertise in neuroscience and biology to develop a beautifully Darwinian account of the dawning of subjective experience. Though it would be impossible to cover all its content in a short book review, here we provide a critical evaluation of their two key ideas—the role of Unlimited Associative Learning in the evolution of, and detection of, consciousness and a metaphysical claim about consciousness as a mode of being—in a manner that will hopefully overcome some of the initial resistance of potential readers to tackle a book of this length.

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