Theology in a University Context

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-304
Author(s):  
Keith Ward
Keyword(s):  
To Come ◽  
The Moment ◽  
General Topic ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University

At the moment, and for some years now, there has been a great deal of discussion about the nature and function of the university. Such discussion naturally involves some consideration of the sorts of things which should be taught in universities, and of how they should be taught. What I particularly want to consider is the place, if any, of Theology in a university context; but I think one must begin with the more general topic of the nature of a university. Only in such a way can one arrive at some criterion of what sorts of disciplines one wants in such institutions. I am, of course, hardly in a position to come to definitive, much less adequate, conclusions, about this subject; but I can at least canvass a few opinions, and try to assess their relative merits, and see how they might provide for the study of theology in some form.

scholarly journals [Retracted]: El discurso por competencias: Una propuesta de clarificación conceptual

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 978
Author(s):  
Ignasi Brunet Icart ◽  
Liviu Catalin Mara
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Business Values ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Main Component ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Academic Qualifications

Purpose: Since the literature on professional competences is profuse and diffuse and, conceptually, there is no broad consensus regarding the meaning of the concept of competence, this article aims to synthetically present the debate around the terms competence and qualifications, its implications and its intellectual value, in order to help clarify the above discussion, contextualize the arguments about the discourse on competences in a time and a place and establishing a concept of the object of study.Design/methodology: The methodology used is the comparative analysis of the proposals and perspectives on competences and qualifications through the interpretation of texts. It is not so much about juxtaposing isolated propositions of the various proposals, as it is about finding in them a common body of theoretical and systematic reasoning that can be traced by analyzing the speeches.Findings: The article determines and clarifies the concept of competence, distinguishing it from the concept of qualification, insisting that the former has questioned the value of academic qualifications in predicting job performance. In addition, this article proposes an integrated perspective regarding the conceptualizations of competences, as attributes or as performance.Research limitations/implications: The discourse on competences has been extended at the same time as pro-business values. In this regard, it is very interesting to note that critical analyses about the meaning and function that acquires today business management give more importance to the conduct of "managing", in the sense that it is increasingly assumed the great influence of the "management" in the reproduction and transformation of organizational life. Moreover, the debate of redesigning the qualifications in terms of competences, at the university level, is not only technical, primarily, is political and ideological: what should be the role of the university in relation to training and the kind of professionalism.Originality/value: In a context in which the training based on competences becomes the main component of education systems, this work helps to identify and clarify some concepts for the purposes of their operationalization in empirical research that we are conducting at the moment.

scholarly journals Good prospects.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Baeza Noci
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Past President ◽  
Spine Diseases ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
Basic Investigation

This third issue compiles the papers sent during 2017 and some others sent in 2018, so I apologise all the authors for the delay and thank them for their patience. The 4th issue will be devoted to be the proceeding of the World Congress organized by Dr Lamberto Re in Ancona - Italy in 2017 and will be published by Summer-19. Issue number 5 will be devoted to spine diseases thanks to the wonderful effort done by Dr. Alberto Alexandre from Treviso - Italy. The rest of the papers already sent and new to come will be published on 2020. The indexation of this journal is so fantastic, thanks to the University of Valencia’s Publication Service, that it is quickly compiled in all open journals search indexes. We will be included in other search engines as soon as we fulfil their requirements. By the moment, the only thing we need is papers. This issue has scientific articles devoted to basic investigation, toxicity and security topics, AIDS, cardiology, hepatitis, neurology, odontology and osteoarthritis. All of them are very interesting and try to clarify some basic and clinical aspects of ozone therapy. I want to express my most sincere gratitude to all the reviewers - members of the editorial board - that have collaborated and really helped to increase the quality of all of them. Peer review process is our corner stone in order to publish a good quality journal, as I believe this is. For the readers, I thank them for reading our journal so much and download our papers so many times; you can read in the STATISTIC section (still on testing) the great impact our journal is having in the scientific community. I also encourage them to publish their experience. I know that many of them have never published and are afraid of doing it, but I promise I will help anybody that wants to write a paper to do it. Some of you have already checked this. I wait for your papers meanwhile we prepare the next issues! Prof. Jose Baeza-Noci WFOT Past-President JO3T Editor-in-chief

The Bastion of Christendom

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Orsolya Száraz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Basic Hypothesis ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Meaning And Function

The Institute of Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Debrecen formed a research group in 2010 in order to launch the research of Hungarian realms of memory. This paper was written within the frameworks of the research group. Its basic hypothesis is that the identification of Hungary as the Bastion of Christendom is an established part of Hungarian collective memory. This paper attempts to demonstrate the changes of this realm of memory, regarding its meaning and function, from its formation up to the present day.

A Mucin-Specific Protease Enables Molecular and Functional Analysis of Human Cancer-Associated Mucins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy A. Malaker ◽  
Kayvon Pedram ◽  
Michael J. Ferracane ◽  
Elliot C. Woods ◽  
Jessica Kramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
High Resolution Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Glycosylation Sites ◽  
Bacterial Protease ◽  
Specific Protease ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Function

<div> <div> <div> <p>Mucins are a class of highly O-glycosylated proteins that are ubiquitously expressed on cellular surfaces and are important for human health, especially in the context of carcinomas. However, the molecular mechanisms by which aberrant mucin structures lead to tumor progression and immune evasion have been slow to come to light, in part because methods for selective mucin degradation are lacking. Here we employ high resolution mass spectrometry, polymer synthesis, and computational peptide docking to demonstrate that a bacterial protease, called StcE, cleaves mucin domains by recognizing a discrete peptide-, glycan-, and secondary structure- based motif. We exploited StcE’s unique properties to map glycosylation sites and structures of purified and recombinant human mucins by mass spectrometry. As well, we found that StcE will digest cancer-associated mucins from cultured cells and from ovarian cancer patient-derived ascites fluid. Finally, using StcE we discovered that Siglec-7, a glyco-immune checkpoint receptor, specifically binds sialomucins as biological ligands, whereas the related Siglec-9 receptor does not. Mucin-specific proteolysis, as exemplified by StcE, is therefore a powerful tool for the study of glycoprotein structure and function and for deorphanizing mucin-binding receptors. </p> </div> </div> </div>

The Sinful University?

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel James Cook
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Moral Failure ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

There is a difference between doing something well and doing something good. And there is a difference between failing to do something well, and failing to do something good. In this paper, I assess our contemporary University in the latter sense of failure. While the University can be ineffective, or fail to function well, there is more at stake if the University, as an institution, is in conflict with nature. That is, it is one thing for the University to be ineffective in its means, but here I will pose the question: is the contemporary University sinful? Using Josef Pieper's elucidation of moral failure and John Henry Newman's analysis of the proper ends of University education, I defend the thesis that because the aim of our contemporary University seems to come in conflict with the goal of nature as a whole, it may be understood as sinful.

scholarly journals Why school-related content knowledge for pre-service chemistry teachers should include basic concepts in organic chemistry

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanda Hermanns ◽  
Nico Ermler
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Chemistry Teacher ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Function

Abstract In this paper we describe and evaluate a study on the use of concepts in organic chemistry while solving tasks that are designed after the concept of school-related content knowledge (SRCK). The study was designed as a mixed methods study and conducted at a German university for the content of “organic chemistry”. As the results of this study show, the students rate the tasks and the use of anchoring concepts as for example “bonds” or “structure and function” as relevant for their future profession as a chemistry teacher. They therefore propose that concepts should be an integral part of their university studies as they find it lacking at the moment. Concepts can also be seen as an opportunity to build a bridge between school knowledge and university knowledge.

scholarly journals What Happened to Your College Town: The Changing Relationship of Higher Education and College Towns, 1940–2000

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-340
Author(s):  
Kate Rousmaniere
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Campus Housing ◽  
College Towns ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Function ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractThis essay examines the history of what is commonly called the town-gown relationship in American college towns in the six decades after the Second World War. A time of considerable expansion of higher education enrollment and function, the period also marks an increasing detachment of higher education institutions from their local communities. Once closely tied by university offices that advised the bulk of their students in off-campus housing, those bonds between town and gown began to come apart in the 1970s, due primarily to legal and economic factors that restricted higher education institutions’ outreach. Given the importance of off-campus life to college students, over half of whom have historically lived off campus, the essay argues for increased research on college towns in the history of higher education.

scholarly journals Intelligent Class Scheduler in Kathmandu University

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Gajendra Sharma Rabin Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Class Schedule ◽  
Lecture Room ◽  
Class Scheduling ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Knowledge Portal

Imagine the University where everything runs smoothly, there is no need to worry about information that needs to be known where the University shares all information in your ear. Imagine that you know every location of your University and the schedules are relevant. This research focuses on the problem faced by Kathmandu University (KU) students while searching for their lecture room and managing their class schedule. This research is carried out for proposing knowledge portal for an intelligent class scheduling and location directing on the central campus of KU. The quest of the information world to make everyday easier has driven us to come up with the concept of such an app and this research consists of role of knowledge management for the development of an application by sharing and exchange of information between individuals and the administration. The university will be benefited in at least a small way through the paper.

scholarly journals Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Spirit Of Place ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, Victoria Hunter explores the concept of the ‘here and now’ in the creation of site-specific dance performance, in response to Doreen Massey's questioning of the fixity of the concept of the ‘here and now’ during the recent RESCEN seminar on ‘Making Space’, in which she challenged the concept of a singular fixed ‘present’, suggesting instead that we exist in a constant production of ‘here and nows’ akin to ‘being in the moment’. Here the concept is applied to an analysis of the author's recent performance work created as part of a PhD investigation into the relationship between the site and the creative process in site-specific dance performance. In this context the notion of the ‘here and now’ is discussed in relation to the concept of dance embodiment informed by the site and the genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’. Victoria Hunter is a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, who is currently researching a PhD in site-specific dance performance.

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