scholarly journals Greening of education in modern society

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 11002
Author(s):  
Julia Isakova ◽  
Maxim Pchelnikov
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Long Term Experiments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
State Of The Environment

The necessity of transition to ecologically oriented civilization, conditionality of formation of system of knowledge in education education and culture is shown. The system of values of ecocentric orientation is offered. In the conditions of transitive modern society the complex of ecologically significant skills is formed at receiving education and is transformed into internal beliefs of the individual. It is argued that the modern reality requires immediate initiation and development of ecological education of youth at all stages and levels of education: the state of the environment can not wait for full formation of generations, which is subject-oriented environmental education in early childhood, and does not allow time for long-term experiments.

Torture, The State and the Individual

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford H. Kadish
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Innocent Person ◽  
Democratic Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Painful Question

The Report of the Landau Commission puts a painful question for public debate: can it ever be morally acceptable in a liberal democracy for the state to use cruel measures against a person to compel him to reveal information needed to prevent grave harms, such as the loss of lives? The question, of course, belongs to a class of questions that has baffled and divided people for generations. Are some actions inherently and intrinsically wrong, so that they may not be redeemed by the net good consequences they produce on balance? Even if this is the case in general, can it be true regardless of the enormity of the consequences? Battle lines in moral philosophy are drawn in terms of how these questions are answered. For consequentialists the morality of all actions is solely determined by their consequences, near and long term. For deontologists the morality of all actions is always determined, at least in part, by their intrinsic wrongness, so that if they are wrong they are not made right by their desirable consequences. Each side has, so it seems, an unanswerable objection to the position of the other. Deontologists ask: then you mean you are ready to declare, for example, that punishment of innocent persons may be morally justified if it is necessary to prevent crime? And consequentialists (without answering) ask in turn: then you mean that even if the life of thousands and the preservation of the basic freedoms of a democratic community depend on it, you would regard it as morally prohibited to use any force against a single innocent person?These questions are among the hardest of all hard questions. But they become even harder when they are asked in the context of a public debate over how a government should act in some immediate crisis.

The Origins and Development of Municipal Military Service in the Leonese and Castilian Reconquest, 800–1250

Traditio ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Powers
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Military Institutions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Middle Ages

In modern society, enmeshed with confrontations involving the individual, military service and the state, historians are often inclined to make comparisons with the distant past which offer relief from the pressures of contemporary history. Regarding military service, the Middle Ages are occasionally suggested as an age when combat was sporadic, when only the small feudal aristocracy encountered a martial obligation, and when the remainder of society could concentrate on the other burdens of life, free of the paraphernalia of war, hot or cold. As with many romantic generalizations concerning the period, the comparative bliss of the medieval non-combatant is open to question. Many would note, however, that the feudal classes did possess a monopoly on warfare for several centuries in parts of Continental Europe, and would tend to place all discussion of military institutions within a feudal context.

scholarly journals Variations in the strain parameters of titanium nickelide during martensitic transformation cycling

2019 ◽  
Vol 484 (6) ◽  
pp. 682-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ya. Erofeev ◽  
M. V. Kabanov
Keyword(s):  
Martensitic Transformation ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Titanium Nickelide ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Long Term Variations

The results of analyzing the long-term variations in the strain rate of a TiNi element during martensitic transformation cycling have been reported. It is shown that the factors involved in the formation of the state of the environment lead to unstable operation of functional technical elements similar to those based on titanium nickelide.

scholarly journals Risk and Disability: Towards a Reflexive Theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Jason L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
The Individual

This paper analyses the concept of ‘risk’, which both as a theoretical tool and dimension of modern society, is slowly being developed within the humanistic and social sciences (Delanty, 1999). Notwithstanding this, the concept of risk and the meaning and implications associated with it, have not been fully explored in relation to disability. Risk is shrouded in historical and contemporary political debate about whose ‘role’ and ‘responsibility’ is it for ‘disability’ in society – does it reside with the state or the individual?

System of continuous environmental education and enlightenment as a condition for ensuring sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dubrovska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
New Education

Problem setting. Environmental education and enlightenment in a rapidly changing world should become the goal and essence of new education, a tool to reduce tensions not only between society and the environment but also between peoples, an instrument of peace and mutual understanding. This is the sphere of international cooperation, where the unity of interests of the world community in the self-preservation of world civilization is most noticeable.Recent research and publications analysis. The objective, tasks, principles and philosophical understanding of the importance of environmental education, its essential and substantive characteristics are covered in the works of N. Anatska, G. Biliavskyi, V. Tanska, M. Drobnokhod, M. Moiseev, and others. V. Chervonetskyi, A. Bereka, A. Shumilova, A. Shevel, V. Krysachenko and M. Khylko studied ecological education as one of the directions of the formation of ecological culture. Conceptual principles of increasing the level of environmental education in protected areas are substantiated in the work of O. Mudrak. Peculiarities of activity of regional public eco-organizations in the realization of informal ecological education of youth were studied by O. Dukh, O. Halahan and I. Mykhaliuk.Highlighting previously unsettled parts of the general problem. The choice of our study is due to the contradiction in the need of modern society to take practical action to improve the quality of the environment, the development of an ecologically literate population capable of an ecologically centric approach in relation to nature, and the lack of a systematic approach to this process. A comprehensive approach to the organization of training of all subjects of environmental education will ensure that the population receives the greatest amount of necessary environmental knowledge and skills, regardless of age and professional differences.Paper main body. There has been carried out the analysis of the essence of such concepts as “environmental education” and “environmental enlightenment”. The principles, goals, objectives and structure of environmental education are substantiated. The necessity for systematic organization of continuous environmental education and enlightenment for sustainable development is proved. The role of environmental education and environmental enlightenment in the system of public administration is determined. Elements of the system of environmental education are given, which also include environmental enlightenment and self-education.Conclusions of the research and prospects for further studies. The domestic system of environmental education is fragmentary, unsystematized, does not have proper management of educational processes that would meet modern challenges. Traditional educational paradigms require a significant revision and introduction of innovative and most effective methods, techniques, forms, technologies for the formation of environmental education and improving the environmental culture of the population.Non-formal environmental education and enlightenment should become one of the priorities and strategic directions of the state environmental policy at both the national and regional levels, and receive appropriate financial support.The urgency of the topic does not cover all aspects of the problem of the continuous environmental education and enlightenment, as they require further development of cooperation between public authorities and local governments with numerous educational and public organizations that can provide environmental education services to the population.

Long-Term Changes in Experienced Yoga Practitioners

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Frederick T. Travis
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
Higher States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Object Relationship

This chapter explores subjective and objective correlates of the state of Yoga during Transcendental Meditation practice. Yoga fits the three criteria of a higher state of consciousness: (1) Yoga has a different subject/object relationship than other states. In Yoga there is no content—only self-awareness. (2) Yoga involves a more expanded sense-of-self. Content analysis of descriptions of Yoga yielded three themes: the absence of time, absence of space and absence of body sense. Yoga is the most universal aspect of the individual. (3) Yoga is defined by distinct physiological patterns. Slowing of breath, autonomic orienting and frontal alpha1 brain coherence are reported during the state of Yoga. The integration of Yoga with waking, sleeping and dreaming also fits the criteria for being a higher state of consciousness, called Cosmic Consciousness in the Vedic tradition. The chapter ends with the conclusion that growth of higher states of consciousness is the most important result of experiencing the state of Yoga. Then, life is lived in freedom.

Introduction—Historiography and Sources

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Clive D. Field
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Sunday Schools ◽  
Classic Theory ◽  
The Individual

This chapter provides essential context by outlining the recent historiography of secularization in Britain and the sources of religious statistics, on which subsequent chapters are largely based. The work of leading contributors to the debates about British religious change is summarized, notably Steve Bruce, Hugh McLeod, Callum Brown, Jeffrey Cox, Jeremy Morris, and Simon Green. In this book, secularization is used as a convenient shorthand descriptor for the waning social significance of religion, rather than an invocation of the classic theory of secularization as a by-product of modernization. Specifically, the focus is on secularization in relation to the individual, particularly religious allegiance (subsuming affiliation and membership of churches and Sunday schools) and churchgoing, being the two performance indicators of religious belonging and behaving most susceptible to long-term quantification. Data on them were variously gathered by the state (comparatively little), the Churches, and social investigators (including local religious censuses).

Criminal Law Measures to Combat Violent Crimes: International Experience and National Trends

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Zhandos Bahtybaevich ZHOLZHAKSYNOV
Keyword(s):  
Violent Crime ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The State ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The article is devoted to criminal law measures to resist criminal abuses related to violence. In modern society, the protection of individual rights and freedoms is one of the most important tasks. Within this task, the most critical issue is that of protection of the individual from criminal violence by criminal law measures. The problems of violent crime, despite all measures taken by the state and society, do not go into the past, but become relevant for modern society. Without exaggeration, they represent a social disaster that threatens the security of the individual, society and the state. The purpose of the article is to analyze the criminal law methods of combating violent crime, to study the criminal provisions relating to the use of violence in Kazakhstan's national criminal legislation and legislation in a number of foreign countries. The article examines the opinions of scientists on the nature and characteristics of criminal violence, the criminal law of Kazakhstan and the legislation of a number of foreign countries in terms of violent crimes, formulates conclusions and sets out the recommendations for the further improvement of the criminal protection of the individual against violent endeavors. On the basis of an examination of the theoretical material and experience of foreign countries in the field of countering violent crime, the author suggested ways of counteracting the mentioned crime, suggesting further improvement of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the sphere of protecting the individual from criminal violence. The main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in science and practice in addressing crime prevention, comparative characteristics of the criminal regulations regarding violence in Kazakhstan and foreign countries, as well as the subsequent reform of the criminal law in the field of the physical integrity of the individual.

Ecological Education As a Factor of Sustainable Economic Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Ольга Николайчук ◽  
Olga Nikolaychuk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Ecological Situation ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Educational Aspect

The year 2017 is called the year of ecology, because the state of the environment is constantly deteriorating and requires a serious attitude towards itself. The lack of proper environmental education entails misunderstanding and the inability to adequately assess the catastrophic ecological situation that has developed. The article analyzes the components of the university environmental education in Russia: a scientific one, including the theory and methodology of the issue of environmental protection; normative, studying moral, legal and aesthetic issues; value, considering ideals, ideas, goals and defining nature, as a primary value. The problem of environmental education for economists, financiers, managers in the conditions of the “new economy” has been studied. Conclusions are drawn about the need for comprehensive environmental education, which includes economic, social and educational aspects for improving the ecological culture of the society, with a special role of the educational aspect of environmental education.

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