Constitutional politics and populist conservatism: the contrasting cases of Poland and Romania

AbstractDesigning problems and learning activities is a key factor to initiating students’ engagement with the course material and influencing their reasoning processes. Although tasks and problems are a central part of teaching and assessments in the chemistry classroom, they may not engage students in deep reasoning or in a way that is intended through a task. Some problems may cause an algorithmic or a surface approach. Even with designing clever problems, students may not use a larger variety of chemistry ideas and connect them in meaningful ways. Here the idea of scaffolding students’ answering process comes into play. Structuring students’ reasoning process through instructional prompts or structured worksheets supports students in activating and connecting knowledge pieces in a more meaningful way and positively slows down their fast decision-making process. This paper will discuss the importance of asking questions in chemistry teaching and highlights the idea of contrasting cases, drawn from cognitive psychology, as a task design principle. In addition to having contrasting cases as a good problem format, the idea of scaffolding students’ reasoning while solving contrasting cases through the use of instructional prompts that scaffold the reasoning process will be exemplarily showcased for mechanistic reasoning in organic chemistry.

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Fluctuation in the assimilation of problematic experiences: A comparison of two contrasting cases of Emotion Focused Therapy

Psychotherapy Research ◽

10.1080/10503307.2021.1892231 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Isabel Basto ◽

William B. Stiles ◽

Patrícia Pinheiro ◽

Inês Mendes ◽

Daniel Rijo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Contrasting Cases ◽

Emotion Focused Therapy ◽

Problematic Experiences

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CHRISTIAN INDEPENDENCY AND GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP: PENTECOSTAL EXTRAVERSIONS IN MALAWI

Journal of Religion in Africa ◽

10.1163/157006603765626721 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 83-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Harri Englund

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

Global Community ◽

Contrasting Cases ◽

Contemporary World ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Pentecostal Churches

AbstractRecent scholarship on Pentecostalism in Africa has debated issues of transnationalism, globalisation and localisation. Building on Bayart's notion of extraversion, this scholarship has highlighted Pentecostals' far-flung networks as resources in the growth and consolidation of particular movements and leaders. This article examines strategies of extraversion among independent Pentecostal churches. The aim is less to assess the historical validity of claims to independency than to account for its appeal as a popular idiom. The findings from fieldwork in a Malawian township show that half of the Pentecostal churches there regard themselves as 'independent'. Although claims to independency arise from betrayals of the Pentecostal promise of radical equality in the Holy Spirit, independency does sustain Pentecostals' desire for membership in a global community of believers. Pentecostal independency thus provides a perspective on African engagements with the apparent marginalisation of the sub-continent in the contemporary world. Two contrasting cases of Pentecostal independency reveal similar aspirations and point out the need to appreciate the religious forms of extraversion. Crucial to Pentecostal extraversions are believers' attempts to subject themselves to a spiritually justified hierarchy.

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Inventing Canada in the Mulroney Years

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1111/j.1477-7053.1993.tb01382.x ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 463-478

Author(s):

George Feaver

Keyword(s):

Conservative Party ◽

The State ◽

Central Feature ◽

Constitutional Politics ◽

Know How ◽

Constitutional Order ◽

Pierre Trudeau ◽

Political Bargaining ◽

Examination Question ◽

Bargaining Table

‘IF THE STATE DID NOT EXIST, WE WOULD HAVE TO INVENT IT. Comment.’ Few of the responses to this examination question qualified its suggestion that the state might be amenable to instantaneous contrivance or conscious design. The oversight on the part of my undergraduate charges pointed to the still potent legacy of a generation of Canadian political artificers whose projects of inventing the Canadian state had abetted the rise of a species of ‘constitutional politics’ given to the ever more elaborate concoction of comprehensive solutions to Canada's vexing constitutional shortcomings. These projects tended to politicize historically embedded elements in the constitutional order, serviceable if imperfect, which had been conventionally regarded as resistant beyond redemption to improved reformulation. This new-style politics was at centre stage in the long and eventful prime ministerial years of the Liberal Party's Pierre Trudeau, the great Cartesian inventor par excellence of the contemporary Canadian state. It would remain a central feature of the nine-year incumbency of Trudeau's Conservative Party successor, Brian Mulroney. Trudeau's vision of a reinvented Canada had proceeded from his background preparation for public life as an academic constitutional lawyer. Mulroney, aiming to finesse what the more cerebral Trudeau could not, would bring to bear on the affairs of the Canadian state the skills of a labour lawyer with the know-how to get Canada's perennially fractious provinces and interest groups to the political bargaining table, there to resolve once and for all any constitutional differences still outstanding.

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Nigeria and Peru: Two Contrasting Cases in Ethnic Pluralism

International Journal of Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1177/002071527902000111 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 20 (1-2) ◽

pp. 162-174

Author(s):

P. L. Van Den Berghe

Keyword(s):

Contrasting Cases ◽

Ethnic Pluralism

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Value chains for bio-carbon sequestration services: Lessons from contrasting cases in Canada, Kenya and Mozambique

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.02.002 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 81-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Brent M. Swallow ◽

Thomas W. Goddard

Keyword(s):

Carbon Sequestration ◽

Value Chains ◽

Contrasting Cases

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KOMPETENSI DAN YURISDIKSI HUKUM ISLAM DALAM PERSPEKTIF FILSAFAT HUKUM ISLAM

Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam ◽

10.52166/jkhi.v7i2.21 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 139-155

Author(s):

Juli Amalia Nasucha

Keyword(s):

Islamic Law ◽

Social Institution ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Political Asylum ◽

Constitutional Politics

Some of the themes discussed in this study include: knowing the miniature of Sharia, the field of Fiqh, Islamic governance, and Political Asylum. Some of the conclusions generated from the discussion regarding the Competence and Jurisdiction of Islamic Law include: First, it is necessary to know that there are two dimensions in Islamic law which are closely related to each other, namely the divine dimension and the Insaniyah dimension. Second, as a derivation of the two dimensions contained in Islamic law, then Islamic law is divided into two parts, namely Islamic law as a product of Law / Fiqh or fiqh as a science, while the second is law as a social institution. Third, fiqih as a social institution This then gives rise to jurisdiction in applying Islamic law so that the next discussion that becomes important is the concept of constitutionality in Islam with all its articulations concerning Islamic constitutional politics.

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