Relations, Aliveness, Love: Curriculum in the Spirit of the Earth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Latremouille ◽  
Lesley Tait ◽  
David W. Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human World ◽  
Trusting Relationships ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
Contemporary Schooling

Images and practices of relations, aliveness, and love provide a way to reconcile knowledge and its schooled pursuit with the wisdom required in our current, ecologically desperate times. This desperation is rooted, in part, in threads of the efficiency movement that were inherited by education in the early 1900s and left schools with a curriculum legacy that has become exhausted and counterproductive. This inheritance can be countered with ideas from the traditions of hermeneutics and ecological thought. But they are also countered with life-affirming and life-sustaining Cree ideas: wahkohtowin, wicihitowin, and sakihitowin. Practicing these ideas can help align work inside and outside schools with the characteristic spirit (ethos) of our earthly being, and can provide the grounds for a pointed critique of, and alternative to, the regnant regimes of contemporary schooling. wahkohtowin means, briefly put, “all things are related/all things are our relations” and wicihitowin refers to “the life-giving energy that is generated when people face each other as relatives and build trusting relationships by connecting with others in respectful ways.” sakihitowin means “love.” Reimagining curriculum as constituted by living fields of relations while also considering not only the energeia, the “aliveness” that is generated in the face-to-face care of and learning the ways of such living fields, but also the deep affection that is both needed for and produced by such reimagining, increases the prospects of our ecological future and the future of the more-than-human world.

The ethics of incomprehensibility

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Therapeutic Protocols ◽  
Decision Making Criteria

What can psychiatrists learn today from Karl Jaspers, who at the dawn of XX Century, held that the future of medicine was in binding philosophy to science ? How can young psychiatrists, who are so hungry for handbook knowledge, structured interviews, decision-making criteria, and therapeutic protocols be so patient as to listen to such a hybrid clinician-philosopher arguing for a kind of knowledge which is stubbornly aware of its limits, and breathlessly revolting against all sorts of objectification and dogmatism? How can those who are looking for ‘expert knowledge’ be satisfied with a kind of knowledge which conceives of itself as an ‘unlimited task’ which takes place in the face-to-face, here-and-now encounter between two persons? How can they be happy with a mentor whose main teaching can be condensed into one sentence: ‘[Q]uestions are more essential than answers, and every answer becomes a new question’? To respond to these interrogations, we need to tackle another more fundamental one: On what kind of knowledge can we rely to establish the foundations of psychiatry? Jaspers’ answer can be condensed in one single word: Psychopathology.

scholarly journals Manuel Amaru Cholango: Decolonizing Technologies and the Construction of Indigenous Futures

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Sara Garzón
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Colonial Oppression

Recent art history studies have delved into notions of futurity as it relates to indigenous approaches to environmental destruction in the face of ongoing colonial oppression. Building on the concept of indigenous futures, the present investigation focuses on the Kichwa artist Manuel Amaru Cholango’s decolonial critique of technology. Since the 1990s and in response to the quincentennial celebration of the “discovery” of America in 1992, Cholango has developed an oeuvre that criticizes the instrumentalization of modern technology for the exploitation of the earth and the perpetuation of colonialism. By advancing the notion of Andean technology, Cholango brings to bear other ways of relating to the environment that can help create, once again, the possibility of the future.

Region, Ethnic Group, and American Writers: From “Non-Southern” and “Non-Ethnic” to Ludwig Lewisohn; or the Ethics of Wholesome Provincialism

Prospects ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
Werner Sollors
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
South West ◽  
Long Valley ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

In 1785 a writer who used the pen name “Celadon” (singer) tried to clarify the meaning of regions in America by making them one with ethnic groups. The author of the small pamphlet The Golden Age; or, Future Glory of North-America Discovered by an Angel to Celadon in Several Entertaining Visions contemplated the future of America from a mountain overlooking the whole continent. He describes himself in a state of rapture whenthe Angel recalled my attention by a gentle touch on my side, and pointing his finger a little to the south-west, Celadon, says he, do you see yonder long valley. … That whole region you may call Savagenia: It being designed for the future habitation of your now troublesome Indians. — And that other valley. … It lies toward the north-west … This you may call Nigrania: It being allotted for the Negroes to dwell there, when the term of their vassalage is come to a period. — And in all those vast spaces westward to the great ocean, there may be seats hereafter for sundry foreign nations. — There may be a French, a Spanish, a Dutch, an Irish, an English, &c. yea, a Jewish State here in process of time. — And all of them united in brotherly affection, will at last form the most potent empire on the face of the earth (pp. 11–12).

scholarly journals After/Lives: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Gay Neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
pp. 393-418
Author(s):  
Sam Miles ◽  
Jack Coffin ◽  
Amin Ghaziani ◽  
Daniel Baldwin Hess ◽  
Alex Bitterman
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractBeginning in 2020, COVID-19 produced shock-shifts that were felt across the globe, not least at the level of the local neighborhood. Some of these shifts have called into question the role of physical places for face-to-face gatherings, including those used by LGBTQ+ people. Such open questions are a key concern for a book on gayborhoods, so this chapter engages in three analytic tasks to provide preliminary reflections on how pandemics problematize places. While acknowledging a range of threats and challenges that the pandemic poses to the future of LGBTQ+ spaces, this chapter focuses on the potential opportunities and unexpected benefits that COVID-19 can create, running counter to more pessimistic predictions that abound in popular discourse. First, the chapter contextualizes how the COVID-19 pandemic is reminiscent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, allowing the gayborhood to be well-equipped to respond with grassroots activism, particularly in the face of government inaction or apathy. Second, the chapter explores trends that can ensure the future vitality of LGBTQ+ spaces, including (i) the potential of mutual aid networks, (ii) the power of institutional anchors in LGBTQ+ placemaking efforts, (iii) urban changes related to homesteading and population shifts, (iv) innovations in the interior design of physical spaces, and (v) opportunities to enhance social connections through augmented virtual engagements. Far from signaling the death knell of LGBTQ+ spaces, these trends demonstrate the enduring appeal provided by neighborhoods and communities. Third, the cognitive schemas of lockdowns, re-closeting, and digitalscapes are identified as unique expressions of the shifting spatialities of sexuality in post-pandemic urban space. The chapter concludes by arguing that place will still matter for LGBTQ+ people in a post-COVID-19 era, albeit with altered meanings and material expressions. The socio-spatial consequences of the novel coronavirus will be a confluence of positive and negative developments, and while some will be reversed as soon as an effective vaccine is found, others will linger indelibly in bodies and the built environment for years to come.

scholarly journals Theology and the arts: The Corona crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
John L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Theological Critique ◽  
The Relationship

Seeking to offer more than just words of comfort in the face of suffering, this paper proposes three additional ways forward for theological reflection during the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) a rediscovery of the language of lament, drawing on the vocabularies of protest movements and the Psalms; (2) a theological critique of the pandemic built on reckoning with the reality of our finitude and the relationship between humanity and the earth; and (3) a re-imagination of the future employing the power of the arts and the imagination for this prophetic task.

Wordsworth and the Polemic Against Hunting: "Hart-Leap Well"

1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Moral Progress ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Historical Past

Increasing compassion for animals led in Wordsworth's era to a polemic against hunting. Wordsworth's "Hart-Leap Well" is part of this campaign. Wordsworth's strategy and arguments in the second part of "Hart-Leap Well" are typical of the discourses that attacked hunting, chiefly for its cruelty, but Wordsworth was unusual in also leading readers in the first part of the poem to sympathize with the hunter's emotions, and he illustrates in the figure of Sir Walter the warrior virtues that hunting was said by its defenders to inculcate. The poem reaches more deeply, however, to explore irrational grounds of hunting's appeal in Sir Walter's enlarged sense of secure dominance, power, lust, and megalomania in the aftermath of the chase. As with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, egoistic self-assertion expresses itself in killing an animal and is figured as solitude. Just as Sir Walter embodies "the coarser pleasures of my boyish days" (as Wordsworth represents them in various poems), the figure of the poet possesses the more reflective, sensitive, and profound awareness that Wordsworth credits to his adult self. In "Hart-Leap Well" Sir Walter's mentality is that of the historical past, and the poet's represents the future. The poem offers a version of the Enlightenment plot of history as the moral progress of mankind. But in the end the poem may contemplate, with pleasure, the vanishing of mankind from the face of the earth, while nature remains in its beauty.

Wildlife Criminology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus Nurse ◽  
Tanya Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human World

The harm and crime committed by humans does not only affect humans. Victimisation is not isolated to people, but instead encompasses the planet and other beings. Yet apart from fairly recent green criminological scholarship employing an expanded criminological gaze beyond the human, the discipline of criminology has largely confined itself to human victims, ignoring the human-caused suffering and plight of the billions of other individuals with whom we share the Earth. In order to take another step in rectifying criminology’s blindness to the non-human world, we propose a ‘Wildlife Criminology’. Wildlife Criminology is a complimentary project that expands the existing green and critical criminological scholarship even further beyond the human. As the book’s chapters will demonstrate, criminology’s current and future engagement with wildlife issues needs to develop by considering wider notions of crime and harm involving non-human animals and plants. We focus on non-human animals: as property, as food, for sport, reflectors of violence, the link to interpersonal human violence, and rights through exploration of four interconnected themes - commodification and exploitation, violence, rights, and speciesism and othering. We offer directions for the future of criminal justice system, humans’ relationship to the non-human, and for the project of Wildlife Criminology.

scholarly journals BUILD THE SOUL ENTREPRENEUR FROM AN EARLY AGE AS A MEANS OF CREATING A GENERATION KHOIRU UMMAH WITH THE EXISTENCE OF A SUPERIOR HUMAN RESOURCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Anas Rangga
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Current Context

In the face of the current era and the next era, challenges that currently applies is the readiness of human resources in relation to how the progress of this land to the future. Khairu ummah in the language means the best people, in the current context of the generation that capable to manage themselves and able to resolve the matter of life to support life akherat. Conceptually, "superior human resources” is one inside compartment. This paper is a review of the  literature based research. Therein will be examined how to build a generation of khairu ummah namely superior human resources, with the planting of the soul entrepreneur from an early age. The purpose of this study is to know the efforts that need to be done in the building of the soul entrepreneur on the early childhood. So if the effort done, it is expected that the children will grow and develop into the quality of human resources as well as the generation of khairu ummah, which is part of the khalifatullah to manage the wealth of natural resources in the earth and promote this nation.

scholarly journals The Future Of Guidance And Counselling In The 21st Century In Nigeria: Changing Face-To-Face Counselling Through Cyberspace Counselling

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Kamilu Olanrewaju Muraina ◽  
Saleh Musa G ◽  
Zahrau Muhammad Kabir
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Western World ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Use Of Internet

The use of technology in all spheres of lives has brought about significant changes worldwide. The use of internet has replaced the face-to-face counselling in the western world. The future is being shaped by current and emerging technologies that are drastically changing the way in which people interact. Such changes are as a result of development in the field of science and technology. Consequently, cyberspace counselling is at the forefront of the paradigm changes that are shaping the future of face-to-face counselling. This paper reflects on the potential benefits of cyberspace counselling in the 21st century, its implication, challenges and prospects for counsellors and the counsellees in Nigeria. Building upon this, the paper also concludes why these technologies can change theface-to-face traditional counselling to cyberspace counselling thereby making both counsellors and clients in the realm of counselling context.

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

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