What Is Religion?

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Current Field ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Origin Function ◽  
Academic Study

The editors of What Is Religion? Debating the Academic Study of Religion asked seventeen leading scholars of religion to finish the statement “Religion is . . .” in a sentence or two, at most a paragraph. Their answer then went to another contributor to write an essay based on it (whether as a reply, a critique, or an application), to which the original author of the paragraph then responded in a brief essay. The result is a collection of scholarly conversations among a wide range of scholars selected to represent the breadth of the current field. To this collection the editors have attached a long appendix, modeled on James Leuba’s 1912 appendix to his Psychological Study of Religion: Its Origin, Function, and Future, that includes over thirty classic or contemporary definitions with their own commentary on them.

Exploring the role of co-curricular student engagement in relation to student retention, attainment and improving inclusivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Stuart Sims ◽  
Wilko Luebsen ◽  
Chris Guggiari-Peel
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Academic Study

Throughout the REACT project, the core institutions of Winchester, Exeter and London Metropolitan have been conducting an in-depth, multi-faceted evaluation of selected co-curricular student engagement activities – ‘Student Fellows’, ‘Change Agents’ and ‘Peer-Assisted Student Success’ respectively. This involved the collection of survey data to explore key concepts related to the motivations of students to participate in these initiatives. This survey explores areas including employability, academic study and partnership, with an aim of improving co-curricular initiatives to make them more inclusive of ‘hard to reach’ students. These ‘motivations’ to participate are used to contextualise data about the attainment and continuation of active student participants. Rather than seek to assert or confirm that various groups are ‘hard to reach’, this research seeks to understand better what does and does not make co-curricular activities inclusive of hard-to-reach students. In this sense, the aim is to have a greater understanding of how students are successfully ‘reached’. Discussion will focus on how attainment and retention can help us to explore whether a wide range of students is benefiting from participation.

Jewish Art, Modern and Contemporary

Art History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Balakirsky Katz
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modern Artists ◽  
Academic Study

This article takes a minimalist approach to the designation of “Jewish” in the category of “Jewish art,” focusing primarily on works that directly engage the modern Jewish experience and the role that Jews have played in the development of new visual media in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the same time, this article takes a maximalist approach to what is meant by the term “art” by including a wide range of visual mediums. The academic study of Jews in the arts can be traced to Germany in the mid-19th century, when both art history and Jewish studies were relatively new academic disciplines. While art history devalued Jewish art as derivative in the context of the development of modern national identities, Jewish studies devalued non-textual sources for academic study. It was the interdisciplinary field of Jewish art that would serve to negotiate biases from both academic branches, proving influential in the development of iconographic interpretation by promoting critical attention to the narrative function of a wide variety of mediums. This article traces the extent to which Jewish studies scholars have compensated for earlier disciplinary tensions by questioning the premise of nationalist models for art history and how they have broadened the criteria for visual analysis in the study of Jewish art. Although some of the most recognized modern artists are Jewish, the focus here is more narrowly dedicated to those artists and visual media that have secured a place within Jewish studies. In recent decades, scholars of Jewish art have forged an accessible path by adopting more of a “visual culture” approach that considers production and consumption of Jewish content in the plastic arts in non-hierarchical terms. Because Jewish studies touch on a wide range of disciplines, the study of Jewish art has come to include the material aspects of vernacular life (decorative art and handicraft) and popular media (stage design, photography, film) as well as the traditional fine arts (architecture, sculpture, and painting) within schools of style (Impressionism, Futurism, Abstract Expressionism). Scholars of Jewish art have largely avoided the high/low debate typical of other branches of art history by emphasizing the experiential aspect of Jewish objects of all types. This article is a survey of modern and contemporary Jewish art from approximately 1850 to 1990, when Jews participated in the artistic mainstream, and points to the considerable scholarly attention Jewish studies have placed on art as a comprehensive experience rather than a purely aesthetic one. The article opens with second-order categories, then moves to scholarship devoted to issues that are central to the field, such as nationalism and Jewish/non-Jewish relations, and closes with scholarship devoted to diverse media.

scholarly journals A mixed-methods study of challenges and benefits of clinical academic careers for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e030595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Trusson ◽  
Emma Rowley ◽  
Louise Bramley
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Role ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Academic Study

ObjectivesThe clinical academic trajectory for doctors and dentists is well-established, with research embedded in their career development. Recent years have also seen a burgeoning interest and push for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHPs) to pursue a clinical academic career. However, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 10-year review suggested that there may be problems with progression post Master’s degree level for this group, with nurses and midwives receiving less NIHR funding than allied health professionals. This study responds to these concerns, tracking the progression and exploring experiences of NMAHPs in the East Midlands region of England.DesignAn online survey and in-depth interviews were used to capture a wide range of experiences.Participants67 NMAHPs who were pursuing a clinical academic career were surveyed, supplemented by 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews.ResultsThree themes emerged during data analysis: Embarking on a clinical academic career, overcoming barriers and benefits.ConclusionsNMAHPs are motivated to pursue a clinical academic career by a drive to improve services for the benefit of patients and the National Health Service more widely, as well as for personal development and career progression. People working in these roles have opportunities to explore possible solutions to issues that they encounter in their clinical role through academic study. Findings reveal benefits emanating from the individual level through to (inter)national levels, therefore academic study should be encouraged and supported. However, investment is needed to establish more clinical academic roles to enable NMAHPs to continue to use their experience and expertise post-PhD, otherwise the full extent of their value will not be recognised.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC MENTALITY AS A PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: FROM THEORICAL PROVISIONS TO EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-95
Author(s):  
Д.А. Китова ◽  
А.А. Китов
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Понятие «менталитет» становится предметом широкого научного дискурса и тяготеет и в отечественной, и в зарубежной литературе к междисциплинарному пониманию. Это сопряжено с широким составом понятий, которые входят в его структуру, и прикладными особенностями его развития - историчностью, устойчивостью/изменчивостью, идеологической лояльностью культур и т.д. Дальнейшая его разработка требует выработки схем описания его структурной композиции, уточнения базовых теоретических концепций, операциональных схем эмпирического анализа и структурирования различных его видов. Проблемы изучения экономического менталитета связаны с содержанием базового понятия и его спецификой - он представляется структурным компонентом российской полиментальности и требует психологического анализа различных его аспектов: сущности и характера его влияния на экономическое поведение личности, корпоративное взаимодействие и экономическое развитие страны в целом. Изучения требуют взаимное проникновение психологических и экономических факторов, прогнозирование их влияния на экономические показатели государства, выделение его функциональных характеристик, а также интенсивность и выраженность психологических свойств и условий культурного развития различных обществ. Выявлен ряд связанных с ним феноменов: взаимовлияния качества жизни и чувства экзистенциальной безопасности; влияния общественного сознания на темпы роста экономики; взаимозависимости качества жизни и субъективной удовлетворенности жизнью; различий в представлениях о причинах бедности преимущественно обеспеченных и нуждающихся слоев населения. Показано, что системно-структурный анализ информационных процессов в интернете (анализ запросов в Google) отражают психологические закономерности возникновения и развития интереса к экономическим явлениям. Предлагаемые подходы позволяют обоснованно считать, что возможно выявление новых знаний об экономическом менталитете. The concept of «mentality» is becoming the subject of a broad scientific discourse and tends, both in domestic and foreign literature, to interdisciplinary integration in the study of the psychology of peoples. It was revealed that the broad interpretation of mentality is associated with a wide range of categories that are included in its structure, and applied features of development - historicity, variability, ideological loyalty of cultures, etc. It seems that further development of the concept requires the development of schemes for describing the structural composition of the mentality, clarification of basic theoretical concepts, operational schemes of empirical analysis and structuring of its various types. The paper describes the problems of studying the economic mentality, which naturally has both problems associated with the study of the basic concept itself, and its own specificity. The economic mentality appears to be a structural component of Russian polymentality and requires an in-depth psychological study of its various aspects: the essence, the nature of the impact on the economic behavior of the individual, corporate interaction and the country's economic development. It was shown that the study requires the mutual penetration of psychological and economic factors, predicting their impact on economic results, highlighting its functional characteristics, identifying the intensity and severity of specific psychological characteristics and conditions of cultural development of societies. It was presented that within the framework of various theoretical approaches and studies, many facts were revealed: the mutual influence of the quality of life and the feeling of existential security; the influence of public consciousness on the rate of economic growth; codependency of the quality of life and subjective life satisfaction; found differences in the perceptions of the wealthy and needy strata of the population about the causes of poverty. It was shown that the systemic and structural analysis of information processes in Google, in particular, the analysis of queries, will make it possible to clearly see that in economies of various types there are certain psychological patterns of interest in economic phenomena that have yet to be substantiated. The proposed approaches make it possible to hope for the identification of new knowledge in the study of economic mentality.

The Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and the Secondary School

1909 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Arthur Sullivan Gale
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
American Mathematical Society ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Normal Schools ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Secondary Instruction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Healthy Growth

During recent years there has developed in this country a very real interest in the teaching of mathematics, as evidenced by the formation of numerous associations of teachers of mathematics. This interest may be traced to two principal sources. The great mathematical revival finding its expression in the rapid and healthy growth of the American Mathematical Society has had naturally a reactionary effect upon collegiate and then upon secondary instruction. This effect is seen in the effort to put upon a scientific basis the elementary parts of mathematics in their relation to the subject as a whole. At the same time, modern pedagogy holds as its principal thesis that both subject matter and manner of presentation must be arranged with reference to a psychological study of the pupil. Hence a further rearrangement of mathematical material is required with the express object of obtaining and retaining the student’s interest. These two courses of the demand for improvement in mathematical instruction call for two lines of preparation on the part of the teacher, mathematical and peciagogical. A man may have studied a wide range of mathematical topics and yet have so poor a notion of how to present his ideas that it takes several years’ experience to learn to teach; and in the meantime many of his pupils may discover, or believe that they have discovered, that they are so mentally deficient as to be unable to grasp mathematics. On the other hand, a man may learn something of the technique of teaching and be so ignorant of the principles of the science that his students do not obtain any idea of the spirit of mathematical studies. Such ignorance may be partially pardoned in the man who is forced to teach many different subjects; but it is, even at present, no novelty to find a teacher of mathematics only, who thinks that he requires his students to give a complete reason for every step in a geometrical demonstration. It is generally conceded that the normal schools have been unable to afford proper mathematical training for the high school teacher, and it is gratifying that the colleges are beginning to offer courses in mathematics arranged especially for those intending to enter the field of secondary instruction. Such courses should touch on many topics having an immediate bearing on elementary algebra and geometry and not ordinarily included in the courses usually offered to undergraduates, as well as some discussion of pedagogical principle. The proper person to conduct them has been aptly described by a well-known mathematician as “a mathematician sufficiently interested in his subject to publish occasional investigations, and who has the pedagogic instinct.”

Factors Affecting the Response of Trout to an Electric Field in Fresh and Salt Water

1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. C. Flux
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Individual Variation ◽  
Salmo Trutta ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Current Field ◽  
Response Level ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Field Temperature ◽  
Temperature Resistivity

The "minimum response" level of Salmo trutta to an alternating current field increased with angle to the field, temperature, resistivity, and fatigue, with a wide range of individual variation. The drop in potential across the length of a fish ("body-voltage") varies directly with length and is not a constant for the species in either fresh or salt water. Embryo trout show a fully developed response 2 weeks after hatching.

A Criminology of War?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McGarry ◽  
Sandra Walklate
Keyword(s):  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Academic Study

With the academic study of ‘war’ gaining renewed popularity within criminology in recent years, this book illustrates the long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Within this book, whilst providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology the authors seek to question if a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.

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