Antechapel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Centering Prayer ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Rule Of Life ◽  
Role Of Teachers

Chapter 2 emphasizes the importance of the monastic tenet of stability, showing the methods by which teachers and communities help ground newcomers in their intentions to follow demanding contemplative Christian alternatives while nevertheless allowing for ambiguity and open-mindedness toward people who follow other lifeways. Rather than depending on unreliable belief and emotion, neophytes learn to keep intentions and practices as a way of working toward “contemplative transformation,” a kind of religious conversion. The difficulties they have in learning practices and principles, especially discipline, humility, and detachment, reveal some deep-seated American cultural motifs of self-identity, self-achievement, and acquisition. Ethnographic examples illustrate the critical role of teachers in stabilizing neophytes as they struggle to learn the paradox of focusing their lives while retaining a non-judgmental, pluralistic outlook. Some key practices include keeping a rule of life, practicing silence and Centering Prayer, maintaining a sense of humor, and serving others through social action.

Teachers and Teaching in Game-Based Learning Theory and Practice

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario M. Martinez-Garza ◽  
Douglas Clark
Keyword(s):  
Learning Theory ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Role Of Teachers

Interest in game-based learning has grown dramatically over the past decade. Thus far, most of the focus has not included the role of teachers. This chapter first summarizes the theoretical research on game-based learning and the implications of that research for the role of teachers. The authors next review the game-based learning literature that has specifically articulated a role for teachers or achieved an empirical description of teacher action within a game-based learning context. They then connect these accounts with more general research on teachers and technology use, elaborating on points of contact and identifying differences that may signal special challenges. Finally, the authors articulate an expanded role for teachers in game-based learning practices in terms of game-based learning research and new scholarship on the psychology of games.

Roots of Restraint in War: The Capacities and Limits of Law and the Critical Role of Social Agency in Ameliorating Violence in Armed Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Dale Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Training Strategies

Abstract International humanitarian law (ihl) primarily applies to govern the conduct of individuals in the most desperate time of human endeavour, namely armed conflict, in order to ameliorate violence. However, understanding how ihl is disseminated, trained and actually applied in the battlespace is, remarkably, a relatively underexplored area. There are countless volumes dedicated to analyzing and parsing the myriad of words and formulas that comprise this burgeoning body of law. However, there is very little empirical analysis undertaken on effective training strategies and even less on tracking nuanced compliance and decision-making processes in actual armed conflict. Against this background, the 2018 icrc study ‘The Roots of Restraint in War’ offers an insightful account of how to best frame training strategies and how to optimize compliance in the battlespace. It consciously adopts an inter-disciplinary approach. It accepts fully the role of social, ethical and moral factors that can orientate decision making in a manner that combines with the applicable law. The goal is restraint in war, of a type that comes not from clinical compliance with complex legal formulas and interpretative rectitude but is derived from a deeper sense of professional self-identity. It acknowledges the risks inherent in its approach and yet, compellingly, offers a blueprint for melding principles of ihl with a sense of personal commitment. Such an approach is to be celebrated for the audacity and courage that it exhibits.

Alternative Routes Toward Literacy for Individuals With Deafblindness

2020 ◽  
pp. 369-383
Author(s):  
Vassilios Argyropoulos ◽  
Magda Nikolaraizi ◽  
Maria Papazafiri
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Literacy Experiences ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Alternative Routes

The aim of the current chapter is to describe alternative ways that can enhance literacy development for persons with deafblindness. The conventional concept of literacy, which concerns reading and writing, excludes persons with deafblindness from literacy experiences. Therefore, a broadened and more contemporary concept is supported, which incorporates communication. Within this broader concept, assistive technology can play an important role in the development of literacy and therefore facilitate the access of individuals who are deafblind in different domains of life. Furthermore, the paper emphasizes the critical role of teachers and the importance of training that will enable them to exploit assistive technology in order to enhance the literacy skills of persons who are deafblind.

scholarly journals 9. The Critical Role of Art Education in Community Building as Viewed by Art Teachers. A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Gabriela Monica Assante ◽  
Florin Enescu
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Musical Interpretation ◽  
Role Of Teachers

AbstractThe present study aims to describe the ways in which art education impacts community life through art products. The sample consists of 32 teachers/creators in various fields of work such as fine arts, composition, literature, musical interpretation, choreography and acting. Categorical content analysis is used for data analysis. The highest-ranking emerging theme is related to the means of educational intervention in the community through art. Artistic education leads to empowerment and emancipation by provoking people to think differently while the exposure to artistic creations has a therapeutic effect and contributes to identifying new ways of action. Artists in the role of teachers feel a responsibility both for the educational process and also for the emotional message that their creative product transmits to the audience.

scholarly journals Democracy and Language in Jürgen Habermas’s Discourse Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Arianna Maceratini
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Institutional Issues ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hermeneutic Science

Abstract The concept of hermeneutic science is outlined by Habermas as a reflection within the ordinary language, addressed to the dialogic dimension of intersubjective recognition and connected to the juridical guarantee. The guarantee function fulfilled by the discursive agreement towards every real dialogue is obvious: it indicates the main reference point for the regulation and coordination of social action, tracing a line of demarcation between being and having to be, facts and norms. Speech, communicative agreement and legal guarantee are mutually qualified terms where the public discussion of institutional issues makes it possible to define the normative validity as non-assimilatory generality, placed beyond any populistic yearning, tracing a line of demarcation between law and power. The idea of deliberative democracy expresses the relationship and distinction between the universalism of rights and the factuality of the norm issuing, between the idea of good and the idea of right, in order to support democratic decision-making legitimacy. Combining the reasons of the markets with those of civil solidarity, through independent forms of regulation both from the obsolete state sovereignties and from the traditional international perspectives, represents a primary challenge of the Habermasian theory where the critical role of the rational public sphere appears fundamental.

Supporting toddlers as competent story navigators across home and early childhood contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Amanda White ◽  
Irene Padtoc
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Settings

Young children learn how to communicate with others through their everyday interactions and social relationships. In this article, we argue that stories about personal experiences are a valuable context for exploring how 1-year-old toddlers learn to engage with others across their family homes and early childhood settings. We demonstrate how Lexie, aged 16 months, communicated multimodally as she contributed to a personal story about her experience of eating lunch. Lexie’s competence as a storyteller was supported by a teacher who shared her cultural background and home language. Lexie’s story highlights the critical role of teachers in supporting story interactions in attuned and reciprocal ways that allow the competencies of 1-year-old toddlers as learners and communicators to be recognised and extended.

scholarly journals The Role of Teachers’ Self-regulatory Capacities in the Implementation of Self-regulated Learning Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 1963-1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeltsen Peeters ◽  
Free De Backer ◽  
Veronique Romero Reina ◽  
Ankelien Kindekens ◽  
Tine Buffel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Role Of Teachers

The Role of the SLP in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening and Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Philofsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Critical Components

AbstractRecent prevalence estimates for autism have been alarming as a function of the notable increase. Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, assessment and intervention for children with autism. This article reviews signs that may be indicative of autism at different stages of language development, and discusses the importance of several psychometric properties—sensitivity and specificity—in utilizing screening measures for children with autism. Critical components of assessment for children with autism are reviewed. This article concludes with examples of intervention targets for children with ASD at various levels of language development.

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