The Emotional Heart of Environmental Virtues

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-112
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Advanced Skills

Arguments for environmental virtues ought to include more attention to the emotional characteristics and skills that help constitute such virtues. By now a number of virtues have been suggested as necessary or useful for living sustainably. While these virtues are often persuasively justified and their cognitive and behavioral qualities carefully delineated, their emotional qualities are seldom investigated in any depth. Yet environmental virtues, like all virtues, depend on particular ways of emotionally engaging with oneself and the world, ways of engaging that in turn require advanced skills in working with emotions. Accordingly, arguments for environmental virtues will be more useful if they can help people understand the emotional aspects involved in developing and sustaining the virtues being advocated.

Tamayo, Rufino (1899–1991)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Locatelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Abstract Expressionism ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Diego Rivera ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Jose Clemente Orozco

A Mexican painter and muralist of indigenous heritage, Rufino Tamayo was one of the most important representatives of figurative abstraction and poetic realism in 20th-century Latin American art. A supporter of the universalistic approach to art, in the late 1940s he started a controversy—the so called ‘‘polémica Tamayo’’—by positioning himself against the classical Mexican school and its ‘‘Big Three,’’ the muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and Alfaro Siqueiros. Contrary to the stress they put on art as political, Tamayo focused on its poetic and emotional aspects. Tamayo’s art is based both on Mexican figurative traditions (characterized by the rigor and geometry of pre-Hispanic sculpture and its imaginative and magical character), and on the influence of European and North American avant-garde movements, especially Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. His sensibility for nature and spirituality, his interest in ordinary people, and his ability to synthesize different pictorial languages with Mexican folk art and beliefs, have made him a very popular artist, nationally and internationally. Throughout his career Tamayo directed his effort ‘‘towards the salvation of painting, the preservation of its purity and the perpetuation of its mission as translator of the world’’ (Paz 1985: 23).

Emotion in Music Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 643-650
Author(s):  
Richard Letts
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Emotional Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
University Course

This article explores the reasons behind music instructors' failure to openly acknowledge the emotional aspect of music. Perhaps emotions are private matters, not to be discussed in public; or inappropriate subject matter for a university course unless presented in the context of medicine and illness. These issues are considered due to efforts currently underway around the world to revise a number of national curricula. The article also discusses how the emotional aspects of music can be included in a curriculum.

scholarly journals Unicorn in Rainbow Park: A glance at young children’s game design ideas

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Mertala
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Design Ideas

In this study, 5-to7-year-old Finnish children were asked to show, by drawing a design, what would be “the best game in the world” for them. Data were analyzed through a framework of game design elements. Children were found to be keen to modify existing games by adding new things to them. Often these additions had their roots in other meaningful media texts. Thus, children’s game ideas became collage-like representations of their lifeworld, which highlights the importance of the aesthetic element of game design (i.e. the emotional aspects of a gaming experience).

Generationsumbruch in Sozialunternehmen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jette Thuresson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
Skills Shortage ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects

Skills shortage, generational upheaval, demographic change - the current challenges in social enterprises highlight the importance of addressing staff retention. As more baby boomers retire, the proportion of Generation Y (born 1980–2000) increases in the labour market. They seem to approach the world of work differently to previous generations. How can Generation Y employees be retained in social enterprises? Through a survey of current literature and interviews with experts, practical findings are derived that clearly show the need for specific approaches for the retention of Generation Y, with emotional aspects playing a particularly important role.

scholarly journals Building Teachers' Resilience: Practical Applications for Teacher Education of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Universal Model ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Teacher Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Implications

Teacher resilience has a crucial role to play in teaching and teacher education all around the world. However, few practical attempts have been made to systematically improve and (re)build this characteristic in teachers. Against this backdrop, this article draws on a universal model to offer practical implications of building resilience in the teacher education of China which is largely oriented toward pedagogical and economic concerns rather than the socio-emotional aspects of teaching. More particularly, it explains the history of China's teacher education, the conceptualizations and significance of teacher resilience, and a systematic model to integrate resilience into teacher education. Finally, some practical implications and future directions are provided for avid scholars.

scholarly journals Far from the Eyes, Close to the Heart? The Attitude of Kindergarten Teachers to Distance Learning in Kindergartens in Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Fani Alezra
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Kindergarten Teachers ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Linear Differential

Summary The coronavirus pandemic has forced the world to deal with distance learning. This article discusses distance learning in the kindergartens in Israel from the perspective of kindergarten teachers. The research was carried out after the first wave of the virus, in March 2020, and its problems was: What is the attitude of the kindergarten teachers in Israel to distance learning? The research used a linear (differential semantic) questionnaire that measures the degree to which they agree with statements related to distance learning in the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects. The questionnaire was filled out by 213 kindergarten teachers. The research attempts to conclude about the kindergarten teachers’ perception of distance learning.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

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