The Importance of Religion for the Evaluation of Everyday Ecological Decisions by German Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Altmeyer ◽  
Daniel Dreesmann
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
School Students ◽  
Religion And Ecology ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Although previous research has addressed the relationship between religion and ecology in a variety of ways, little is known concerning how religious orientation affects concrete everyday ecological decisions, although these are centrally important for environmental education. Being interested in elucidating the preconditions of ecological learning in Biology and Religious Education in schools, the authors have developed an approach based on maximum concretion with regard to the ecological decision in which the influence of religion should be evaluated. With this goal in mind, they conducted an empirical study among secondary school students in central Western Germany (N = 815), who were confronted with an everyday ecological dilemma and asked about their reasons for evaluating this situation. The results provide insight into the potential role of German young people’s religious orientations in ecological matters and call for a decisive profiling of how cross-disciplinary education can contribute to this key question for future.

Tackling climate-science learning through futures thinking

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Simon Taylor ◽  
Ben Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
School Students ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Images Of The Future

This study examined the role of a future-oriented scenario with secondary school students using diorama construction which included climate-change knowledge and envisioning alternative futures. To explore the potential role of futures-thinking modelling, students from one class participated in a 12-week cross-curricular inquiry with their teachers. Jensen’s (2002) dimensions of action-oriented knowledge are used to examine the climate-change knowledge developed by the students. Four common images of the future (Dator, 2014) are incorporated as models to forecast alternative futures. The findings suggest the value of future-oriented dioramas for developing climate-change understanding and futures thinking.

A Study on the Relationship between Delay of Gratification and Emotional Intelligence in Secondary School Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajib Chakraborty ◽  
Dr. K. S. Prabhakaram
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire ◽  
Academic Delay ◽  
The Relationship

The present study is an attempt to examine the relationship between delay of gratification in academics and emotional intelligence. Sample for the study includes 50 urban students (30 boys and 20 girls) of class IX of a secondary school in New Nagole, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The data for measuring delay of gratification is collected using <italic>Academic Delay of Gratification Scale (ADOGS)</italic> for college students prepared by Hefer Bembenutty (1997). Emotional intelligence is measured by collecting data using the <italic>Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire</italic> – <italic>Adolescent Short Form (TEIQue-ASF)</italic>, prepared by Petrides, K. V. & Furnham, A. (2006) for adolescents. For data analysis, Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation coefficient is used. The significance of the test is calculated using critical value table for Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation for the level of significance α at 0.05. The findings of the study reveal positive but weak relationship between delay of gratification in academics and emotional intelligence. No role of gender is found on the examined variables.

scholarly journals Accent stigmatization as a moderator of the relationship between perceived L2 proficiency and L2 use anxiety

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laszlo Vincze ◽  
Peter MacIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
L2 Proficiency ◽  
Context Model ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pyramid Model ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBy integrating the social context model of L2 acquisition with the pyramid model of willingness to communicate in L2, this study examined aspects of the psychological process underlying willingness to communicate (WTC) in Slovak among young Hungarian speakers in Southern Slovakia. The data was collected among Hungarian-speaking secondary school students (N=310). The results indicated that frequent and pleasant contact with Slovak speakers was related to higher proficiency in Slovak and lower anxiety to use Slovak, and these increased the willingness to communicate in Slovak. However, it was also demonstrated that accent stigmatization moderated the relationship between perceived L2 proficiency and L2 use anxiety. Anxiety was more closely related to proficiency among those who perceived less accent stigmatization than among those who perceived more stigma because of their Hungarian accent. The theoretical implications of these findings for the role of the intergroup context in developing accent stigmatization, and the link between accent stigmatization, L2 use anxiety and willingness to communicate in the majority language are discussed.

scholarly journals Implikasi Solat Terhadap Akhlak dalam Kalangan Murid Sekolah Rendah

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mohamad Kamal Sulaiman ◽  
Hafizhah Zulkifli
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Prayer is submission and devotion to Allah SWT. It also shows the sign of one's faith by fulfilling the command to pray. This study was conducted to identify the implications of prayer worship on morals among primary school students which aims to determine the level of understanding, practice, appreciation and implications of prayer on morality. This study identifies the above four factors on student morale by using descriptive and inferential analysis design as well as random sampling techniques. The respondents in this study consisted of 123 Year Five Muslim students of Sungai Kapar Indah Klang Selangor National School. The research instrument is in the form of a questionnaire. The findings of the study show that the level of understanding of obligatory prayers is high (Min = 4.76, SP = 0.19), the level of practice of obligatory prayers is at a low level that is (Min = 1.59, SP = 0.51), the level of appreciation of obligatory prayers is at a high level (Min = 4.33, SP = 0.21) while the level of implications of obligatory prayers on morality also showed high (Mean = 4.39, SP = 0.28) Pearson correlation inference analysis was used to see the relationship between variables and the results have shown that there is no significant difference between variables. This study is expected to help students' awareness of fulfilling the obligatory prayers and in turn will be able to help for the formation of morals and personality of students at a better level. In addition, the role of all parties including teachers and parents in providing religious education perfectly, in order to perform obligatory prayers as best as possible and give the best impact on their morals.Keywords : Prayer, Understanding, Practice, Appreciation, Implications for MoralityAbstrak:Solat merupakan penyerahan dan pengabdian diri kepada Allah SWT. Ia juga menunjukkan tanda keimanan seseorang itu dengan menunaikan perintah solat. kajian ini merupakan sebuah kajian tinjauan yang dilaksanakan bagi mengenal pasti tahap kefahaman murid Tahun Lima sekolah rendah terhadap pengetahuan, amalan dan penghayatan ibadah solat seharian mereka serta implikasinya terhadap akhlak murid. Penyelidik juga membahagikan kepada empat skop utama dalam kajian ini iaitu tahap kefahaman, amalan, penghayatan solat fardhu dan implikasinya terhadap akhlak. Responden dalam kajian ini merupakan 123 orang murid Islam Tahun Lima Sekolah Kebangsaan. Hasil analisis deskriptif mendapati bahawa nilai min dan sisihan piawai digunakan bagi menilai tahap kefahaman solat fardhu, tahap amalan solat fardhu, tahap penghayatan solat fardhu dan impilkasi terhadap akhlak, hasilnya menunjukkan berada pada tahap yang tinggi. analisis statistik inferensi  korelasi Pearson pula digunakan untuk melihat hubungan di antara pemboleh ubah dan hasilnya telah menunjukkan bahawa tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan di antara pemboleh ubah. Kajian ini diharapkan  dapat membantu kesedaran murid menunaikan perintah solat fardhu seterusnya akan dapat meningkatkan lagi nilai akhlak dan sahsiah murid pada tahap yang lebih baik. Kata Kunci : Solat, Kefahaman, Amalan, Penghayatan, Implikasi Terhadap Akhlak

scholarly journals The role of social influence and smoker identity in resistance to smoking cessation 1This research program was supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Switzerland. We are grateful to Juan Fabra for his help in collecting data.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Falomir ◽  
Federica Invernizzi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Smoking Behaviour ◽  
High Status ◽  
School Students ◽  
Current Smoking ◽  
Persuasive Message ◽  
Partial Correlations ◽  
The Relationship

153 secondary school students, all smokers, were either exposed to a strongly anti-smoking message originating from a high status source (persuasive message condition) or not (control condition). A questionnaire then measured a set of variables concerning several aspects of tobacco consumption (i.e., smoker identity, attitude, subjective norm, perceived lack of behavioural control, smoking behaviour, and intention to give up smoking). First, regression analysis shows that the smoker's identity plays a direct and important role in explaining current smoking behaviour and the intention not to smoke, even when other variables are controlled. Second, analyses of variance indicate that smokers with a strong identity as a smoker are defensively motivated when confronting a persuasive attempt - i.e. their perception of friends' support to smoke increases. Finally, partial correlations show that the relationship between smoker identity and intention to give up smoking is mediated by this defensive motivation. Taken together, these results suggest that smoker identity is an important factor in explaining smoker's intention to give up smoking and, when antitobacco campaigns are salient, smoker identity can affect other variables which can reverse antitobacco efforts.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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