First Person: Me and Mr. Milby

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Rick Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
First Person ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Math Teacher

Math teacher Rick Barlow reflects on his placement as a tutor in the classroom of Mr. Milby (a pseudonym). Mr. Milby sat at his desk throughout every class, rarely getting up to interact with students. From that example, Barlow learned that a teacher’s desk was a barrier between teacher and students, and he eschewed having and using a desk in this way. Instead, he followed the example of other teachers he met during his teacher preparation and made pancakes for students and learned Spanish to talk with their families. But, over time, he came to realize that he internalized practices that kept him in a seat of power, following traditions that weren’t necessarily in students’ best interests.

scholarly journals Patriarchy and the Law of Adoption: Beneath the Best Interests of the Child

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrysha Bracco
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Current System ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Law ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the nature of adoption, its history and how it has evolved into the current system of Canadian adoption law. Originally adoption existed to serve the interests of the adopting family. Over time there was a shift in attitude, such that adoption was intended to serve the best interests of the child The author questions the current state of the law, its practices and whether it really serves those whom it is intended to serve. The article critically examines the nuclear family, which the author asserts is at the heart of Canadian adoption law. Finally, there is a brief presentation of psychoanalytic theories of child development which includes an examination of Freud, attachment theory and feminist analysis. This discussion helps both to explain the current system and to challenge its validity. The author raises important questions about the current state of adoption law and its foundations.

Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-214
Author(s):  
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian ◽  
Abigail C. Cohn ◽  
Dwi Noverini Djenar ◽  
Rachel C. Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Open System ◽  
First Person ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Pronominal Reference ◽  
Jakarta Indonesian ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Self Reference ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia’s capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay, and Standard Indonesian. Like other varieties of Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian is a language with a relatively open system of pronominal reference and multiple forms for self-reference. In this paper we focus on variation in the use of first-person pronouns in Jakarta Indonesian, using two corpora of spoken data collected three decades apart. We employ both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the form, function and social meaning of 1sg pronouns in Jakarta Indonesian, investigating both inter- and intra-speaker variation over time.

The Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-138
Author(s):  
Christopher Peacocke
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
Mental Events ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Metaphysical Principle

This chapter presents a metaphysics-first treatment of subjects and the first-person way of representing subjects. It develops a new explanation of the metaphysical principle that it is in the nature of mental events that they have subjects. It advocates the view that the identity of a subject over time involves the identity of a subpersonal integration apparatus, and contrasts the resulting position with Johnston’s conception of personites. A new treatment of the first person is developed that gives a greater role for agency than in previous accounts. Only by doing so can we explain how the first person brings a subject, rather than something else, into the contents of the states and events in which it is involved. Some of the consequences of the resulting agency-involving account of the first person are traced out.

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Neutral Monism as an Attempt to Reconcile Subjectivity and Objectivity in Personal Identity

Metaphysica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Nils-Frederic Wagner ◽  
Iva Apostolova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Psychological Continuity ◽  
Neutral Monism ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Over Time

AbstractStandard views of personal identity over time often hover uneasily between the subjective, first-person dimension (e. g. psychological continuity), and the objective, third-person dimension (e. g. biological continuity) of a person’s life. Since both dimensions capture something integral to personal identity, we show that neither can successfully be discarded in favor of the other. The apparent need to reconcile subjectivity and objectivity, however, presents standard views with problems both in seeking an ontological footing of, as well as epistemic evidence for, personal identity. We contend that a fresh look at neutral monism offers a novel way to tackle these problems; counting on the most fundamental building blocks of reality to be ontologically neutral with regards to subjectivity and objectivity of personal identity. If the basic units of reality are, in fact, ontologically neutral – but can give rise to mental as well as physical events – these basic units of reality might account for both subjectivity and objectivity in personal identity. If this were true, it would turn out that subjectivity and objectivity are not conflictive dimensions of personal identity but rather two sides of the same coin.

A Checklist for a New Millennium School Science Department

2011 ◽  
pp. 273-274
Author(s):  
Ed Hessler
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Learning Science ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Over Time ◽  
New Millennium

My focus is both narrow and incomplete, for it is limited to a single area of learning: science, and it is in the form of a working list, a beginning of things one might write down, not in any particular order—so that they might be remembered and edited over time, with colleagues. Improving schools, teacher preparation, and professional development are important national priorities as we enter a new millennium. Past emphasis on targeted innovations in the short term are now conceptualized into the idea of continuous improvements that are connected in the long term. Today, the idea of improvement itself is being challenged. “Improvement,” the term of the technocrat, is being recast in the context of student learning—that is, how can we educate our young or learners of any age?

scholarly journals From Secluded Paradise to Hell on Earth

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Romagnoli
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Complex Representation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
War Novels ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Over Time

This paper focuses on the writings of Hino Ashihei (1907-1960) about Okinawa, a corpus of twelve works composed over a period of sixteen years that were inspired by three visits to the Ryūkyū Islands. Hino is best known as a writer of war novels, but these twelve works have received almost no attention, partly because they are not considered Okinawan literature since Hino was a native of Kyūshū. The aim of this article is to show that Okinawa is not merely a setting for these neglected writings but rather a complex representation that incorporates the author’s gaze, his stance toward the region, and a topography of power. Moreover, this representation evolved over time to produce an array of at times contrasting images of Okinawa, whether as a tropical paradise, the shield of the nation, or a symbol of its occupation. On the other hand, the narrator’s stance, which is characterised at first by the strength and assertiveness of a first-person narrator, underwent a progressive disengagement that was intended, by this article’s interpretation, to introduce greater objectivity into Hino’s prose.

First Person: Secondary traumatic stress: One teacher’s experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Beth A. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
First Person ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Over Time

Beth Rankin’s five years as a teacher were spent in an overcrowded elementary school filled with students who were experiencing a variety of traumas. Over time, as she learned more about her students’ lives, Rankin began to suffer from symptoms of secondary traumatic stress (STS), also known as compassion fatigue. STS is common among those in the helping professions who must help others manage trauma. Rankin shares her experiences with STS, how it led to her leaving the classroom, and why she believes it’s important to know about STS.

6. Taking time

2017 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Michelle Baddeley
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mental Accounting ◽  
Time Inconsistency ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Present Bias ◽  
Life Cycle Models ◽  
Over Time

Often our everyday decisions unfold over time and what we want today is not always consistent with what we might want tomorrow. Understanding why many people do not behave in a way that is consistent with their own long-term best interests is a key challenge for behavioural economists and policy-makers. ‘Taking time’ explains how humans (and animals) suffer from present bias: we have a disproportionate preference for smaller, immediate rewards over delayed, larger rewards—a reflection of underlying time inconsistency. It considers the intertemporal tussle between our patient and impatient selves, pre-commitment strategies, and self-control. The behavioural life cycle models of choice bracketing, framing, and mental accounting are also discussed.

scholarly journals Involuntary status and mental capacity for treatment decisions under Sections 4, 3, and 57 of Ireland’s Mental Health Act, 2001: analysis and recommendations for reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Katherine Reidy ◽  
Brendan D. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

Although significant progress has been made in Irish mental health law in recent decades, the Mental Health Act, 2001 still falls short of properly protecting human rights. A consideration of human rights developments, both domestically and internationally, highlights the urgent need for reform. In this paper we consider Sections 4 (‘Best interests’), 3 (‘Mental disorder’) and 57 (‘Treatment not requiring consent’) of the 2001 Act and related recommendations in the 2015 Report of the Expert Group on the Review of the Mental Health Act, 2001, and suggest specific areas for reform. Just as medicine evolves over time, so too does our understanding of human rights and law. While embracing a human rights-based approach to the extent suggested here might be seen as aspirational, it is important to balance achievable goals with higher ideals if progress is to be made and rights are to be respected.

Assessing mental capacity

2021 ◽  
pp. 175573802110316
Author(s):  
Alice Neilson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Mental Capacity Act 2005 ◽  
Mental Capacity Act ◽  
Over Time

Mental capacity is the ability to retain, process, and weigh up information to provide a completely objective decision independent of any cognitive impairment present. Awareness of an individual’s mental capacity is important for all healthcare professionals. Mental capacity and capacity assessments are guided by the legal framework; the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Mental capacity assessments enable practitioners to determine if a patient is able to make reasoned decisions independently, or whether the patient requires assistance in their best interests and are decision and time dependent. Therefore, capacity can fluctuate over time and if someone is deemed to have no capacity on one occasion this does not mean that they should be assumed to consistently lack capacity. The act delivers five key principles to follow in order to determine whether an individual has or lacks mental capacity.

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