The Lifelong Learning Link: Twelve Reasons for Continuous Education for Missionaries

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monroe Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
The Past

By planning for growth on all levels—personal, cultural, and organizational—missionaries can help correct errors of the past; can learn better; can more creatively interact with life situations; can be more flexible, relevant, and stimulating in their ministries; can have lives more fully integrated and balanced; can potentially have fewer and less serious problems and not stagnate in their missionary ruts; and can be a blessing to everyone else and God too. This article presents the case for a commitment to “continuous education” by proposing four philosophical and eight practical reasons for missionaries to expand their ministries through lifelong learning.

scholarly journals The Integration of Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology

Radiocarbon ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
H T Waterbolk
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Method ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Expected Time ◽  
The Past

In the past 30 years many hundreds of archaeologic samples have been dated by radiocarbon laboratories. Yet, one cannot say that 14C dating is fully integrated into archaeology. For many archaeologists, a 14C date is an outside expertise, for which they are grateful, when it provides the answer to an otherwise insoluble chronologic problem and when it falls within the expected time range. But if a 14C date contradicts other chronologic evidence, they often find the ‘solution’ inexplicable. Some archaeologists are so impressed by the new method, that they neglect the other evidence; others simply reject problematic 14C dates as archaeologically unacceptable. Frequently, excavation reports are provided with an appendix listing the relevant 14C dates with little or no discussion of their implication. It is rare, indeed, to see in archaeologic reports a careful weighing of the various types of chronologic evidence. Yet, this is precisely what the archaeologist is accustomed to do with the evidence from his traditional methods for building up a chronology: typology and stratigraphy. Why should he not be able to include radiocarbon dates in the same way in his considerations?

scholarly journals Integrated Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: An Organizational Approach for Stakeholder Engagement and Communications

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne Van Eerd ◽  
Ron Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Research Process ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Knowledge Transfer And Exchange ◽  
Key Concepts

Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is a process of making relevant research information available and accessible for use in practice or policy. Integrated KTE, where knowledge users are engaged in the research process, is considered to better facilitate uptake and use. The objective of this paper is to describe a fully integrated KTE approach developed over the past 20 years. Key concepts related to knowledge user engagement as well as the integration of communications within KTE are described. The organizational KTE approach is flexible and can be adapted to a variety of research areas.

Foster employability and fight social exclusion through the development of lifelong learning (LLL) key-competences: reviewing twenty years of LLL policies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ceschi ◽  
Marco Perini ◽  
Andrea Scalco ◽  
Monica Pentassuglia ◽  
Elisa Righetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Key Competences

Purpose This study aims to provide an overview of the past two decades of lifelong learning (LLL) policies for enhancing employability and reduce social exclusion in young people of European countries through the development of the so-called LLL key-competences. Design/methodology/approach Built on a quasi-systematic review, this contribution explores traditional and new methods for promoting the LLL transition, and then employability, in young adults (e.g. apprenticeship, vocational training, e-learning, etc.). Findings It argues the need to identify all the possible approaches able to support policymakers, as they can differently impact key-competence development. Originality/value Finally, based on the consolidated EU policy experience, we propose a strategy of implementation of the LLL programmes that facilitates the institutions’ decision processes for policy-making through the use of decisional support system.

An Overview of Learning and Teaching From the Past to the Present

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Cihad Şentürk ◽  
Gökhan Baş
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
External Stimuli

Just like any other area in the world, which is quickly changing and converting in line with the scientific and technological developments, the models, approaches, and paradigms set forth as elements of learning and teaching have also undergone alterations and transformations from past to present. While the learning-teaching theories and approaches in the last century, which are based on perennialist and essentialist education philosophies and positivism paradigm, were deeming the learners as passive receivers of external stimuli and focused on the observable and measurable behaviors, the learning-teaching theories and approaches in our century, which are developed around the progressivism and re-constructionism philosophies and post-positivism paradigm, have an understanding that allocates the responsibility to the learner and adopts a lifelong learning by doing and experiencing. In this chapter, a general outlook on the learning and teaching theories and approaches will be briefly carried out.

Social Networks and Crime: Pitfalls and Promises for Advancing the Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Faust ◽  
George E. Tita
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Potential Measurement ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Social Network Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dynamic Social Network ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Criminological Theories

Over the past decade, a considerable literature has emerged within criminology stemming from the collection of social network data and the adoption of social network analysis by a cadre of scholars. We review recent contributions to four areas of crime research: co-offending networks, illicit networks, gang-rivalry networks, and neighborhoods and crime. Our review highlights potential pitfalls that one might encounter when using social networks in criminological research and points to fruitful directions for further research. In particular, we recommend paying special attention to the clear specifications of what ties in the network are assumed to be doing, potential measurement weaknesses that can arise when using police or investigative data to construct a network, and understanding dynamic social network processes related to criminological outcomes. We envision a bright future in which the social network perspective will be more fully integrated into criminological theories, analyses, and applications.

Participants as Partners in Genetic Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Dresser
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This chapter focuses on subject-centered developments in genetic research. Modern genetic research requires scientists to collect, store, and study DNA samples and health information from thousands of people. In the past, researchers have been allowed to use DNA samples and information without consent. Researchers have not been required to explain study results to subjects, nor have they been required to compensate people who contribute samples and health information to genetic studies. Experts developed these practices without input from the people whose contributions are essential to the genetic research enterprise. A growing amount of evidence shows that many research subjects and prospective subjects disagree with these traditional approaches. For ethical and practical reasons, subjects should have a greater role in determining how genetic research is conducted.

European higher education space: where do we go from here?

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Iza ◽  
P. García Encina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
European Countries ◽  
University Education ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
European University

The Declaration of Bologna and subsequent documents have drastically changed the European university panorama and the future role of universities as providers of continuous education for a lifelong learning. There will be a convergence not only in academic titles, but also in the way we see university education. The previous EEE symposium gave some clues on the approaches taken by different European countries: organization of EE studies, integration of graduates into the market, and interaction with professional bodies. Bologna's outcomes were sold in Spain as a change into an American (USA) model, which, as any other model, has advantages and drawbacks. This paper deals with an open reflection on the future of university studies in Europe.

Development for the Optimization Technique of the Coiling Tension in Degreasing Unit

2011 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 342-346
Author(s):  
Zhen Hua Bai ◽  
Qing Tian Zhou ◽  
Xiao Dong Shi ◽  
Hong Xin Si ◽  
Gao He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Constraint Condition ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Quadratic Curve ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tabular Method ◽  
First Time ◽  
Coiling Tension ◽  
Improve Production Efficiency

As to the production of degreasing unit, fully integrated with the equipment and technological features of the line, the approach for the setting of coiling tension was changed, which was mainly tabular method in the past. Under the new idea, the degreasing process was closely integrated with the bell-type annealing for the first time. Then, to minimize the severity of stick breaks was set as the objective function, and no loose coil and no heart-shaped coil is took as the constraint condition. On these bases, a new comprehensive optimization model for the setting of coiling tension in degreasing unit was put forward. The relation between coiling tension and coil radius was obtained, which was a quadratic curve. This simple and practical technology can make the distribution of internal stress of coil more reasonable, and reduce the incidence of stick breaks, loose coil and heart-shaped coil defects effectively and improve production efficiency, quality and the metal yield.

Wicked Interactions

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Heather Wiltse ◽  
Erik Stolterman ◽  
Johan Redström ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Classic Theory ◽  
Technology And Design

The digital computational technologies that over the past decades have come to be fully integrated into nearly all aspects of human life have varying forms, scales, interactive mechanisms, functions, configurations, and interconnections. Much of this complexity and associated implications for human experience are, however, hidden by prevalent notions of ‘the computer’ as an object. In this paper, we consider how everyday digital technologies collectively mediate human experience, arguing that these technologies are better understood as fluid assemblages that have as many similarities with the infra-structural as they have properties typical for objects. We characterize these aspects in terms of ‘wicked interactions,’ drawing on and adapting the classic theory of wicked problems in design discourse that has similarly considered the complexity of interactions with and within other types of social infrastructure. In doing this we emphasize the need and the potential for building up connections between philosophy of technology and design discourse, with the hope that this might further the shared goals of understanding digital technologies and their consequences and determining how to act in relation to them and their design.

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