Getting to Scale with Moral Education: The Demands of Reproducibility and the Case of the Chicago Manual Training School, 1884–1904

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Jane Mccamant
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Training School ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
School Work ◽  
Technical Drawing

Background Getting educational reforms “to scale” continues to be a primary preoccupation of scholars, but such studies tend to remain focused on the organizational or other characteristics of the school(s) receiving a given innovation. Purpose This article brackets the organizational elements of reform dissemination to consider the relationship between the ideational content of educational innovations and their success at being “scaled up.” It considers whether particular categories of educational outcomes are inherently less well suited to widespread reproduction. Research Design The article identifies a historical case of an educational reform effort that failed to be brought to scale as a method of considering these larger theoretical questions. First articulated in the early 1880s, the educational philosophy of manual training called for the incorporation of industrial training––in the form of tool work, metal shop, and technical drawing––into a rigorous and traditional academic curriculum. This combination of shop work and school work was intended to function holistically, developing the manual, intellectual, and moral capacities of the student simultaneously. Opened in 1884, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was intended to be an example of the implementation of this philosophy to be emulated by Chicago's public secondary schools. Such emulation never occurred. The case study portion of this article is based on in-depth historical analysis of the records of the CMTS, the papers of its founder, Henry Holmes Belfield, and other contemporaneous materials relating to the manual training movement and the context of late-19th-century education reform efforts. Conclusions The case of the CMTS suggests two necessary (but not sufficient) criteria for a given educational philosophy to be susceptible to reproduction: intelligibility and measurability. These two requirements are found to be particularly unlikely in educational innovations that emphasize the subtle and intangible connections of mind, body, and spirit or that seek primarily to teach character or disposition—here termed “moral education.”

From Souqs to Emporiums: The Urban Transformation of Abu Dhabi

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Yasser Elsheshtawy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Trade Center

This paper in its first part aims at contextualizing Abu Dhabi's urban development and understanding the factors that have governed its urban growth through a historical case study approach. Relying on archival records and primary sources five stages of urban growth are identified. Data mining of media archives allows for a first hand account of developments taking place thus grounding the depictions. The second part contextualizes this review through a case study of the Central Market project — also known as Abu Dhabi's World Trade Center. The paper concludes by elaborating on the significance of such a historical analysis as it shifts the discourse away from a focus on the ‘artificiality’ of cities in the Gulf to one that is based on a recognition about the historicity of its urban centers, however recent it may be. Additionally the pertinence of such an analysis for cities worldwide is discussed as well.

SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL ESSENCE OF THE CONCEPTS OF "MORALITY" AND "SPIRITUALITY"

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (77) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
E.S. Panina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Rules And Principles

Тhe article examines the concepts of "morality" and "spirituality" based on research by domestic, foreign scientists, psychologists of different eras. The main directions of the study of concepts are highlighted. The main parameters of morality from a pedagogical, philosophical point of view are emphasized. Highlighting the main parameters of morality. Definition of the concept of "morality" based on historical analysis. The substantive part of the concepts of spiritual, moral and moral education. Spiritual and moral education is in demand in pedagogical practice and gives morality to the national identity. The characteristic of the content of the concepts of spiritual, moral, moral and moral education is presented, their features are determined. The relationship between morality and spirituality in cultural identity. The importance of spiritual and moral education is in demand in modern pedagogical science, it is this education that enriches a person with national identity and contributes to the development of spiritual needs, motivating him in his actions to the national ideal, self-actualization. Consideration of the compatibility of physiological needs with the moral and moral qualities of a person. Cognitive and aesthetic layers in the pyramid of needs. Study of the concept of morality in the framework of the activity approach. The educational process and its content. The life stage of a person and the process of self-improvement. The role of the system of rules and principles of human behavior in society and the system of personal beliefs and priorities in life.

scholarly journals Transitioning business school accounting from binary divide to unified national system

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Safari ◽  
Lee David Parker
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to provide a historical case study of strategic changes in accounting at an Australian university’s business school department during 1972-1992 when it was repositioning itself in the early stages of major changes in the Australian and international tertiary accounting education environment. The study is conducted within the context of the university history within which the department operated as well as major government policy and global education shifts shaping university structures and focus. Design/methodology/approach This study offers a historical analysis of early stage changes in university focus at the business school’s accounting department, developed through departmental and university reports and oral history interviews. A narrative analytical methodology is adopted to portray a history of an academic accounting department in transition. Findings This case study illuminates the impacts of and responses to the beginning of marketisation and globalisation of higher education, and the commercialisation of universities and explains the strategic implementation processes in one university’s business school departmental during a period of significant formative change in the Australian accounting education landscape. Originality/value This study deepens our understanding of environmental, structural, educational and research changes at the operational departmental level of academic institutions, paying particular attention to the organisational culture and human capital dimensions.

scholarly journals Research on Explicit and Implicit Activities in Middle School Moral Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (S1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Lifeng Geng
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Joint Force ◽  
School Work ◽  
Subtle Effect ◽  
Implicit System ◽  
Adolescent Education ◽  
Practice Education

Middle school moral education not only plays the role of guidance, motivation, and assurance in adolescent education and school work but also has great significance in promoting social civilization and progress. In order to make moral education become more permeable, vivid, and colorful, it is required to persuade people with reason and move a man with emotion, so as to achieve a subtle effect. Also, it builds an explicit and implicit system by exploring the middle school moral education practices. The explicit moral education activities and implicit moral education activities are inextricably linked as a joint force, which makes the school moral education work quite effective. In the former one, it makes further practical and exploration activities in developing the class moral education, upholding the theme and etiquette education of “the Four Cardinal Principles”, inheriting the "benevolence" value of education and practice education, and resisting the bad information about the moral education. The latter one, it focuses on the following three aspects of implicit moral education: teachers' virtue and deeds, family education, and game activities.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT COGNITIVE ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Zaskalieta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Language Classes

The purpose of this article is to analyze the domestic and European experience in organizing the cognitive activity of students in foreign language classes, to identify its main ways of activation. The main direction of development of modern humanitarian education in Ukraine is to increase the level of higher education to European. Entering the European educational space. Ensuring the quality of education, modernization of its content, development and implementation of educational innovations and information technologies, creating conditions for training a specialist suitable for effective implementation of innovative tasks of the appropriate level of professional activity is an urgent task facing higher education institutions. One of the priority areas of education reform is the need to achieve a qualitatively new level in the study of foreign languages. Unlike other subjects, a foreign language is a whole field of knowledge, as it reveals to a person the treasury of a foreign language culture, new lifestyles. Ukraine's integration into the world community requires perfect command of foreign languages. The article highlights the current problems of modernization of higher education and identifying ways to enhance the independent cognitive activity of students in foreign language classes. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the most effective methods of teaching English in higher education. As a result of theoretical analysis and experience of work of university teachers on new educational and methodical complexes the aspects which remained out of attention of scientific researches are revealed. These include the methodological potential of the organization of independent cognitive activity of students, as well as the use of interdisciplinary links in foreign language classes. The realization of this idea is impossible without the development and implementation of appropriate learning technologies. Among the approaches, the author singles out the introduction of an interdisciplinary approach.

scholarly journals Abelard and Heloise: personal relationship in the socio-cultural context of the 12th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Oleg Shevchenko ◽  
Irene Klipenstein
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
World View ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Peter Abelard ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
The Relationship

The 12th century was a controversial period of deepening ecclesiastical influence on all strata of the population, strengthening church prohibitions, expansion of convents; the century of establishing a new stratum of intellectuals, the first rise of women role in society and the formation of the courtly culture’s foundations. Philosopher Peter Abelard and his student Heloise were chosen for examination by us as the bright personalities of the 12th century, a product of medieval society and the voices of their time. An exceptional historical case of well-documented reliable information on the personal relationship allows us to correlate the world-view of lovers and their lives with the socio-cultural realities of High Middle Ages. The aim of the article is a historical analysis of the relationship between the philosopher-teacher Abelard and the student Eloise in the socio-cultural context of the 12th century. In previous studies scholars have only indirectly touched certain aspects of the teacher-student relationship in the context of intimate gender relations of the High Middle Ages. We analysed the autobiography of Peter Abelard, the letters of Abelard’s contemporaries, his correspondence with Eloise. We arranged scientific achievements of historians and examined personal life of the couple against the background: tactics of seduction, intimacy, determining and understanding the relationship status, men’s standing in society after castration. Emphasis is placed on the progress of 12th century’s social consciousness in the light of the personalities’ world-view analysis. A division between individual views and the Catholic medieval outlook is analysed. Through the study of the transformation of the relationship between teacher and student, and future lovers, we have shown that the views of Eloise and Abelard illustrate a feasible range of medieval perceptions of the relationship, in tune with the new era challenges, yet integral to its time.

scholarly journals Rural Child in the Polish Educational Discourse during the Interwar Period or about Less Known Roots of Regionalism at School

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 155-184
Author(s):  
Anna Mlekodaj
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Rural Children ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Rural Child ◽  
School Work ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Teaching Characteristics ◽  
Proper Diagnosis ◽  
School Curricula

The article is devoted to the process of discovering the specificity of life and development of a village child, initiated at the turn of the second and third decades of the 20th century. It was one of the consequences of the then developing educational discourse, supported by the achievements of child psychology, pedology, and the New Upbringing trend. In 1929, the first Polish research on the level of development of children from urban and rural environments was conducted. The results were very unfavorable for children from the countryside. This gave an impulse for further action. In 1930, in the pages of “Praca Szkolna” (“School Work”), a competition was announced among teachers to describe a rural child from various regions. Twenty-two papers were submitted, the best of which were published in the book Dziecko wsi polskiej (A Child of the Polish Countryside). These works allowed us to penetrate both the problems faced by rural children at school and the difficulties faced by teachers working in the countryside. To a large extent, they resulted from the lack of a proper diagnosis of the educational and upbringing needs of a rural child and from difficulties in cooperation between schools and villages. The perspective of changes in this area was opened only by regionalism, introduced to school curricula as a result of the education reform in 1932, which was to support the education of rural children and contribute to the integration of the school with the local community. Thus, the teaching characteristics of a rural child contributed, in a sense, to the introduction of regionalism in Polish schools.

scholarly journals “Outposts of Britain” the General Post Office and the birth of a corporate iconic brand, 1930-1939

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 358-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Heller
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Market Model ◽  
British Society ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Corporate Brand ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Approach

Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of an iconic corporate brand by the General Post Office (GPO) in Britain in the 1930s by adapting the work of Douglas Holt (2004). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a historical approach by developing a historical case study. It combines this historical approach with Holt’s theory and writing on iconic branding and the current literature on corporate identity, corporate branding and corporate communication. Findings The study argues that the GPO was able to construct an iconic brand in the interwar period (1918-1939) by responding to anxieties in British society generated by social tension and fears of decline. This was facilitated by the establishment of a public relations department, which created “myths” of national identity and imperial unity through telecommunications, and national strength through technology. These myths assuaged social anxieties and enabled the GPO to construct an iconic corporate brand. Originality/value This paper provides an important insight into iconic branding. It examines corporate rather than product branding, where research has predominantly focused. It also combines cultural branding theory with historical analysis and provides an adapted approach to Holt’s myth market model (1994, p. 58).

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