scholarly journals An educational history of the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 221258682110058
Author(s):  
Nicholas B Dirks
Keyword(s):  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Reform Effort ◽  
Educational History ◽  
New Era ◽  
Ancient Athens ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unlimited Access

The importance of active, “experiential” learning, and the belief that schools and colleges need to engage the world outside their walls in new ways in order to equip students for the rapidly changing future, is increasingly held to be fundamental to any educational program or reform effort, and in particular to the current rethinking about what (and how) students need to learn. In fact, however, this truth was recognized as early as in ancient Athens. In recent years the world has been transformed, and we are now well into a new era of individual and social experience. With the unprecedented processing power of mobile devices, the seemingly endless expansion of storage capacity, and unlimited access to information, we confront a vastly different landscape for education. This essay examines what this all means for education futures.

The “Millstätter Predigten” (Millstatt Sermons), Petrus Berchorius, and Mechthild of Magdeburg

Daphnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
Sabine Seelbach
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Mechthild Of Magdeburg ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Use ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article presents the project “Virtual Benedictine library Millstatt” (www.virtbibmillstatt.com/), which is dedicated to the cultural memory and educational history of Carinthia in the broadest sense. It aims to reconstruct the hitherto little-known and little-researched corpus of manuscripts from the Benedictine Abbey of Millstatt, to identify its texts, and to shed light on their history of use. Against the background of the eventful history of ownership of the Millstatt library, the problems that arise when trying to reliably assign manuscripts scattered around the world to the Millstatt corpus are outlined. Examples will be used to show the extent to which external features (binding, signature system, accessories), but also text-internal indications, make the origin and ownership history of the manuscripts traceable. Spectacular new finds are presented, but also erroneous assumptions about the affiliation of certain texts to the reading canon of the Millstatt Benedictines are pointed out.

scholarly journals Academic Discourse on the Dualism between Regional Geography and Systematic Geography

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Kanhaiya Sapkota
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Regional Geography ◽  
New Era ◽  
Academic Evaluation ◽  
Academic Orientation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Debate

This review based article entails that in the history of geography, one of the most exciting philosophical and methodological debates is the dualism between regional and systematic geography. This problem of “universality” and “exceptionality” has caused the biggest methodological debate in the history of geography. It reflects in the dualism of systematic geography and regional geography. Systematic geographers emphasize the pursuit of general principles in geography, while regional schools argue that areas of unique research are at the heart of geography. An analysis of the historical roots and evolution of the controversy shows that although the representatives of the two schools, Hartshorne and Schaefer, at least formally oppose the emphasis on only one of the systems and regions and neglect the other. Their differences in interest, values-induced preferences, and geography of history make them be ultimately different in their regional geography and systematic geography. The “Schaefer-Hartshorne Debate” in the 1980s was the only aftermath of this dualism. Since then, the rise of the pluralism methodology has made this dualism debate gradually fade out of people’s horizons, but postmodern geography focuses on “critical regional research”, which is still essentially a variant of this debate in the new era. The lack of such controversy in our geography community may be due to the academic orientation of “pragmatism”. The academic environment, the academic evaluation system, and the theoretical construction of compromise. This is not conducive to Nepal's geography. It is independent of the world of science.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
John Watts
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
New Era ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, founded just over five hundred years ago in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox, occupies a particular place in the history of English universities. Together with Christ’s College, Cambridge (1506) and St John’s College, Cambridge (1511–16), it was a new kind of foundation, with a humanist curriculum and a distinctive emphasis on paedagogy. Endowed with lecturers in ‘Humanity’ (Latin literature), Greek and Theology, the last appointed to teach Scripture and the church fathers rather than the medieval authorities, it seemed to harness the learning of the Renaissance to the contemporaneous project of spiritual reform and reformation; and its trilingual library—containing texts in Latin, Greek and Hebrew—was famously judged by Erasmus a wonder of the world. So it is that Corpus has been identified as one of a ‘group of Renaissance colleges’, introducing ‘a new era in the university’....

The American Tract Society, 1814-1860

1946 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Twaddell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Bible ◽  
National Body ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Churches

In 1825, at the founding of the American Tract Society in New York, its leaders declared that with this event began “a new era in the history of the American churches.” Ten years earlier, American Protestants had formed the American Bible Society for the purpose of publishing and distributing the Bible “without note or comment.” Beyond this single endeavor, they felt, sectarian loyalties made common missionary effort impossible. But now, the co-operation in the new Tract Society “of various local institutions, and of Christians of different denominations” heralded an era of harmony among the churches, and of unity in the national body politic. More than this, churchmen and philanthropists believed that through the agency of the Tract Society, and of other benevolent organizations of national scope, the force of a united Protestantism would speedily evangelize America and the world.

The corpus revolution revisited

English Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rundell
Keyword(s):  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Computer Processing ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
The World ◽  
And Storage ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTStarts with an excerpt from Michael Rundell and Penny Stock, The Corpus revolution (ET30, 1992). An update on the rise and rise of electronic language corpora and their impact on dictionaries. How dramatically the world has changed since Penny Stock and I wrote about the ‘Corpus Revolution’ in 1992.At the time, it was not hard to predict that computer processing power and storage capacity would carry on doubling each year. It was already clear, too, that the arrival of the corpus would revolutionize the work of dictionary-makers – hence the title of our articles. These changes were well under way in 1992 and, sixteen years on, their effects are still being felt. In the process, dictionaries have got dramatically better – if by ‘better’ we mean that the description of language they provide corresponds more closely to the way people actually use words when they communicate with one another.

The Replacement of HMI (Human-Machine Interface) in Industry Using Single Interface Through IoT

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Pradnya Sulas Borkar ◽  
Prachi U. Chanana ◽  
Simranjeet Kaur Atwal ◽  
Tanvi G. Londe ◽  
Yash D. Dalal
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Human Machine Interface ◽  
New Era ◽  
Single Interface ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Machine Interface ◽  
Access Information ◽  
And Performance

The new era of computing is internet of things (IoT). Internet of things (IoT) represents the ability of network devices to sense and collect data from around the world and then share that data across the internet where it can be processed and utilize for different converging systems. Most of the organisation and industries needs up-to-date data and information about the hardware machines. In most industries, HMI (human-machine interface) is used mostly for connecting the hardware devices. In many manufacturing industries, HMI is the only way to access information about the configuration and performance of machine. It is difficult to take the history of data or data analysis of HMI automatically. HMI is used once per machine which is quite hard to handle. Due to frequent use of HMI, it leads to loss of time, high costs, and fragility, and it needs to be replaced, which was found to be costlier. An internet of things (IOT) is a good platform where all the machines in the industry are able to be handled from a single IoT-based web portal.

Involutionary Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie R. Fishel
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Leaves Of Grass ◽  
New Era ◽  
New Words ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Specialized Language

I left no one at the door, I invited all; The thief, the parasite, the mistress—these above all I called—­ —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass International Relations needs a bigger vocabulary. This claim does not mean that we need a more specialized language or theoretical jargon, but rather new words and concepts that explain the world with greater clarity. It means, as in the epigraph by Whitman above, we open our door to those who have been excluded or ignored at both a disciplinary level and a worldly one. We can invite guests from other disciplines or redraw the intellectual history of International Relations (IR) and reuse it for a new era of global or, more hopefully, planetary politics. This could begin simply with giving up the title “International Relations.” This discipline and the world it explains are more than, and less than, relations between nations. The familiar IR view of states and their corresponding nations obfuscates the challenges facing human communities in what has become an epoch named after human alterations to our planetary ecosystems, dubbed the Anthropocene....

scholarly journals CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN SERBIA (1991–BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY)

2018 ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Marina Mudrak
Keyword(s):  
Information Service ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
World Congress ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Summer Schools

Today in the Balkans, the community of Ukrainians in Serbia is the largest by its number and importance. Since the 90s of the 20th century Ukrainian national societies are beginning to be restored and created. The research of their role in Serbia is an important aspect both for studying the history of the Ukrainian diaspora in Serbia and throughout the world. Thus, in 1991 a new era for the Ukrainian people begins not only in Ukraine but also abroad. The article highlights the cultural heritage and assets of the Ukrainian diaspora in Serbia from 1991 to 2012, identifi es the main directions of activity of cultural and educational organizations, societies, institutions created by Ukrainians in the territory of modern Serbia. Most of the issues raised in this study did not become the subject of study in the works of Ukrainian and foreign scholars. Our research is based on the memories of members of Ukrainian societies, such as the Society of Ukrainian Language, Literature and Culture “Prosvita” and the I. Seniuk Ukrainian Cultural and Arts Society. Also, the materials of the Embassies of Ukraine in Serbia, the World Congress of Ukrainians, the Information Service of the Prosvita Society and others are included in the article. The Ukrainian community in Serbia is actively engaged in cultural activities, as evidenced by festivals, national gatherings, round tables, summer schools of Ukrainian studies. The fi gures of cultural and artistic associations make a signifi cant contribution to the popularization of Ukrainian culture, traditions and preservation of the national identity of the Ukrainian community in Serbia, the Balkans and the world as a whole.

scholarly journals Putting the B in the BRIC

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Major Power ◽  
New Era ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emerging Powers ◽  
First Time

The world is rapidly changing and the new international order includes developing nations as powerful actors. Among them, Brazil stands out as one of the most influential and promising players. This article examines Brazil’s case as an emerging major power in the international system. Despite several challenges it has yet to overcome, Brazil presents itself as a stable nation capable of being an economically and politically influential. This paper analyzes how Brazil is much more than just soccer, the Amazon, and Carnaval; in reality, it is becoming a powerful actor in the international system that does has a lot to offer. Brazilians always had the hope that some day their country would launch off into an age of economic growth and stability. The promise of living in the “nation of future” has been present in Brazil even in the early 20th century, when thousands of people immigrated dreaming of a better life. Unfortunately, the situation did not play out as nicely as they had hoped. Whether it was due to the fragility of the domestic political regime or its economic failures, Brazil was never able to reach this dream. In fact, Brazil has a long history of ups and downs. All of its booms were short-lived – the milagre economico (economic miracle) of the 1970s, for instance, was quickly followed by a ride with hyperinflation and increasing public debt in the 1980s. Brazil re-established a democratic regime in 1985 with the hopes of beginning a new era of progress and stability. Twenty-five years later this goal is, for the first time, tangible. Brazil now enters the 21st century as one of the main emerging powers in the world. Brazil’s influence abroad increased tremendously in the last decade. Whether it is in speeches over global issues at the United Nations or at meetings of the world’s biggest firms, it seems clear that Brazil is no longer overlooked. This only happened after Brazil finally reached political and economic stability, positioned itself as an international leader, and demonstrated the virtues of several of its unique characteristics. After years of struggle and little self-esteem, Brazil now emerges out of the biggest crisis in 80 years as the prominent leader for Latin America.

The Cost of Trust: The World Health Organizations and Vaccination's Contested Economization in France

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942110578
Author(s):  
Gaëtan Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Hepatitis B Vaccine ◽  
World Health ◽  
New Era ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
Transatlantic History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Cost

This article explores the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) within the tumultuous history of the hepatitis B vaccine in France, including a controversy that erupted in 1996 and lasted several years. When the first hepatitis B vaccine was commercialized in France in 1981, it inaugurated a new era in the industry characterized by high prices, an unprecedented number of patents and aggressive commercial competition. By inscribing the hepatitis B vaccine controversy into a broader, global history of the economization of immunization – in which the WHO played a central role – this article reframes the causes and implications of a controversy that both actors and scholars have approached through a primarily national lens. The challenge posed to the economic approach to immunization prepared the ground for subsequent critiques of vaccines as commodities. The article discusses a key transformation in the recent transatlantic history of public health by focusing on the perceived association of immunization with a contested economic order.

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