scholarly journals The growth of love

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith J. White
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Johannes Brahms ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Care Theory ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Paulo Friere ◽  
Friedrich Froebel

This article explores how and why child care theory and practice has been separated from the idea and concept of love since Dr John Bowlby used the word in his book, Child Care and the Growth of Love (1953). The author attempted to reconnect child care theory and love in his book, The Growth of Love (2008) the title of which was deliberately chosen to reflect the debt owed to John Bowlby, and his son, Sir Richard Bowlby contributed the Foreword. Some of the challenges and implications of this approach are described, before reference to the writings and work of others that he discovered in the process. Three mentioned are Janusz Korczak, Paulo Friere and Friedrich Froebel. Recent research on cognitive development creates space for thinking about love, for example Sue Gerhardt, Why Love Matters (2004). The article concludes with reference to children in hospital and love in religious traditions, with a final mention of how Johannes Brahms saw love as the key to all of his music.

“Depends who it is”: Towards a relational understanding of the use of adult-child touch in residential child care

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199087
Author(s):  
Lisa Warwick
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Relational Practice ◽  
Residential Child Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Emergent Literature

This article theorises adult-child touch in residential child care as a relational practice, contributing to an emergent literature on residential child care, and conceptualises residential child care as a Lifespace. It responds to an on-going debate surrounding the use of touch in the sector, which has attracted academic attention since the early 1990s as a result of abuse scandals, the ensuing ‘no touch’ policies and a growing body of research identifying touch as an important aspect of child development. The paper draws upon a six-month ethnographic study of residential child care, which was explicitly designed to observe everyday interactions between residential care workers and young people. The findings suggest that touch cannot be discussed in isolation from either relationships or a contextual understanding of relationships in the specific context of residential child care. The study found that touch is unavoidable, relational and that dichotomous understandings of touch continue to present issues for both theory and practice.

To the question of studying the biology and pathology of race

1930 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1165-1166
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Care Theory ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Production Labor

(Letter to the editor in response to comrade D. Pravdin). The magazine "Varnitso" (No. 3/4) published an article by com. D. Pravdin "Among scientific workers", which mentioned my name. The paragraph in which my surname appears is literally the following: The authors of the Problems of Biology and Pathology of Jews collection set themselves an equally ungrateful task of supplementing the party's policy in the field of health care theory and practice with a correction for racial pathology (see especially the editorial of the first Collection and an article by Prof. Grahn in the second Collection), which discovered, regardless of the conditions of production, labor, class (italics ours), a special racial pathology of the Jews. Not wanting to suspect the "purity" of the scientific intentions of individual participants in the Collections, we cannot fail to note that such quasi scientific excursions serve objectively as water for very dubious "mills", with which most of the participants in the Collections would probably not want to have anything in common ".

Aquatic Stewardship Education in Theory and Practice

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
North America ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Specific Expression ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Natural Resource Managers ◽  
Stewardship Behavior

<i>Abstract</i>.—Contemporary definitions of aquatic resource stewardship are a specific expression of ethical themes that humankind has wrestled with for millennia. The foundations for a stewardship ethic can be secular or spiritual. Other chapter contributors discuss a range of the secular foundations (e.g., fishing, boating); we discuss the implications of stewardship ethics rooted in religious traditions. Some fisheries professionals recognize religious–cultural influences on aquatic stewardship, such as those seen in Native American or Asian immigrant communities. But fisheries professionals have commonly ignored mainline Judeo-Christian faith traditions as an ethical basis for aquatic stewardship behavior, despite the fact that those traditions inform ethical development for large numbers of people in North America and that denominations within those traditions have increasingly engaged in stewardship-based environmental education and advocacy. The proposition that religious values often form the basis for a stewardship ethic presents several challenges for fisheries professionals striving to foster stewardship behavior. However, a basic understanding of these religious foundations could contribute to an improved practice of stewardship education, through outreach to a new constituency—faith communities. To illustrate this point, we briefly summarize some of the sources for stewardship found in the biblical corpus. We offer three examples of how Christian stewardship principles are manifest in aquatic stewardship programs delivered by faith communities. Models of partnership between natural resource managers and local faith communities are emerging across North America. In revisiting the ethical bases of stewardship and identifying new opportunities for stewardship education partnerships, we hope to demonstrate one more means by which fisheries professionals can bridge from stewardship education in principle to an effective practice of stewardship education.

Hermeneutic Theory and Practice Theory in the Study of Cultural, Legal, and Religious Traditions

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-64
Author(s):  
Aria Nakissa
Keyword(s):  
Practice Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Tradition

This chapter discusses hermeneutic theory and practice theory, situating them with respect to the work of Geertz and Asad. It then clarifies precisely how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together in the analysis of cultural, legal, and religious traditions, giving special attention to the Islamic tradition. One of the chapter’s central claims is that knowledge of Sharīʿa rules can be conceptualized as knowledge of a mind (i.e., God’s mind). Moreover, knowledge of a mind can be inferred from signs/effects of that mind. In the Islamic tradition, these signs/effects include: (1) the Qurʾan, (2) the reported actions of the Prophet Muḥammad (Sunna), (3) the reported actions of religious scholars from the past, and (4) the observed actions of present-day religious scholars.

Foragers Challenge Key Child-Care Theory

Science News ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
B. Bower
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Theory

The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
World War ◽  
John Bowlby

Volume 2, 1939–45, covers the years of World War II. It contains an introduction by the late senior child psychotherapist, Christopher Reeves. The volume includes letters to colleagues, including one to the British Medical Journal with Emanuel Miller and John Bowlby regarding the war and children; a report on war work; Winnicott’s first article on aggression; articles on delinquency and corporal punishment; his contribution to the Controversial Discussions of the British Psychoanalytical Society; texts of his early BBC broadcasts; and the very significant paper, ‘Primitive Emotional Development’, a continually relevant statement of his own evolving position in regard to psychoanalytic theory and practice.

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