scholarly journals The role of methaphors in education, self-education and teaching on the example of skillful Buddhist pedagogical methods and means. [rev.] Paweł Zieliński: Aspekty pedagogiczne Sutry Lotosu [Pedagogical aspects of the Lotus Sutra], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczego im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, Częstochowa 2021 (ss. 192)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Tomasz Olchanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lotus Sutra ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Pedagogical Methods

This article is a review of Paweł Zieliński’s monograph Pedagogical Aspects of the Lotus Sutra. The author focuses primarily on the study of skillful pedagogical methods and means (upaya-kausálya) used by Buddhist teachers in the processes of education, teaching and self-education. These methods, as noted by Zieliński, have not been sufficiently analyzed and researched by Western representatives of the humanities and social sciences.

scholarly journals Failing Gloriously and Other Essays

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Archaeology ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Memoir ◽  
The University

Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university. Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university. At turns hilarious, depressing, and inspiring, Graham’s book presents a contemporary take on the academic memoir, but rather than celebrating the victories, he reflects on the failures and considers their impact on his intellectual and professional development. These aren’t heroic tales of overcoming odds or paeans to failure as evidence for a macho willingness to take risks. They’re honest lessons laced with a genuine humility that encourages us to think about making it safer for ourselves and others to fail. A foreword from Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta engage the lessons of Failing Gloriously and consider the role of failure in digital archaeology, the humanities, and social sciences.

scholarly journals Trans-humanism’s and Post-humanism’s Dialectics between Truth and Post-truth

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2(10)) ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Monika Banaś
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
Post Humanism

The aim of this paper is to invite the reader to reflect on the essence of truth and post-truth in two approaches present in humanities and social sciences: trans-humanism and post-humanism. The notions of truth and post-truth, just like those of trans- and post-humanism, do not have a single defining interpretation. This implies disputes about what truth is and what is the role of man as an being, capable of creative activity, and thus of creating other entities and concepts describing them. However, the problem still remains the doubt as to what extent the ability of creative action allows man to know the truth (alternatively, to establish it), and to what extent it leads us astray. Post-truth emerges as a proposition in the face of the impossibility of reaching a consensus on the former. It is similar in the case of trans- and post-humanism, as concepts offering improved, because more up-to-date, approaches to the exploration of the human being himself, the motives of his actions, and his progress. The issues are presented by means of a critical analysis of selected scientific discourses, including definitions and research approaches that are gaining popularity in academia of the so-called Western cultural circle.

scholarly journals Embracing the Future as Stewards of the Past: Charting a Course Forward for Historical Medical Libraries and Archives

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
The Media ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

In June 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) released The Heart of the Matter, a report on the continuing indispensable role of the humanities and social sciences in meeting major global challenges and urgent national goals. Commissioned by a bipartisan group of senators and representatives and involving more than fifty AAAS members from various sectors—including academia, business, government, the arts, and the media—the report called for renewed commitment to the humanities and social sciences. More specifically, it called for leadership collaborations across a wide array of sectors to meet the urgent goals of: educating Americans . . .

scholarly journals Understanding R&D in the arts, humanities and social sciences

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 115-145
Author(s):  
Hasan Bakhshi ◽  
Jonathan Breckon ◽  
Ruth Puttick
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Hard Science ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Reporting Data

Despite much discussion and debate, research and development (R&D) is still often considered as the domain of hard science and technology. Furthermore, it is not commonly known by industry and policymakers that the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development�s (OECD) Frascati Manual � the internationally accepted methodology for collecting and reporting data on R&D � formally recognises the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) in R&D. The UK collects data on R&D using the Frascati Manual definition. However, arguably, what matters for the UK is how R&D is defined for policy purposes. For example, the UK tax authorities choose to explicitly exclude AHSS R&D from their definitions for the purpose of tax relief. This paper explores the role of AHSS R&D in UK business. Drawing upon a review of the policy literature and interviews with 13 businesses that undertake AHSS research, and an additional 14 interviews with policymakers and other stakeholders, the paper presents recommendations for government, funders and business, and it concludes that more inclusive definitions and data are important for evidence-informed policy. Without the right definitions and tools to measure it and effective policies in place to support it, the Government risks ignoring the full value of R&D in the UK economy, and missing out on incentivising investment in innovation in AHSS-related sectors and activities.

scholarly journals Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Ben Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Uk

What are the politics of boredom? And how should we relate to boredom? In this paper, I explore these questions through cases where the disaffection and restlessness of boredom have become a matter of concern in the UK and USA at the junctures between Fordism and neoliberalism, and amid today’s resurgence of right-wing populism. I argue that what repeats across the critique of the ‘ordinary ordinariness’ of Fordism, the neoliberal counterrevolution and today’s right-wing populism is a ‘promise of intensity’ – the promise that life will feel eventful and boredom will be absent. As I make this argument, I reflect on the role of critique in the context of the multiplication of modes of inquiry that has accompanied the interest in affect across the humanities and social sciences. Rejecting the dismissal of critique in some affect-related work, I advocate for and exemplify a type of ‘diagnostic critique’ based on the practice of conjunctural analysis as pioneered by Stuart Hall and colleagues.

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