Preparing for a Postmethod Pedagogy: A Transformative Approach to Curriculum Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
Arash V. Naeini ◽  
Nima Shakouri
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Individual Teacher ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Transformative Approach ◽  
Shed Light

The three parameters of postmethod pedagogy proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2001), particularly a pedagogy of possibility, are in line with and drew on the works of such critical pedagogists as Giroux (1988) whose idea of transformative intellectuals viewed it rightful for every individual teacher and learner to actively participate in the process of learning with their entire social, economic and political experiences; and even make reformations to the direction of pedagogy based on their understanding. However, curriculum development, as an integral part of pedagogy, may inhibit this transformative and dynamic learning by restricting teachers to set and prefabricated materials and guidelines. Nonetheless, teachers play a pivotal role in the realization of this transformative process since they are the executive recipients of curricula. This paper is an attempt to shed light on a transformative approach to curriculum development and holds, a transformative approach to curriculum development requires teachers to have a hand in curriculum development when they are invited by the curriculum to act so; and adapt or transform the curriculum when they are constrained by it.

scholarly journals Insights into Mycobacterium leprae Proteomics and Biomarkers—An Overview

Proteomes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Sakshi Gautam ◽  
Devesh Sharma ◽  
Anjana Goel ◽  
Shripad A. Patil ◽  
Deepa Bisht
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Causative Agent ◽  
Mycobacterium Leprae ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
New Biomarkers ◽  
Shed Light

Although leprosy is curable, the identification of biomarkers for the early diagnosis of leprosy would play a pivotal role in reducing transmission and the overall prevalence of the disease. Leprosy-specific biomarkers for diagnosis, particularly for the paucibacillary disease, are not well defined. Therefore, the identification of new biomarkers for leprosy is one of the prime themes of leprosy research. Studying Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy, at the proteomic level may facilitate the identification, quantification, and characterization of proteins that could be potential diagnostics or targets for drugs and can help in better understanding the pathogenesis. This review aims to shed light on the knowledge gained to understand leprosy or its pathogen employing proteomics and its role in diagnosis.

scholarly journals Frontiers of cosmopolitanism: Educational enclaves and the extractive roots of international schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308275X2110596
Author(s):  
Matthieu Bolay ◽  
Jeanne Rey
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
International Schools ◽  
International School ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
International Teachers ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
School Sector ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

This article situates international expatriate schools in their cultural and political economy by drawing attention to the tensions between a cosmopolitan educational ethos and processes of social, economic and legal enclavement. Based on extensive multi-sited ethnographic research in the international school sector, we show how cosmopolitan claims of openness mirror a relative closure and ‘offshore-like’ enclavement. To do so, we build upon the notions of modularity and extractivism, which we use as heuristics to analyse social and spatial practices of defining boundaries. Gazing beyond the main foundational myth of international schools, we first outline their concomitant extractive roots. Second, we shed light on the conditions of international teachers’ circulation worldwide. Third, we examine the territorial entanglements and disentanglements that characterise international schools. Finally, we investigate the tensions induced by a cosmopolitan educational ethos whose discourse of inclusion is inevitably paired with practices of exclusion.

scholarly journals Archaeology, climate, and global change in the Age of Humans

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (15) ◽  
pp. 8250-8253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben C. Rick ◽  
Daniel H. Sandweiss
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Human Ecodynamics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Shed Light

We live in an age characterized by increasing environmental, social, economic, and political uncertainty. Human societies face significant challenges, ranging from climate change to food security, biodiversity declines and extinction, and political instability. In response, scientists, policy makers, and the general public are seeking new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches to evaluate and identify meaningful solutions to these global challenges. Underrecognized among these challenges is the disappearing record of past environmental change, which can be key to surviving the future. Historical sciences such as archaeology access the past to provide long-term perspectives on past human ecodynamics: the interaction between human social and cultural systems and climate and environment. Such studies shed light on how we arrived at the present day and help us search for sustainable trajectories toward the future. Here, we highlight contributions by archaeology—the study of the human past—to interdisciplinary research programs designed to evaluate current social and environmental challenges and contribute to solutions for the future. The past is a multimillennial experiment in human ecodynamics, and, together with our transdisciplinary colleagues, archaeology is well positioned to uncover the lessons of that experiment.

scholarly journals Molecules and membranes: Emerging details shed light on mammalian autophagy

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Sharon A. Tooze
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Lysosomal Enzymes ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Degradative Pathway ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Shed Light

Autophagy, which literally means ‘self eating’, is a highly conserved intracellular degradative process mediated by lysosomal enzymes. Autophagy was identified using electron microscopy in the 1950s by cell biologists studying the lysosome and it was recognized as a lysosomal degradative pathway (for a review of the original publications, see Tooze et al.1) Recently, a number of key findings have elucidated the pivotal role played by autophagy in tissue homoeostasis and human disease, such as cancer, neurodegeneration, infection, immunity and aging2. Autophagy is also tightly linked to neonatal survival and cellular metabolism3.

scholarly journals Entre infraestructuras y culturas. Discursos y prácticas en torno a la movilidad urbana en Andalucía

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Macarena Hernández-Ramírez ◽  
Mario Jordi Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Shed Light

Usually, the figures and facts used to analyze cycling mobility in the urban environment, are hardly based in references to infrastructures as a factor that facilitates / hinders that mobility. Convinced of the need to consider other influential variables, we address from the CICLA project the general objective of knowing mobility in urban areas of Andalusia. More specifically we are committed to knowing which are the main social discourses and practices around the use of the bicycle, within the need to incorporate social, economic, political and cultural aspects usually separated from the analysis. Based on a qualitative methodology and a holistic approach, the results of this research shed light on some of these aspects, providing some conclusions and reflections of interest for the promotion of the bicycle as a means of transport in our cities.

scholarly journals دینی مدارس میں عصری علوم اورانگریزی زبان کی تعلیم کا جائزہ

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (- 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bacha Agha Syed
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Developed Nations

Education plays a pivotal role in the development of any nation. The Better the Education, the better would be its impacts on every walk of life of a nation. Education is responsible for the development of social, economic, cultural as well as in the development of every field of life. Therefore the development of the educational system has been the center of every concerned nation, and thought is the sign of the lives of the nations. As all the intellectual processes come from no being into being, and the required length of time needs intensity of thought, depends on the inteluctability of its existence. Education is not a matter of concern even if it is not a part of thought, and if it becomes a part of thought, the length of time required for change is not high. As the world that is developing rapidly, and the knowledge that is attained in the present age, the people who turn away from it will not be able to maintain their presence at the home page. Any healthy, developed and advanced educational system can make real the dream of building a decent and robust nation. In the coming days, nations who do not share their knowledge in the academic field will always be in behind of the developed nations and will always lose the respect and deprivation will always be their lot. This Research is going to explain the importance of modern Education and to reflect on the importance of English Language in processes of development from Islamic perspectives.

The Equilibrium of Parking Violation and China’s Economic Reform

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Hong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Simple Assumption ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The People ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Political decision makers are economic agents who try to maximize self-interests. This simple assumption helps explain China’s decision-making of reform and opening up and shed light on its contradictory political logic. Under a fully planned economy, market liberalization benefits everyone, including political decision makers. After wealth is created in the market economy, political decision-makers have incentives to take a growing share of wealth for themselves if no institutional mechanism exists to check their power. When the proportion of wealth appropriated by political decision-makers exceeds the margin where the people can afford, the market starts to suffer and the growth of wealth is derailed. At the extreme, political decision-makers takes so much wealth to push the entire social economic system to the verge of collapse. Because political decision-makers do not know where the equilibrium margin is, the above thinking has practical consequences. When political decision-makers keep expanding their take of wealth, the worst scenario may occur.

The Neurobiology of Trust

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cooperative Behaviors ◽  
Distinguished Group ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Area Of Study

Trust is essential for establishing and maintaining cooperative behaviors between individuals and institutions in a wide variety of social, economic, and political contexts. This book explores trust through the lens of neurobiology, focusing on empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects. Written by a distinguished group of researchers from economics, psychology, human factors, neuroscience, and psychiatry, the chapters shed light on the neurobiological underpinnings of trust as applied in a variety of domains. Researchers and students will discover a refined understanding of trust by delving into the essential topics in this area of study outlined by leading experts.

Mithochondrial biogenesis: recent developments and insights

1988 ◽  
Vol 319 (1193) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Keyword(s):  
Rna Splicing ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Mitochondrial Proteins ◽  
Rna Catalysis ◽  
Expression Of Genes ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Self Splicing ◽  
Shed Light

Biosynthesis of a functional mitochondrion requires the coordinate expression of genes in both mitochondrial and nuclear DNAs. In yeast, three mitochondrial genes are split and RNA splicing plays a pivotal role in their expression. The recent finding that some introns are capable of self-splicing activity in vitro has permitted analysis of the mechanisms involved in RNA catalysis and may eventually shed light on the evolution of splicing mechanisms in general. Most mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes, synthesized in the cytoplasm and imported by the organelle. The availability of cloned genes coding for several constituent subunits of the ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase, which are imported by mitochondria, has allowed study of selected steps in the addressing of proteins to mitochondria and their intercompartmental sorting within the organelle. Recent developments are discussed.

scholarly journals THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION REVOLUTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Aysha Mohammad ABD-RABO ◽  
Sherine Adnan HASHAIKEH
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Communication Flow ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Available Resources ◽  
Technology Shifts

In the context of sweeping social, economic, technological, and demographic changes, digital transformation is a series of deep and coordinated culture, workforce, and technology shifts that enable new educational and operating models and transform an institution’s operations, strategic directions. Digital transformation is a destination that is practically mandatory for most organizations. The interconnectivity that it fosters will make the communication flow between students and teachers more fluid. It also helps to improve the relationship and promotes the best use of available resources, especially in higher education. So, the researchers shed light on digital transformation, its importance and the challenges it faces, especially in higher education institutions Therefore, higher education institutions must keep pace with all these changes and take them into account if they want to develop and compete with their peers.

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