The Kingdom of God and the Common School: PROTESTANT MINISTERS AND THE EDUCATIONAL AWAKENING IN THE WEST

1966 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tyack
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The West ◽  
Common Schools ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
Common School ◽  
The Common

Using early Oregon as a case study, the author analyzes the crucial role of the Protestant clergy in the establishment of American common schools.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
David Komline
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Common Schools ◽  
Common School ◽  
The Common

This chapter uses as a case study an incident from 1824 in which the New York Tract Society convinced John Van Ness Yates, New York’s acting superintendent of common schools, to encourage the use of its literature in schools under his oversight. This incident highlights the significance of growing educational bureaucracy in this era and how it might be used for distinctly religious aims. This educational bureaucracy emerged as part of what this book calls the “Common School Awakening,” a transatlantic, transdenominational movement that introduced systematized, professionalized schools to America in the first half of the nineteenth century. Previous historical scholarship on education in this era, notably the very different work of Ellwood Cubberley and Michael Katz, has ignored the strongly religious roots of the movement for common schools that has found its representative figure in the person of Horace Mann.

God, Tsar, and People

2020 ◽  
pp. 358-388
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
The West ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social Units

This chapter provides a background on the crucial role of fictions in history and in current lives, a role arguably bigger than that played by any other force, human or even natural. It mentions Yuval Noah Harari's claim that cultural skill allowed humans to first organize themselves into political or social units larger than a few tens of individuals. It also reviews developments in Russian culture that made the creation and preservation of the Muscovite state possible. The chapter explains how Muscovite culture was more effective as social cement than the broader, more diffuse, and more divided cultures of the West. It explores some of the themes that Muscovite churchmen created and elaborated, like the importance of the Old Testament to the historical thinking of Muscovy.

scholarly journals ‘Volunteering is like any other business’: Civic participation and social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2186-2207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kaun ◽  
Julie Uldam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Shed Light

The increased influx of refugees in 2015 has led to challenges in transition and destination countries such as Germany, Sweden and Denmark. Volunteer-led initiatives providing urgent relief played a crucial role in meeting the needs of arriving refugees. The work of the volunteers in central stations and transition shelters was mainly organised with the help of Facebook, in terms of both inward and outward communications. This article examines the role of social media for civic participation drawing on Swedish volunteer initiatives that emerged in the context of the migration crisis in 2015 as a case study. Theoretically, this article provides an analytical framework, including power relations, technological affordances, practices and discourses, which helps shed light on the interrelation between social media and civic participation.

The Role of Companies-in-Movements in Regional Sustainability Transitions. A Case Study on the Economy for the Common Good in South Tyrol

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-405
Author(s):  
Niklas S. Mischkowski ◽  
Philipp Späth
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

This study explores the movement for an ›Economy for the Common Good‹ from a sustainability transitions perspective. Special interest lies in the integration of companies in a social movement. The underlying study was carried out in the region of South Tyrol, Italy. It reveals what institutional work was involved, explores impacts and reflects on the role that companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, can play in structural change.

scholarly journals A Colloidal Singularity Reveals the Crucial Role of Colloidal Stability for Nanomaterials In-Vitro Toxicity Testing: nZVI-Microalgae Colloidal System as a Case Study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e109645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soledad Gonzalo ◽  
Veronica Llaneza ◽  
Gerardo Pulido-Reyes ◽  
Francisca Fernández-Piñas ◽  
Jean Claude Bonzongo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Colloidal Stability ◽  
Toxicity Testing ◽  
In Vitro Toxicity ◽  
Colloidal System

scholarly journals The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship

2021 ◽  
Vol 379 (2197) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Mark Galassi
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The Common

Free and open source software (FOSS) is any computer program released under a licence that grants users rights to run the program for any purpose, to study it, to modify it, and to redistribute it in original or modified form. Our aim is to explore the intersection between FOSS and computational reproducibility. We begin by situating FOSS in relation to other ‘open’ initiatives, and specifically open science, open research, and open scholarship. In this context, we argue that anyone who actively contributes to the research process today is a computational researcher, in that they use computers to manage and store information. We then provide a primer to FOSS suitable for anyone concerned with research quality and sustainability—including researchers in any field, as well as support staff, administrators, publishers, funders, and so on. Next, we illustrate how the notions introduced in the primer apply to resources for scientific computing, with reference to the GNU Scientific Library as a case study. We conclude by discussing why the common interpretation of ‘open source’ as ‘open code’ is misplaced, and we use this example to articulate the role of FOSS in research and scholarship today. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Reliability and reproducibility in computational science: implementing verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in silico ’.

scholarly journals Strangers in the Land and True Lovers of the Nation: the Formation of Lithuanianspeaking Baptist Identity, 1918-1940

Perichoresis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Lina Toth
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
Informative Case ◽  
Baptist Identity ◽  
Main Factors

Abstract How does an emerging community of faith develop its identity in the context of a semi-hostile and increasingly nationalistic culture? The story of the early years of Lithuanian-speaking Baptists provides an interesting and informative case study. This article focusses on the formative stage of the Lithuanian-speaking Baptist movement during the interwar period of the independent Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940). It considers four main factors which contributed to the formation of Lithuanian-speaking Baptist identity: different ethnic and cultural groupings amongst Baptists in Lithuania; the role of the global Baptist family in providing both material and ideological support; the community’s relationship with the Lithuanian state; and their stance towards the dominant religious context, i.e. the Lithuanian Catholic Church. Out of this dynamic emerges a picture of the particular ways in which these congregations, and especially their leadership, navigated their understanding of loyalty to the Kingdom of God in relation to their belonging to a particular national grouping.

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