THE EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND THE SENSE OF BELONGING

2015 ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Ojārs Rode
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Sustainable Education ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Education Model ◽  
The Individual

<p>The problem of the research concerns the sphere of the relations of the environment and individual’s awareness in the aspect of meeting the human’s need for belonging. The research is produced by analyzing literature sources in education,<br />psychology, philosophy, folklore studies as well as carrying out a study of the process of the formation of the sense of belonging in Latvian folksongs or dainas. The research shows that the sense of belonging is associated with harmony of the individual<br />and the surrounding environment. It is developed in the space of conditions of the individual’s self-realization that balances the interests of the individual and the society. For the development of a sustainable education model in Latvia, the ideas found in Latvian dainas that have ascertained their sustainability may be of importance.</p>

scholarly journals Educational and Psychological Aspects of Environmental Awareness and a Sense of Belonging

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ojārs Rode
Keyword(s):  
Formation Process ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Education Psychology

Abstract The research problem concerns the sphere of relationships with the environment and an individual's awareness in the aspect of satisfying the need for belonging. This research aims to determine the conditions of relationships with the environment and an individual's awareness in the process of personality formation. The research is constituted by an analysis of literary sources in education, psychology, philosophy and folklore studies as well as by a study of the formation process of a sense of belonging in Latvian folk songs or dainas. This research shows that a sense of belonging is associated with harmony between an individual and the surrounding environment. It is developed in the space of conditions for an individual's self-realisation that balances individual and social interests. For the development of inborn gifts, a natural environment of upbringing is needed. For the development of a sustainable education model in Latvia, the ideas found in Latvian dainas that have ascertained their sustainability may be of importance.

Some Psychological Aspects of the Belief in Immortality

1919 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-314
Author(s):  
James Bissett Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Related Question ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Pure Theory ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual

The individual's attitude toward the Determiner of Destiny, which is religion, has always an essentially practical coloring. It involves a belief, to be sure, but this belief is never a matter of pure theory; it bears a reference, more or less explicit, to the fate of the individual's values. Hence in nearly every religion which history has studied or anthropology discovered, the question of the future in store for the individual believer has been one of prime importance. The content of this belief is a question for the theologian and the historian of religion; the psychologist, however, may be able to throw some light on the related question why people believe, or fail to believe, in immortality at all. What, in short, are the psychological sources from which this belief springs, and what are the leading types of this belief?

A Round-Up of Modern Opinion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Almost All

This chapter presents a selection mainly of twentieth-century scholarly opinion, both Sunni and Shi’a, on wasaṭiyyah and its role and manifestation in the textual data and historical development of Islamic scholarship, as well as the management of community affairs. Wasaṭiyyah relates closely to justice, but it is multifaceted and tends to influence almost all aspects of the individual conduct, as well as relations in society and with the outside world. The chapter discusses how wasaṭiyyah begins in the inner self of the individual and from there spreads out to influence relations with others and one’s surrounding environment, concluding with the point that rejecting extremism and embracing moderation are the keys toward treating others with dignity, accepting our differences, and coexisting with each other in peace and harmony.

Environmental and geotechnical suitability of recycling waste materials from plasterboard manufacturing

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-391
Author(s):  
Monzur Alam Imteaz ◽  
Arul Arulrajah ◽  
Farshid Maghool
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
Environmental Suitability ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Safe Limit ◽  
Leaching Behaviour ◽  
Manual Handling ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recycled Material

This paper presents the geotechnical and environmental suitability of recycling gypsum-based waste material produced from plasterboard manufacturing. Most of the current plasterboard manufacturing industries are dumping these wastes to landfills. Among the major impediments to recycling such waste are environmental concerns around using such recycled material, as well as proper and suitable places to use it. To investigate these, such a waste from an Australian plasterboard manufacturing company was collected and a series of geotechnical properties were tested to evaluate the materials’ suitability for any engineering construction. It was found that the tested gypsum-based plasterboard materials are suitable to use as road subgrade, pipe bedding and pipe backfill material. To ascertain the environmental safety of using such material in regards to manual handling as well as contaminants’ leaching into the surrounding environment, materials were thoroughly tested for more than a hundred different contaminants. Tests were conducted to evaluate both the contaminants’ concentrations in the sample as well as the leaching behaviour of those contaminants. It was found that concentrations of the tested contaminants were either below the individual detection limit or the safe limit defined by the local regulatory authority.

scholarly journals How Moving Together Binds Us Together: The Social Consequences of Interpersonal Entrainment and Group Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Cross ◽  
Martine Turgeon ◽  
Gray Atherton
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Group ◽  
The Individual

AbstractInterpersonal entrainment has been shown to have a wide variety of social consequences which span far beyond those that could be considered purely pro-social. This work reviews all of the social effects of entrainment and the various explanations for them. The group formation framework emerges as a parsimonious account claiming that as we entrain our sense of self is temporarily diluted as an interdependent identity becomes more salient, thus leading to a range of social and psychological consequences which are pro-group. The sense of belonging arising from moving together is conducive towards pro-social behaviours; yet, it also makes the individual more susceptible to adopting the ideology of the group without critical thinking. We argue that the wide landscape of interpersonal entrainment’s effects reflects its primary effect, de-individuation, and the formation of a common group identity amongst co-actors.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Relationships between Individual Innovation and Sustainable Education Beliefs

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 447
Author(s):  
Sukru Ada
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Personal Innovativeness ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Sustainable Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sustainable Development Education

The concept of sustainable education has seven main features: being holistic and interdisciplinary, focusing on values, directing to critical thinking and problem solving, requiring the use of multiple teaching methods, encouraging participatory decision-making, highlighting applicability and locality. The knowledge and beliefs of the people, who will start teaching as a vocation, have an important role for both teachers and students in terms of being in an innovative understanding and attitude. Describing the attitudes of prospective teachers with the potential to raise future generations is important for reviewing teacher training policies. For this purpose, two scales were used in the study. The first one, “The Beliefs for Sustainable Development Education Scale”, consists of 32 items and three sub-factors. The other is the “Individual Innovation Scale”; this 20-item 5-point Likert scale has five sub-dimensions as Innovative, Pioneer, Questioner, Sceptic, and Traditionalist. The data obtained were subjected to correlation and regression statistics and discussed in the light of literature. All in all, it can be seen that there are significant relationships between personal innovativeness and the dimensions of sustainable development education. According to findings, it was observed that as long as the willingness and openness-to-experience of teacher candidates’ taking risk increases in the context of personal innovativeness, their beliefs regarding sustainable development increase concordantly. Teacher candidates can resist change with the concern over whether the current knowledge and efforts will be valuable in the new situation afterwards.

scholarly journals Diaspora

AILA Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei ◽  
Zhu Hua
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Core Issues

The nature of diaspora is changing in the 21st century. Yet many of the communication issues remain the same. At the heart of it is multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space. There is much that applied linguists can contribute to the understanding of diaspora in the era of globalization. This article discusses some of the core issues of communication between the diaspora and the homeland, the past and the present, the individual and the community, and the sense of belonging and the ascribed category with a detailed analysis of empirical data collected through linguistic ethnography in the Chinese diaspora in Britain and elsewhere. It also highlights the significance of dynamic multilingualism in everyday communication.

scholarly journals Interspecies signaling generates exploratory motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique H. Limoli ◽  
Niles P. Donegan ◽  
Elizabeth A. Warren ◽  
Ambrose L. Cheung ◽  
George A. O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Type Iv ◽  
Secreted Factors ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Modify Surface ◽  
Surface Motility ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractMicrobes often live in multispecies communities where interactions among community members impact both the individual constituents and the surrounding environment. Here, we developed a system to visualize interspecies behaviors at initial encounters. By imaging two prevalent pathogens known to be coisolated from chronic illnesses, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, we observed P. aeruginosa can modify surface motility in response to secreted factors from S. aureus. Upon sensing S. aureus, P. aeruginosa transitioned from collective to single-cell motility with an associated increase in speed and directedness – a behavior we refer to as ‘exploratory motility’. Through modulation of cAMP, explorer cells moved preferentially towards S. aureus and invaded S. aureus colonies through the action of the type IV pili. These studies reveal previously undescribed motility behaviors and lend insight into how P. aeruginosa senses and responds to other species. Identifying strategies to harness these interactions may open avenues for new antimicrobial strategies.

Language Development in Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Meredith L. Rowe ◽  
Adriana Weisleder
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Bioecological Model ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Context Shapes

Young children learn to communicate in the language(s) of their communities, yet the individual trajectories of language development and the particular language varieties and modes of communication children acquire vary depending on the contexts in which they live. This review describes how context shapes language development. Building on the bioecological model of development, we conceptualize context as a set of nested systems surrounding the child, from the national policies and cultural norms that shape the broader environment to the particular communicative interactions in which children experience language being used. In addition, we describe how children's developing sensory-motor, perceptual, and social-cognitive capacities respond to and are tuned by the surrounding environment. Closer integration of research on the mechanisms of language learning with investigation of the contexts in which this learning takes place will provide critical insights into the process of language development.

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