scholarly journals Approaching Retirement

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 752A-752
Author(s):  
Bruno C. Moser
Keyword(s):  
Senior Citizen ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Department Head ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Faculty Careers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Retirement Incentives ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Direction

Society sends numerous signals to those of us who reach official senior citizen status at age 55. Both personal and professional decisions and goals begin to adapt to that inevitable retirement date, which may no longer be age 65. Our institutions send mixed signals of early retirement incentives to individuals on the one hand, but loss of position threats to departments on the other. Elimination of a required retirement age allows individuals to plan past 65, with a number of options available. This forces departments to consider the final career years more closely than in the past. Maintaining viability and aggressiveness of faculty members during this phase of an individual's career is a challenge. Issues of deadwood on the one hand, vs. aggressive productivity up to retirement, can affect a department's capabilities. Discussion of this phase in faculty careers will center around both the individual and his/her department head who, hopefully, are on the same track regarding career direction, but often have different plans for the final years, e.g. semi-retirement and disengagement versus productivity to the last day. Faculty in departments with competitive peers and strong professional development programs throughout the career path lead to the latter as individuals approach retirement.

scholarly journals Evolution of the Concept of Citizenship in the Islamic Thought: An Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Osama Sami AL-Nsour
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of citizenship is one of the pillars upon which the modern civil state was built. The concept of citizenship can be considered as the basic guarantee for both the government and individuals to clarify the relationship between them, since under this right individuals can acquire and apply their rights freely and also based on this right the state can regulate how society members perform the duties imposed on them, which will contributes to the development of the state and society .The term citizenship has been used in a wider perspective, itimplies the nationality of the State where the citizen obtains his civil, political, economic, social, cultural and religious rights and is free to exercise these rights in accordance with the Constitution of the State and the laws governing thereof and without prejudice to the interest. In return, he has an obligation to perform duties vis-à-vis the state so that the state can give him his rights that have been agreed and contracted.This paper seeks to explore firstly, the modern connotation of citizenship where it is based on the idea of rights and duties. Thus the modern ideal of citizenship is based on the relationship between the individual and the state. The Islamic civilization was spanned over fourteen centuries and there were certain laws and regulations governing the relationship between the citizens and the state, this research will try to discover the main differences between the classical concept of citizenship and the modern one, also this research will show us the results of this change in this concept . The research concludes that the new concept of citizenship is correct one and the one that can fit to our contemporary life and the past concept was appropriate for their time but the changes in the world force us to apply and to rethink again about this concept.

Biological Ideas and Their Cultural Uses

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 111-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Benton
Keyword(s):  
Biological Evolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Do So

The topic of my talk is a very ancient one indeed. It bears upon the place of humankind in nature, and upon the place of nature in ourselves. I shall, however, be discussing this range of questions in terms which have not always been available to the philosophers of the past when they have asked them. When we ask these questions today we do so with hindsight of some two centuries of endeavour in the ‘human sciences’, and some one and a half centuries of attempts to situate the human species within a theory of biological evolution. And these ways of thinking about ourselves and our relation to nature have not been confined to professional intellectuals, nor have they been without practical consequences. Social movements and political organizations have fought for and sometimes achieved the power to give practical shape to their theoretical visions. On the one hand, are diverse projects aimed at changing society through a planned modification of the social environment of the individual. On the other hand, are equally diverse projects for pulling society back into conformity with the requirements of race and heredity. At first sight, the two types of project appear to be, and often are, deeply opposed, both intellectually and politically.

scholarly journals Rabbi Nachman of Breslev and Cognitive Therapy: A Short Comparison of Conceptual and Educational Similarities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaacov J Katz
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Depth Psychology ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Rabbi Nachman of Breslev, born in 1772, was the great-grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov (Master of the Good Name) and founder of the Chassidic movement. He grew up to be an outstanding and charismatic Chassidic master. During his lifetime he attracted a group of devoted followers who looked to him as their prime source of spiritual guidance in their quest for God. The teachings of Rabbi Nachman focused on a number of key concepts such as faith in God, simplicity, study of Jewish sources (bible, talmud, legal code) individual and private prayer, and joy. He taught his followers that deviant past actions result from perceiving illusions which contorted reality. In addition, these illusions which led in the past to transgressions and deviant religious and social behavior, need to be rationally understood in order to erase them. The individual needs to focus on the rational present in order to improve his or her perceptions and actions and to live according to God's will. Unlike classical depth psychology which dwells on problematic key personality issues linked to the individual's past and are usually embedded in the subconscious or the unconscious, cognitive therapy suggests that problematic issues affecting the individual can be dealt with by helping the individual to rationally overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, beliefs, behavior, and emotional responses. Cognitive therapy consists of testing the assumptions which one makes and identifying how some of one's usually unquestioned thoughts are distorted, unrealistic and unhelpful on the one hand and what the individual needs to do in order to view life rationally on the other.The conceptual definitions used by Rabbi Nachman in his theological model expounded in the latter part of the eighteenth century and by those espousing the model underlying cognitive therapy in the 20th and 21st centuries are remarkably similar and seem to have evolved from the same psychological assumptions. The similarities between the principles underlying two theories are analyzed and discussed in the present paper.

scholarly journals A comparison of the point scale and the group method of measuring mental ability

1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
George Everette Breece
Keyword(s):  
Group Method ◽  
Mental Ability ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Group Test ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Within the past decade great interest has arisen in the measurement of mental ability. As a result a vast deal of literatures has been written upon this subject. Psychologists have suggested and secured norms for many tests, most of which, or perhaps all of which, are based more or less upon the original Binet-Simon tests. However, this study does not propose either to list or review the history of such mental tests. The one problem of interest, and the problem to which we shall adhere strictly, is to discover the correlation which exists between the Group Test of Mental Ability as worked out and tested by W. H. Pyle of the University of Missouri, and the Individual Tests, otherwise known as The Point Scale Tests as worked out and tested by Robert M. Yerkes, James W. Bridges and Rose S. Hardwick, each of the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston. a thorough explanation of each of these two tests is given in Appendices I and II of this study.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE - FINAL RESULT OR PERMANENT PROGRESS

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
Lalka G. Borisova ◽  
Stela Iv. Baltova
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Continuous Progress ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Education

Nowadays, the world through the eyes of young people probably looks in a different way from the one in the horizon of a previous generation. Why is that? Because today their daily routine is dependent to new technologies, social networking, international training and development programs. In line with this, upon graduation, their jobs require flexible skills, teamwork skills and special competencies for each profession. Did the Higher schools prepare them for the actual practical work, are they aware they will face problems and tasks they are not prepared for, because of many reasons. For the professions of the future and the lifelong learning, analytical and critical thinking, emotional intelligence and competence, effective problem solving, creativity and proactiveness will be required. The way today's students prepare for the time ahead goes through the education. But not the education that exists in most universities presently, but a new education - with other goals and practice-oriented approaches. Universities of the future should not place first the assessment and theoretical knowledge, but the skills and achievements of students, the acquisition of certain competencies. Training should be directed towards enhanced hands-on training and greater involvement of trainees in this process - what they want to do with their hands; to research, to discuss, to search themselves the answers to raised problems. Thus, in addition to theory, they will learn to solve real-life problems they may have better solutions to. Modern technologies come to the rescue as an aid in teaching and communication. In this new education, the role of the teacher is even more important - he is a mentor, tutor, sets the direction for development, notices the individual capacities and talents of each individually, maintains effective feedback, encourages the results achieved. This does not end the learning process, the goal is not to evaluate these high-scoring results, but to work for continuous progress. Then it can be said the teacher has fulfilled his mission. To sum, to make sense and satisfaction for both parties, the dedication from educators and from trainees is needed. Students need to find sense, satisfaction and purpose in what they do. This is the thesis that we will try to prove in this study - the power of tomorrow's knowledge, and its absorption depends on the personality of the teachers and the motivation of the students.

What We Should Do About Korea

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Donald L. Ranard
Keyword(s):  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
Land War ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Asian Mainland ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Power And Influence

With the end of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Indochina attention has turned to the Korean Peninsula. For the past two decades an uneasy peace has been maintained between two Korean governments—the one Communist, totalitarian, and revolutionary; the other non-Communist, yet authoritarian, undemocratic, and indeed almost as totalitarian in its lack of regard for opposition political voices and the rights of the individual. Probably nowhere else is American power and influence so greatly exposed as on the Korean Peninsula—with all the attendant risks for involving the U.S. in a land war on the Asian mainland.Any sensible discussion of alternatives to U.S. policy in Korea should begin with consideration of the commitment of the U.S. to the defense of Korea, as embodied in the treaty between the U.S. and Korea that entered into force in November, 1954.

Setting the Standard

2020 ◽  
pp. 339-359
Author(s):  
Kimberly White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Choices

The individual and collective contributions and professional activities of singers had a significant effect on the programming, circulation, and status of operatic works in nineteenth-century France. In the past three decades, scholars engaged in research on performers have made significant strides in revealing, on the one hand, the collaboration of singers and their contributions to the works they performed and, on the other, the structure and dynamics of the operatic marketplace. This chapter explores the various ways in which singers influenced the shape of repertory through their individual choices, the institutional structures under which they worked, and the shifting patterns and places of performance. Indeed, nostalgia for the singers who “created” a role had an important function in the canonization process: the French expression créer un rôle (“create a role”) consciously elevated this activity and imbued it with authorial force. This chapter is paired with Hilary Poriss’s “Redefining the standard: Pauline Viardot and Gluck’s Orphée.”

scholarly journals TAREKAT DAN INTELEKTUALITAS: Studi Keterlibatan Kalangan Intelektual dalam Tarekat Tijaniyah di Kota Banjarmasin

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Saifuddin . ◽  
Wardani . ◽  
Dzikri Nirwana
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The development of tariqat in Indonesia is historically and sociologically related to the climate and culture of the people who in the past was formed by rural culture. However, in recent developments, in South Kalimantan for example, the assumption is very different. Although, this tariqat is usually described as traditional, backward, and associated with the countryside, it is not entirely true. With its tradisional nature, the tariqat become attractions for scholars. Those with rational thingkings entering this world with diverse motivations. There are two complementary sides. On the one hand, rational intellectuals/scholars enter into the tariqat and give a new baseline. On the other hand, the members of the tariqat also renew themselves. Motivations that drive the interest to this tariqat are doctrinal, rational, moral, and psychological. This motivation does not stand alone; it is intertwined and supports each other, in the internalization of the tariqat into the consciousness of the individual.

scholarly journals Memoria y retorno del exilio republicano catalán (Memory and Return of the Catalan Republican Exile)

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roser Pujadas Comas d'Argemir
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Historical Periods

The end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 meant that many republicans went into exile fleeing Francoism. In the case of intellectuals and writers from Catalunia, exile constituted the only means of ensuring the continuity of their culture, given the cultural and linguistic repression by the dictatorship. Much later than they had expected, some were able to return but, after so many years, return meant yet another rupture; it meant returning to a country no longer the one so often remembered and yearned for. Such events, as is often the case in turbulent historical periods, generated a need to bear witness to the individual and collective experiences, which in literary terms translated into a considerable volume of testimonial works – which continue to be published – by those who suffered this war and exile. As we shall see, memory becomes a kind of con-suelo – comfort - countering the ruptures with a sense of coherence and continuity. For one who has had to leave their country, the land of their birth becomes part of the past, so that in such cases to make present what is far, to remember, involves not only temporal but also spatial issues. When the exile (if such a thing is possible) returns, time inexorably has passed. But what happens with the space re-encountered? In the case of two testimonial texts written by two republicans on their return from exile in Mexico – Al cap de 26 anys (1972) by Avel-lí Artís-Gener and Viatge a l’esperanca (1973), by Artur Bladé Desumvila – we propose to analyse the pattern woven between memory, homeland and return by the experience of exile. We shall see how the return, intended to contrast the idealised country with that in which the exile finds him/herself again, gives rise to a series of reflections about homeland and memory as the foundations of the exile’s identity.

scholarly journals Decrease of General Paralysis of the Insane in England and Wales

1901 ◽  
Vol 47 (196) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
R. S. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Change Of Type ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

To anyone watching carefully the figures given in the last five annual reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy for England it is quite apparent that one very distinct and unmistakable change has during each of the five years ending 1897 been taking place in the character of the admissions into asylums. There is no indication that lunacy is diminishing, rather the reverse, for the proportion of the average annual admissions in which the attack is stated to be the first, i.e., occurring insanity, which in the quinquenniad 1888–92 was 3·7 per 10,000 of population, rose to 4 in the five years ending 1897. The change of type in the admissions to which we refer is the diminution in the proportion of general paralytics. Not only is this characteristic of the quinquenniad as a whole, but it applies to each of the individual years, the percentage proportion for each five-year period ending with that for 1893–7 being 8·7, 8·5, 8·4, 82, 7·8. The change is all the more striking inasmuch as each of the three quinquenniads preceding this one was characterised by a steady increase in the occurrence of the disease, so striking, indeed, that one might have supposed that the Commissioners would have been justified in making a much more affirmative pronouncement than the one they do in their Fifty-third Report, viz. that “it would not appear that general paralysis is increasing in the general population.” Not only is it not increasing, it is diminishing, and that, too, progressively, during the past five years.

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