The Professional Portfolio as Heuristic Methodology

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-366
Author(s):  
Andreas Luescher
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Heuristic Methodology ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Successful Education ◽  
Literary Autobiography ◽  
Gathering Data

The antecedents of literary autobiography as we know it today emerged during the 17th century against a backdrop of the rise of empirical science and inductive method. An arguably older form of autobiography—the portfolio—has, unlike the literary biography, languished on the periphery of academia during our time. While it should not be controversial to say that possession of an heuristic bent is one mark of a successful education (since learning how to think, that is learning how to be open, alert, engaged, is the fundamental mission of the student), the portfolio has been ignored in part because of its modern connotation as a ‘marketing’ tool but perhaps more significantly because as a heuristic methodology it is a threat to the centrality of the pedagogue. I argue that the portfolio deserves at very least a re-evaluation throughout academic (to say nothing of quotidian) life as an indispensable tool of the spirit of pedagogy. Like the autobiography, it is validated by the belief that gathering data or details about individual lives has to precede drawing general conclusions or seeing any overarching patterns.

A Self-Centered Story about Yourself in the Text of Literary Autobiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Larisa Nyubina
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
Literary Autobiography ◽  
Autobiographical Event

The article demonstrates the narrator’scomplexity in the autobiographical text of the literary biography at the basis of which egocentrism lies as a principle of this prose type construing. Layering refers both to the author and to the narrator. However, layering of the author causes a change of the narrator’s point of view and its transfer to the 3-rd person’s narration while layering of the narrator is caused by a temporary interval between the time of the narration and the time of the autobiographical event. Ambivalence and a poly discourse character of the autobiographical narration are determined by an ability of the speech person to create texts of different genres and various types.

scholarly journals Religionens rolle i naturvidenskabens legitimering

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Riis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
World View ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Church Policy

The great sociologist, R.K. Merton, presented in 1938 a study concerning the establishment of science in 17th century England. In this study, he pointed out the importance of Puritanism in the legitimation of natural science. The present essay argues that the establishment of empirical science was an international trend which therefore ought to be seen in an international perspective. Many international and English intellectual sources can be traced. They merged into a mainline during an era when society underwent fundamental changes: the political system changed with the bureaucratization of the monarchical government. The economic system changed with the rationalization of trade and manufacture. These trends also implied an interest in a more pragmatic and materialistic approach to natural phenomena. But the political and economic factors were insufficient for the establishment of natural science in the 16th and 17th centuries. The whole world view was legitimated by religion, including the political power. Therefore, natural science had to demonstrate that it was meant for the honour of God and the benefit of mankind. However, Merton narrows the scope too much, since he focuses on the Puritans. The term is not well-defined, and the discussion therefore becomes either too broad, including all devout Protestants, or too narrow, for instance, by including only non-conformist Presbyterians.The pioneers of natural science were often keenly interested in theology as well. The most important scientists tended to correspond with the church policy of the political leaders, but few of them can be regarded as Presbyterians. During the interregnum, many of the spokesmen of science had close contact with Cromwell. During the restoration, most of the spokesmen of science were Latitudinarian Anglicans. In some cases the religious attitudes swung in accordance with the official church policy. This does not mean that the spokesmen of science were compromising. They were rather representatives of an intellectual élite, which changed its religious views due to the experiences of the civil war, the interregnum and the restoration. A more profound study of the religious writings of the spokesmen of science indicates that they were not typical Puritans in the more narrow Presbyterian sense. Their views were characterized by Natural Theology, tolerant deism and Latitudinarianism. This tendency became more explicit after the Restoration, and the establishment of The Royal Society. Natural Theology was the cornerstone in the comprehensive World View, which also included Natural Law and Natural Science. The outline of the complex was already sketched in the works of the scientific pioneers in the beginning of the 17th century. At the end of the century, it unfolded as the basis for legitimating the Second Revolution. The views of Newton, Locke and Tillotson thus fitted into a universal system. Still the religious legitimation of science was needed. The split between science, religion and politics only took place in the 19th century with the advent of Positivism.

Towards Systematization

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. L. Reichertz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Target System ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
System Construction ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Methodology Development ◽  
Planning Development

Data processing has become an important tool in theoretical and clinical medicine. The main categories of applications are : information analysis, (bio)signal processing and the field of information logistics (information systems).The problems encountered lie in the discrepancy of the basic methods of a formal approach to an empirical science, the complexity of the target system and the system ecology, i.e. the involvement of the user and the system environment during system construction and utilization.Possible solutions to these problems are the application of system techniques, inductive planning, development of medical methodology, development of methods and techniques for user involvement and assessment of motivation and education and educational planning.The necessary general strategy in the development in medical informatics is seen in the continuing systematization of the theoretical and practical approach. It is estimated that this will eventually contribute to the systematization of medical science and practice.

Why byloti dievop ‘speak to God’, but prašyti dieviep ‘ask God’?

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 137-173
Author(s):  
Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė
Keyword(s):  
General Feature ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Historical Usage

The paper aims to investigate the historical usage of two local cases, namely the Allative and the Adessive, governed by verba dicendi in Old Lithuanian. In Mikalojus Daukša’s Postil (1599) the Allative occurs with verbs of address and denotes the Addressee as a Goal of a verbal act. The Adessive, however, is governed by predicates of request and conveys the Source of a desired item. To verify whether this is part of Daukša’s idiolect or a general feature of Lithuanian at the beginning of its written period, the data from DP are compared to the texts of two other varieties of written Lithuanian of the 16th–17th century: Jonas Bretkūnas’ Postil (1591) and Konstantinas Sirvydas’ Punktay sakimu (two parts, 1629 and 1644). In order to explain the motivation for this usage, dialectal and typological data are used.  

Historiography and language in 17th-century Ottoman Kurdistan: A study of two Turkish translations of the Sharafnāma

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Sacha Alsancakli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
General Observation

In the closing decades of the 11th/17th century, two Turkish translations of the Sharafnāma were produced in the Kurdish princely courts of Bidlīs and Pālū. The translators were Muḥammad Bēg b. Aḥmad Bēg, a great-great-grandson of Sharaf Khān II, the author of the work, and Sham‘ī, a secretary at the court of Amīr Yanṣūr Bēg, prince of Pālū. While their works differed in style and purpose, both men offered a reflection on the demise of Persian and increasing prestige of Turkish in Ottoman Kurdistan. In the case of Sham‘ī, this was supplemented by a more general observation on the various languages of the region. Evidence also suggests that while Persian was replaced by Turkish in the princely courts of Ottoman Kurdistan, some Kurdish literati and scholars instead chose to write part of their works in Kurdish. This article is a comparative study of Muḥammad Bēg and Sham‘ī’s translations, followed by a brief analysis of the associated sociolinguistic developments. ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIDîroknivîsî û ziman di Kurdistana Osmanî ya sedsala 17an de: Vekolînek li ser du wergerên tirkî yên ŞerefnameyêDi dehsalên dawî yên sedsala 11an/17an de, du wergerên tirkî yên Şerefnameyê li serayên mîrgehên Bidlîs û Palûyê hatin nivîsandin. Wergêrên van metnan Mihemed Beg kurê Ehmed Beg, kurê nevîçirkekî Şeref Xanê duyem ê nivîskarê berhemê yê eslî, û Şem’î, munşiyekî Emîr Yensûr Begê mîrê Palûyê bûn. Tevî ku armanc û şêweyê karên wan cuda bûn jî, herdu wergêran amaje bi lawazketina zimanê farsî û bilindbûna qîmeta zimanê tirkî li Kurdistana Osmanî kir. Li gel vê yekê, Şem’î herwiha nêrîneke giştî li ser zimanên cihê yên herêmê pêşkêş kir. Wekî din, tevî ku tirkî li serayên mîrên Kurdistana Osmanî dewsa farsî girt, hin zanyar û rewşenbîrên kurd tercîh kir ku beşek ji berhemên xwe bi kurdî binivîsînin. Ev gotar nirxandineke berhevdayî ya wergerên Şem’î û Mihemed Beg e, li gel pêdeçûneke kurt li ser pêşketinên civakî-zimanî yên pê ve girêdayî. ABSTRACT IN SORANIMêjûnûsî w ziman le Kurdistanî 'Usmanîy sedey 17hem da: twêjîneweyek bo dû wergêrranî turkîy ŞerefnameLe duwa deyekanî sedey 11hem/17hem da dû wergêrranî turkîy Şerefname le dîwanî mîrayetîy Bedlîs û Pallû berhem hatin. Wergêrrêkîyan Miḧemed begî kurrî Eḧmed beg bû, ke newey newey nûserî xudî berhemeke, wate Şerefxanî dûweme, wergêrrekey tirîş Şem'î, sikritêr le koşkî mîr Yensûr beg mîrî Pallû bû. Le katêk da karekanyan le rûy stayl û amancewe cuda bûn, herdû piyawekan amajey lawazbûnî zimanî farsî û hellkişanî payey zimanî turkî le kurdistanî 'Usmanî xiste rû. Le ḧalletî Şem'î da, eme be têrwanînêkî giştî ziyatir le merr zimanekanî herêmeke tewaw kira. Bellgekan ewe pêşniyar deken ke le katêk da le dîwanî mîrayetîy Kurdistanî 'Usmanî da zimanî farsî be zimanî turkî cêgay degorêtewe, hendêk le roşinbîr û zana kurdekan eweyan hellbijard ke beşêk le karekanyan be kurdî binûsinewe. Em babete twêjîneweyekî berawirdkarîye bo herdû wergêrranekeyi Miḧemed beg û Şem'î, we kurte hellsengandinêkî peywest bew geşesendine komellayetî-zimanewaniyey be duwa da dêt.

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