scholarly journals Reproducing the Status Quo in the Middle School English Classroom: A Critical Examination of Literacy Learning Via Personalized Learning Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michele McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
The Status ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Middle School English

Power Transition Theory and the Essence of Revisionism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. DiCicco
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Power Transition Theory ◽  
The Status ◽  
Thucydides Trap ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Theory Research

Power transition theory and Graham Allison’s Thucydides Trap Project are discussed in tandem with two complementary aims: to highlight theoretical and empirical contributions of the power transition research program, and to provide critical perspective on the Thucydides Trap Project. Conventional-wisdom approaches of this sort are distinguished from power transition theory, the empirical international relations theory proposed by A. F. K. Organski and further articulated and tested by generations of scholars. The theory’s central elements—national power, stages of power transition, shifts in the distribution of power, international order and the status quo—are identified and discussed, with a focus on key variables used to explain war and peace among contending states. A comparative, critical examination of the Thucydides Trap Project is used as a lens for spotlighting key empirical contributions of the power transition theory research tradition and the value of adhering to norms of scientific rigor. Opportunities for further growth and development are noted, with special attention afforded to essential features of the power transition theory research program, including the study of (1) the timing and initiation of war; (2) rising powers’ dissatisfaction with the status quo, and a possible distinction between dissatisfaction and revisionism; and (3) reducing the risk of violent, revisionist challenges.

scholarly journals Threatening the Social Order

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-249
Author(s):  
Ana Ivasiuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Contemporary Context

One of the most productive loci for the analysis of the security – morality nexus is the making of security laws and norms which reveals the ways in which the social order is perceived to be under threat. This article argues for a critical examination of the moralities underlying the security paradigm, or else ‘the securitarian moral assemblage’, through the example of how the Roma are targeted by security laws, decrees, and measures in Rome. Moral values underpinning the social order become particularly visible in security laws, as these laws betray that which requires enhanced protection, and what is seen to produce the existential danger that jeopardizes the status quo. Taking a closer look at the practices that are framed as morally dubious and increasingly repressed and controlled helps us make sense of the moral underpinnings that serve the reproduction of a social order presaged upon exacerbated consumption and the production of inequalities. Such an approach goes beyond merely illuminating the dynamics of exclusion grounded in the racialization and discrimination to which the Roma are undoubtedly subjected. It establishes a link between the explosion of security narratives, practices, and measures, and the larger contemporary context of capitalism and the current protracted crisis that it has engendered.

scholarly journals Dwelling with density

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Adriana Cojocariu
Keyword(s):  
Living Condition ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
High Density ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Living Environments

The extrapolation of current population trends indicates that the future will experience a huge influx of population that will return and settle in the city (Gallagher, 2013). This thesis is an investigation that attempts to incorporate the desirable qualities of rural living into the urban living condition and result in an alternative high-density residential solution for the future. The issue of urban densification and high-density development has become highly debated in the past decade – this thesis engages with the debate through a critical examination of the current status quo approach towards high-density residential development. A comparative study of the living conditions of the glorified rural idyll, the criticized suburban sprawl and the concentrated contemporary urban condition was undertaken in order to identify the advantages and disadvantages of these living environments. This comparison assisted in the creation of a set of design criteria and design elements which emerged from the research and were further investigated through a series of diverse precedent studies. The critical inquiry into the status quo and the varying living environments was used to define a humane design approach in a reinterpretation of high-density residential living in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The middle school alternative to the status quo

1968 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary F. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals The Status Quo and Reform Thinking of the Talent Training Mode of Biology Teachers in Middle School

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Bo Peng ◽  
Chuanling Zhang ◽  
Feng Peng ◽  
Xuezhong Sun ◽  
Xiayu Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Traditional Training ◽  
Training Mode ◽  
The Status ◽  
Normal Universities

It has always been one of the hot spots of the whole society to improve teachers’ quality and ability. With the progress of the era and the rapid development of biology, it puts forward higher requirements for the cultivation of biology teachers of middle school. How to cultivate a large number of high-quality biology teachers of middle school with good ethics and outstanding abilities is a focus problem worth exploring. There are some problems in the traditional training mode of biology normal students, such as backward teaching idea, unreasonable teaching arrangement and uneven teaching level. In view of these problems, normal universities should take a series of reform measures to promote the professional development of middle school biology teachers. Therefore, this paper summarizes the reform necessity, current situation and existing problems of the talent training mode. It also puts forward a series of reform measures on the talent training mode in the aspects of learning, innovation and reflection. Thus, this paper will provide important reference for the reform of talent training mode of middle school biology teachers in the future.

scholarly journals Enact, Discard, Transform: An Impact Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
North American Society ◽  
The North ◽  
Scholarly Impact ◽  
The Status ◽  
American Society ◽  
Management Report ◽  
Provided Examples

In her 2019 Earle F. Zeigler address, Jennifer McGarry drew on the 2017 Academy of Management Report “Measuring and Achieving Scholarly Impact” to examine how the field of sport management and the North American Society for Sport Management operationalize impact. She pointed to a broader, more inclusive, and critical examination of impact. McGarry highlighted impact on practice and impact through being explicit, particularly about the ways gender and race affect what we deem to have impact. Finally, she spoke to impact through individual and collective action, such as educating students, scholarship, and policy and advocacy. She provided examples of where we could disrupt the structures that work to maintain the status quo in terms of impact—the in-groups and the out-groups, the metrics and evaluations. She also gave examples of impact that have happened, that are happening, and that can happen even more.

scholarly journals Discussion on the Effective English Teaching Methods in Universities and Colleges

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Binglan Yin
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
International Language ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Middle School English

As an international language, English is getting more and more attention. Middle school English is relatively simple, however, university and college English involves the English communication level in the later period of students, therefore, the requirements for English learning are higher, but the effect of university and college English teaching is not obvious. This paper puts forward some suggestions for several teaching methods in university and college English classroom.

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