The Place of Dialectic Teaching in Sixteenth-Century Cambridge

1974 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 31-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Pivotal Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

According to the social historian, it is difficult to reconcile the expanding outlook and increased involvement in the world of public affairs of a university like Cambridge during the sixteenth century with the conservatism and insularity of the teaching programme which apparently persisted throughout the period. In the present paper I reconsider this question of the integration or lack of integration of the Cambridge curriculum with expanding interests outside the university, taking as the focus for my inquiry the pivotal study of the course, dialectic. I start by looking at the four-year arts course, leading to the first degree of B. A., as a whole.

Las Yslas de Esperar en Dios: The Jesuit Mission in Moro 1546–1571

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-606
Author(s):  
John Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Mission Field

The numerous and voluminous reports and letters which the Jesuits wrote on the Moro mission, as on all their missions in Asia, are perhaps of less interest to us now for what they reveal of the methods adopted by the Society of Jesus in this remote corner of their mission field or the details they contain about the successes and failures of individual missionaries, than for the wealth of information they provide on the islands where the Jesuits lived and the indigenous societies with which they came into contact through their work of evangelization. In other words, it is not theprimary purpose of this essay to analyse the Jesuit documents with a view to reconstructing the history of the Moro mission in narrative form but rather to glean from them some of the informationthey contain about the social and political conditions in Moro during the forty years or so in the sixteenth century when both the Jesuit missionaries and the Portuguese were active in the regio Because the Jesuits were often in close touch with local rulers and notables, whether or not they succeeded in converting them to Christianity, and because they lived among their subjects for long periods, depending upon them for the necessities of life and sharing their hardships, their letters and reports often show a deeper understanding of the social, economic and political conditions of the indigenous societies and, one suspects, give a more accurate and measured account of events and personalities than do the official chroniclers and historians of the time, most of whom never ventured further east than Malacca and who in any case were chiefly concerned to glorify the deeds of the Portuguese and justify their actions to the world.

Higher Education, Social Welfare, and Corruption

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-78
Author(s):  
Marlene M. Mendoza-Macías
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

The world is facing multiple changes and challenges; the environment shows inequalities, poverty, and corruption. Ecuador is not the exception. The man is declared the primary focus of the Ecuadorian Constitution to meet such changes. The objective of decreasing poverty, improving wealth distribution, and contributing to sustainable human development is unavoidable. In that context, the university has the pivotal role in generating interaction with society and its reality, to train professionals social and humanly responsible towards such facts, to promote the social management of knowledge from different action fields. The goal of this chapter is to specify the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in a society where they take part, to draw up social responsibility of universities in Guayaquil and the challenges they face, as well as actions that contribute to the eradication of corruption and greater wellbeing of the society.

The Worldwide Instantiation of the University

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
David John Frank ◽  
John W. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
The University ◽  
University Expansion

This chapter describes the multi-dimensional expansion of the university, focusing especially on its accumulating numbers and global diffusion. It stresses the transcendence and universalism of the university at the global level. It also analyzes how university expansion is expected to occur earlier and more fully in the global core than in the global periphery, in democracies than in dictatorships, in the natural sciences than in the social sciences or humanities, and in world-class research universities more than local teaching colleges. The chapter highlights the university as a global institution and the global knowledge society that arises upon it. It examines the spread of universities around the world and studies local instances of a general model that is a central point to sociological neo-institutional theory.

scholarly journals The Ximenez Polyglot

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCES LUTTIKHUIZEN
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Abstract: The Ximenez Polyglot Bible was part of a larger educational project—the University of Alcalá—implemented by Cardinal Cisneros at the turn of the sixteenth century in order to revive learning and encourage the study of the Scriptures. Following a brief biography of Cisneros, his reforms, and the social-religious context in which the Bible was produced, this article goes on to discuss the project itself, the manuscripts consulted, the printing, and the scholars involved. Cisneros’s focus on biblical studies at the University of Alcalá developed into an interest in Christian humanism and the writings of Erasmus, which would later bring forth fruit in the evangelical movements in Seville and Valladolid in the 1550s.

scholarly journals The Founding of The University of Melbourne, 1852-1855

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. W. Selleck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In part this paper is about ideas, especially those held by some men in nineteenth-century Melbourne who set about establishing a university. They had carried a set of ideas about what a university should be with them as they journeyed across the world, some of them in search of a promised land. They found that turning these ideas into reality was complex and disappointing, but their struggle sheds light on the social, political, and educational life of Antipodean society.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The University

Branko Milanovic of World Bank reviews, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” by James K. Galbraith. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the relationship between the rise of inequality and the performance of the U.S. stock market and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Discusses the physics and ethics of inequality; the need for new inequality measures; pay inequality and world development; estimating the inequality of household incomes; economic inequality and political regimes; the geography of inequality in America, 1969-2007; state-level income inequality and American elections; inequality and unemployment in Europe—a question of levels; European wages and the flexibility thesis; globalization and inequality in China; finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; and economic inequality and the world crisis. Galbraith is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, Austin. Index.”

XXXIV Rowland White’s ‘Discors Touching Ireland’, c. 1569

1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (80) ◽  
pp. 439-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Canny
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Thomas Wilson

This selected document was forwarded to Sir William Cecil in March 1571, but it was probably composed some years previously, and almost certainly before the Irish parliament of 1569–71 had assembled. It is transcribed from a copy, bearing the name of Secretary Thomas Wilson, which survives among the State Papers, Ireland in the Public Record Office, London (S.P 63, vol. 31, no. 32, ff 73–117). The piece is considered worthy of presentation because it is the most comprehensive analysis of the social and political condition of sixteenth century Ireland made by an Irish-born contemporary; because it indicates how the author’s perception of the world differed from that of the majority of Englishmen who commented on Ireland; and because it can be established that White’s opinions were shared by other articulate people within the Pale. The document, which is disposed of in nine lines in the Calendar of state papers Ireland, 1509–73, also serves to illustrate how grossly inadequate is that series for the sixteenth century.

scholarly journals The Argumentation in the University Training from a Humanistic Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Raisa Torres ◽  
Andrea Vidanovic ◽  
Martha Viveros
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Training Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Contextual Support ◽  
Personal Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

Abstract The argumentation is an inherent activity to the human being, no matter neither the culture nor the level of schooling. It is implemented according to the referential and contextual support in which it was formed. In the teaching field, this argument obtained in a reasoned way is valuable in itself, and constitutes a direct way for the acquisition of knowledge. In this way it is possible to develop critical and reflective thinking of the students. The humanist perspective advocates learning as a planned activity, but by means of the dialogue which seeks to expand the perspectives of meanings, accepts them and it involves the transformation of the world and the development of the students themselves. Starting from these considerations it was decided to analyze their influence on the training process and therefore in the social and personal performance as a fundamental element in the conceptual thinking of the university students. As a result, it was found that developing the argumentative skill of the students is meaningful for their training, so that there must not only be promoted the acquisition of technical knowledge, but also the development of a critical and argumentative thinking. It is concluded that the work of argumentation in educational spaces is still insufficient.

scholarly journals PhD research in social sciences amid a pandemic: introduction to a situated and reflexive perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 227-229
Author(s):  
Simone Tulumello ◽  
Kátia Favilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The University

This short essay introduces a forum made up of six Reflection pieces on what it means to carry on a PhD research in the social sciences amid a pandemic. Sparked by discussions held during the 2020 edition of the "Open Day" of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, this forum collects solo-authored and collective texts that focus on a number of dimensions along two main threads: the problems, uncertainties and potentialities of researching in these times; and similar reflections with specific focus on gendered dimensions. Together, though situated (all these researchers work in or about Portugal and Brazil), we hope these experiences will speak to peers around the world that are dealing with the pains and challenges of these times.

scholarly journals Separating out the levels: Globalization, identity, and the Ekistic Grid in sociological perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
William Michelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto. His special areas are Urban Sociology and Social Ecology, with a focus on built environments. His most recent book is Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences (Boulder, CO,Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Previous books include: Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (1970 and 1976), Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction (1977), From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families (1985), Methods in Environmental and Behavioral Research (1987), and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002). He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics, as well as the Royal Society of Canada. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

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