Contentious Issues

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Job Training ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Local Pastor

This chapter examines how perceptions of moral decline intersect with the reality of living in towns experiencing population declines and diminishing job opportunities. The specific moral issues of concern that residents of small towns most frequently mention are abortion, homosexuality, and education issues, such as teaching the Ten Commandments and creationism alongside evolution. Whole communities were sometimes divided between factions that supported or opposed a revision to the school curriculum, or because a local pastor declared themselves to be in favor of gay marriage. There are other moral issues that townspeople said were important enough that they should receive more attention than they do—problems such as drug use and alcoholism, job training, school improvement and consolidation, the gap between rich and poor, and protection of the environment.

scholarly journals Teachers’ and Proprietors’ perception of pre-primary school curriculum process in Ife-East Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Iroegbu Victoria Ihekerenma
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Job Training ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Methods Of Evaluation ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Primary School Curriculum

This study investigated preprimary school teachers’ and proprietors’ perception of curriculum process in preprimary education in Nigeria. 140 teachers/proprietors from private preprimary schools were purposively selected for the study. The research instrument was a 32 item researcher constructed curriculum process questionnaire in the Likert format with Cronbach’s Alpha of .852. The items were distributed into five sections: impending curriculum sensitization; curriculum objectives; contentment; methods and strategies; and methods of evaluation. The instrument was administered on the teachers and proprietors in their various schools and collected by the researcher and assistants on the same day. The resulting data were analyzed using the Chi Squared statistics. The results showed that in 28 cases out of 32, the Chi squared obtained was not significant at the .05 level. It was concluded that preprimary school teachers and proprietors had similar perceptions of preprimary curriculum process. It was recommended that preprimary school teachers and proprietors be given regular on-the-job training in this regard.

Kieślowski, Krzysztof (1941–1996)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Therese Maeder
Keyword(s):  
Short Film ◽  
The Political ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Middle Phase ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Auteur Cinema ◽  
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski was a highly influential Polish filmmaker in the tradition of auteur cinema. Kieślowski tackled the tension between the political, spiritual, and ethical, and his camerawork often involved close framing and sequence shots. His first works, documentaries that examined everyday aspects of Polish reality, were followed by the fiction film Bez Końca [No End] in 1985, a distinctive audio-visual narration that launched his collaboration with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, his co-scriptwriter, and Zbigniew Preisner, who scored his films. Bez Końca considers the impossibility of understanding human misfortune and provokes the audience’s empathic involvement. In his early fiction films, Kieślowski scrutinized the restrictions produced by communist ideology alongside metaphysical questions (No End, Prspadek [Blind Chance] (1987), but in his middle phase, which began with Krótki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film about Killing, 1988) followed by the television mini-series Dekalog [The Decalogue], he emphasized social themes. The Decalogue, set in a Warsaw housing project, is loosely based on the Ten Commandments. In the 1990s Kieślowski focused increasingly on moral issues, and works such as La double vie de Véronique [The Double Life of Véronique] and Trois couleurs [Three Colors] have a more spiritual dimension. Kieślowski found funding outside Poland, but he also became disillusioned with Polish critics, who, he felt, misjudged him. They often ignored his engagement with existential and ethical questions by aligning his work with a politically and socially concerned Polish cinema.

Spreading Awareness and Job Opportunities through Odl

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Ms. Anjali Saxena ◽  
Maa Bharti
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Communication Distance ◽  
E Mail

Distance Education has done miracles in the field of education, it caters to those students who study and  work on their own at home or at the office and communicate with faculty and other students via e-mail, electronic forums, videoconferencing, chat rooms, boards, instant messaging and varieties of other forms of computer-based communication. Distance learning makes it much easier for some students to complete a degree or get additional job-training while balancing work and family commitments. This article elaborates upon the significance of Distance Education discussing various job oriented courses offered by Open universities to aspirants seeking degrees for a better resume and for career enhancements.  

Problémy, vývojové trendy a investiční potřeby malých měst v České republice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Ježek ◽  
Renáta Ježková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Peripheral Location ◽  
Job Opportunities

In the last more than ten years, interest in the phenomenon of small towns has increased. The aim of the article is to identify development problems, future trends and investment needs of small towns in the Czech Republic depending on their location in relation to large cities and metropolitan regions. The results are based on a questionnaire survey of 184 small towns. The most important problems that small towns solve today include transport infrastructure, parking options, housing. In addition, small towns in a peripheral location also solve job opportunities. The biggest problem of public services is the provision of medical and hospital care. According to the representatives of municipalities, the future of small towns will be determined primarily by the aging of the population, the departure of young, educated and entrepreneurial people and the decline in population. The main investment needs include the revitalization of urban centres, housing, transport and mobility. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that small towns in the Czech Republic are a very heterogeneous group of settlements. The assumption that small towns in peripheral regions have significantly different needs than towns in a central location has not been confirmed. They differ rather in the degree of problem, respectively urgency of their solution. Their political support needs to be approached individually and such support programs need to be created that will enable the implementation of integrated strategies.

scholarly journals A second Christian Rosencreuz? Jacob Böhme’s disciple Balthasar Walther (1558- c. 1630) and the Kabbalah. With a bibliography of Walther’s printed works

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 154-172
Author(s):  
Leigh Penman
Keyword(s):  
New Covenant ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Mount Sinai ◽  
Local Pastor

In the eighteenth chapter of his commentary on Genesis, entitled Mys­terium Magnum  (completed 1624), the Lusatian theosopher Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) made a startling declaration concerning the reception of the Ten Commandments atop Mount Sinai. According to the account of Exodus, God had commanded Moses to hew two tables of stone upon which He would inscribe the text of the Decalogue for the instruction of His chosen people. This Moses did, ‘and it came to pass... Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony’ (Ex 34:29). Böhme’s account, however, differed significantly. For, according to the cobbler, the text of the new covenant was not recorded on ‘two tables of stone. Already during his lifetime, Böhme had been persecuted on several occasions by Lutheran authorities in his home-town of Görlitz on account of his enthusiastic tendencies. In 1613, following the distribution of manuscript copies of his first work, Aurora, Böhme was forbidden to record or further disseminate his ideas. In 1624, the local pastor Gregor Richter accused him of being the Antichrist.

scholarly journals Knowledge and job opportunities in a gender perspective: Insights from Italy

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 735-757
Author(s):  
Angela Cipollone ◽  
Marcella Corsi ◽  
Carlo D’Ippoliti
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Definition Of

The paper proposes an enlargement of the traditional notion of human capital, by conceptualising knowledge in a comprehensive and multidimensional way. In our empirical approach, knowledge encompasses several formal and informal skills, to complement the mainstream view narrowly concerned with education and on-the-job training. Our results for Italy point out that despite much rhetoric about the reduction (or even the reversal) of gender gaps in education, women often lack the main skills and competencies that can profitably be deployed in the labour market. Unsurprisingly, in Italy women?s accumulation of labour market experience is mostly hindered by unpaid housework burdens. However, when adopting an extensive definition of knowledge these activities may be regarded as a source of relevant knowledge. Yet, they do not seem to be positively valued by the market, either in terms of employability or in terms of wages, thus calling for a serious rethinking of the role of knowledge in shaping men?s and women?s economic opportunities.

Some Reflections on Utilitarianism

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-431
Author(s):  
P. H. Nowell-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Objective Standard ◽  
Ten Commandments

Utilitarianism claims to be a rational moral theory in at least three ways. First, it claims to give us an objective standard of morality, a way of deciding moral issues, not in the light of what each of us happens to like or dislike, but on publicly verifiable grounds. Secondly, by offering only one criterion of morality it assures consistency. If we accept a system which invokes two or more independent principles, there is always the possibility of insoluble conflict. For example, if we take our stand on the Ten Commandments, we cannot, without divine revelation, be sure that we shall not one day find ourselves in a situation in which we must break one or other of them; and our system gives us no guide as to which we ought to break.

scholarly journals PERANAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM MEMFASILITASI KETENAGAKERJAAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN INVESTASI PUBLIK DI KABUPATEN MELAWI, PROVINSI KALIMANTAN BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-83
Author(s):  
P. R. Benirobin ◽  
Muchlis Hamdi ◽  
Rossy Lambelanova ◽  
Reydonnizar Moenek
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Job Opportunities

The research objective is to obtain a picture of the sub-optimal role of the Melawi Regency Government in facilitating employment to increase public investment in Melawi Regency. The research method is qualitative with interviews, observation and documentation. The researcher conducted an analysis guided by the scope of facilitating manpower contained in Law Number 13 of 2003, namely facilitating job training, facilitating employment placement and expanding job opportunities and facilitating industrial relations; and using Siagian's role theory which states that the role of government is as a stabilizer, innovator, modernizer, pioneer and implementer.

The Frog Pond

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the ways in which residents of small towns make sense of their own lives, and especially with respect to work and money. People in small towns know it is unlikely that they will ever become rich living there. Job opportunities, for one, are limited. Many lines of work that might be interesting are simply unavailable. This is particularly true for people seeking employment in the professions or managerial occupations. Nevertheless, the scale of one's community can have a decided effect on the scope of one's aspirations. The influence can be understood as a frog-pond effect. The chapter suggests that small communities create a frog-pond identity that residents draw on to formulate narratives about why they chose to live in a small town, how that choice has limited or enriched their career opportunities, and whether they feel regret or are satisfied. It also considers the impact of agriculture on the lives of small-town residents.

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