scholarly journals How to Know This Is a Good Thing: A Developmental Analysis of Inter-Cultural, Anti-Racist Education

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-486
Author(s):  
Ronnie F. Blakeney
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Developmental Analysis

The tension between cultural pluralism and social cohesion is perhaps the single most resonant moral paradox for contemporary democracies. The challenge is no less daunting for public education. In the past forty years North American projects for Inter-cultural and Anti-racist education have had limited success. This paper argues that such projects have suffered from an unclear moral vision and from a pedagogical indifference to the developmental stages of children and adolescents as learners. This paper describes two distinct moral aims of education for democratic citizenship. It argues that the tension between the two approaches can be resolved by reference to the developmental needs of various groups of learners. A developmental approach to Inter-Cultural, Anti-racist Education is outlined.

Bioethics In Neurospinal Patient Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andi Asadul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
Cord Injury

Neurosurgery is among the newest of surgical disciplines, appearing in its modern incarnation at the dawn of twentieth century with the work of Harvey Cushing and contemporaries. Neurosurgical ethics involves challenges of manipulating anatomical locus of human identity and concerns of surgeons and patients who find themselves bound together in that venture.In recent years, neurosurgery ethics has taken on greater relevance as changes in society and technology have brought novel questions into sharp focus. Change of expanded armamentarium of techniques for interfacing with the human brain and spine— demand that we use philosophical reasoning to assess merits of technical innovations.Bioethics can be defined as systematic study of moral challenges in medicine, including moral vision, decisions, conduct, and policies related to medicine. Every surgeon should still take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and consider it a basic guide to follow good medical ethics in medical practice. It is simple and embodies three of the four modern bioethics principles – Respecting autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition often affecting young and healthy individuals around the world. Currently, scientists are pressured on many fronts to develop an all-encompassing “cure” for paralysis. While scientific understanding of central nervous system (CNS) regeneration has advanced greatly in the past years, there are still many unknowns with regard to inducing successful regeneration. A more realistic approach is required if we are interested in improving the quality of life of a large proportion of the paralyzed population in a more expedient time frame.

scholarly journals NF-κB and Human Cancer: What Have We Learned over the Past 35 Years?

Biomedicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 889
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle Progression ◽  
Cell Function ◽  
Immune Cell ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Cancer Prognosis ◽  
Cycle Progression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Cancers ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Upstream Regulators

Transcription factor NF-κB has been extensively studied for its varied roles in cancer development since its initial characterization as a potent retroviral oncogene. It is now clear that NF-κB also plays a major role in a large variety of human cancers, including especially ones of immune cell origin. NF-κB is generally constitutively or aberrantly activated in human cancers where it is involved. These activations can occur due to mutations in the NF-κB transcription factors themselves, in upstream regulators of NF-κB, or in pathways that impact NF-κB. In addition, NF-κB can be activated by tumor-assisting processes such as inflammation, stromal effects, and genetic or epigenetic changes in chromatin. Aberrant NF-κB activity can affect many tumor-associated processes, including cell survival, cell cycle progression, inflammation, metastasis, angiogenesis, and regulatory T cell function. As such, inhibition of NF-κB has often been investigated as an anticancer strategy. Nevertheless, with a few exceptions, NF-κB inhibition has had limited success in human cancer treatment. This review covers general themes that have emerged regarding the biological roles and mechanisms by which NF-κB contributes to human cancers and new thoughts on how NF-κB may be targeted for cancer prognosis or therapy.

What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? A Loving Critique Forward

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Django Paris ◽  
H. Samy Alim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Global World

In this article, Django Paris and H. Samy Alim use the emergence of Paris's concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as the foundation for a respectful and productive critique of previous formulations of asset pedagogies. Paying particular attention to asset pedagogy's failures to remain dynamic and critical in a constantly evolving global world, they offer a vision that builds on the crucial work of the past toward a CSP that keeps pace with the changing lives and practices of youth of color. The authors argue that CSP seeks to perpetuate and foster linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of the democratic project of schooling and as a needed response to demographic and social change. Building from their critique, Paris and Alim suggest that CSP's two most important tenets are a focus on the plural and evolving nature of youth identity and cultural practices and a commitment to embracing youth culture's counterhegemonic potential while maintaining a clear-eyed critique of the ways in which youth culture can also reproduce systemic inequalities.

Two Case Studies of Collaborations Between Aquariums and Research Institutions in Exploration and Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Marcia McNutt ◽  
Robert D. Ballard
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Monterey Bay ◽  
Blue Water ◽  
Public Outreach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Institutions

Aquariums and "blue water" oceanographic institutions in America have traditionally had completely separate missions, with the former concentrating on public outreach and education and the latter undertaking basic research. Recently, two new institutions, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Mystic Aquarium/Institute for Exploration (MA/IFE), were founded for the expressed purpose of bridging the gap between basic ocean discovery and public education. In both cases, the ability to bring the excitement of undersea exploration to the public has been enabled by sophisticated undersea vehicles that permit the aquarium audience to participate in the research enterprise via telepresence. The fact that the research is constantly in the public eye provides researchers with frequent opportunities to explain the importance and the relevancy of their work for the benefit of society. Despite the efforts over the past 50 years, over 95 percent of the oceans remain unknown and unexplored. This fact combined with the realization that all citizens of the twenty-first century must be well informed on the consequences of their actions on the health of this ocean planet makes it likely that such partnerships between research and educational institutions will proliferate.

CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC: CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF SECOND-LANGUAGE WRITING.Ulla Connor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 201. $47.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
Dave Mosher
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Writing Major ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions

This volume charts the development of contrastive rhetoric (CR) over the past 30 years. Although CR has not attempted to identify developmental stages of L2 writers, it is essentially the study of transfer: the influence of L1 writing conventions and cultural and cognitive dimensions on L2 writing. Major strengths of this book are its critical review of the literature, concise definitions, and documentation of the progression of CR from narrow L2 text-based analyses to the inclusion of multiple approaches.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Harja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Material Basis

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

scholarly journals New Potential Solutions for Mentors in the Development of Physical Education Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
István Győri ◽  
József Márton Pucsok ◽  
Melinda Biró
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Special Factors

  The Hungarian Educational System, the Higher Education also Teacher Education have been constantly changing over the past decades. According to the results of international and domestic examinations, there is an increasing need for new standards and approaches,  in the entire Public Education, especially Teacher Education sector. The purpose of our study was to examine the key aspects of the mentoring process in physical education. We were trying to identify those special factors and identify new trends in the area of physical education. What is the role of these factors in the process of professional development of a teacher.  

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity in the Home Ground - How Archaeology Can Make the World a Better Place

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Mats Burström
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

We are separated from the prehistoric past by a cultural distance. In the past, people had different cultural beliefs and ideas from us, and in this respect they lived in another world. Therefore, our home ground wherever it happens to be situated —contains a cultural diversity; to meet the past is to meet the foreign. This realization can hopefully lead away from one-sided searches for the roots of one's own group of people. lnstead it can form the basis for a greater interest in and understanding of cultural pluralism in the past as well as in the present.

scholarly journals Will neuroimaging produce a clinical tool for psychiatry?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satrajit S Ghosh ◽  
Justin T. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Options ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
The Past ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Imaging Research ◽  
Information Streams

The increasing incidence, awareness, and social and economic impact of mental health disorders, the current status quo of treatment options and their limited success, and the extensive investment into brain imaging research raises an important question for the future behavioral medicine: will neuroimaging produce a clinical tool for psychiatry? Significant advances in neuroimaging over the past two decades allow psychiatric clinicians to peer into the living, functioning brain. Neuroimaging has been used to diagnose mental illnesses, to predict treatment outcomes, to find new stratifications of psychiatric disorders, and to provide therapy. The development of computational techniques, alongside several population neuroimaging efforts worldwide, increase the prospect for a first neuroimaging-based clinical tool. In this article, we describe the formidable challenges to creating such a tool and forecast how current institutions can solve them through social, technical, educational, and policy changes, improving data sharing practices, advances in technology, and integration between neuroimaging and other emerging information streams.

A Survey of Knowledge about Autism among Experts and Caregivers

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Gilliam ◽  
Maggie Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Consensual Definition

Research on autism has historically been plagued by use of inconsistent criteria in defining autistic populations and has consequently often yielded conflicting or ambiguous results. However, a number of developments over the past fifteen years, including the establishment of a consensual definition, has fostered a more comprehensive and conclusive body of literature. The purpose of this study was to compare information accrued from the most recent research to the knowledge and beliefs of a sample of caregivers. Results of the survey indicate that three areas emerge for further in-service training of caregivers: (a) incidence and sex ratio, (b) etiology, and (c) attitudes toward public education of autistic children. Implications for in-service training are discussed.

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