scholarly journals Promotion of creative learning exchange philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzong-Yue Chen
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Creative Learning ◽  
Concept Building ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Systematic Thinking ◽  
School Curricula

Traditional approaches to organizational management focused on the analysis of individual problems and incremental change. In a modern society full of rapidly evolving science technology, what used to work seems no longer to suffice as schools continue to experience complex changes. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to see the consequences as a result of our decisions and to learn from experience. No longer can a person derive a sense of security and comfort from merely doing a day's work for a day's pay. Neither can an employee quietly pursue his or her job, while totally unconcerned about what other partners are doing. Sad to say, not much can be expected of today’s school curricula to meet enterprises’ requirements. This explains why a school library plays an important role in putting together the school’s and local community’s resources for the purpose of promoting readers creative learning exchange(CLE) concept, building in them a systematic thinking model and developing their capabilities in solving problems.

Twenty-First Century Developments in the Field of Science, Technology, and International Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan H. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
International System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Traditionally, international relations (IR) conceptualized technology primarily as a static, neutral, and passive tool, which emanates from impenetrable black boxes outside the international system. According to this predominant instrumental understanding of technology, IR “added” technology as a residual variable to existing explanatory frameworks. Consequently, qualitative systemic change—as well as continuity—could only be addressed within existing models and their respective core variables. Subsequently, traditional approaches increasingly experienced difficulties to adequately capture and explain empirically observable systemic changes in the form of growing interdependence, globalization, or trans-nationalization, as well as a plethora of technology-induced new policy challenges. Contrary to traditional conceptualizations, a growing number of scholars have instead embarked on a project to open the “black box” by redefining technology as a highly political and integral core component of global affairs that shapes and itself is shaped by global economics, politics, and culture. A rapidly growing body of theoretically diverse interdisciplinary literature systematically incorporates insights from science and technology studies (STS) to provide a more nuanced understanding of how technology, the global system, and its myriad actors mutually constitute and impact one another.

Expertise in STEM Disciplines

2019 ◽  
pp. 528-550
Author(s):  
David F. Feldon ◽  
Soojeong Jeong ◽  
Joana Franco
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Expert Performance ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Impact

Enhancing expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is vital to promoting both the intellectual and economic development of a modern society. This chapter synthesizes relevant studies on the acquisition and development of STEM expertise from different areas of research, including cognitive psychology, the psychology of science, sociology and anthropology, and educational research. Specifically, first, the structure of relevant STEM disciplines in conceptualizing the domain of expertise are discussed. Then the fundamental mechanisms of thinking and problem-solving practices in science and engineering that underlie expert performance within these disciplines are presented. Issues pertaining to assessment and recognition of expertise in STEM fields are also examined. Lastly, evidence pertaining to the impact of training and education on the development of STEM expertise is reviewed. The chapter closes with a critical analysis of STEM expertise research to date and identifies unanswered critical questions and new directions for future research.

In Defence of Science: Science, Technology and Politics in Modern Society

Leonardo ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
David Pariser ◽  
J. W. Grove
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Science Technology

scholarly journals Pippi's Pancakes - Culinary Jam Sessions in the School Library

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Marianne Ageberg ◽  
Margaretha Holstenson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
New Thinking

Project-based learning is a way of working which is gaining ground in Swedish schools. The Swedish Government has recently decreed that senior high school students must carry out a fairly extensive piece of research in the form of a project. The project has to be finished in one and a half years from preparatory planning to final presentation. Working with projects has now more clearly made the School Library in Sweden into an educational resource. In our seminar we will give you some idea of how project-based learning is being practised as teamwork between librarians, students and teachers in two Swedish senior high school libraries. We show how we guide teachers and students in our libraries, now well equipped with traditional media as well as modern technology. We will also point out specific problems that we meet and draw attention to new thinking about learning in modern society.

scholarly journals Opening the Journey of Exploring Cultural Geography for Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shucheng Liu ◽  
Quiru Wu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
School Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Western China ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Design Factors ◽  
Learning Projects

In modern society, how to improve students' cognitive abilities is an important challenge facing high schools. The school library as the information center of the school should fully play its role in addressing this challenge. With the help of Evergreen Education Foundation, the library team of Danfeng High School located in a rural county of western China, initiated the collaboration with subject teachers to guide students in learning. After several years of experiments, we found that the inquiry-based learning projects jointly developed by librarians and teachers can help improve students' cognitive abilities. This paper studied an example of these projects, “Cultural Differences and Geographical Environment" project, co-developed by a geography teacher and a librarian. By reviewing the project process and assessing its outcomes, we summarized the design factors contributed to the improvement of the students’ cognitive abilities, and reflected upon what can be done better, to benefit the future development.

scholarly journals An Ethnomathematical Perspective of STEM Education in a Glocalized World

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (70) ◽  
pp. 840-876
Author(s):  
Milton Rosa ◽  
Daniel Clark Orey
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Transformative Pedagogy ◽  
Mathematical Practices ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Pedagogical Action ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Modelling Problem ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
School Curricula

Abstract An Ethnomathematics-based curriculum helps students demonstrate consistent mathematical processes as they reason, solve problems, communicate ideas, and choose appropriate representations through the development of daily mathematical practices. As well, it recognizes connections with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Our pedagogical work, in relation to STEM Education, is based on the Trivium Curriculum for mathematics and ethnomodelling, which provides communicative, analytical, material, and technological tools to the development of emic, etic, and dialogic approaches that are necessary for the elaboration of the school curricula. STEM Education facilitates pedagogical action that connects ethnomathematics; mathematical modelling, problem-solving, critical judgment, and making sense of mathematical and non-mathematical environments, which involves distinct ways of thinking, reasoning, and developing mathematical knowledge in distinct sociocultural contexts. The ethnomathematical perspective for STEM Education proposed here provides a transformative pedagogy that exposes its power to transform students into critical and reflective citizens in order to enable them to transform society in a glocalized world.

scholarly journals Caste and Consequences

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
G. C. Pal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Caste Groups ◽  
Caste Structure

Abstract   Caste, a social institution in India, has significant implications on social legislations, affirmative action and group-specific development policies. In the modern society, the traditional caste structure however continues to nurture the unequal social interaction process among caste groups. This often translates into various forms of human rights violations against the groups at the bottom of caste hierarchy. The key concern is that resistance to such violations often leads to ‘caste violence’ of different forms. Although a body of literature that explains this caste phenomenon in the discourse of human rights and social justice, its larger consequences remains a neglected dimension. This paper, drawing evidence from a series of empirical research on ‘mapping caste-based violence’ in contemporary Indian society, sheds light on diverse consequences of real or perceived violence, emanating from ‘caste’. The analysis reveals that consequences of caste violence are manifested in social, economic, psychological and moral terms. The ‘victims of violence’ speak the language of suffering and deprivation in different spheres of life, having a bearing on the basic human needs of ‘belongingness’ democratic honour and ‘sense of security’. The apathetic attitude and slow response of state machinery towards caste violence often accentuate the social conditions to make the ‘victims of violence’ and their communities fall into the vicious cycle of caste oppressions and increased vulnerability to poor human development.

THE LEGAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INSURANCE CONTRACT

2017 ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Olīvija Tuvi ◽  
Līga Mazure
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Insurance Contract ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Compulsory Insurance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Insight Into

Human feeling of security is one of the basic needs, so the idea of insurance is already perceived in ancient times. Nowadays the importance of insurance increases, because it is an essential part of national economy, as well as one of the modern society level determinants, because it even provides compulsory insurance to protect important interests. Insurance creates a sense of security in the increasing number of spheres of life, which continues to expand, providing more and more new insurance objects. This work provides insight into history of the idea of insurance contract and summarizes different ideas and problems about the insurance contract and its types.

scholarly journals Integrating Science, Technology and Health Policies in Brazil: Incremental Change and Public Health Professionals as Agents of Reform

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Elize Massard da Fonseca ◽  
Kenneth Shadlen ◽  
Francisco Inácio Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBrazil has encouraged an ambitious set of policies towards the pharmaceutical industry, aiming to foster technological development while meeting health requirements. We characterise these efforts, labelled the ‘Complexo Industrial da Saúde’ (Health-Industry Complex, CIS), as an outcome of incremental policy change backed by the sustained efforts of public health professionals within the federal bureaucracy. As experts with a particular vision of the relationship between health, innovation and industry came to dominate key institutions, they increasingly shaped government responses to emerging challenges. Step by step, these professionals first made science and technology essential aspects of Brazil's health policy, and then merged the Ministry of Health's new focus on science, technology and health with industrial policy measures aimed at private firms. We contrast our depiction of these policy changes with a conventional view that relies on a partisan orientation of the executive.

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