An Ethnographic Account of Educational Landscape in Pakistan: Myths, Trends, and Commitments

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1524-1551
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Religious School ◽  
Medium Education ◽  
The World

Education in Pakistan is no longer a matter of indifference to the rest of the world. Typically, concern is focused on the role played by the madrasah (Islamic religious school; plural madaaris) as the dominant provider of education. The rise in the number of English-medium education institutions countrywide does not enter such accounts. This ethnographic study relates this topic to the pedagogic aspirations of Pakistanis asking, What is the role of English-medium schools in Pakistan and is it even the case that the majority of Pakistanis are markedly in favor of a predominantly religious education for their children? The study suggests that formal English-medium education is most parents’ real-world priority, fluency in English being a prerequisite for higher paying jobs in Pakistan.

Introduction

John Rawls ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Real World ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Ideal Standards ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
The Ideal

What is the relation between political theory and political practice? In what ways can political philosophy help people to address real injustices in the world? John Rawls argues that an important role of political philosophy is to identify the ideal standards of justice at which we should aim in political practice. Other philosophers challenge this approach, arguing that Rawls’s idealizations are not useful as a guide for action or, worse, that they are an impediment to addressing actual injustices in the world. They argue, instead, that political philosophy ought to be focused on theorizing about the elimination of existing injustice. Still others argue that principles of justice should be identified without any constraint concerning the possibility of implementation or regulation in the real world at all....

scholarly journals Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 35-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Clark
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Inner Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Scientist ◽  
Biological Problem ◽  
The Mind

Cognitive science is in some sense the science of the mind. But an increasingly influential theme, in recent years, has been the role of the physical body, and of the local environment, in promoting adaptive success. No right-minded cognitive scientist, to be sure, ever claimed that body and world were completely irrelevant to the understanding of mind. But there was, nonetheless, an unmistakeable tendency to marginalize such factors: to dwell on inner complexity whilst simplifying or ignoring the complex inner-outer interplays that characterize the bulk of basic biological problem-solving. This tendency was expressed in, for example, the development of planning algorithms that treated real-world action as merely a way of implementing solutions arrived at by pure cognition (more recent work, by contrast, allows such actions to play important computational and problem-solving roles). It also surfaced in David Marr's depiction of the task of vision as the construction of a detailed threedimensional image of the visual scene. For possession of such a rich inner model effectively allows the system to ‘throw away’ the world and to focus subsequent computational activity on the inner model alone.

scholarly journals THE VIRTUES OF LAW IN THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-395
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity

AbstractThe moral force and capacity for inspiration of both religion and politics alike arise in part from the sense that they authentically map the world as we find it, yielding claims about how it should be. This paper asks what role we might imagine for law in this “hyper-real” world of religion and politics, arguing that law can display distinctive virtues linked to its capacity for strategic agnosticism about the real. Applying Sunstein's idea of “incompletely theorized agreements” to the politics of religious freedom, the paper examines the role of law as a tool of adhesion in two very different constitutional settings—Canada and Israel—and argues for modesty as a functional virtue in law and legal process. Viewed in this way, law draws its worth from its tolerance for ambiguity, its sub-theoretical nature, and its pragmatic proceduralism, seeking to sustain political community in the presence of normative diversity, rather than speaking truth to difference.

scholarly journals How Readers Construct New Testament Characters: The Calling of Peter in the Gospels in Cognitive-Narratological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 430-451
Author(s):  
Cornelis Bennema
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Real World ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Narrative Criticism ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Narratology ◽  
Role Of The Reader

Abstract The discipline of cognitive narratology applies insights of cognitive linguistics to narrative analysis. This study seeks to demonstrate the value of cognitive narratology by exploring the role of the reader and the extent of the reader’s knowledge in constructing characters. While traditional narrative criticism often limits itself to the world of the text, cognitive narratology recognizes that the reader’s knowledge from other texts and the real world also contributes to the construction of characters. This study will show that the extent of the reader’s literary and social knowledge of a text affects the construction of characters. As a case study, we will examine the calling of Peter in the canonical Gospels and show how four readers with varying degrees of knowledge will arrive at different constructions of Peter’s character.

scholarly journals PRECISA-SE DE PROFESSORES PARA A TERRA DE NINGUÉM

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 450
Author(s):  
Kyldes Batista Vicente ◽  
Fábio D’Abadia de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
The Real ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The World ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Technological World

O mundo da Internet não pode mais continuar sendo a Terra de Ninguém. É preciso que nós, professores, deixemos, de uma vez por todas, todo e qualquer temor em relação ao mundo tecnológico que nos rodeia e que ocupemos o lugar que nele está destinado a nós:  o de orientadores desta transição do mundo real para o virtual. Acreditamos que o papel do professor não é falar de tecnologia, mas de humanidade.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Tecnologia; educação; professor.     ABSTRACT The world of the Internet cannot continue being treated as The no man’s land. It’s urgent that we, teachers, put aside, once and for all, any fear of facing the technological world that surrounds us and that we occupy the place that is designed for us: the guider  of the transition from the real world to the virtual one. We believe that the role of the teacher is not to talk about technology but about humanity.    KEYWORDS: Technology; education; teacher.     RESUMEN Internet no puede seguir siendo la Tierra de Nadie. Es necesario que los profesores no tengamos miedo al mundo tecnoclógico que nos rodea y que cumplamos la tarea de orientadores de la transición de lo real para lo virtual. Creemos que al profesor no le cabe hablar de tecnología, sino de humanidad.   PALABRAS-CLAVE: Tecnología; educación; profesor. 

Buy/Hold/Trade or Sell/Divest/Disengage

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-202
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
Broad Scale

An electronic hive mind (EHM) can be a distributed virtual community and a mental space for information-gathering, analysis, and ultimately, decision making; it can play the role of executive functioning (in the same way a frontal lobe does for a human brain) and inform real-world actions. To see how this might function, the EHM around cryptocurrencies was explored from multiple social media platforms. This topic addresses an issue that is not fully defined and is of broad-scale mainstream interests. Cryptocurrencies may be everything from virtual ephemera and hot promises to a life-changing innovation. As a phenomenon, it has instantiated in different ways around the world, with cryptocurrency “farming” centers, nation-state-issued cryptocurrencies, government efforts at regulating such exchanges, and volatile gains and losses for cryptocurrency speculators and investors. How people engage with cryptocurrencies can affect their real-world net worth as well as other aspects of their lives, so this is not merely a theoretical issue but one with real-world impacts. This work explores three hypotheses around social messaging, the general membership of the target electronic hive mind, and mass virtual executive functioning and discovers a mind hyped on seductive promise.

A Real-World Exploration of Green Human Resources and Sustainability Education in Hyper-Connected and Technology-Driven Organizations

2022 ◽  
pp. 1040-1051
Author(s):  
Darrell Norman Burrell ◽  
Roderick French ◽  
Preston Vernard Leicester Lindsay ◽  
Amina I. Ayodeji-Ogundiran ◽  
Harry L. Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Real World ◽  
Corporate Citizenship ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Focus Strategy ◽  
Brundtland Report

The early concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), also frequently described as corporate citizenship or sustainability, grew from the seminal 1987 Brundtland Report, commissioned by the United Nations. CSR has progressed to the standpoint that in organizations necessitates the synchronized fulfillment of the firm's economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities in ways that focus strategy, operations, and behaviors towards the promotion of sustainability from a construct where organizational strategy is concerned with the care of the planet, people, and profit. This paper explores the role of green human resources interventions focused on creating organizational cultures that support sustainability in technical and hyper-connected organizations. The paper is not intended to reconstitute theory. The paper is highly theoretical and practical with the intention of influencing the world practice from practical real-world problem approaches and theories from the literature.

Authentic Mathematical Modelling Behaviours for Secondary School Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 547-551
Author(s):  
Kerri Spooner
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Real World ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Secondary School Student ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Further Development

Mathematical modelling is part of many curricula around the world. Some of these curriculum statements are vague and general. There is a need for statements to be more specific with supporting examples for implementation of curriculums. There is also a need for further development of activities focused on authentic mathematical modelling behaviour. To address this problem, an ethnographic study in New Zealand was carried out to identify the behaviours of a real world mathematical modelling team. These behaviours were then explored to determine what they could look like for a sixteen-year-old student. This paper will present the modelling behaviours of the real world modelling team and the potential authentic mathematical modelling behaviours of a secondary school student.

scholarly journals Role of Object Imagery in Comprehending Real World Phenomena Attributes

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01074
Author(s):  
Elena Fedyaeva ◽  
Marina Ivleva
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Real World ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Spatial Properties ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Feature

The paper analyzes the functioning of nouns as paragons of certain attributes characterizing various properties of the real world objects. Humans perceive the objects they see in space as possessing definite inherent attributes (shape or dimension). Perception results in the system of parametric adjectives. However, adjectives denote rather abstract meanings thus possessing a more sophisticated structure of categorial meaning in comparison with nouns. The dimensional nomination by adjectives is “vague”, while nouns can actualize several attributes and create a holistic image. The factual material analysis reveals that: 1) the use of nouns as an “evaluation tool” of the objects’ physical properties is due to the specific human feature to perceive the world primarily in essential, substantial or “objectified” images; 2) object images specify and simplify processing of the incoming data by cognitive structures; 3) object imagery is one of the tools to conceptualize spatial properties of the objects; 4) linguistic representation of object imagery is culture specific and depends on a grammatical structure of a given language conditioned by its historical development; 5) the English language is characterized by frequent direct nominal representation of an idea in contrast with the same idea being expressed by a simile in Russian.

scholarly journals Faith, the postfoundational foundation of knowledge

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Global World ◽  
The Way

The article will focus on the role of faith in postfoundational epistemology and the extent to which our knowledge constructions are only possible in a context of faith. One inherits a language, a house of being, and this inherited language creates the world in which the various beings-of-one’s-world find their place and have meaning. It is in this inherited world-of-meaning that knowledge is constructed. Epistemology is therefore based on faith, believing in the linguistically socially created world, in the sense of believing in the world created by the silent speaking of language that creates the world-of-meaning in which one finds oneself. One unconsciously accepts this world created by language without taking into consideration the role of faith as one believes this created world to be the ‘real’ world. One takes for granted the world (worldview) into which one is born as the way things are. Life and knowledge are made possible by believing this world-of-meaning: language. In a global world where differing worlds-of-meaning come into contact with each other, faith can be disappointed and can lead to anger and violence. If one acknowledges the role of faith in one’s epistemology, doors can be opened to multidisciplinary and multicultural dialogue as a multi-faith conversation.

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