scholarly journals ETHICS AND CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Casimir Ani ◽  
Professor Emanuel Ezeani; ◽  
Uche Okoye1, ◽  
Ejiofo Chukwuemeka2
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
African Perspective

This exposition of African Cultural economics has been mainly based upon a mixture of social science methods. In the main, dialectical, historical, holistic and political economy approaches have been used to study the existing literature. The study of the existing literature focused principally on the original discourses , presentations, public lectures, research notes, publications of the African cultural economist and the publications of other emerging scholars in the field of African cultural economics, cultural economics, culture, African studies, African development theory and the social sciences.

scholarly journals ETHICS AND CULTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Casimir Ani ◽  
Professor Emanuel Ezeani; ◽  
Uche Okoye1, ◽  
Ejiofo Chukwuemeka2
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Economics ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
African Perspective

This exposition of African Cultural economics has been mainly based upon a mixture of social science methods. In the main, dialectical, historical, holistic and political economy approaches have been used to study the existing literature. The study of the existing literature focused principally on the original discourses , presentations, public lectures, research notes, publications of the African cultural economist and the publications of other emerging scholars in the field of African cultural economics, cultural economics, culture, African studies, African development theory and the social sciences.

Politics and the urban process: the case of Philadelphia, 1800–54

Urban History ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
D.I. Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

History is a discipline in a state of perpetual crisis. Thus, in 1970, Arthur Marwick explained much of the controversy over historians' use of social science methods and theories in the latest incarnation of a social history which emerged after the Second World War. History's flirtations with the social sciences are recurrent. So are its crises. In the 1980s, Marwick's view of cyclical crises in history has been borne out. The use in history of ‘illuminating’ social science methods and concepts is now widely accepted. A spirit of tolerance, respect and professional courtesy has replaced the outward hostility which until recently characterized exchanges between the so-called ‘traditional’ and new social historians respectively.

From the Editors

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
International Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

We are delighted to introduce the first volume of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. As founding and now-former editors of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (LATISS), our new journal reflects a strong continuity in the editorial aims that inspired ourfirst journal. We remain committed to using social science perspectives to analyse learning and teaching in higher education. In particular we invite contributors and readers to reflect critically on how students’ and academics’ practices are shaped by, or themselves influence, wider changes in university strategies and national and international policies for higher education. Viewing changes in course design and curriculum, in students’ writing, in group work, seminars or tutorials as taking place within a network (or lattice) of institutional, political and policy contexts is the focusof this journal.

scholarly journals Editorial

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
The Social

In this issue of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, contributors from Canada, Denmark, Japan and the U.S.A. explore a variety of ways in which students’ learning on social science courses can be enhanced.

Generations of Hope Communities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Service Program ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Service Program

Chapter 7 describes, evaluates, and reinterprets the social service program Generations of Hope as a ceremony of social values rather than as a successful response to a social problem. The program is intended to improve child foster care by providing a communal setting for usually poor youths without families. The evaluations of its outcomes is largely based on staff efforts that defy customary social science methods. Generations of Hope is an instance in the long, unfortunate romantic tradition of social service that rejects objective coherence in mistaking obedience to social values—cultural symbolism—as program effectiveness. The program expresses the heroic beliefs of the culture in the power of individual will, the triumph of self-discipline, and brilliant insight, which, against all odds, achieve monumental outcomes with few resources. The program provides no credible evidence of its success.

scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social

In this issue of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, authors from Denmark, the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom analyse serendipity in anthropology teaching, the use of lecture videos in political science, peer dialogue in education studies, polarisation anxiety among social science students and active learning in criminology.

scholarly journals Editorial

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Penny Welch ◽  
Susan Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
International Study ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Social

Welcome to this issue of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. Important social aspects of contemporary higher education are addressed in this issue by authors from a number of countries and social science disciplines. These range from learning and teaching concepts of capitalism and alienation, to the impacts of computerised university administration, the systematic ways certain categories of students fall through cracks in the academic pipeline, and how to reintroduce social activism into a ‘professionalised’ curriculum and teach social justice through international study visits.

Fear no more: emotions and world politics

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 115-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROLAND BLEIKER ◽  
EMMA HUTCHISON
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Social Science Methods ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific

AbstractAlthough emotions play a significant role in world politics they have so far received surprisingly little attention by International Relations scholars. Numerous authors have emphasised this shortcoming for several years now, but strangely there are still only very few systematic inquiries into emotions and even fewer related discussions on method. The article explains this gap by the fact that much of International Relations scholarship is conducted in the social sciences. Such inquiries can assess emotions up to a certain point, as illustrated by empirical studies on psychology and foreign policy and constructivist engagements with identity and community. But conventional social science methods cannot understand all aspects of phenomena as ephemeral as those of emotions. Doing so would involve conceptualising the influence of emotions even when and where it is not immediately apparent. The ensuing challenges are daunting, but at least some of them could be met by supplementing social scientific methods with modes of inquiry emanating from the humanities. By drawing on feminist and other interpretive approaches we advance three propositions that would facilitate such cross-disciplinary inquiries. (1) The need to accept that research can be insightful and valid even if it engages unobservable phenomena, and even if the results of such inquiries can neither be measured nor validated empirically; (2) The importance of examining processes of representation, such as visual depictions of emotions and the manner in which they shape political perceptions and dynamics; (3) A willingness to consider alternative forms of insight, most notably those stemming from aesthetics sources, which, we argue, are particularly suited to capturing emotions. Taken together, these propositions highlight the need for a sustained global communication across different fields of knowledge.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

Approach to the Social Sciences in Religion Past and Present

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Robert Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Social

The social sciences do threaten theology/religious studies even when they do not challenge either the reality of God or the reality of belief in the reality of God. The entries in RPP ignore this threat in the name of some wished-for harmony. The entries neither recognize nor refute the challenge of social science to theology/religious studies. They do, then, stand antithetically both to those whom I call "religionists" and to many theologians, for whom there is nothing but a challenge.

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