scholarly journals Cognitive science and theological education in technologically developing countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robert Dunaetz
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Nearby Star ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Effortful Processing ◽  
Made In

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of human thoughts, feelings, and the associated processes, including learning. In the past 50 years, tremendous progress has been made in understanding how people learn. These principles can be used to make theological education more effective in the majority world. Missionaries and other educators can make theological education more effective by being familiar with the concepts of automatic and effortful processing, the spacing effect, and the testing effect. Since the use of technology is rapidly evolving in many parts of the world, cognitive science also provides insights into some of the educational pitfalls associated with technology. Technology-based distraction in the classroom prevents effortful processing from occurring. Outside of the classroom, technology may make time-management more difficult, leading to poor study habits. An inappropriate use of multimedia in the classroom may impede learning rather than enhance it. Increasing use of technology in the majority world is often accompanied by economic growth which may also impact theological education. Although incredible diversity exists among humans, there is sufficient similarity in human minds across cultures to scientifically study how a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence each other. Cognitive science is the broad, interdisciplinary field that examines the psychological and biological phenomena associated with the mind. Because the human mind is so complex, progress in the field is often painstakingly slow, especially when compared to the progress that has been made in the physical sciences. Although we can predict with a good deal of accuracy what a molecule or a nearby star will do in a year or in a century from now, we have a very difficult time predicting what our next-door neighbor will do tomorrow. Nevertheless, cognitive science has enabled us to discover general trends that describe how humans are likely to behave in various circumstances, although we will never be able to predict exactly how a specific individual would act in those circumstances.

Unions and the Popular Front: The West Coast Waterfront in the 1930s

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Human Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Recent discussions of the history of American communism have generated a good deal of controversy. A youthful generation of “new social historians” has combined with veterans of the Communist party to produce a portrait of the Communist experience in the United States which posits a tension between the Byzantine pursuit of the “correct line” at the top and the impulses and needs of members at the base trying to cope with a complex reality. In the words of one of its most skillful practitioners, “the new Communist history begins with the assumption that … everyone brought to the movement expectations, traditions, patterns of behavior and thought that had little to do with the decisions made in the Kremlin or on the 9th floor of the Communist Party headquarters in New York.” The “new” historians have focused mainly on the lives of individuals, the relationship between communism and ethnic and racial subcultures, and the effort to build the party's influence within particular unions and working-class constituencies. Overall, the portrait has been critical but sympathetic and has served to highlight the party's “human face” and the integrity of its members.

Self-Ownership, Autonomy, and Property Rights

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
High Tide ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
To Come ◽  
Made In

Writers of very different persuasions have relied on arguments about self-ownership; in recent years, it is libertarians who have rested their political theory on self-ownership, but Grotian authoritarianism rested on similar foundations, and, even though it matters a good deal that Hegel did not adopt a full-blown theory of self-ownership, so did Hegel's liberal-conservatism. Whether the high tide of the idea has passed it is hard to say. One testimony to its popularity was the fact that G. A. Cohen for a time thought that the doctrine of self-ownership was so powerful that an egalitarian like himself had to come to terms with it; but he has since changed his mind. I have tackled the topic of self-ownership glancingly elsewhere, but have not hitherto tried to pull together the observations I have made in passing on those occasions. The view I have taken for granted and here defend is that self-ownership is not an illuminating notion—except in contexts that are unattractive to anyone of libertarian tastes.

Intestacy in Roman Society

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Crook
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Positive Case ◽  
Extreme Form ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Negative Form ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this paper is to defend a sound old doctrine against a brilliant, amusing and superficially plausible attack by Professor Daube. The doctrine is that propounded – admittedly in an extreme form – by Sir Henry Maine, that Roman society had a ‘singular horror of intestacy’, a ‘passion for testacy’; in his Gray Lectures of 1966, summing up a rather fuller case made in Tulane Law Review, 1965, Professor Daube claimed to demonstrate that the evidence for this doctrine was ludicrously inadequate and the notion in any case a priori absurd. His judgement has been endorsed, with some corroborative arguments, by Professor Watson, and has achieved the approval of Professor Brunt.According to Daube the case in favour of the view that Romans usually made wills and had a dread of dying intestate consists of the following ‘chief’ arguments: that in the Twelve Tables a person who has not made a will is called intestatus, and the negative form of the word implies that it is the exception; secondly that, in Plutarch's famous story, the elder Cato said that one of the three things he regretted in life was to have spent a single day ἀδιάθετος, and finally that in Plautus' Curculio a man is cursed with the words intestatus vivito. With these three arguments Daube has – and gives – a good deal of fun, claiming, in the upshot, to have blown them all sky-high and thus to have demolished the entire positive case for the old view.

VII.—A Grant of Arms of the year 1510

Archaeologia ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
W. G. Clark-Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Effective Design ◽  
Made In

The grant of arms here reproduced was made in November 1510, by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, to John Mundy, described as gentleman, of Chakenden (Checkendon) in the county of Oxford. It is written on a sheet of parchment 17¾ in. by 9½ in., which has suffered somewhat from damp ; the margins are decorated, as will be seen in the illustration (pl. xliii), with a rather coarse but effective design of flowers, while the arms and crest occupy the customary position on the left hand. There are two seals, both now detached from the document, enclosed in the usual wooden cases, which are a good deal worm-eaten ; the larger seal 2½ in. diameter, is that of the Garter Office : a cross between four doves with wings expanded; on a chief a crown within a garter between a leopard and a fleur-de-lys, with the legend: . The smaller (left-hand) seal 2 in. diameter is that of Wriothesleys' own arms, quarterly I and IV, a cross and four falcons for Wriothesley, II, Fretty and a quarter with a lion passant in the quarter, for Dunstaville, III, a pale lozengy and a border bezanty, for Lushill, but the legend is indecipherable, both seals having suffered greatly from abrasion.

scholarly journals Interlanguage or Technology when Using English as Vehicular Language: what influences students productions online?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Milagros Torrado-Cespón
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
New Research ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

<p>This article seeks to explore what influences the production of accurate online written texts in English by speakers of Spanish. In order to do so, the cases where the pronoun “I” is not capitalized have been examined in detail to determine whether we are facing an error due to a lack of proficiency or whether the use of ICT is to blame. After going through the cases of “i” and observing the other mistakes made in the texts where they appear, ICT together with lack of proofreading, and interlanguage seem to be the possible answers. Although we can establish the use of technology and, therefore, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) as the cause of most cases in analogy with what happens with native speakers, further investigation is needed and new research with similar control groups where explicit corrective feedback is given could give us more clues about the behaviour of the participants.</p>

scholarly journals Some Problems in the Analysis of the Dual Economy

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-546
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Lewis, Jr
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Dual Economy ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Frequent Failure ◽  
Made In

There is a good deal of confusion in the literature on the dual economy stemming from i) the frequent failure to specify assumptions made about the level and characteristics of unemployment and underemployment, and ii) the difficulties of building institutional rigidities into neoclassical allocation-models without producing results which are indeterminate or lacking in generality. This paper sets out some of the major assumptions made in various discussions of the dual economy, examines the effects of these assumptions on production and factor-use decisions in each sector and on the product-transformation locus for the economy, and suggests some related problems of policy analysis in the dual economy. The aim is to develop an analytical framework that approximates economic conditions in underdeveloped countries by examining some of the niceties of the traditional analysis in light of certain institutional rigidities that seem to exist in most underdeveloped countries.

scholarly journals Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in COVID-19 Era: Challenges and Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 317-331
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Ataby
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Technology-enhanced learning and teaching methods have been in literature and for many years now. Many educational institutes all over the world have been using these methods to deliver their programs and degrees. Nevertheless, some institutes are not very keen on using technology in some disciplines, and deliver their programs in a traditional way for a number of reasons, especially if these have been successful and well-attended (i.e. popular) by students. In the current era, where COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every corner of our life including higher education, technology has become a critical success factor to reduce the negative impact of this pandemic. Accordingly, it is now no longer an option to opt out from using technology in learning and teaching. This doesn’t just refer to providing (dumping) contents to students digitally, but to facilitate learning and deliver engaging and highly interactive experience to compensate for lack of face-to-face interaction between the students and their teachers and also amongst the students themselves. The use of technology in education due to COVID-19 pandemic, however, has confronted by a number of challenges. In some cases, the focus was shifted to the contents (documents, videos…etc.) rather than interactivity and student engagement. Furthermore, the students were highly overwhelmed with contents in a short period of time, which has caused anxiety, dissatisfaction and performance issues. In this paper, examples of teaching methods based on the use of technology that are employed during the lockdown period are provided. Moreover, a number of subsequent challenges due to current situation are discussed, and recommendations for implementation and best practice are shared. Also a proposal for a flipped delivery model to move forward is provided and discussed. Anecdotal student feedback has shown that the used methods and techniques were really helpful and have boosted student learning and enthusiasm in this difficult time.      

scholarly journals An Examination of Students' Use of Technology for Non-Academic Purposes in the College Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary George Charles Kornhauser ◽  
Andrea L. Paul ◽  
Karen L. Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
College Classroom ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Use Of Technology

Previous research has shown that students who use technology in the classroom for non-academic purposes suffer decrements to their academic performance. These findings are consistent with theories and research in cognitive science. However, no current study has examined the sorts of technology that students use in class, their reasons for using it, and whether they feel that it is acceptable to use it. The current study sought to qualitatively explore these questions across a sample (N= 105) of college students. Results reveal that the most common use of technology in the classroom is text messaging and emailing, and that students regularly use technology for a variety of non-academic reasons. Limitations of this study include the homogeneity of the participant sample.  Future research should determine what factors lead students to use technology for non-academic purposes and also identify effective strategies for preventing or managing students’ use of technology for non-academic purposes in the college classroom.

Bald Jonah and the Exegesis of 4 Kings 2.23

Traditio ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
John B. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Teaching Device ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Visual Impact ◽  
Made In

In recent years, a good deal of attention has been paid to the place of typology in late medieval art. This way of thought so characteristic of the Middle Ages, in which Old Testament persons and events are seen to have a prefigurative relationship to those of the New, was a popular teaching device. It is nowhere better seen than in the Biblia pauperum or picture Bible, which originated in a mid-thirteenth-century Dominican milieu and was probably inspired by the altar piece of Nicholas of Verdun, made in 1181. The pages of these books contain drawings that show the typological relationship between Old and New Testament events by means of a center roundel depicting some episode of Christ's life, known as the anti-type, flanked by two Old Testament scenes, the types, which were thought to prefigure it. Appropriate Bible prophecies in banners heightened the visual impact of the drawings for the literate. From its inception, the Biblia pauperum was of enormous importance for northern European art, and its influence can be seen well into the Reformation.

scholarly journals The Biblioteca de Catalunya – National Library of Catalonia

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinyet Panyella
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Role ◽  
National Library ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Constitutional Government ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Late Starter ◽  
Made In

Like all national libraries, the Biblioteca de Catalunya is being affected by change. Founded in 1907, it had a difficult time from the mid-1930s until constitutional government was restored, but received full recognition of its status and role as the national library of Catalonia in 1981; this was reinforced in 1993. It receives Catalan material on legal deposit, is responsible for the Catalan national bibliography and union catalogue, and acquires additional material by purchase, donation and exchange. Its collections, mainly of printed books and music, manuscripts and prints, number over 2 million items and include many rare and valuable documents. It also has an accepted leadership role among Catalan libraries. The changes afoot are mainly in the automation of acquisitions and cataloguing, where the library was a late starter but where much progress has already been made; in the progressive introduction of managerial methods into all procedures; and most conspicuously in a radical rebuilding programme which reflects the revised functions and redesigned procedures. The present medieval building is being reorganized internally to provide better reading and working areas, and previous additions to it are being removed and replaced with larger purpose-built storage areas. Some of the work is now completed, without any disruption to the library's operations, but the whole programme is not due to finish until 1996.

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