scholarly journals Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Michael O. Afolayan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
New Generation

This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). I will read the concept behind the sound as a multi-layered, multi-semantic meta-philosophical building block which not only showcases a serious aspect of indigenous epistemology and serving as a note of caution on Yorùbá education and its sociology of filial responsibilities, but could also be deployed to interrogate the emerging youth culture of the new generation Nigerian Yorùbá in the age of globalization. The essay draws on the semantic and philosophical content of kọ́ to articulate the argument that investments on material possession are counterproductive and antithetic to investment on human capital, the epitome of which is investing on one’s child/ ren. The essay concludes that the spirituality and permanency of the kọ of the ́ child’s mind is diagonally opposed to the superficiality and transience of the kọ́ of the building, a mere structure with limited value.

What Student Revolution?

Worldview ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Generation

Many intellectuals sensed the dawning of a "new generation" in the activism, idealism, and moral pronouncements of the student movement of the 1960's. This movement seemed to be reaching fruition with the "revolutionary" tremors that the youth culture let loose on college campuses and throughout American society in the wake of Cambodia, Kent State, and Jackson State during the spring of 1970.But less than six months later, the "sounds of silence" on the college campuses became deadening, and the savants of the "new society" expressed disillusionment and bewilderment.

scholarly journals Triperyleno[3,3,3]propellane triimides: achieving a new generation of quasi-D3h symmetric nanostructures in organic electronics

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 4951-4958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingling Lv ◽  
Josiah Roberts ◽  
Chengyi Xiao ◽  
Zhenmei Jia ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Electronics ◽  
Building Block ◽  
New Generation

A novel propellane rylene imide is synthesized. It serves as a versatile building block for quasi-D3h symmetric nanostructures.

scholarly journals Metal self-assembly mimosine peptides with enhanced antimicrobial activity: towards a new generation of multitasking chelating agents

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 2862-2879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Izabela Lachowicz ◽  
Gabriele Dalla Torre ◽  
Rosita Cappai ◽  
Enrico Randaccio ◽  
Valeria M. Nurchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Chelating Agents ◽  
Metal Coordination ◽  
Protein Amino Acid ◽  
Coordination Ability ◽  
New Generation

Mimosine is a non-protein amino acid that can be used as a building block in peptides with metal coordination ability.

scholarly journals Jak wyhaczyć kolesia - czyli o języku prasy młodzieżowej refleksje lingwistyczno-dydaktyczne

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Danuta Jastrzębska-Golonka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Generation

The article presents some issues connected with colloquialisms used in youth magazines. It introduces a comprehensive definition of a colloquial language, discusses factors shaping the media language, inter alia a new generation of journalists, media marketing assumptions, and features of youth gobbledygook. Moreover, the article analyzes the language of texts targeting a young reader and indicates the most essential features of a sphere of lexis, phraseology, wordformation and semantics on the basis of excerpted examples. It provides evidence for the changes that have occurred in the language of youth magazines in the past nine years (inter alia, English language expansion and vulgarisms). Next, it discusses the issues of youth culture and its linguistic implications as well as the issue of pop culture in school didactics.

Challenges to Building a “Knowledge Society”: The Role of Literacy in Promoting Critical Thinking in the UAE

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Freimuth
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
National Human ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
New Generation

"In its 2021 Vision, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government prioritizes the development of a “knowledge economy” to replace its current oil-driven one. National human capital must be fostered in order to fuel this transformation, and developing human capital involves building the skills and knowledge that drive cutting-edge entrepreneurship and innovation. Therefore, the Vision highlights the need to develop a new generation of creative and critical thinkers—citizens who are able to hone their conceptual abilities to raise the UAE’s international status to that of one of the most advanced countries in the world. This paper emphasizes the integral role that literacy plays in the achievement of the Vision. An overview of reading and literacy theories highlights the different levels of understanding crucial to building the human capital on which a knowledge economy depends. This paper also explores the symbiotic relationship between literacy and critical thinking before reviewing international best practices related to promoting literacy. Familiarity with both literacy theory and best practices for the promotion of literacy informs recommendations for the UAE’s policymakers as they work to strengthen the nation’s existing knowledge society."

scholarly journals Gamification as a tool of commercial bank staff economic activity and stimulating

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Borisovna Guseva ◽  
Azatovna Khaziakhmetova
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Bank Staff ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Stimulation Of

Human capital is one of the key factors for an organization's success in modern economic conditions. Its formation and implementation depend on the policy of the enterprise in the field of personnel management. Complexity and ambiguity of intra-personal processes - the carrier of human capital determine the necessity of progressive movement in the direction of research of cause-and-effect relations between managerial decisions, corporate environment, and the reaction of personnel to it in the forms of activity on the transformation of the human capital of a personality into the capital of the same name of organization and created value. Well-known tools of influence on the mentioned processes consist in the realization of mechanisms formal and informal influence and the creation of conditions for successful stimulation of economic activity. Digitization is the modern trend of economic reality in the behavior of the new generation of personalities of staff. This means the devaluation of the tradition of obedience in response to the priorities of freethinking, determination, uncompromising, creativity and independence, the reference point to "easy", "game" attitude to professional and everyday situations. All this determines the daily habits, interests, properties of reaction to the stimuli of human activity determine the necessity to choose alternative methods of influence from the authoritarian ones. In this regard, the development of the theory and methodology of gamification of the employee's activity in the organization is seen as relevant. The presented article is devoted to the research of gamification's methodology of management in a system of non-material stimulation of commercial bank personnel.

Design of and with thin-ply non-crimp fabric as building blocks for composites

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melih Papila
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Building Block ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Structural Composites ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Manufacturing Costs ◽  
Parallel Fibers ◽  
New Generation

Abstract New generation non-crimp fabric (NCF) offers an attractive thin and lightweight building block alternative in the design of composite materials and structures. Pre-assembly of multiple plies of parallel fibers, each laying in a different orientation would not require crimping of the fibers and would enable one-axis lay-up that can substantially reduce the labor, scrap, and manufacturing costs. A state-of-the-art tow-spreading technique enables ply thickness to be reduced to as low as one-third of the typical commercial high quality pre-preg ply thickness. The thin-ply NCF stacks result in well-dispersed plies of different fiber orientations and creates the so-called homogenized laminates without ply clustering. As an option, bi-angle thin-ply NCF offers two different fiber orientations with one being off-axis, e.g. at ϕ°, along with an on-axis 0° forming (0/ϕ) assembly. This allows to design in anisotropic properties within the NCF building block. An overview of several aspects of the thin-ply bi-angle NCF composites is provided to address associated benefits and opportunities in the lightweight structural composites design process.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Role in Teaching Speaking Against the Incongruencies between Curriculum and Curriculum Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Muhammad Azhar Khan Bin Ashfar Ahmad ◽  
Azlina Abdul Aziz ◽  
Melor Md Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
English Language ◽  
Curriculum Implementation ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Competitive Economy

The English language has long been regarded as an important tool in creating a marketable human capital. To be involved with the current, highly competitive economy, a developing country needs to produce a generation of marketable human capital. This is of the utmost importance in achieving economic prosperity. Hence for developing countries like Malaysia, which regarded English as a second language, English is taught in school as a second language. However, the English Proficiency level of the new generation in Malaysia is dwindling and this affected the production of good human capital. Weaknesses that lead to the decline are both systemic and in its implementation as there exist lack of cohesiveness with the curriculum, the implementation and finally with the assessment. In the middle of this are teachers and their struggle in producing students who can use English communicatively. This paper aims to discuss the decline of speaking skills as a result of incongruencies of the curriculum and its implementation and teachers’ role in creating marketable human capitals amidst the existence of these incongruencies.

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