Death Reminders

2022 ◽  
pp. 218-244
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Existential Anxiety ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Difficult Subject

Discussing school shootings as current or historical events in social studies classrooms can be a difficult endeavour, as it requires confronting death and making sense of violent human behaviour. This chapter asserts that existential anxiety plays a role in helping us better understand these tragedies. Terror management theory (TMT) accounts for existential anxiety as a driver of human behaviour and can be a powerful conceptual tool to help students and teachers unpack the difficult subject matter of school shootings, as well as provide insight for behavioural responses that may emerge in the classroom in response to these discussions. As a result, TMT contributes a classroom of care that fosters a sense of student agency for which to imagine a preferable future.

scholarly journals Making sense of personal and global problems: an analysis of the writings and lectures of Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 344-349
Author(s):  
Tommy Ramstedt
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Theory View

Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde (b. 1939) is a well-known figure in the Finnish alternative spiritual milieu. She is an author and lecturer on parapsychology and ufology and has been a guest on several talk shows in the Nordic countries. The topics discussed by Luukanen-Kilde range from the psychic abilities of mankind to visitations from extraterrestrial beings. Since the mid-1980s Luukanen-Kilde has developed conspiracy theories about an elite group governing the world in secret. Luukanen-Kilde is a bestselling author and draws audiences of several hundreds to her talks. Her conspiracy theory view of the world offers explanations for all kinds of personal, national, as well as global problems and disasters. Personal health problems, tragic incidents such as school shootings, economic crises and unemployment, earthquakes and floods can, according to her belief system, all be attributed to a single cause; namely to the actions of a clandestine, malevolent group. The popularity of Luukanen-Kilde’s books and lectures can be seen as an example of how people in late modernity are seeking alternative interpretations of themselves and of world events. 

Making Sense of Social Studies

1992 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
John E. Steinbrink ◽  
David Jenness
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Making Sense

scholarly journals Teaching the Climate Crisis: Existential Considerations

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathryn Van Kessel
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Existential Anxiety ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
The Future ◽  
Climate Crisis

It is urgent that educators in social studies and science (among other disciplines) consider the ethical imperative of teaching the climate crisis—the future is at stake. This article considers a barrier to teaching this contentious topic effectively: existential threat. Through the lens of terror management theory, it becomes clear that climate catastrophe is an understandably fraught topic as it can serve as a reminder of death in two ways. As will be explained in this article, simultaneously such discussions can elicit not only mortality salience from considering the necrocene produced by climate catastrophe, but also existential anxiety arising from worldview threat. This threat can occur when Western assumptions are called into question as well as when there is disagreement between those with any worldviews that differ. After summarizing relevant aspects of terror management theory and analyzing the teaching of the climate crisis as an existential affair, specific strategies to help manage this situation (in and out of the classroom) are explored: providing conceptual tools, narrating cascading emotions, carefully using humor to diffuse anxiety, employing language and phrasing that does not overgeneralize divergent groups, and priming ideas of tolerance and even nurturance of difference.

Making sense of student agency in the early grades

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (7) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
High School Graduates ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
School Mission ◽  
Precise Meaning ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
K 12

The development of agency is often described as critically important for all students. Countless school mission statements speak of the need to help young people become independent thinkers, for example. Colleges and universities expect high school graduates to be self-driven learners. And business leaders are forever calling upon K-12 education to prepare the next generation of problem-solvers and entrepreneurs. However, the precise meaning of agency remains elusive. The author suggests a conceptual framework to guide elementary-level teachers in this area.

Behavioural response patterns: an investigation of the early stages of major incidents

foresight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihab Hanna Sawalha
Keyword(s):  
Behavioural Response ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Major Incidents ◽  
Original Classification

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the different patterns of organizational behavioural responses to major incidents and develop an original classification of these patterns. Design/methodology/approach An extensive literature review was made to investigate the different patterns of behavioural responses to major incidents and then to develop an original classification of these patterns. Several sources of information, such as case studies, technical reports, academic journal articles and organizational internal reports were used. Findings Organizations respond differently to major incidents. This was clear from the different behavioural patterns investigated and identified. Behavioural patterns determine levels of resilience and ability of organizations to overcome and ultimately survive major incidents. Practical implications To promote effective and organized behavioural response patterns to major incidents and improve consistency of responses across the organization, relevant authorities should demonstrate to all private and public enterprises the significance of effective behavioural responses, thus enabling them to better respond to various potential emergencies. Originality/value A number of models of human behaviour have been introduced in the literature to understand how people respond to emergency situations. They each take a different perspective on human behaviour but no single theory has emerged as the leading paradigm. This highlights the complexity of understanding human behaviour in such situations and the need for a better classification of behavioural patterns. To the author’s knowledge, this is one of very few studies to investigate, identify and categorize behavioural response patterns to major incidents. This research is expected to be of a substantial value for those interested in improving organizational behaviour during major incidents, as well as those interested in improving organizational resilience.

scholarly journals Managing Trust: Translating and the Network Economy

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristiina Abdallah ◽  
Kaisa Koskinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Organizing Principles

Abstract In order to understand recent developments in the field of professional translation, we focus in this article on the contemporary network-based translation industry using Albert-Lázsló Barabási’s model of real-world networks and combining it with sociological studies of social capital and trust. According to Barabási, networks are scale-free and therefore fundamentally undemocratic. Barabási’s findings can be used not only by researchers in explaining the topology and organizing principles of production networks but also by professional translators as a conceptual tool in making sense of their current working environment. We use empirical evidence from interviews with six Finnish translators, relating what we discover to be the roles of trust, loyalty, and social capital in networks. The findings suggest that (a lack of) trust may be the Achilles’ heel of these economic networks.

scholarly journals Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (50) ◽  
pp. 1247-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Funk ◽  
Marcel Salathé ◽  
Vincent A. A. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
Disease Dynamics ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Infectious Disease Dynamics ◽  
Source Of Information

Human behaviour plays an important role in the spread of infectious diseases, and understanding the influence of behaviour on the spread of diseases can be key to improving control efforts. While behavioural responses to the spread of a disease have often been reported anecdotally, there has been relatively little systematic investigation into how behavioural changes can affect disease dynamics. Mathematical models for the spread of infectious diseases are an important tool for investigating and quantifying such effects, not least because the spread of a disease among humans is not amenable to direct experimental study. Here, we review recent efforts to incorporate human behaviour into disease models, and propose that such models can be broadly classified according to the type and source of information which individuals are assumed to base their behaviour on, and according to the assumed effects of such behaviour. We highlight recent advances as well as gaps in our understanding of the interplay between infectious disease dynamics and human behaviour, and suggest what kind of data taking efforts would be helpful in filling these gaps.

scholarly journals Conceptions historiques et identitaires des élèves francophones et anglophones de l’Ontario à l’époque post-11 septembre

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Lévesque
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Post September 11

Cet article traite du concept de « signification » ou sens donné aux événements historiques tel qu’employé par des élèves francophones et anglophones de l’Ontario à l’époque post-11 septembre. Il met en lumière la nécessité de mieux outiller les jeunes et les enseignants dans leur utilisation du passé canadien et dans leur apprentissage de la démarche historique en classe d’histoire ou d’études sociales. This article deals with the concept of « significance » or meaning given to historical events, as understood by Francophone and Anglophone students in Ontario in the post-September 11 period. The analysis reveals the necessity of providing youth and teachers with better means to their utilization of the Canadian past and in their learning of historical procedures in history or social studies classes.

Making Sense out of the Terminology of the New Social Studies

1972 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
June R. Chapin ◽  
Richard E. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Making Sense
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