Augustus’ ankers

Lampas ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-410
Author(s):  
Suzanne Adema ◽  
Sophie Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Summary In this article we present teaching materials based on the concept ‘anchoring innovation’, meant for students in year three of secondary school. The purpose of the materials is to illustrate how ‘anchoring innovation’ worked in Antiquity and to illustrate that these principles are still relevant today. A secondary goal is to give students insight into Classics as an academic discipline. Within the context of the classroom ‘anchoring innovation’ helps students to understand the relationship between different historical events, texts and material culture. In this set of teaching materials we focus on Augustus and his big innovation: the principate. Students will discover how Augustus anchored this political change. After analyzing texts, coins, buildings and works of art, they will present their findings in an infographic. They will find out that Augustus used all types of media to secure his principate. At the same time they will see that Augustus is careful not to use the wrong anchor.

scholarly journals Religious and Church Issues in Secular Secondary School Subjects under New Program

2005 ◽  
pp. 318-326
Author(s):  
Olga V. Nedavnya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Works Of Art

The problem of church-religious and spiritual subjects in school subjects, in the educational process of different educational units is not limited to the questions of the introduction or non-introduction of Christian ethics, ethics of faith, religious studies or theology. There is no relevant oral and printed discussion. However, scholars and educators have so far received the same meticulous attention to the fact that, in addition to these special subjects, other humanities have been taught and read in the schools, which deal with issues of faith, religion, spirituality - directly or indirectly, in connection with one or another. historical events or in the composition of various works of art, also not neutral in terms of formation of world outlook and confessional prejudices or preferences.

THE ACCIDENTAL MARXIST: ANDRE GUNDER FRANK AND THE “NEO-MARXIST” THEORY OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT, 1958–1967

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
CODY STEPHENS
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Based on newly available archival records, this article examines the life and thought of Andre Gunder Frank from his years as a graduate student in development economics to the publication of his first and most influential book. A closer look at the evolution of Frank's thought provides new insight into the relationship of his brand of “neo-Marxist” development theories with both classical Marxism and modernization theory. Frank interpreted Marxist political debates according to the categories of thought of 1950s American development economics, and in doing so he both misinterpreted fundamental aspects of Marxism and simultaneously generated lively theoretical debates that remain relevant today.

The Importance of Religion for the Evaluation of Everyday Ecological Decisions by German Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Altmeyer ◽  
Daniel Dreesmann
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
School Students ◽  
Religion And Ecology ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Although previous research has addressed the relationship between religion and ecology in a variety of ways, little is known concerning how religious orientation affects concrete everyday ecological decisions, although these are centrally important for environmental education. Being interested in elucidating the preconditions of ecological learning in Biology and Religious Education in schools, the authors have developed an approach based on maximum concretion with regard to the ecological decision in which the influence of religion should be evaluated. With this goal in mind, they conducted an empirical study among secondary school students in central Western Germany (N = 815), who were confronted with an everyday ecological dilemma and asked about their reasons for evaluating this situation. The results provide insight into the potential role of German young people’s religious orientations in ecological matters and call for a decisive profiling of how cross-disciplinary education can contribute to this key question for future.

scholarly journals Paratexts Seeking Understanding: Manuscripts and Aesthetic Cognitivism

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Garrick V. Allen ◽  
Anthony P. Royle
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Manuscript Studies ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between manuscripts of ancient religious literature and aesthetic cognitivism, a normative theory of the value of art. Arguing that manuscripts both contain and constitute works of art, we explore paratextuality as a phenomenon that connects manuscript studies to both qualitative and quantitative sides of aesthetic cognitivism. Focusing on our work with a single unpublished gospel manuscript (Dublin, CBL W 139) in the context of a larger project called Paratextual Understanding, we make that case that paratexts have aesthetic functions that allow them to contribute to the knowledge yielded by the larger literary work of which they are a part. We suggest a number of avenues for further research that engages with material culture, non-typography, paratexts, and the arts.

History and Geography in the Classroom Constructing Knowledge through Savoir-Faire

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (01) ◽  
pp. 145-153
Author(s):  
Virginie Barbier
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Research Method ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Secondary School Teacher ◽  
Know How ◽  
Constructing Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Teaching Situations

Abstract This article seeks to link the teaching of history and geography to issues affecting research in the two disciplines. It invites the reader to reflect on the relationship between the knowledge that a teacher passes on to his or her pupils and the acquisition of a research method as a savoir-faire or know-how, even as a way of being. After offering an insight into current teacher training, the author, a secondary-school teacher, uses concrete teaching situations to explain the necessity of making pupils active participants in their own learning process and helping them develop sound research methods.

scholarly journals Memories and reflections on the “socialist” urban center

2021 ◽  
Vol XXII (2021) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Zlatina Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Urban Square ◽  
Town Center ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

Based on empirical research in Asenovgrad, this paper discusses socially constructed spaces during socialism and how they were used to impose and legitimize power. It proposes alternate perspectives towards socialism and its material culture expressed in the creation of modern architectural ensembles in the town center. Socialist architecture was a power statement which imposed new values and ideas. These buildings were markers of state authority which sent a powerful message for the renewal of society by breaking away from older, pre-socialist traditions. Among the issues examined here is the significance of the urban square and its surrounding buildings for residents of Asenovgrad today; how is the town’s center perceived in the collective memory? The analysis concludes by exploring the relationship between architecture and ideology in the way social reality was constructed, instrumentalised and offering insight into how the socialist regime was legitimized through material culture, artifacts, and buildings.

scholarly journals The DIY Principle in Home Improvement: Background, Motivation and Benefits

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Andrea Ďurianová ◽  
Peter Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Home Improvement ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Natural Means

Abstract Producing objects for one’s own consumption is a major strand in the historical development of material culture. Making things with one’s own hands can be considered a natural means to satisfy human needs. In the present time, this form of production is covered by the term “do-it-yourself” (DIY). DIY has become a global social phenomenon, especially thanks to the opportunities enabled by the Internet. Websites provide a lively forum for discussion, sharing ideas, how-to guides, and galleries of the results of DIY projects. The present work addresses home improvement DIY projects carried out by individuals in Slovakia. The aim is to outline the background, motivation and inspiration of so called do-it-yourselfers, the DIY process and participants’ evaluation of their work. DIY is generally considered to be an activity for amateurs, which is to say people who engage in the activity in their free time, as opposed to professionals, who perform such activity as their job or to earn a living. Moreover, the paper also partly focuses on the relationship between amateurs and professionals which has shown to be the basic principle of current DIY home improvements. One of significant findings of the research showed that the individual experience of craftsmanship or craftwork and the individual need for self-expression appear to be important parts of the DIY experience. Research findings contribute to a better understanding of DIY production in the context of design as an academic discipline. The main research method used was a questionnaire titled “DIY home improvement”, which was drawn up on the model of prior research abroad.

Skeletal elements of crinoid echinoderms: High-resolution structural and microanalytical results

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
D. F. Blake ◽  
L. F. Allard ◽  
D. R. Peacor
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Sea Stars ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates which has been extant since Cambrian time (c.a. 500 m.y. before the present). Modern examples of echinoderms include sea urchins, sea stars, and sea lilies (crinoids). The endoskeletons of echinoderms are composed of plates or ossicles (Fig. 1) which are with few exceptions, porous, single crystals of high-magnesian calcite. Despite their single crystal nature, fracture surfaces do not exhibit the near-perfect {10.4} cleavage characteristic of inorganic calcite. This paradoxical mix of biogenic and inorganic features has prompted much recent work on echinoderm skeletal crystallography. Furthermore, fossil echinoderm hard parts comprise a volumetrically significant portion of some marine limestones sequences. The ultrastructural and microchemical characterization of modern skeletal material should lend insight into: 1). The nature of the biogenic processes involved, for example, the relationship of Mg heterogeneity to morphological and structural features in modern echinoderm material, and 2). The nature of the diagenetic changes undergone by their ancient, fossilized counterparts. In this study, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), high voltage TEM (HVTEM), and STEM microanalysis are used to characterize tha ultrastructural and microchemical composition of skeletal elements of the modern crinoid Neocrinus blakei.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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