scholarly journals Degrowth oppen letter

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
International Degrowth
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Social Provisioning

The Coronavirus pandemic has already taken countless lives and it is uncertain how it will develop in the future. While people on the front lines of healthcare and basic social provisioning are fighting against the spread of the virus, caring for the sick and keeping essential operations running, a large part of the economy has come to a standstill. While this situation is numbing and painful for many, creating fear and anxiety about those we love and the communities we are part of, it is also a moment to collectively bring new ideas forward.

German Angst

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Relationship Of

German Angst analyzes the relationship of fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear has historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, the book highlights the role of fear and anxiety in a democratizing society: these emotions undermined democracy and stabilized it at the same time. By taking seriously postwar Germans’ uncertainties about the future, the book challenges dominant linear and teleological narratives of postwar West German “success.” It highlights the prospective function of memories of war and defeat, of National Socialism and the Holocaust. Fears and anxieties derived from memories of a catastrophic past that postwar Germans projected into the future. Based on case studies from the 1940s to the present, the book provides a new interpretive synthesis of the Federal Republic. It tells the history of the Federal Republic as a series of recurring crises, in which specific fears and anxieties emerged, served a variety of political functions, and then again abated. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary insights of emotion studies, the book transcends the dichotomy of “reason” and “emotion.” Fear and anxiety were not exclusively irrational and dysfunctional but served important roles in postwar democracy. These emotions sensitized postwar Germans to the dangers of an authoritarian transformation, and they also served as the emotional engine of the environmental and peace movements. The book also provides an original analysis of the emotional basis of right-wing populism in Germany today, and it explores the possibilities of a democratic politics of emotion.

scholarly journals A new renaissance for creativity in technology and the arts in the context of virtual worlds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Diverse Environment ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaborations ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas

AbstractWhere do new ideas come from and how are they generated? Which of these ideas will be potentially useful immediately, and which will be more ‘blue sky’? For the latter, their significance may not be known for a number of years, perhaps even generations. The progress of computing and digital media is a relevant and useful case study in this respect. Which visions of the future in the early days of computing have stood the test of time, and which have vanished without trace? Can this be used as guide for current and future areas of research and development? If one Internet year is equivalent to seven calendar years, are virtual worlds being utilized as an effective accelerator for these new ideas and their implementation and evaluation? The nature of digital media and its constituent parts such as electronic devices, sensors, images, audio, games, web pages, social media, e-books, and Internet of Things, provides a diverse environment which can be viewed as a testbed for current and future ideas. Individual disciplines utilise virtual worlds in different ways. As collaboration is often involved in such research environments, does the technology make these collaborations effective? Have the limits of disciplinary approaches been reached? The importance of interdisciplinary collaborations for the future is proposed and evaluated. The current enablers for progressing interdisciplinary collaborations are presented. The possibility for a new Renaissance between technology and the arts is discussed.

Improved estimation is a prerequisite for successful terminal guidance

2005 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Shinar ◽  
V Turetsky
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulations ◽  
Estimation Errors ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Target Acceleration ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Estimation System ◽  
Terminal Guidance

Successful interception of manoeuvring anti-surface missiles that are expected in the future can be achieved only if the estimation errors against manoeuvring targets can be minimized. The paper raises new ideas for an improved estimation concept by separating the tasks of the estimation system and by explicit use of the time-to-go in the process. The outcome of the new approach is illustrated by results of Monte Carlo simulations in generic interception scenarios. The results indicate that if an eventual ‘jump’ in the commanded target acceleration is detected sufficiently rapidly, small estimation errors and consequently precise guidance can be obtained.

Do we Worry about the Past and Grieve for the Future? Situated Anxiety or Depression, Mood Valence and Affective Time Travel, Separated by Experiment in a Questionnaire

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Psychometric Scales ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fear And Anxiety

Some psychologists have viewed sadness and depression as reactions to past loss, while regarding fear and anxiety as responses to future threat. Such assumptions conflict with common experience of gloom about the future and worry about the past. Recent research on these issues by experiment and/or by questionnaire remains inconclusive. The psychometric questionnaires purport to be situation-free and the laboratory experiments use artificial tasks; hence, neither approach addresses realities in the present, past or future. In recent psychometrics, the distinction between anxiety and depression has been dissolved into one category of negative affect. One widely used inventory for separating the two emotions conflates depression with the absence of a good mood. These deficiencies were addressed in a diverse convenience sample (N = 379) by running an experiment entirely within a questionnaire. Each of the 40 question items was a miniature vignette, describing a past or future emotive situation while in bad or good mood. Five categories of situation varied in proportion of threat to loss. Strength and valence of affective response were measured by degree of autobiographical assent to or dissent from an item. This inventory provides fully affect-balanced situation-oriented depression / anxiety scaling.Effect sizes from analysis of variance showed that anxiety arises from past as well as future threats, while depression is at least as strongly oriented to losses in the future as in the past. Variation in category of situation or in valence of mood also had substantial effects. It is concluded that worry and gloom travel freely across time and situations, whether present mood is bad or good. Both laboratory experiments and psychometric scales come closer to actual processes of emotion and motivation when they revivify familiar situations using valence-balanced verbal stimuli.

scholarly journals Creatividad e innovación: una destreza adquirible

10.14201/3165 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra María Pérez Alonso-geta
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Challenges

RESUMEN: ntendemos la creatividad como destreza adquirible, como un rasgo del que participan todos los seres humanos, aunque precise ser cultivada. La capacidad de ser creativo es una mezcla de conocimientos, actitudes y habilidades que se pueden conseguir mediante la práctica. Se trata de hacerse con nuevas ideas, saliendo de las rutas trazadas, por la experiencia para conseguir nuevos productos. Desde la escuela es necesario estimular la creatividad para poder afrontar los retos que hoy se plantean, en los distintos ámbitos de la realidad, dando solución a los nuevos problemas. Eeducar para la creatividad es una estrategia de futuro. Palabras clave: creatividad, innovación, educación, creencias, actitudes.ABSTRACT: This paper conceives creativity as an acquirable skill, as a trait shared by every human being. Hhowever, creativity must be developed: the ability of being creative is a blend of knowledge, attitude and skills that can only be learnt through practice. It is about having new ideas and departing from habitual pathways traced by everyday experience in order to obtain new outputs. It is essential to stimulate creativity in school in order to be able to handle efficiently today’s new challenges, which present themselves in different areas of our lives. Teaching creativity is therefore a strategy for the future. Key words: creativity, innovation, education, knowledge, attitude.SOMMAIRE: Nous définissons la créativité comme une habilité que l’on peut atteindre, comme un attribut auquel tous les êtres humains participent, même si elle a besoin d’être cultivée. La capacité d’être créatif est un mélange de connaissances, d’attitudes et d’habilités que l’on peut atteindre moyennant la pratique. Il s’agît de trouver des nouvelles idées, en sortant des chemins existants, à travers l’expérience afin d’obtenir de nouveaux produits. Dès l’école il est nécessaire de stimuler la créativité pour pouvoir affronter les défis actuels, dans les différents domaines de la réalité en apportant des solutions aux nouveaux problèmes. Eenseigner la créativité, c’est une stratégie pour l’avenir.

scholarly journals ANALISIS ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP DAN HAMBATAN PERTUMBUHAN USAHA DI UMKM PENGOLAHAN TAHU “RDS” SINGOSARI MALANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Aris Wahyu Tristanto ◽  
Ludi Wishnu Wardana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Leadership ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Collection Methods

This research was conducted to describe the entrepreneurial leadership of SMEs Tofu "RDS" and description about the obstacles experienced by SMEs Tofu "RDS". This research uses descriptive qualitative research design that aims to obtain the information available at this time, and then attempt to describe, record and interpret the information. Data collection methods used were interviews, observation and documentation. This type of qualitative research is case study. The result of the research is the condition of entrepreneurial leadership from the leadership of SMEs Tofu "RDS" is generally good because he is able to motivate employees well, have a picture of the future effort, able to read opportunities well, actively seeking new ideas, persistent in running their business And barriers faced by SMEs Tofu "RDS" can be overcome well by the leadership of SMEs Tofu RDS.

scholarly journals The Future of Peanut Agronomic Research - The Sky is Not the Limit

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1A) ◽  
pp. 99-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Tubbs
Keyword(s):  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Seeding Rate ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Education Society ◽  
Agronomic Management ◽  
Arachis Hypogaea L ◽  
The Future ◽  
Seed Placement ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Research And Education

ABSTRACT Many guidelines for agronomic management of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) are well-established when considered individually. However, crop productivity is typically driven by more than one variable and the interactions of multiple practices are not as easily derived. With an ever-changing availability of new cultivars with greater disease resistance, improved yield and/or grade potential, and varying growth characteristics, there is a steady need for agronomic research in both the immediate and distant futures. In some cases, traditional agronomic experimentation on variables such as rotations, tillage and land management, timing of planting, row pattern and spacing, seeding rate, irrigation, plant growth regulators, inoculant/biological products and fertilization need to be revisited every several years when a new cultivar becomes commercially relevant. This is especially true with differing climates and soil types in various growing regions. The effects of climate and weather along with pest pressure, pest management programs, and maturity characteristics of cultivars are also drawing the attention of peanut agronomists to improve predictability of optimum maturity. Yet, peanut agronomists are also attempting to adapt new ideas to assist with management decisions and increase revenue potential for growers to stay competitive in a very volatile commodity market domestically and with fluctuating export opportunities. The adoption of technologies such as GPS guidance, seed monitors, aerial imagery, and variable rate planting or spraying equipment are becoming more common to assist growers with better precision in planting and digging practices, ensuring proper seed placement, and assessing problematic areas in the field for site-specific in-season management decisions. So many excellent achievements have been made through the collaborations of scientists of the American Peanut Research and Education Society over the last 50 years, and there is no doubt that similar collaborations remain strong throughout the current membership to lead us into the future.

The Religion of the Future

1909 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Eliot
Keyword(s):  
Popular Education ◽  
Frequent Occurrence ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Scientific Doctrine

As students in this summer's School of Theology you have attended a series of lectures on fluctuations in religious interest, on the frequent occurrence of religious declines followed soon by recoveries or regenerations both within and without the churches, on the frequent attempts to bring the prevalent religious doctrines into harmony with new tendencies in the intellectual world, on the constant struggle between conservatism and liberalism in existing churches and between idealism and materialism in society at large, on the effects of popular education and the modern spirit of inquiry on religious doctrines and organizations, on the changed views of thinking people concerning the nature of the world and of man, on the increase of knowledge as affecting religion, and on the new ideas of God. You have also listened to lectures on psychotherapy, a new development of an ancient tendency to mix religion with medicine, and on the theory of evolution, a modern scientific doctrine which within fifty years has profoundly modified the religious conceptions and expectations of many thinking people. You have heard, too, how the new ideas of democracy and social progress have modified and ought to modify not only the actual work done by the churches, but the whole conception of the function of churches.

scholarly journals CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE FUTURE TEACHER OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (191) ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Snizhana Bohomaz-Nazarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Technological Education ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas

The article considers issues related to the concept of creativity, creative potential, creative abilities, creative process, recommendations for the development of creative potential of the future teacher of technology using methods, techniques and tools that generate new ideas for creativity. The analysis of methods of professional training of the modern specialist of educational branch is carried out. The necessity of using the competence approach which is aimed at training future teachers and consists in the acquisition and development of students during training a set of key, general and subject competencies that determine his successful professional activity. It is determined that in order to teach students creativity, the teacher must have a sufficient level of creative potential. Students majoring in "Technology", to a greater extent, have certain creative talents and abilities, motivation to learn new techniques and tools, and experience of creative activity, so the role of the teacher in practical classes to show new methods, techniques and means of creative activity, to expand the horizons of imagination and the limits of application of these methods in further professional activity, to prove to students the necessity and feasibility of developing their creative potential. In the educational field "Technology" (labor training) the use of the project method contributes to the formation of students' foundations of technological literacy, work culture, creative approach to solving tasks, learning different ways of processing materials and information. It is the use of non-standard methods of generating new ideas for creativity and activity at the first and especially the second stage (design) will give the greatest effect in the development of creative potential of future teachers of technological education. It is substantiated that the levels of creative preparation should not be used to assess the creative potential of students, but to take into account the teacher's opportunities for creative promotion of each student and a differentiated approach to using existing methods and techniques of involving students in the creative process.

scholarly journals CRITERIA AND INDICATORS OF METHODOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT OF LOGICAL THINKING OF STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (191) ◽  
pp. 120-123
Author(s):  
Lyubov Mykhaylenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
Mathematical Competence ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas

In the article we reveal the influence of methodical training of the future teacher of mathematics on the development of logical thinking of future teachers. We substantiate that the effectiveness of the development of logical thinking of students in mathematics lessons depends on the quality of methodological training of mathematics teachers in the free economic zone. Our experience in training future teachers of mathematics, allowed us to identify the criteria of methodological competence of mathematics teachers in the development of logical thinking of students: motivational, cognitive and activity; to characterize indicators of methodical competence of the teacher of mathematics in the course of development of logical thinking of pupils. We characterize the motivational criterion as the need of future mathematics teachers to master the methodological knowledge, skills and abilities for the development of logical thinking of students. The motivational criterion is revealed by the following indicators: professional orientation on the development of students' logical thinking; motivation for self-improvement in methodical activity. The cognitive criterion reflects the knowledge of future mathematics teachers of the logical component of students' mathematical competence. Indicators of the cognitive criterion of methodological competence of a mathematics teacher in the process of development of logical thinking of students are: completeness of theoretical knowledge of the logical component of mathematical competence of students; familiarity with the methods of developing students' logical thinking in mathematics lessons. The activity criterion shows the ability of future mathematics teachers to develop students 'logical thinking and involves mastery of methods for developing students' logical thinking. Indicators of the activity criterion of methodical competence of a mathematics teacher in the process of developing students' logical thinking are: the ability to use theoretical knowledge in practice; ability to develop the logical component of students' mathematical competence; the ability to generate new ideas aimed at improving the development of logical thinking of students. Selected criteria and indicators of methodological competence of mathematics teachers in the development of logical thinking of students reveal the importance of the ability to form a logical component of mathematical competence of students and determine the content of methodical activities of teachers in the development of logical thinking of students.

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