Cartographic Transfers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
School System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Social Consequence ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
Domestic Lives ◽  
Pedagogic Theory

Before maps arrived in American homes, their social life was regulated by institutional agendas set by government agencies as well as voluntary associations. But, as this chapter shows, the path that led small, ambulatory maps into the domestic lives of ordinary citizens most frequently was created and maintained by the nation’s emerging school system. After the Revolution, an educational consumer demand, spurred by the introduction of the monitorial teaching method and homework assignments in primary and secondary education, was responsible for turning plain, conventional maps into formative experiences of lasting cognitive and social consequence. Examining the synergetic relationship between “mappery,” a form of cartographic instruction, and the emerging pedagogic theory of “object teaching,” the final chapter delineates how educators established maps as a powerful social media, linking schools and homes, elementary education and adult learning, cognitive theories and communal socialization, including the creation of a map-based national imagination.

Mental Retardation and Learning Integrating Skills

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Murdaca ◽  
Francesca Cuzzocrea ◽  
Patrizia Oliva ◽  
Rosalba Larcan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Precision Teaching ◽  
Training Phase ◽  
Disabled Patients

Studies have highlighted the importance of using new technologies during the planning of educational and didactic paths to develop skills and functions in disabled patients (Bruschi, 2001). Assistive technologies represent real opportunities of e-participation to social life (Calvani, 2011; Chiappetta Caiola, 2009), which also works as scaffolding to promote developing processes (Cooke & Husey, 2002). The authors’ contribution examines the importance of technologies in supporting subjects with mental retardation. It shows the usability of many inputs that offer disabled patients the possibility to exercise cognitive styles, their own characteristics and their own autonomies to increase motivation and self esteem. The aims of this research are a) verify the effectiveness of didactic software based on Precision Teaching method; b) verify gender differences. For this study 40 children have been selected (20 boys and 20 girls) with and without mental retardation. The research consisted of 3 phases: pre-training phase, training phase and post-training phase. Results show learning improvements in each group; in spite of students’ difficulties, the use of Precision Teaching has reduced significantly the initial cognitive gap, which refers to the number of correct responses (accuracy) and to time of response (fluency) relative to the learning of how to use money.

Introduction

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Lamberti
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
School System ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
School Law ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
Church Affiliation

This study of the elementary school in Prussia began with the question of why the largest state in the German Empire, which had a government that was preoccupied with social and national integration and a political culture that was deeply affected by the ideology of nationalism, had a public elementary school system that served to reinforce religious particularism through its confessionally divided organization and its confessionally oriented textbooks and instruction. Confessional schooling remained the predominant form of elementary education for Catholics and Protestants in the Prussian state throughout the nineteenth century despite the changes that came in the wake of national unification, industrialization, and urbanization. Neither the secular school nor the interconfessional school providing a common educational experience for all children without distinction as to church affiliation ever took hold. The interconfessional school (the so-called Simultanschule), in which the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant religions were taught to the pupils of each faith in separate classes as one subject in an otherwise religiously neutral curriculum, was the pedagogic ideal of a large number of schoolteachers in Prussia. They saw it as a means of diminishing church influence in the schools as well as promoting tolerance and social harmony in a confessionally segmented nation. When a school law was enacted in 1906 after more than fifty years of political controversy over the school question and abortive school bills, it categorized the interconfessional school as the exception to the rule. A legal seal was put on the prevailing practice of having children and teachers of one and the same faith in a school. Although the confessional public school under the supervision of school inspectors who were clergy by vocation appeared to the schoolteachers to be an anachronism in a modern society, it survived the revolution of 1918 and the efforts of the Socialists to abolish the instruction of religion in the schools. In the Weimar Republic the Social Democrats did not succeed in establishing a secular school system for the entire nation, and no more successful were the German Democrats who sought to make the interconfessional school the only legally valid norm.

Conclusions and Implications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Implications

This final chapter summarizes the main propositions and concludes that punishment originates from moral emotions, stimulates and sustains cooperation, and shapes the social life of humans both within and between groups. Punishment hence is a hardwired moral instinct that evolved to stimulate cooperation in small groups. The remainder of the chapter discusses the practical implications of these insights for public policy, courts of law, organizations, schools, sports, and any other setting that requires punishment to stimulate cooperation. The main implications are (1) when punishing, fairness is more successful than severity in establishing cooperation; (2) for punishment to be effective, one should discourage big egos and personal vendettas, and leave punishment up to independent third parties; (3) punishment is most effective if combined with restorative justice; and (4) one should try to avoid inter-group bias by relying on reason instead of emotions when assigning punishment.

Modern Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iftekhar Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Independent State ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Political Economic

Bangladesh is a relatively young state with an agile political heart. Its emergence in 1971 as an independent state accompanied the familiar elements of modern polities, as reflected in the major principles of its first constitution: nationalism, secularism, democracy, and socialism (in the sense of social justice). Yet a prehistory and posthistory of the birth of Bangladesh are replete with contestations, tensions, and quests for new meanings for these categories, providing intriguing windows to the challenges and opportunities facing governance, ideologies, and public life in the country. In the modern period, between the transition to British colonial rule and present times, Bangladesh (part of Bengal until 1947 and East Pakistan until 1971) has been shaped and reshaped by several interrelated historical developments. The idea of nationhood was not a linear one thriving on a certain space, religion, or ethnicity at a given moment, the constant thread of collective national imagination being the desire for economic emancipation from a British colonial system and protracted military rule in Pakistan. But the poverty and deprivation that continued after the independence raised questions about the perception of the postcolonial state as the sole liberator. Since the 1990s, although inequality and poverty have remained constant, Bangladesh has seen remarkable economic growth and a relatively better human-development index, making it a potent partner in the recent spell of Asian economic growth. Democracy and citizenship, however, have remained the weakest link, occasionally leading to military rule or dictated democracy. Amid all visible ups and downs in its political, economic, and social life, Bangladesh remains a vibrant nation-space in the increasingly interconnected modern world.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the English Language Preparedness of College Freshman Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Fengyi Ma
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
School Facilities ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Freshman Students ◽  
The Government

This study determined the factor that affects the level of preparedness in the English language of the College of Education (COED) freshman students majoring in Elementary Education. Eighty (80) students were chosen as the participants of this study. A survey questionnaire was used to explore the students' opinions by considering six factors that may have affected their preparedness in English: Prior knowledge of the second language of learners, students' motivation, learning styles of students, instructional methods of teachers, classroom setting, and school amenities. The findings revealed that the classroom environment and the classroom and school facilities affected their preparedness. Moreover, the teacher's availability of learning materials, teaching method, and student's motivation were also additional factors that affected them. The results imply that the government should do its best to provide these students with facilities and more learning materials. As a result, the English I course teachers should consider all these when teaching English to enhance their preparedness.

scholarly journals An innovative training study on music therapy teaching methods for autism disorder (ASD)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Heping QIN ◽  
Bei TU
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Communication Disorders ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Practice has found that music and therapeutics have become more and more closely related in recent years. Music can assist in the treatment of certain diseases and relieve stress. For example, people with autism have common symptoms such as social communication disorders, communication disorders, and interest disorders. Although patients live in their own worlds, they also have common ground where they like music is interested in music, and have a strong talent for music. Through innovative training through music therapy, they use Orff's teaching and Kodaly. The expression of music language in teaching method, combining music with treatment, can effectively improve symptoms, relieve mood, relax mood, and slowly return to healthy social life. Under the influence of the novel coronavirus epidemic, music therapy is more suitable for home treatment, establishing a social communication relationship between autism patients and families. Through consulting literature, practical activities, visits, surveys and other practical modes, this paper innovates and trains and studies the benefits of music therapy for people with autism, and puts forward reference suggestions for music therapy.

The community today and its recent history

2019 ◽  
pp. 311-332
Author(s):  
Derek Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Diverse Range

The final chapter falls into two parts, a survey of developments in the second half of the twentieth century and some final thoughts analysing the key themes of the book as a whole. Social mobility, economic success and residential concentration are notable characteristics of the modern community. Divisions persisted and one of the aims of the Jewish Representative Council was to speak for the diverse range of opinion, from the liberal Sinai Synagogue to the ultra-orthodox Lubavitch supporters. Much is made of the achievement of integration without assimilation and the penetration of the professions is highlighted. The case of Arnold Ziff is cited as a prime example of a major contribution to the economic and social life of Leeds, including benefactions to a range of causes, while retaining a committed Jewish identity.

We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Nation Branding ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
The 1960S

Et lille land’ - a little land - is a trope of Danish identity which recurs in many of the short informational films about Denmark made from the 1930s to the 1960s. This chapter outlines why the notion of Denmark as a small country has historically been fundamental to the nation’s self-understanding as an imagined community, and how and why it has been employed in informational films made for domestic and foreign consumption. The chapter discusses the role of film in the national imagination, and the importance of medium-specific qualities in that process of imagining: for the purposes of this book, such qualities include the films’ shortness, which impacts on narrative as well as distribution and exhibition. The chapter then discusses recent scholarship on ‘small-nation’ cinema, especially in the Nordic region, and the place of informational filmmaking within the small-nation context. A final chapter section outlines a further body of scholarship on cultural diplomacy, soft power, and nation-branding in the Nordic region as a framework for understanding how images (including informational films) move across borders and re-negotiate auto- and xenostereotypes.

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