Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack R. Baker ◽  
Jeffrey Bilbro ◽  
Wendell Berry
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Healthy Communities ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Title Character ◽  
The Way

An education for health begins by forming the imaginations and affections of students so that rather than desiring upward mobility, they can imagine healthy, placed lives. The introduction starts with a reading of Hannah Coulter, whose title character describes her fear that she has failed to tell the right stories to her children, thus inadvertently contributing to their desire for upward mobility at the cost of healthy communities. Because our affections have such far-reaching influence—shaping the questions we ask and the ways we arrange knowledge—Berry focuses on the conflicting internal desires termed “boomer” and “sticker” and how we should work to rightly order these desires. The contrast between boomers and stickers—the different desires they have, the different stories they tell, the different questions they ask, the different economies they participate in, and the contrasting models of the university they propose—elucidates the contrast between the educational system we have now and an education for health: the boomer wants to isolate knowledge from its origins in order to maximize its utility and profitability, whereas the sticker values a medieval, rooted kind of learning whose branches connect as much as possible. Thus, the way we organize and order knowledge stems from the kinds of questions we ask, which in turn arise from the orientation of our desires.

scholarly journals Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Caswell ◽  
Shelley Henson ◽  
Marion Jensen ◽  
David Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Universal Education ◽  
Reproduction Costs ◽  
Open Content ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Distance Educators

The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer.

Consent to sexual interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Japa Pallikkathayil
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Behavior ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting ◽  
Affirmative Consent ◽  
The Way

The way in which consent to sexual interactions is understood in the US is undergoing a transformation. Many universities, sometimes at the behest of lawmakers, are moving to adopt ‘affirmative consent’ policies, which define consent in terms of affirmative behavior that goes beyond mere silence or lack of resistance. Although these policies are a move in the right direction, I argue that their content has not been properly understood. In particular, the circumstances in which nonverbal behavior may communicate consent are more limited than might be apparent. And even though these circumstances can be abstractly identified, it is difficult to give people adequate guidance about when some of them obtain. Moreover, I argue that no matter how the allowance for nonverbal behavior is construed, affirmative consent policies unnecessarily prohibit interactions that people may have reason to engage in. I propose an alternative policy that remedies these problems with the affirmative consent policies that are currently being implemented. And I note that the justification for this alternative policy does not turn on any special features of the university setting. Instead, the account I give suggests grounds for reforming the law as well.

A Forum for Conscience

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
I. G. Whitchurch
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
Pivotal Point ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Intellectual Climate ◽  
The Way

In the Apology Socrates moves immediately to focus the issue: ‘Let the witness speak the truth and the judge decide with equity.’ Truthfulness is an implied claim in every kind of judgment we make, even as justice raises a norm for living at its best. These inseparables shadow our every decision within the knowing process. A scrupulous honesty in thinking is as necessary for the natural scientist as for the ethicist. That common necessity is too often slighted, but the cost is never reduced. In one way or another this kind of conscience identifies us all. Every caricature of it proportionately restricts the prime conditions for human advance. One of the commonest ways of distorting the situation is to confuse morals with morality, transient ideas about the right and the good with valid ethical principles. Both suneidēsis and conscio put descriptive conditions within a moral value-context as the pivotal point of experience. Here truthfulness sets conditions for weaving judgments together and a moral climate guarantees integrity in the product. If this idea has validity, the perennial problem concerns keeping the way open for a genuine forum on conscience in its efforts to epitomise the thinking process at its highest reach. At this point our intellectual climate contributes special difficulties.

Antennas Up! Laura Nader’s Undergraduate Lecture Courses as Public Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-231
Author(s):  
Erik Harms
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Nineteen Nineties ◽  
Public Anthropology ◽  
Vertical Slice ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The Right ◽  
Controlling Processes ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Abstract While teaching lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura Nader taught generations of students to raise their anthropological antennae. This article uses an autoethnographic approach to describe the author’s exposure to anthropology at Berkeley in the nineteen-nineties, gesturing towards the way undergraduate lecture courses play an important but largely underrecognized role in fostering public anthropology. Nader’s lecture courses were particularly effective at this because their focus on pushing students to question dogma and analyze controlling processes offered students a sense of how anthropology could foster critical public discourse. Nader stressed the importance of asking good questions designed to challenge assumptions, finding the right methods to answer those questions, and paying attention to pathways of power. While always questioning received wisdom, ideological assumptions, and Western categories of knowledge, Nader continued to stress the importance of developing straightforward, highly-accessible concepts that captured the attention of students—like Harmony Ideology, trustanoia, controlling processes, and the vertical slice.

A Science Like Any Other? Classical Legal Formalism in theHalakhicJurisprudence of Rabbis Isaac Jacob Reines and Moses Avigdor Amiel

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosef Lindell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Legal Formalism ◽  
The Law ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Nineteenth century jurists sought to make law a science like any other. They believed that the law was not an unprincipled mass of archaic and contradictory rules, nor an extinct body of Latin words that should be venerated in a church reliquary and seldom studied. Rather, they said that it was time for law to take its place in the university and to be dissected under the microscope of scientific analysis. It was by these methods that law's fundamental axioms would be uncovered—which would in turn explain the relationship of all its parts to the whole. And with the right set of principles, new data could be effortlessly incorporated into an ever-growing scientific taxonomy of the law.This mode of thinking dominated both European and American legal jurisprudence in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, although it went by different names. One fundamental thread ran throughout—the law was not unprincipled, but logical. It could be reasonably explained and rationally ordered. This paper demonstrates that Rabbis Isaac Jacob Reines and Moses Avigdor Amiel, two important Jewish thinkers living at the turn of the twentieth century, saw Jewish law, orhalakha, in the same light. Although Reines and Amiel may not have been directly influenced by secular jurisprudence, many of the elements of this classical legal science provide an interesting parallel to the answers these two thinkers gave to some of the oldest problems of Jewish law. Most notably, the way in which Reines and Amiel explained the connection between the Torah's oral and written components, as well as the way in which they asserted the internal coherence ofhalakhicjurisprudence, was similar to the legal formalism of their contemporaries.

scholarly journals An imaginary journey to an utopian anti-world (on the example of “The Tale of Luxurious Life and Fun”)

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Andreeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Way

The Tale of a Luxurious Life and Fun is a late composition of Old Russian literature, it includes some references to European sources (including Polish and Ancient Roman literature). Democratic literature of the 17th century offered the readers to get acquainted with other characters and plots: a person who is not distinguished by virtues becomes the main character of the story, which deals with staying in an amazing country of luxury and fun and the way to this country. With special care, the author draws a possible and desirable life of a hawk and a lazy person in a utopian world, but warns about the cost of staying in such an amazing place. Parodying the genre of walking known in Old Russia, in which the pilgrim was enriched spiritually, the writer tells about a new type of travel that devalues and depersonalizes a person, deprives him of the possibility of development. The absence of direct edifying and didactic digressions, however, does not deprive the text of depth: the hero is given the opportunity to choose, and he has the right to decide how to behave and which path to choose.

scholarly journals The website content as positioning strategy of the university in indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Amida Yusriana ◽  
Mutia Rahmi Pratiwi ◽  
Lisa Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Content Strategy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content ◽  
The Way

University of Indonesia is granted as the number one campus based on the Webometrics rank. It cannot be separated from the way University of Indonesia in building a strategic content for its website thus can fulfill the four points score indexes of webometrics such as Presence, Impact, Openness, and Excellence. Never theless the way the website serves the menu and information can build the right point of the scores. At the same time, Dian Nuswantoro University is granted as the 31st rank for the Webometrics index. Hence, by analyzing the website content of University of Indonesia, later it can be a guideline for Dian Nuswantoro University in developing a better content. This research uses the Positioning Strategy Theory. This is a descriptive quantitative research with a content analysis method. The results shows that the University of Indonesia uses the functional concept positioning strategy as its website content strategy.

Blockchaining Corporate Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Bulcao Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Corporate Education ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Multiple Skills

Michel Foucault wrote about education as a control system of the population. Roger Deacon is an Honorary Lecturer in education and Honorary Research Lecturer in politics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is researching the relevance and implications of the work of Michel Foucault for education. All his remarks lead to concerns about the idea of blockchain for corporate education, as the life of an individual may be registered from the very beginning throughout the whole educational system. As choices, even computer-driven ones, are biased, chances of exclusion are higher than the opposite. Even the peer-to-peer system, designed to give people a chance to be fairly evaluated, with a blockchain system may be circumvented. In this scenario, how should one think about corporate education? Would it be an opportunity to reframe an individual with the right skills, or simply a way to build a uniform brigade? Maybe the multiple skills of collective games could indicate the need for multiple intelligences in order to keep a corporate performing well.

scholarly journals Decision Making Using Multicriteria Analysis: A Case Study of Decision Modeling Career in Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos ◽  
Kostas Karamanis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Multicriteria Method ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

The aim of this paper is to offer an applicable evaluation framework relating to the right choice of one’s profession via his/her studies. The first part of the paper consists of the basic principles of Multicriteria Decision Making. To begin with, the paper initially focuses on the Macbeth Method. This helps to provide a perspective for procedural types of decisions in which various qualitative and quantitative aspects are incorporated. In the second part of the paper, the above-mentioned multicriteria method is applied to a “real-world” case concerning a specific case of a student, Eva. For this specific study, it is concluded that the factors of greatest importance that lead to choosing the University Eva finally chose, were four: the cost of undergraduate studies, the reputation-status of the University, its logistics and infrastructure and its interconnections with other Universities and other Academic Institutions.

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