scholarly journals Haciendo historia para el bien común. Entrevista a Linda S. Levstik

Panta Rei ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 211-237
Author(s):  
Laura Arias Ferrer ◽  
Alejandro Egea Vivancos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Siglo Xx

Esta entrevista a Linda S. Levstik se convierte en un repaso a cómo han cambiado los modos de enseñar historia y las ciencias sociales en las últimas cuatro décadas. La Dra. Levstik ha sido una de las figuras claves en el área de didáctica de la historia a nivel internacional a lo largo de los últimos decenios. Sus libros Doing History y Teaching History for the Common God se han convertido en lectura obligada tanto en EE. UU. como en el resto del mundo. Desde comienzos de los años 80 del siglo XX y gracias a la influencia de varios de sus maestros abrió una vía de innovación en la manera de entender la enseñanza de la historia, especialmente en los más pequeños. A lo largo de las preguntas que forman el cuestionario, la entrevistada deja una perfecta síntesis de lo que ha sido su manera de entender esta disciplina. This interview with Linda S. Levstik serves as a review of the evolution of the history and social sciences teaching approaches during the last four decades. Dr. Levstik is one of the key international figures in the area of history teaching throughout the last decades. Her books Doing History and Teaching History for the Common Good have become required reading not only in the US but also in the rest of the world. Since the beginning of the 80s of the 20th century, and thanks to the influence of several of her teachers, she opened a path of innovative approaches in history teaching, with a special focus on the youngest. Throughout the questionnaire, the interviewee depicts a perfect synthesis of her career and her way of understanding this discipline throughout time.

What Theology Should and Should Not Learn from the Social Sciences About the Common Good

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Hirschfeld
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

There are two ways to answer the question, What can Catholic social thought learn from the social sciences about the common good? A more modern form of Catholic social thought, which primarily thinks of the common good in terms of the equitable distribution of goods like health, education, and opportunity, could benefit from the extensive literature in public policy, economics, and political science, which study the role of institutions and policies in generating desirable social outcomes. A second approach, rooted in pre-Machiavellian Catholic thought, would expand on this modern notion to include concerns about the way the culture shapes our understanding of what genuine human flourishing entails. On that account, the social sciences offer a valuable description of human life; but because they underestimate how human behavior is shaped by institutions, policies, and the discourse of social science itself, their insights need to be treated with caution.

Progressive Catholicism in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Society

American Catholicism has long adapted to US liberal institutions. Progressive Catholicism has taken the liberal values of democratic participation and human rights and made them central to its interpretation of Catholic social teaching. This chapter explores in detail the thought of David Hollenbach, S.J., a leading representative of progressive Catholicism. Hollenbach has proposed an ethical framework for an economy aimed at the common good, ensuring that the basic needs of all are met and that all are able to participate in economic life. The chapter also looks at the US Catholic bishops’ 1986 pastoral letter Economic Justice for All, which emphasizes similar themes while also promoting collaboration between the different sectors of American society for the sake of the common good.

Maß- und Gradfragen im Wirtschaftsrecht

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Academic Teaching ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Great Breadth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lasting Influence

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the liber discipulorum honors the great legal scholar and outstanding economist Wernhard Möschel. The volume takes the reader into the world of academic teaching, combines scientific insight with wisdom, pays tribute to the great breadth of the jubilarian's oeuvre through a variety of contributions on commercial law, and thus shows what great and lasting influence a scientist can have who persistently and undauntedly fights for the common good.

TRENDS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-422
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Pediatric Research ◽  
Great Effectiveness ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
Private Source ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Generous Contribution ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Institute

THE origins and initial operations of Playtex Park Research Institute in support of pediatric research were reported in this column a year and a half ago. When the Institute was founded by the International Latex Corporation it was described as "an experiment in industrial giving." The accomplishments of the Institute to date justify the faith that the sponsor and the governing board had in the concept that industry and medicine can work as a team for the common good with great effectiveness. The medical world is well aware of the ever present necessity for the private augmentation of the pitifully small existing funds for pediatric research. It is indeed fortunate that Playtex Park Research Institute is the beneficiary of its sponsor's realistic and farsighted approach to this need. In the short period of less than three years, the Institute has received almost $700,000.00 in commitments from the International Latex Corporation which is indeed a generous contribution to the advancement of pediatric knowledge. This has made the Institute's sponsor the largest private source of funds for pediatric research in the country, and possibly the world. The sponsor insists on taking no part in deciding how this money is spent. Reflecting these wishes, such jurisdiction is placed solely in the hands of the 25 physicians comprising the Institute's Board of Governors.

Theology through Eschatological Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Lear
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Theological Task

Abstract Daniela Augustine’s The Spirit and the Common Good is a preachable theology because it is story – the story of the coming kingdom made present by the Spirit’s outpouring on Pentecost. Her book finds a fruitful locus of theological reflection in the former Yugoslavia’s Third Balkan War, by which she confronts the protological narrative of human violence with the counternarrative of the Scriptures, the Spirit, and the glorious transformation at the end of the age. In order to put flesh on Christian hope in the contemporary contexts, Augustine turns to hagiographical stories in the former Yugoslavia. Hagiography is not without perils for the theological task, not least in that it can downplay the sinfulness of the saints’ lives. But, as in the practice of Pentecostal testimony, Augustine’s work gives glory to God, not humans for the work of God in the world.

Using Sources In History Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Seema S.Ojha
Keyword(s):  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Materials

History is constructed by people who study the past. It is created through working on both primary and secondary sources that historians use to learn about people, events, and everyday life in the past. Just like detectives, historians look at clues, sift through evidence, and make their own interpretations. Historical knowledge is, therefore, the outcome of a process of enquiry. During last century, the teaching of history has changed considerably. The use of sources, viz. textual, visual, and oral, in school classrooms in many parts of the world has already become an essential part of teaching history. However, in India, it is only a recent phenomenon. Introducing students to primary sources and making them a regular part of classroom lessons help students develop critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills. These will be useful throughout their lives. This paper highlights the benefits of using primary source materials in a history classroom and provides the teacher, with practical suggestions and examples of how to do this.

scholarly journals PARADIGMA PENDIDIKAN SEJARAH DALAM MENGHADAPI TANTANGAN MASA DEPAN

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suswandari Suswandari
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Teaching Paradigm

Abstract:  The History  Teaching  Paradigm  Facing  Future  Challenges.  Teaching history is an interesting topic to be discussed, especially when modern human life becomes more materialistic and pays almost no attention to moral values. History, and especially history teaching, as a part of social sciences becomes dry because it provides no financial benefits in the short run as in the case of other social sciences. However, history and history teaching play an important role in the existence of a nation with regard to moral values. By studying history everybody can understand better about himself or herself, his or her existence, and how  life always changes through experiences. History teaches people to be wise and not to repeat mistakes. Therefore, history teaching plays an important role in the existence of a nation. Keywords: paradigm, history teaching, future challenges

scholarly journals Educational Impact of Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (97) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Souza Bispo ◽  
Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Educational Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract To think about the impacts of academic research on education is to think dynamically: education affects the ways of doing research (from the point of view of formal education) and is affected by research results that are little predictable and perceived due to constant negotiations among social actors in their daily socializations in different contexts. Management education (formal, non-formal and informal) affects and is affected by conflicting views of the world, which are produced within the field of management itself and whose impact as “beneficial” is not just a matter oriented primarily by economic, instrumental and financial aspects, but also for a negotiated understanding of the world that moves towards the common good. All research must be concerned with its power to affect educational vision and practice, directly or indirectly. How can this concern become perennial and central to the practice of academic research?

Societal Change and Wisdom: Insights from the World after Covid Project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
Oliver Twardus ◽  
Michael E. W. Varnum ◽  
Eranda Jayawickreme ◽  
John McLevey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
The Common

How will the world change as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic? What can people do to best adapt to the societal changes ahead? To answer these questions, over the course of the summer-fall 2020 we launched the World After COVID Project, interviewing more than 50 of the world’s leading scholars in the behavioral and social sciences, including fellows of national academies and presidents of major scientific societies. Experts independently shared their thoughts on what effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on our societies and provided advice for successful response to new challenges and opportunities. Using mixed-method and natural language processing analyses, we distilled and analyzed these predictions and suggestions, observing a diversity of scenarios. Results also show that half of the experts approach their post-Covid predictions dialectically, highlighting both positive and negative features of the same prediction. Moreover, prosocial goals and meta-cognition—two chief tenants of the Common Wisdom model—were evident in their recommendations for how to cope with possible changes. The project provides a time capsule of experts’ predictions during major societal changes. We discuss implications for strengthening focus on prediction (vs. mere explanation) in psychological science as well as the value of uncertainty and dialecticism in forecasting.

"China's Chernobyl": COVID-19 Narratives of Collapse and Global Domination

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-706
Author(s):  
Barry Sautman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Biological Pollution ◽  
The Common ◽  
Wish Fulfillment ◽  
Party State

In COVID-19's first months, US politicians and media forecast that a contrast between Chinese deception and incapability and Western success against the pandemic might fatally sink internal confidence in China's party-state. They also predicted that it would diminish China externally, as it came to be seen as endangering the world by spreading biological pollution. A "China's Chernobyl" prediction became the latest "China collapse" wish-fulfillment. This speculation rests on two contradictory yet co-existing Yellow Peril tropes: "deceit and incompetence" and "world domination." However, no empirical basis exists for either notion: China prevailed against the pandemic and lacks the capacity for global hegemony. "China's Chernobyl" is most relevant then as a wish that creates a belief, that China should and could collapse. That in turn bolsters the US-led mobilization to counter China as a "strong competitor" and frames China as the common enemy, thereby promoting Western transnational and US internal cohesion.

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