2. The Past, the Present, and the Future Prospects

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-71
Keyword(s):  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The Death of Human Capital?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown ◽  
Hugh Lauder ◽  
Sin Yi Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Human Capital Theory ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Smart Machines

Human capital theory, the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. This book describes the development of human capital theory and why it has turned into a failed revolution. It outlines an alternative theory that re-defines human capital in an age of smart machines. The new human capital rejects the view that automation and AI will result in the end of waged work, but sees the fundamental problem as a lack of quality jobs offering interesting, worthwhile and rewarding opportunities. At stake in the new human capital are the future prospects for individual wellbeing in productive, sustainable and inclusive societies. It also connects with a growing sense that capitalism is in crisis, felt by students and the wider workforce, in offering a sober assessment of current realities at the same time as a sense of hope for the future.

Fuzzy Inference: Its Past and Prospects

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko Uehara ◽  
◽  
Kaoru Hirota ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Current Direction ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Inference Methods ◽  
A Current

Fuzzy inference in the past and its future prospects are described to further promote research in the field: First, the basic methods of fuzzy inference are introduced. Then, the progress of fuzzy inference is reviewed, showing its remarkable achievements, especially in industries. A consideration of fuzzy inference is presented from operational viewpoints. It provides a key to creating fuzzy-inference methods in the future. The growing research area of fuzzy inference is also introduced in order to discuss a current direction, reflecting the consideration mentioned above. Moreover, some future prospects on fuzzy inference are presented, which are expected to stimulate research.

Fifty years of Methodist–Roman Catholic dialogue

Holiness ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
David M. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Level ◽  
Roman Catholics

AbstractThis article examines the origins and development of bilateral theological dialogue between Methodists and Roman Catholics at a world level since it commenced in 1967 as a result of the Second Vatican Council. In taking stock of the dialogue, consideration is given to what has been achieved in successive phases during the past fifty years. A number of theological issues are identified as requiring further dialogue. The article concludes by outlining the present agenda of the international Methodist–Roman Catholic dialogue commission and briefly considering the future prospects for theological dialogue at a world level in the context of contemporary ecumenism.

The past, present and future of the Pite Saami language: Sociological factors and revitalization efforts

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-329
Author(s):  
Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi ◽  
Joshua Wilbur
Keyword(s):  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vitality Scale

Our paper is a report on the past, current and future state of the endangered Pite Saami language (aka: Arjeplog Saami) spoken in Swedish Lapland. Our primary data come from interviews with Pite Saami individuals and our field observations. We estimate the vitality of Pite Saami based on the UNESCO Language Vitality Scale, taking into consideration factors such as the number of speakers, language attitudes and the quality of documentation. We also discuss the possible reasons for the decline of Pite Saami, report on the speakers’ views of other Saami languages and Swedish, consider whether there is a specific Pite Saami identity, describe revitalization efforts already taking place, and discuss the future prospects of the language.

REBELLIOUS YOUTH IN COLONIAL AFRICA

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD WALLER
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Gendered Expectations

‘That rebellious youth’ alarmed colonial authorities and elders alike is increasingly an issue for historians. This article surveys the issue as an introduction to the two studies that follow. It considers both the creation of images of youthful defiance as part of a debate about youth conducted largely by their seniors and the real predicaments faced by young people themselves. Concern revolved around the meanings of maturity in a changing world where models of responsible male and female adulthood, gendered expectations and future prospects were all in flux. Surviving the present and facing the future made elders anxious and divided as well as united the young. The article concludes by suggesting a number of areas, including leisure and politics, where the voice of youth might be more clearly heard, and proposes comparisons – with the past, between racial groups and between ‘town’ and ‘country’ – that link the varied experiences of the young.

scholarly journals Labour-market conditions of the youth in the Derecske-Létavértes sub region

2013 ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Fanni Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Researches of the youth have been of great interest in social studies in the past decades, since up-coming generations provide supplies for the future, they are the so-called next generation. The problem of the young being afflicted by unemployment is more and more apparent, and not only in Hungary; moreover, in smaller, underprivileged settlements it is even more on the increase. Considering conditions of the youth in the labour-market, we can gain a valuable insight in their lifes as well as their opportunities and future prospects.

scholarly journals Íslenzkt þjóðerni: Jón Jónsson Aðils’ Iceland and the road to the future

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Kim Middel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

Abstract In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by profiling Iceland as a fully-fledged nation. The Icelandic historian Jón Jónsson Aðils was the man who would shape Iceland’s history, and the nation with it, in his work Icelandic Nationhood. His achievement was not self-evident; Iceland was part of the Danish realm and glorifying the past met with restrictions. This paper aims to illustrate how in this setting Aðils succeeded in constructing the Icelandic nation with the aid of existing Danish nationalist thought. I propose that using ideas of the famous Danish nationalist N.F.S. Grundtvig enabled Aðils to construct an Icelandic ’Golden Age’ specifically focused on culture and freedom that held future prospects. Finally, I will discuss the consequence of this focus as a decisive factor in the development of Icelandic self-awareness, aiming to contribute to the larger debate on the creation of national identities.

Three major handbooks in three years: Stylistics as a mature discipline

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Sorlin
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Do So

This review article brings to the fore what the publication of three handbooks in major publishing houses in the past three years ( The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics, The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics and The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics) can reveal about the state of stylistics in 2016. After depicting the specific character of each volume, the article highlights the way old theoretical models in stylistics are re-exploited in innovative ways and gives prominence to new theories and perspectives that have developed rigorous methodologies and proper purposes. It also makes apparent how the volumes both explicitly and implicitly perceive the field of stylistics as regards its scope and frontiers, the extent of its corpora and its relation with other close disciplines. If it inherently welcomes interdisciplinary collaborations, it yet seems to do so without adulterating its primary concern for language. The three handbooks show that stylistics has entered its prime as a discipline. Yet although it has become a self-assured field, it remains uncompromisingly open to criticism and debate as reflected in some chapters. The last sub-section is devoted to the future prospects of stylistics in terms of the promising research paths the discipline is currently taking.

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