Pack for Sustainability: Navigating through Uncharted Educational Landscapes

The worlds of education and learning have for the last few decades been characterized by reactions to the detrimental human impact on the environment, which is measured on such a scale that scholars now refer to the present epoch as the Anthropocene. In order to develop ideas and practices that could guide us into place-based research and an emancipatory relationship between pedagogy and knowledge, the focus needs to shift from what to teach and why (Knowledge and Curriculum) and concern over how learning is evaluated (Assessment) to how we should teach (Pedagogy). The acronym PACK (Pedagogy, Assessment, Curriculum, and Knowledge) turned into the idea of packing for a trip into uncharted educational territory, taking with us several gadgets that might be useful. Our own journey emerged as a dialogue between a philosopher and a science educator. Building on experiences from global work to regional research and a university chairmanship for sustainability, we tried to pack some big ideas for educators to take along, helping them navigate the educational landscapes ahead.

Justice Model in Latin American Folklore

The present epoch is the time of intense international communication. Effective interaction of ethnicities demands, however, to construct the dialogue of cultures on the basis of justice. Moreover, we argue that local justice models need to take priority over the international justice model. Local justice models are reflected in folklore. In this article, we analyze Colombian, Peruvian, Venezuelan, and Bolivian ethnic tales of justice. The purpose of our research is to reveal and systematize justice models in Latin American folklore including contextual, general, private, evolutionary, demographic, historical, divine, ecological, restorative, formal, selective, procedural, and other justice models.

Revisiting the role of CP-conserving processes in cosmological particle–antiparticle asymmetries

We point out qualitatively different possibilities on the role of CP-conserving processes in generating cosmological particle–antiparticle asymmetries, with illustrative examples from models in leptogenesis and asymmetric dark matter production. In particular, we consider scenarios in which the CP-violating and CP-conserving processes are either both decays or both scatterings, thereby being naturally of comparable rates. This is in contrast to the previously considered CP-conserving processes in models of leptogenesis in different see-saw mechanisms, in which the CP-conserving scatterings typically have lower rates compared to the CP-violating decays, due to a Boltzmann suppression. We further point out that the CP-conserving processes can play a dual role if the asymmetry is generated in the mother sector itself, in contrast to the conventional scenarios in which it is generated in the daughter sector. This is because, the CP-conserving processes initially suppress the asymmetry generation by controlling the out-of-equilibrium number densities of the bath particles, but subsequently modify the ratio of particle antiparticle yields at the present epoch by eliminating the symmetric component of the bath particles through pair-annihilations, leading to a competing effect stemming from the same process at different epochs. We find that the asymmetric yields for relevant particle–antiparticle systems can vary by orders of magnitude depending upon the relative size of the CP-conserving and violating reaction rates.

A decolonial legal method

A survey of the burgeoning body of scholarship on decolonising education in South Africa leaves one with the impression that this is an area of scholarship that is yet to mature, particularly due to the rarity with which its scholars engage in self-conscious reflections on their methods. The article addresses this in two ways. The second part of the article theorises generally about an appropriate method of decolonising the discipline of law. The proposed method rests on four conditions: (1) standpoint (with whom is one in conversation in broader debates about decolonial education?); (2) historicity (what particular aspects of a specified branch of law were inherited from colonial Europe and with which other African countries does South Africa have this in common?); (3) evaluative/critical (what is problematic about the identified colonial inheritances for the present epoch?); (4) remedial (what changes are proposed towards the development of the branch of law concerned, and the discipline as a whole?). The third part then proceeds to illustrate how to apply this method towards decolonising evidence scholarship in Africa. Ultimately, it is argued that the political legitimacy of African criminal process remains endangered by the colonial inheritances that currently are embedded in the law of evidence.

On the Birth of Economic Science During the Italian-Scottish Enlightenment: Two Paradigms Compared

The essay pursues a double aim. On the one hand, it offers a comparative analysis of the two main economic paradigms of the Enlightment period, i.e. the political economy one, associated with the name of Adam Smith, and thecivil economy one, associated to the name of Antonio Genovesi. On the other hand, it gives reasons why, in the last quarter of a century, the civil economy paradigm is gaining more and more grounds. The paper ends up with some considerations on the major drawbacks of libertarian individualism in the present epoch.

Systematic Use and Structural-Semantic Changes of Language Units in Modern Communicative Practices

The article is devoted to analysis of the functioning and evolution of the lexical units. The language using is expanding and sum total of speaking and understanding in present epoch of society life. In motion of language society communication the continual comparison and mutual likening of the individual lexicons is happening. The semantics and structural characteristics of the words are analyzed. The words which begin to be used with other meanings are identified. There is reinterpreting and rethinking of the words on the basis of an oblivion or ignorance of the codified meanings. The frequency of the transformed significance facts increases in every-day speech. There aren`t the synonyms of the certain concepts. Such forming uses are the doubles of existing words. The language is characterized by the degrees of spreading and massiveness new phenomena and the belonging to communicative need of language society.

The Existence and Effect of Dark Energy Redshift on Cosmological Age

A derivation of Cosmological Age explicitly constrained by Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is presented, demonstrating that the correct value of Cosmological Age is equal to the Hubble Age. It is shown that utilizing “z = 0” for Cosmological Redshift in the Present Epoch introduces a fundamental flaw into Cosmological Age calculations. However, this flaw is captured and corrected by the Polarizable-Vacuum (PV) Model of Gravity developed by Puthoff, suggesting that the Dark Energy Field exists as a massive photonic field. Consequently, it is demonstrated that for a Dark Energy Driven description of Accelerated Cosmological Expansion, Cosmological Redshift takes a negative value in the Present Epoch.