Humanization in Educational Environments; Aspects Necessary for Living in School Today

While it is true, quality has always been measured through statistics and percentages, often forgetting the training of the whole person.Now, when we talk about issues such as humanism and education supported by technology, we can fall into extremes: it is common to label technology as the provider of all the evils of today’s civilization; or the opposite assumption; to argue that incorporating technologies into education would be the panacea for all the problems it faces and finally, to assume that the subject of the humanities is more typical of actions and attitudes of the past than as a current need, giving vitality to any educational process. However, and fortunately for the educational community, today there are global efforts to make the educational task a human action that minimizes inequities and the abysmal differences that exist in countries like ours. Fernando Reimers says: “Equal educational opportunities must be the priority objective of educational policies, the aim of education must be to contribute to creating just societies. This requires improving the learning environments of the poor, but not only along the paths that have been started over the last decade. This aspect pointed out by Reimers is precisely the central aspect that all educational action must contemplate, the educational policies that are implemented in our country must guarantee, above all, the construction of a just and egalitarian society, strengthening the cultural wealth that we have, with respect to to the diversity of people, their past, their present and especially their future”.

Voices for egalitarian society

Periyar E. V. Ramasami Naicker is a social reformer far ahead of his times in Tamil Nadu. He wanted men and women to live with dignity and have equal opportunity to develop their faculties. To secure this, he was against all types of discrimination and advocated social justice and a rational outlook. His voices are echoed for an egalitarian and casteless society where equality of status of all the people including women is ensured. Dravidians are inspired by him, and they emulate his courage, which came not from bravery but from a deep commitment to Self-Respect, which gained Periyar the world’s adulation.

Advertising and/ Is Educating

The objective of this article is to discuss how gender narratives have been used in the field of advertising, seeking to understand the textual and imagery aesthetics involved in them and how they would act in the process of educating consumers on the issue. Communication and education are "volatile" fields of study, with seasonality and changing conceptualizations; thus, each new analysis represents not a theoretical objectivism based on the search for truth, but rather an addition, to the market and to the world, of a new way of thinking, understanding, and above all, transmitting messages. With this in mind and to support the theoretical discussion undertaken, two case studies of advertising campaigns were conducted, one of them international, of L'Oreal and the other, national of Avon brand, both using neutral language, in order to understand how and with what results the commitment to use this type of language acts in consumers’ ways of thinking and acting towards a more inclusive and egalitarian society.

Pemikiran Fazlur Rahman Mengenai Politik Islam

Fazlur Rahman is a thinker of Islamic neo-modernism who wants to actualize the teachings of Islam in a unified and solid framework, where one aspect and the other are interrelated. Through this approach, he wants the Qur'an to be understood in an integral and total way, so that things that are considered contradictory no longer exist. This effort is his obsession so that humans can capture the messages of the Qur'an holistically. Departing from his concern for the global problems facing Muslims, he offers a solution that is grounded in the differences between normative Islam and historical Islam. From this distinction, Fazlur Rahman conducted a comprehensive reconstruction of Islamic scholarship. The reconstruction he did refers to the original and definite Islam. For this reason, he suggested that the Qur'an as the main source of Islam needs to be interpreted as a whole and not to interpret it fragmentarism (paragraph verses), namely an interpretation that is able to understand the Qur'an as a whole, so that the theological, legal, political aspects and ethics in the teachings of the Qur'an into a unified whole. Fazlur Rahman argues that the purpose of the Qur'an is to establish an ethical and egalitarian society. So, Islamic society is formed because of Islamic ideology. The ideal condition of the Islamic social order is "which calls for good and prevents evil". This is in order to realize the implementation of politics based on Islamic ideology which cannot be separated from the Qur'an and Sunnah.

Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations

Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connected and resourced, the discipline – standing apart from the British and American centres of anthropology – is well placed to offer critical reflection. In this book, an inclusive cast, from PhDs to professors, debate the complexities of anthropology as practised in Norway today and in the past. Norwegian anthropologists have long made public engagement a priority – whether Carl Lumholz collecting for museums from 1880; activists protesting with the Sámi in 1980; or in numerous recent contributions to international development. Contributors explore the challenges of remaining socially relevant, of working in an egalitarian society that de-emphasizes difference, and of changing relations to the state, in the context of a turn against multi-culturalism. It is perhaps above all a commitment to time-consuming, long-term fieldwork that provides a shared sense of identity for this admirably diverse discipline.

Democracy, Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Beholden to Constituent Power

<p>Democratic government serves two purposes, both requiring that the substantive element of the rule of law be adhered to. A living constitution is required by a government to able to maintain civil society, which is the main occupation of the rule of law and, secondly, the rule of law also vouchsafes rights and freedoms. Hence, the rule of law enforced by the courts is the factor that controls the constitution, and increasingly this includes controlling the government, both the legislature and executive. This paper considers the capacities of democracy, constitutionalism and the rule of law, in the context of both New Zealand’s unwritten and America’s written constitutions, with the view of locating the constitution making power (constituent power). The power that makes and changes the constitution was originally found with the people, parliament, and the executive. However, a modern formulation of the rule of law that seeks to replace parliamentary supremacy as the ultimate principle of legality appears to be arising. An egalitarian society is becoming the preferred option by all parties. In this context, the constitution making power will be with the vessel that is working towards creating such a society. To that end, the paper recommends a Constitutional Commission for New Zealand that would review legislation for constitutionality, including adherence to the rule of law. The objective of the Constitutional Commission would be to recommend the review of law for constitutionality, including adherence to the rule of law.</p>

Democracy, Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Beholden to Constituent Power

<p>Democratic government serves two purposes, both requiring that the substantive element of the rule of law be adhered to. A living constitution is required by a government to able to maintain civil society, which is the main occupation of the rule of law and, secondly, the rule of law also vouchsafes rights and freedoms. Hence, the rule of law enforced by the courts is the factor that controls the constitution, and increasingly this includes controlling the government, both the legislature and executive. This paper considers the capacities of democracy, constitutionalism and the rule of law, in the context of both New Zealand’s unwritten and America’s written constitutions, with the view of locating the constitution making power (constituent power). The power that makes and changes the constitution was originally found with the people, parliament, and the executive. However, a modern formulation of the rule of law that seeks to replace parliamentary supremacy as the ultimate principle of legality appears to be arising. An egalitarian society is becoming the preferred option by all parties. In this context, the constitution making power will be with the vessel that is working towards creating such a society. To that end, the paper recommends a Constitutional Commission for New Zealand that would review legislation for constitutionality, including adherence to the rule of law. The objective of the Constitutional Commission would be to recommend the review of law for constitutionality, including adherence to the rule of law.</p>

GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IN NIGERIA.

The paper investigates the problem of graduate unemployment and its underlying effects on the Nigerian economy vis-à-vis the role of educational planners. It emphasizes that graduate unemployment represents colossal waste in human capital development. The paper outlined some causes of graduate unemployment to include incongruity between the number of graduates and the existing job opportunities, obsolete curriculum, vocational and technical education not inbred in the university, and a poor foundation for entrepreneurship. The paper outlined some consequences of unemployment and presents entrepreneurship education as a panacea to unemployment. The paper noted some strategies required by educational planners to cater for those in the labour market. Some employable skills required at the labour market were also revealed. The paper recommends a commitment to intellectual and attitudinal empowerment through educational planning to engender tenacious self-reliance and egalitarian society in the long run. It also recommends developing a more practical-based programme and prioritizing curriculum reform amongst others to enhance job creation that will promote graduate employability at the Labour market.

Palaeo or Neo? Bataille, Lévi-Strauss and the Rewriting of Prehistory

This article's polemical thrust begins with Georges Bataille's 1956 critique of Tristes Tropiques, where Lévi-Strauss omits the Palaeolithic while extolling the Neolithic advent of agriculture and sedentism. Whereas Lévi-Strauss describes his own thinking as Neolithic, he characterizes it in ways that resemble the behaviour of hunter-gatherers and nomads. I trace this contradiction to current scholarship willing to challenge the long-standing narrative bias that either ignores the Palaeolithic and/or derides it in favour of the Neolithic, now subject to refutations of its alleged advantages. Further theoretical backbone is provided by Ibn Khaldun and Bataille on the centrality of luxury. Thus, Palaeolithic cave art's social dimension as the expression of a privileged few is contrasted with the view of scholars who see it as the product of an egalitarian society indifferent to material gain. Bataille remains a key reference due to his exceptional commitment to prehistory, a relatively underexploited facet of his work.