A School That Forms? A Look at the Years of the Communist Regime and the Present

Abstract Based on personal experience of students and use of archives, the study shows how totalitarian ideology of communist regime influenced students and aimed at socialization of villages - collectivization. Real examples imply various questions in relation to the past and the future: How should teachers influence students nowadays? Should history classes focus on historical facts, or should they form students and their values?

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Memory and the Cityscape: The German Architectural Debate about Postmodernism

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/104503099782486833 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 71-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Third Reich ◽

Nazi Regime ◽

National Community ◽

The Third ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

The Third Reich ◽

The Way ◽

At Home

Few tools of Nazi propaganda were as potent or as permanent asarchitecture. At the instigation of Hitler, who had once aspired to bean architect, the Nazi regime placed unusual importance on thedesign of environments—whether cities, buildings, parade grounds, orhighways—that would glorify the Third Reich and express its dynamicrelationship to both the past and the future. Architecture and urbandesign were integral to the way the regime presented itself at homeand abroad. Newsreels supplemented direct personal experience ofmonumental buildings. Designed to last a thousand years, these edificesappeared to offer concrete testimony of the regime’s enduringcharacter. A more subtle integration of modern functions and vernacularforms, especially in suburban housing, suggested that technologicalprogress could coexist with an “organic” national communityrooted in a quasi-sacred understanding of the landscape.

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Celoživotní cesta k roli babičky. Počáteční faktory utvářející individuální pojetí role babičky

Sociální studia / Social Studies ◽

10.5817/soc2021-15698 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Tereza Čepilová

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Family Factors ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Women's Lives

Several factors that influence playing the role of grandparent are described in the scientific literature. Basically, these factors contribute to forming the grandparent’s role at the time when the role is played. This article takes a different approach to the topic. It considers factors shaping the grandparent’s role in the past, not in the present. Consistent with this approach, the article deals with family factors that contribute to the shaping of the grandmother’s role. The aim of this article is to answer the question: among the interviewed women, what roles do the figures of grandmothers play in shaping conceptions of the role of grandmother? For this purpose, interviews conducted with eight women who had personal experience with the role of grandmother were analyzed. The article identifies two family factors mentioned in the grandmothers’ narratives: upbringing and grandmothers’ patterns. These factors were the first to shape individual conceptions of the future grandmother’s role. In the women’s lives, these factors affected the role of grandmother long before the women became grandmothers. The article points out specific aspects of the role of a grandmother that are influenced by these factors.

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When Congregations Grieve

Review & Expositor ◽

10.1177/003463730310000205 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 100 (2) ◽

pp. 219-231

Author(s):

Dan Moseley

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

The Past ◽

Working Through ◽

Loss And Grief ◽

The Future ◽

Interim Pastors

All life is interim. Moseley speaks from his personal experience of grief when he lost his wife of 31 years. Using his own grief and recovery as his model, he draws parallels for churches and interim pastors to use in dealing with the church's grief over losing a pastor. Whether the former pastor was deeply loved or left under engative circumstances, there is still a sense of loss and grief. Congregations may experience anger or fear of building a relationship with a new pastor. One key to working through grief is remembering the past and looking to the future based on the realization of God's presence in the present—God with us.

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