scholarly journals Biosecurity in times of COVID19 or how to take it seriously

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 560-562
Author(s):  
Carlos Navarro Venegas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Establishment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Higher Education Centers ◽  
National Reality ◽  
As If

The biosafety associated with biomedical laboratories and the biosafety associated with clinical establishments do not seem to go together. There is a biosafety manual in each country and there are basic biosafety standards that do not seem to be applied or taught in specialized centers. Thus, along with thanking the great participation of the medical establishment and associated professions, we must not lower our guard against this pathogen or any other that surrounds us. Although the biosafety standards are taught in some of the higher education centers, they are not necessarily followed by the same ones who mention them in their speech, as if they only applied to others. This article may cause resentment, however, it is a national reality that I hope will not be repeated in many countries. Nor do I intend to draw attention to the misuse of clothing or instruments, but rather to diminish this fashion and that we recognize our fragility in the face of the world around us.

scholarly journals Creaturely Communal Ontology in Practice: John Zizioulas in Dialogue with Ritual Theory

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
John W. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Full Diversity ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
As If

This article is born out of a deep concern for our current ecological crisis and serves as a beginning foundational work for how the Christian tradition can address global climate change. Our current way of being gives precedence to the autonomous individual, whose freedom is characterized by disregard for other creatures. John Zizioulas’ communal ontology demonstrates that as the world was created out of God’s loving will, it is comprised of relationship. Living into individuation and division is a refusal of this communion with other creatures and God, but the Eucharist serves as the ritual that brings Christians into communion through the remembrance of Christ. Ian McFarland’s work on the theology of creation provides the helpful nuance that creaturely movement in communion must include the full diversity of creatures. I then turn to Bruce Morrill’s work to demonstrate that the Eucharistic practice must have bearing beyond the walls of the church. It leads practitioners to live into eschatological hope and kenotic service to the world. John Seligman’s ritual theory demonstrates that ritual practice can accomplish these goals because it creates a subjunctive ‘as-if’ world in the face of the world that is perceived as chaotic. Through the continuous practice of the ritual, participants are then formed to live into this subjunctive ‘as-if’ world without ritual precedence. In this way, the Eucharistic practice can prepare practitioners to live into the kenotic service to a world broken by individuation that has led to global climate change and creaturely destruction.

Cultural Transformation and Academic Leadership

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-163
Author(s):  
Yasar Kondakci ◽  
Merve Zayim-Kurtay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Culture Shift ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Change Forces

This chapter aims to elaborate on the leadership properties in the transformation in higher education across the world by advancing specific illustration from the Turkish higher education context. Three specific objectives were identified around this broad aim: (1) document the current forces of change surrounding HEIs, (2) identify the culture shift in HEIs, and (3) provide literature-based evidence for the leadership gap in the face of culture shift and develop preposition for academic leadership. Higher education institutions (HEIs) form one of the sectors which has been drastically affected from the trends and developments in the economic, political, social, and technological spheres and responded to these change forces by radical transformations that have touched their traditional and historical value systems. This chapter argues that HEIs need leadership practices to survive the crisis and conflict era successfully, which carry some properties of transformational leadership while holding the traditional academic leadership perspective.

scholarly journals Editorial Volume 11 Issue 2 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. i-iii
Author(s):  
Karen Nelson ◽  
Tracy Creagh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face

This issue is being published during a time of massive disruption and change associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.  A situation which has been further complicated by rapid changes in higher education public policy, funding and regulation in Australia and elsewhere.  Despite all these challenges, our friends and colleagues and higher education practitioners across the world have been responsive and innovative in the face of restrictive conditions, have focused on what they can and will learn from these strange times and have continued to share expertise and experiences, and importantly have never lost sight of what really matters – our students and their success.  We salute each and every one of you.

scholarly journals A PRACTICAL STUDY ON LOGISTICS RESPONSE TO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FINE MANAGEMENT—TAKING LOGISTICS SUPPORT OFFICE OF CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN) AS AN EXAMPLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI XU ◽  
LUN LI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The healthy development of higher education cannot be separated from the strong support and guarantee of university logistics. In the face of public health emergencies, if we want to further strengthen the function of logistics support and support in colleges and universities, and enhance the awareness and ability of coping, we should first start with delicacy management. After the baptism of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic, it is necessary for the logistics of universities to sum up their experience carefully, make good plans ahead of time, and make full response and preparation for all kinds of public health emergencies that may occur in the future. And this provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese plan for colleges and universities around the world to deal with public health emergencies.

Pedagogy and ideology: teaching law as if it matters

Legal Studies ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
N K Sam Banks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
As If

Considering whether law students receive a legal education that is meaningful and relevant to them raises interesting questions about what education is, what it's for, how we teach, how we learn and, essentially, how we know what we know. This article examines ideology and the law lecturer and student, and how these intersect, interact and conflict to inform the teaching, learning and understanding of law. These are not inconsequential questions considering the range of diversity among students now studying law. These issues are explored by examining the purposes of legal education in light of the overall objectives of higher education. The article then looks at the impact of ideology on our understanding of the world in general and of law in particular, and how ideology influences how we learn and what we learn. The manner in which ideology influences a particular interpretation of information, and especially legal information, is explored, as are the consequences to those outside that ideological and interpretive commonality. Thus, it is argued that some groups of students are excluded from a legal education that is meaningful and relevant to them. Lastly, the article considers ways in which law may be understood and taught otherwise to reflect both our students' reality and the social context in which law operates.

scholarly journals Konsep Kampus Merdeka Belajar di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
Nurhayani Siregar ◽  
Rafidatun Sahirah ◽  
Arsikal Amsal Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Changing Times

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion in the world of education, with the concept of freedom of learning being coined by the minister of education and culture, Nadiem Makarim. in terms of including the concept of a free campus of learning. the concept becomes an effort in dealing with the changing times. then how is the concept of an independent campus learning in the face of the industrial revolution era 4.0. and how the concept of an independent campus that had been sparked by the Minister of Education and Culture namely Mr. Nadiem Makarim as well as what is the problem of students at this time so that it requires a change in the concept of higher education for the better. considering that in this case, the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 is an era in which technology is increasingly high, so that in this case students from each tertiary institution are expected to be ready to face challenges in the industrial revolution era 4.0, with the concept of an independent campus they are directed to be more ready to work , working together, creative and can be useful for themselves and other communities.

scholarly journals Bioethics and the Culture Wars

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Ana S. Iltis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
As If

The term “culture wars” has been used to describe deep, apparently intractable, disagreements between groups for many years. In contemporary discourse, it refers to disputes regarding significant moral matters carried out in the public square and for which there appears to be no way to achieve consensus or compromise. One set of battle lines is drawn between those who hold traditional Christian commitments and those who do not. Christian bioethics is nested in a set of moral and metaphysical understandings that collide with those of the dominant secular culture. The result is a gulf between a moral life and an approach to bioethics framed in the face of a transcendent God and a final judgment versus a moral life and an approach to bioethics framed as if the world were without ultimate meaning and as if death were the end of personal existence. These approaches are separated by a moral and metaphysical gulf that sustains incompatible life worlds and incompatible understandings of bioethics. Attempts to bridge the gulf with secular reason are ineffective because there is no shared conception of reason or standard of evidence. Efforts to use the state to enforce a particular set of metaphysical and moral commitments, whether secular or religious, lead to public disputes with a war-like character.

scholarly journals El cambio organizacional y la universidad pública

2012 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Dr. Wietse De Vries Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
National Universities

En este texto se analiza lo que ha pasado –y lo que no ha pasado– en los últimos diez años en la educación superior mexicana, particularmente en las universidades públicas (recurriendo al caso ilustrativo de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). Para ello, se propone una forma distinta para analizar el cambio organizacional, enfocando los cambios en la perspectiva del entorno cambiante y la respuesta de la organización frente a este ambiente. Ese enfoque analítico brinda pautas no sólo para describir los cambios, sino para poder hacer comparaciones con otras instituciones y países, o para poder juzgar la calidad o la dirección del cambio, así como para poder saber si un cambio fue una innovación o un paso hacia atrás. Así, se vislumbra que frente a los cambios en el mundo, y dentro de México, las universidades públicas nacionales han sido muy reacias al cambio; y cuando éste se ha dado, ha sido de una forma extemporánea, incongruente con los cambios en otras regiones.AbstractThis text analyzes what has and what has not happened in Mexican higher education during the last 10 years, particularly what has happened in the public universities (the illustrative case of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). For that purpose, we propose a different way of analyzing organizational change, by focusing on the changes in the perspective of a changing environment and the response of the organization to said environment. That analytical focus offers guidelines not only to describe the changes but also to be able to make comparisons with other institutions and countries, or to be able to judge the quality or the direction of the change, as well as to be able to know whether a change was an innovation or a step backward. Thus, we see vaguely that in the face of the changes in the world, and in Mexico , the public national universities have been reluctant to change; and when change has occurred, it has done so inopportunely and incongruently with the changes in other regions.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

Persons in a World of Things

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Classic Essay

This chapter focuses on the reality of persons in a world of things. It begins and ends with some relevant views drawn from the Jewish philosophers Buber (1878–1965), Heschel (1907–72), and Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–93). Framed by the Jewish concerns, it turns to a philosophical exploration of human personhood. The chapter begins by consiering Sellars's classic essay on the scientific and manifest images of “man-in-the-world.” Sellars shows how urgent and difficult it is to sustain a recognizable image of ourselves as persons in the face of scientism. With additional help from Nagel and Kant, it argues that persons cannot be conceptually scanted in a world of things. Notwithstanding the explanatory power of science, there is more to life than explanation. Explanation of what we are needs supplementing by a conception of who we are, how we should live, and why we matter. Those are questions to which Jewish sources can speak.

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