Social Tenets Research Articles

Techno Emotive Pedagogy: A Strategic Enabler for Catalyzing Sustainable Learning and Living in the Post-Pandemic Educational Landscape

In this era of digitalization, the imbibition of technology in all walks of life is immensely felt. In a fast-pacing world, a desirable demand for an easy life makes it necessary for the burgeoning of technological prospects. Moreover, technology would have acclimatized the education sector one day or the other, like Scandinavian countries, for sure: but this anticipation was met rapidly during the pandemic period. As a consequence, most educationists felt the necessity for an alternative to leverage the learning loss across the globe. Technology performed the role of a Godmother to forge our country as ‘Vishwa Guru’ and save pedagogical principles from the clutches of the devastating pandemic. Educational resources began flooding from various technological tools like water flowing from the reservoir while lifting the shutters of a dam. A serious concern that knocks this scenario is ‘will this amalgamation of technology and education remain harmonious, or this synchronization will be able to resolve all the ethical or ontological questions of Homo sapiens in the post-pandemic period’? At this juncture, there is the relevance of a shift from techno-pedagogy to techno-emotive pedagogy. Techno-emotive pedagogy is potentially sound to function as a sustainable approach in the field of education by embracing life skills to adapt to the fast-changing modern society. Undoubtedly, technology would be enthroned as the ultimate dependent variable of education, but without neglecting the emotional canvas. It relies on the strong footing that humans are essentially more emotional than intellectual. A single-track system of techno dependence neglecting the organismic emotional contour of individual and social tenets of humans will result in chaos. This paper intends to present techno-emotive pedagogy as a pedagogical experimentation and innovation in the teaching and learning process by utilizing an exploratory approach to the various emotional handicap that intruded on the learning and living system due to the single strategic path adopted during the covid period by analyzing the empirics from the education stakeholders. An attempt is also made to design and develop an instructional strategy that is synchronized with this paradigm. The findings showed that techno-emotive pedagogy plays as a strategic enabler in catalyzing sustainable learning and also the derivatives of this attempt are expected to contribute to a sustained strategic system for learning and living.

Was Jesus a Socialist? An Analysis of the Lucan Message Concerning Charity for the Poor

The fractious culture wars between the political Left and Right occasionally delves into matters of Christian theology and New Testament insights concerning the proper structure of society. In particular, there has been contention surrounding Jesus’s message and predisposal towards the economically and socially dispossessed of his time. Some have argued that Jesus’s association with the poor and downtrodden is indicative of his alignment with the fundamental ideas currently upheld by democratic socialists. Meanwhile, some have argued the opposite claim that Jesus embodied capitalist views and would be opposed to the central tenets of socialism. This paper attempts to transcend such problematic exegetical debate of the Scriptures, particularly the Lucan writings which contain some of the most crucial passages about Jesus’s close association with the poor. More specifically, this paper argues that the central idea that undergirds Jesus’s message concerning the underprivileged and oppressed lies in grounded in individual responsibility.

Decision making criteria for adaptive reuse strategy in UNESCO world heritage city

PurposeWithin the next 20–30 years, adaptive reuse will have the greatest potential to reduce the built environment's environmental impact. Despite this, stakeholders still do not have sufficient points of reference in justifying and evaluating their adaptation practice decisions. The decision to reuse a building involves a complex set of considerations, including economic, social, environmental, legislative and architectural issues. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the unique decision-making criteria among stakeholders when considering adaptive reuse of an existing building asset in Malaysian heritage cities.Design/Methodology/ApproachThirty (30) unique criteria of decision-making were identified through a detailed literature review. The quantitative method of a self-completion questionnaire survey was conducted among stakeholders, including architects, valuers, planners, government department, developers and building owners. There were asked about their opinion and view on the criteria that could have influenced the decision-making in considering the adaptive reuse of the existing buildings in two heritage cities in the states of Penang and Malacca, Malaysia. Thus, it is the aim of this paper to evaluate and reveal the key criteria pertaining to this.FindingsThe analysis shows that there are seven key criteria that influence the decision-making of adaptive reuse of existing building: building value; building suitability; structural condition; official plan and zoning; building code; client requirement and heritage designated. In this regard, while “building value” factors were the key determinants in deciding whether to reuse or demolish, the asset’s suitability and structural condition, as well as rules, were also taken into account. Additionally, the environmental, economic and social tenets of sustainability were also identified as important, but were given less weight in matters concerning reuse. And due to the fact that many of the existing buildings are rapidly becoming obsolete, they are now increasingly being prioritized during the adaptive reuse decision-making process to ensure long-term outcomes.Research Limitations/ImplicationsThe research is limited owing to the difficulty in obtaining accurate information concerning the number of decision agents who have been involved in the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Thus, the respondents in this research were randomly selected. Due to this limitation, the result does not encompass the whole Malaysia, only the stakeholders in Penang and Malacca have been selected the respondents in this study as these states are listed in the UNESCO World Heritage.Social ImplicationsWhen deciding whether to reuse or demolish an existing building, the proposed criteria will outline the crucial areas that must be examined by owners, developers and key project stakeholders. It can also be used to assess the financial, physical and social aspects of a cultural project.Originality/ValueThis paper adds to the body of knowledge concerning decision-making criteria for adaptive reuse strategies in achieving heritage city sustainability.

Corporate Payments for Ecosystem Services in Theory and Practice: Links to Economics, Business, and Sustainability

Few Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are financed voluntarily by corporations. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that limited literature on the theory and practice of PES has a dedicated focus on businesses. This article unifies the PES and business literatures in order to address the awareness and management challenges that corporations face in engaging in PES. First, it shows how corporations fit into the economic theory that underpins PES, demonstrating that corporate-financed PES schemes can exhibit a diversity and hybridity of Coasean and Pigouvian characteristics. Second, it shows how PES fits into corporate sustainability theory, demonstrating how PES can help companies achieve synergies across the economic, environmental, and social tenets of the triple bottom line; for example, by helping gain social license to operate from adjacent communities, or by using PES to meet sustainability reporting requirements related to emissions and water management. Third, it shows the different PES options available to firms based on their industrial sector, operating practices, and business strategies. The options with higher potential are maintenance and enhancement of production inputs across the supply chain, and carbon offsetting and insetting to help meet climate change mitigation regulations and avoid fines. Fourth, it identifies lessons learned when transitioning from theory to practice by synthesising the latest empirical research on corporate-financed PES schemes—considering exactly what these ‘should’ or ‘could’ resemble, for example, in terms of their additionality, conditionality, permanence, co-benefits, budgeting, and bargaining. Examples are drawn from corporate-financed schemes in forests and watersheds across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. The article concludes that these schemes remain small in number and size, but have significant potential to increase—and this can be aided by future research on corporate motives, understandings, and actions on PES.

Review: Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

Review: <i>Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change</i>

The effectiveness of micro-learning in retail banking

In order to remain competitive in a global technological revolution, the learning and development departments of businesses are focusing on the emerging concept of micro-learning, to support the fast-paced, multitask orientated and digitally savvy learners. A survey was conducted among 7 673 employees of one of the major retail banks in South Africa, to determine the effectiveness of micro-learning and establish whether micro-learning is effective, as well as identify gaps and recommend strategies to close them. Through inferential statistical analysis of the data, it was concluded that learners reacted positively to micro-learning, the acquired relevant knowledge using micro-learning which improved work performance and business metrics. Although the micro-learning programme was deemed effective for the vast majority (80%) of the participants, two gaps were identified, namely, micro-learning did not fully embrace the social tenet of learning, and it is also not exempt from the distractions that learners experience. It is recommended that any organisation pursuing a micro-learning programme should incorporate a social knowledge-sharing element into the programme and provide users with tools to develop self-control and self-regulation habits needed to conquer constant distractions.

СОЦИАЛЬНОЕ ПРЕДНАЗНАЧЕНИЕ РУССКОЙ СКАЗКИ

Актуальность исследования определяется онтологической вариативностью, различием способов познания, что представляет разные картины мира. Данная мозаика миропонимания обуславливает проблему обретения целостности как системы единого неразделенного знания. Механизм дополненной реальности, перцептуального и концептуального видов пространства-времени в сказках представляет наибольший исследовательский интерес и эвристический потенциал. Субъективное восприятие мира в пространстве-времени может быть осознано посредством способов моделирования географической, хронологической составляющих, характерных для концептуального пространства-времени. Целью исследования является актуализация целостности (формы родственности) генезиса социальных норм в архаических формах синкретического мышления (русских сказках). В статье ставится задача рассмотреть идею родства как формы социального предназначения русской сказки. Методы. Авторы опирались на абстрактно-логический, феноменологический подходы, методы анализа, синтеза, типологизации. Результаты. В контексте воплощения идеи родства социальное предназначение русских сказок вариативно. Смысл сказок раскрывается различными способами: целостностью – синтезом образно-символической архаической природы сознания в художественном пространстве-времени сказки; созданием поэтических форм в контексте единства перцептуального, концептуального и реального пространства-времени. С точки зрения семантики пространства-времени социальное предназначение определено императивами, универсалиями знакового (символьного) осмысления мира посредством трактовки сказки как системы символов. Социальные постулаты архаики воплощены в коллективных образах единого, целого, являют результат воплощенной в сказках гармонии внутреннего и внешнего миров (реального и субстанционального).

Teaching Catholic Stakeholder Thinking Using the Open-Ended Case Method

Today’s managers face a competitive and globalized marketplace, with a multitude of stakeholders demanding their time and attention. The fast pace of this environment can overwhelm them and may interfere with their desire for meaningful work and an integration of their personal and professional values. This paper addresses this challenge by combining stakeholder theory and Catholic Social Tradition to form Catholic Stakeholder Thinking. Possessing values that are shared by managers of diverse faiths and beliefs, it explains how key Catholic social tenets and the resulting normative obligations inform managerial responsibilities to stakeholders. Catholic Stakeholder Thinking is taught and reinforced through the open-ended case method, an approach which encourages managers to critically examine the complexities of an issue. This determines whether their decisions promote integral human development and the common good in solidarity with the poor. The open-ended case method approach anchored in Catholic Stakeholder thinking sharpens managers’ skills and may contribute to personal development. Because of its shared focus on integral human development and the common good in solidarity with the poor, it can be used by managers of good will who hold different (or no) religious affiliations.

Cuba: The New Frontier of Study Abroad Programs for U.S. Students

ABSTRACTThe growing reconciliation between the United States and Cuba has created a unique opportunity for U.S. business and hospitality students to observe and experience first-hand an economy in marked transition. Attempting to balance the tenets of socialism with a rapidly growing reliance on capitalism creates a rare learning environment for students. This article presents the plan for a 10-day faculty-led study abroad program to Cuba. The program is divided between the two (arguably) most important destinations in Cuba: the economic and cultural center, Havana, and the tourism powerhouse of Varadero. At each destination, students are engaged in lectures, site visits, research, and cultural experiences.

Cuban girls and visual media: bodies and practices of (still-) socialist consumerism

This paper examines Cuban girls' use of photography in coming-of-age rituals to consider what mediated girlhood might look like beyond the reach of neo-liberalism and post-feminism. Cuba offers an interesting context for such considerations, as a place in which the effects of global neo-liberalism remain buffered, and sharply contested by the prevailing tenets of socialism. It is also a place in which many feminist goals have been realized for the average woman, but with minimal reference to the debates of feminism and post-feminism. Despite these apparently serious differences, Cuban girls engage in many of the same mediated practices and rituals as their counterparts across the Americas. Cuban girls' lives are relatively rich in the products of globalized consumer culture and typically include watching US-produced television shows, dancing to music videos and poring over imported magazines. But such incorporation of cultural products that flow (mostly) from the capitalist Americas by no means negates the lived experience of Cuban girls as subjects in a socialist society, whose rights and responsibilities impact in very direct ways upon how they manage their emerging womanly bodies.

Chile helps Chile: exploring the effects of earthquake Chile 2010

Purpose– The purpose of the present paper is to explore the political discourse present in the show Chile Ayuda a Chile [Chile helps Chile] to support the survivors and victims of the last earthquake hit Chile in 2010. Based on the belief that nationalism plays a vital role in cementing the process of recovery by making survivors believe that they, after all, have a new opportunity to be on feet again.Design/methodology/approach– The visual methodology (enrooted in the analysis of content) is the chosen technique to develop five indicators which replicates the nationalist sentiment of Chileans post-disaster context. The archetype of nationalism is activated whenever the community is in danger.Findings– As Baudrillard put it, the post-modernity is witness of a much wider nation-state’s declination. Nonetheless, current information presented in this report very well contrasts a thesis of this caliber. Far-away of being experiencing a decrease of Nationalism, we argue that in contexts of emergency and chaos, nationality plays an important role to maintain a firm bondage and prevent social fragmentation. Five indicators are found in the discourse of Chile helps Chile, beautiness, sport, coercion, stratification and materiality.Research limitations/implications– The outcome of this research, because of its qualitative nature, does not allows statistical or broader inferences. For this, further investigation is needed.Originality/value– Much of disaster-related texts have been influenced by Jean Baudrillard and his thesis of nation state decline. The originality of this research shows the opposite. As a process of resiliency, the national being still plays a crucial role in revitalizing the social tenets of community in context of uncertainness.

New Zealand’s transformed adventure: from hero myth to accessible tourism experience

Sir Edmund Hillary’s first ascent of Mt Everest in 1953 provided New Zealand with a global adventure representation. His image aligned to a mythologised pioneering cultural identity. Although the privileged masculine, white, class and imperialist features of this cultural myth have been critiqued, adventure remains a positively valued social tenet in New Zealand. Since 1953 socially recognised ‘adventure-makers’ have sustained traditional adventure practices and narratives. In the 1990s, however, bungy jumping became the prominent representation of New Zealand adventure. This challenged traditional understandings, providing an avenue to explore the contested social space and features underpinning understandings of adventure. Guided by Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of social life, the paper examines the practices and stories of 12 New Zealand ‘adventure-makers’ with sustained distinction. The interpretation draws on discursive data from newspapers, magazines, websites, biographies, auto-biographies and research interviews. The rule-changing social distinction afforded bungy jumping is not a rupture of New Zealand’s adventure habitus. It does, however, highlight a collective self-deception in negotiation of the understandings of adventure in relation to the features of ‘misadventure’, ‘exclusivity’ and the ‘extraordinary’. The bungy jumping leap innovatively transforms the danger, myth and extraordinary into a recognisable, individually inclusive experience of adventure.

Sex and the Egoist: Measuring Ayn Rand's Fiction Against Her Philosophy

Abstract The merit of Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy is often based on its economic and social tenets surrounding individual rights. Though she is often neglected by feminists, there is one aspect of Rand's fiction and philosophy that requires feminist attention: her illustration of female sexuality in response to masculinity and hero worship. In The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), Rand respectively presents her ideal man and the ideal manner in which a woman would respond to such a man. These actions necessarily conflict with what Rand claims is a rational ethical theory and detract from Rand's otherwise gender neutral philosophy.

Sex and the Egoist: Measuring Ayn Rand's Fiction Against Her Philosophy

Abstract The merit of Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy is often based on its economic and social tenets surrounding individual rights. Though she is often neglected by feminists, there is one aspect of Rand's fiction and philosophy that requires feminist attention: her illustration of female sexuality in response to masculinity and hero worship. In The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), Rand respectively presents her ideal man and the ideal manner in which a woman would respond to such a man. These actions necessarily conflict with what Rand claims is a rational ethical theory and detract from Rand's otherwise gender neutral philosophy.

Socialism and WTO with Special Reference to China

I have taken a China Centric Approach in this article. First, I will start with the notion of Socialism. I will discuss a general definition, a definition given by the Indian Courts, Soviet Style Socialism and finally, the Chinese Socialism. This will help enhance and refresh our understanding of Socialism and also tell us how Socialism is viewed in different countries. Next, I will state the broad principles of WTO and compare it with the basic tenets of Socialism. This is very important as without knowing and understanding these principles, it would be futile and difficult to associate and link Socialism with WTO. My next chapter will talk about Chinese Socialism and WTO. China and WTO is a hotly debated topic these days. That is why I thought that it would be interesting to understand the Chinese Socialism with a WTO perspective.

A new future for the past: a model for adaptive reuse decision‐making

PurposeAdaptive reuse is an effective strategy for optimizing the operational and commercial performance of built assets. While the benefits of adaptive re‐use have been widely espoused, it would appear that owners and practitioners lack a point of reference to justify and evaluate their decision‐making with regard to reusing existing assets. This paper therefore aims to develop a model to assist practitioners with their decision‐making when considering to re‐use or demolish an existing built asset.Design/methodology/approachTo gain an understanding of the issues that owners and practitioners are confronted with when considering adaptive re‐use, demolition and issues pertaining to sustainability, an interpretative research approach was adopted. A total of 81 in‐depth interviews were conducted over a six‐month period with a variety of stakeholders such as architects, developers, planners, building managers/owners and property consultants. Content analysis was used as the primary analysis technique on the collected data.FindingsThe analysis of the interviews revealed three key criteria are used to examine adaptive reuse decision making: capital investment; asset condition; and regulation. While financial criteria such as development and construction costs were the primary determinants influencing the decision reuse or demolish, the physical condition of the asset juxtaposed with regulations were also considered. Additionally, issues associated with the environmental, economic and social tenets of sustainability were identified as being important but had been given less priority when considering reuse. As current building stock is rapidly becoming obsolete, increasing emphasis is beginning to be placed on them during the adaptive reuse decision‐making process to ensure sustainable outcomes.Practical implicationsThe developed model identifies the critical areas that owners, developers and key project stakeholders need to consider when deciding to either reuse or demolish an existing building. It also can be used to evaluate the economic, physical and social implications of undertaking a heritage project. Project and asset managers need to be aware of the impact that different variables have on a reuse project's construction and operational performance as well as long term commercial performance.Originality/valueThe proposed adaptive reuse decision‐making model is grounded in practice and therefore encompasses the real‐life dilemmas and issues facing practitioners. The model captures the complexity associated with the adaptive reuse process and provides an important reference point for developing future ex‐ante evaluation models for its investment justification.

From Socialism to Social Justice Feminism: Rose Schneiderman and the Quest for Urban Equity, 1911-1933

This article argues that in her long career of political and labor activism, Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) embarked on a quest for urban equity that took her from the tenets of socialism, which emphasized trade unionism, to the principles of social justice feminism, which advocated state activism through the passage and promotion of labor legislation. While social justice feminists wanted to both ameliorate the harsh effects of industrialization and urbanization and to change the social conditions of women, they often neglected the issues of class and race. I describe how Schneiderman changed that situation from 1911 through 1933 by lobbying for legislative changes in the Progressive Era, by establishing a partnership between social justice feminism and New York’s Democratic Party, and by assisting African American laundry workers in New York City from 1924 through 1933.

Martin J. Powers' Response to Jean James' Review of Art and Political Expression in Early China

RESPONSES AND REPLIES Martin J. Powers' Response to Jean James' Review ofArt and Political Expression in Early China In her review ofArt and Political Expression in Early China (CRI2 [I]: 1-18) , Dr. James raises a number ofissues ofinterest to me and, I hope, to the readers of this journal. These issues are not limited to Han dynasty art but call into question many ofthe assumptions and methods associated with the (once) "new" approaches to art history developed chiefly during the eighties. It is gratifying that the field ofearly Chinese art history has reached a stage ofmaturation where debates over method can take place. I welcome this chance and am grateful to the editors of China Review Internationalfor enabling me to participate. By the same token, my understanding ofthe aims and assumptions ofthe "new" art history differs from that of Dr. James, and I believe that many ofher queries are the consequence of a misperception ofmy methods and claims. Let me begin with some background regarding the book. As is now well known, during the late 1970s and the 1980s many scholars began exploring a more interpretative and contextual approach to the history of art. In fields such as Chinese painting or ancient bronzes, such enterprises had been undertaken in (by now well-known) studies by James Cahill, K. C. Chang, Wai-kam Ho, Chu-tsing Li, Robert Thorp, and others, but relatively little had been published along these lines in the field ofearly pictorial art. I tried to initiate such work by demonstrating the political and rhetorical uses ofomen images at Wu Liang's shrine in a (perhaps not so well-known) article published in 1983. In 1984 I published another paper attempting to establish the potential impact offunerary monuments on a family's reputation, the role ofreputation in a bureaucratic career, and the influence of a "public" on the reputations oflocal scholars. Once this dynamic was understood, it appeared that local scholars very likely had to take into account the response ofthe local, educated "public" when commissioning a monument . It followed that funerary monuments could be utilized as "arguments" promoting religious, personal, or political goals.1 This is one of the points Dr. James objects to in Art and Political Expression in Early China (hereafter AP), so I shall© 1995 by University return to it later. ofHawai'i PressThese two articles were followed by others exploring similar situations. By the late 1980s, Audrey Spiro had applied sociopolitical analysis to the origins of portraiture in the Six Dynasties period. In his Wu Liang Shrine, Wu Hung 368 China Review International: Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1995 adopted the interpretation of omens I had offered earlier in the decade, accepting also the view that funerary monuments could encode personal, social, or political messages aimed at an educated "public."2 The primary concern ofhis book, however —as I understood it—was how Wu Liang's shrine presented the reigning ideology of the period, that is, those cosmologica! and social tenets accepted by both the court and the scholars. My purpose in APwas to problematize the relationship between Confucian scholars and the imperial court, replacing a linear view ofpolitical and cultural history (Confucian scholars loyally obey the court) with a more dialectical model, in which the discourses adopted at the court and local level could be seen both as in competition and as shaping one another. In other words, rather than accept the traditional model of the flow of authority in Chinese society, I was suggesting that discourses adopted by the court did not always originate with the court and sometimes could be appropriated or even subverted by groups unsympathetic to the court. Having questioned some long-standing paradigms, one could reasonably expect to be challenged. Jean James has taken up the challenge in her China Review International review. Dr. James' criticisms appear to me to fall into four categories : (1) misunderstandings or misreadings ofthe book; (2) issues of method; (3) historiographical issues; and (4) issues ofpresentation. I would like to address one major misconception first, as one ofthe leitmotifs running throughout her essay appears to me to reflect an honest yet major misunderstanding. Misreadings On page 172, Dr. James tells the...

On Socialism

The modern socialist movement dates from the publication in 1848 of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. Its historical roots go back at least two hundred years earlier to the period of the English Civil War (1642-52), which produced a radical movement (the Diggers) with a brilliant spokesman in Gerrard Winstanley, whose ideas corresponded in important respects to the principal tenets of socialism as we know them today. Other outstanding forerunners were Babeuf and his Conspiracy of the Equals during the French Revolution, the great English and French Utopians (Owen, Fourier, St. Simon) of the early nineteenth century, and the English Chartists of the 1830s and 1840s, who first incorporated socialist ideas of democracy, equality, and collectivism into a large-scale working-class movement.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Radical Social Democracy and School Reform in Wilhelmian Germany

THE German Social Democratic Party, the most influential socialist party in Europe and the largest single political movement in Germany on the eve of World War I, was a major force promoting educational reform in the Wilhelmian period. The party's reform activities centered on the Volksschule, the common elementary school maintained by the German states to inculcate piety, patriotism, and the work ethic in the children of factory workers, artisans, peasants, and small tradesmen. Traditionally the German working-class movement demanded state support for a secularized and expanded school program. Through the 1890's, the Social Democrats perpetuated this demand. As the twentieth century opened, the party's radical faction, committed to class struggle and revolution, articulated a new position. The radicals suggested specific curricular reforms to instill values compatible with the tenets of socialism. Moreover, they specified ways in which the party might achieve a greater voice in school affairs. Lastly, they promoted educational alternatives to the Volksschule: socialist training in the home, a youth movement, and adult education. The purpose of the radical program was to prepare the child to participate in the class struggle. By broadening the Social Democrats' traditional position on school reform, the radicals made education part of a comprehensive program for political action.