scholarly journals The Quest for Authenticity and Self-discovery in Education with Special Attention Paid to Language Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rumianowska
Keyword(s):  
Language Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Existential Issues ◽  
Ontological Relationship ◽  
Educational Thinking

The purpose of the article is to contribute to the discussion about the relevance of existential issues in contemporary education. The analyses presented in the paper are related to the problems of self-reflection, self-questioning and the process of spiritual and moral development of human beings. Firstly, the author begins by depicting the meaning of human existence in the light of philosophy. What is at issue here is a question of being oneself, recognizing personal truth and finding one’s own voice as opposed to being inauthentic or fleeing from oneself. Special attention is paid to the language as an essential, constitutive element of being. Secondly, the article attempts to consider some educational implications resulting from the deep ontological relationship between human beings and language. Describing them, the author indicates that ignoring vital questions in language education contributes to spiritual vacuity in the lives of young people and reduces educational thinking merely to instrumental, pragmatic problems concerned with qualification and transfer of communicative skills.

The entanglement of knowing and being: Hegel, ontology and education in the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Brendan Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Space Recognition

There has been a revived interest Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Notions emanating from his philosophy concerning the human person and that human beings together create and sustain phenomena through social practice speaks of a relational ontology that has relevance for contemporary education. This article argues that such ontology needs to be considered alongside the epistemological concerns of education. From Hegel’s writing, five interdependent ideas are delineated which have relevance for a relational ontology appropriate for contemporary education ‐ consciousness, self-consciousness, social space, recognition and identity. From these, three propositions for a social ontology of education ‐ learning as a socially constructed activity, learning as the formation of identity and learning as recognition ‐ are posited and discussed.

scholarly journals The Experience Machine: Existential Reflections on Virtual Worlds

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Gualeni
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Robert Nozick ◽  
Experience Machine ◽  
Technical Reproducibility ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Digital Simulations

Problems and questions originally raised by Robert Nozick in his famous thought experiment ‘The Experience Machine’ are frequently invoked in the current discourse concerning virtual worlds. Having conceptualized his Gedankenexperiment in the early seventies, Nozick could not fully anticipate the numerous and profound ways in which the diffusion of computer simulations and video games came to affect the Western world.This article does not articulate whether or not the virtual worlds of video games, digital simulations, and virtual technologies currently actualize (or will actualize) Nozick’s thought experiment. Instead, it proposes a philosophical reflection that focuses on human experiences in the upcoming age of their ‘technical reproducibility’.In pursuing that objective, this article integrates and supplements some of the interrogatives proposed in Robert Nozick’s thought experiment. More specifically, through the lenses of existentialism and philosophy of technology, this article tackles the technical and cultural heritage of virtual reality, and unpacks its potential to function as a tool for self-discovery and self-construction. Ultimately, it provides an interpretation of virtual technologies as novel existential domains. Virtual worlds will not be understood as the contexts where human beings can find completion and satisfaction, but rather as instruments that enable us to embrace ourselves and negotiate with various aspects of our (individual as well as collective) existence in previously-unexperienced guises.

scholarly journals Herodes - die Grote?

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J.J Botha
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Self Discovery

Herod - The Great?. The claim to historical understanding is more than simply quoting from ancient sources. Not only must anachronism and ethnocentrism be dealt with in order not to make the ancients mere instruments of modem preferences, but the sources themselves must be carefully interpreted so that we do not become victims of their propaganda. The challenge of historical understanding with sincerity and fairness is illustrated in this study of Herod the Great, king of the Judaeans. Studying history is not to aim at the discovery of final truth, but to participate in the conversation about truth, and therefore the self-reflection and self-discovery implied by historical exploration.

scholarly journals Neoliberal discourses in Spanish for business: An ethnographic classroom study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Jesse W. Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
Market Rationality ◽  
Job Attainment ◽  
Student Participant ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Education Courses

AbstractBeginning in the 1970s, education has responded to the rise of neoliberalism across macro-, meso-, and micro-level contexts through shifts in practice and structure. Meanwhile, language learning is often promoted as an instrument in job attainment and transnational business communication. For example, in language education, courses in language for specific purposes, whose ubiquity continues to increase, often reflect the market rationality embedded in contemporary education and support an instrumental orientation to language learning. This ethnographic study investigates the neoliberal discourses taken up by students and the instructor in a university-level Spanish for Business classroom. Drawing on triangulated data from classroom observations, field notes, informal interviews with students and the instructor, and a semi-formal interview with a focal student participant, the findings suggest that competition, compliance, and individualism were among the ideological discourses of the classroom. However, while societal and institutional discourses of neoliberalism were often interpellated, they were also resisted. Implications for praxis are also discussed.

scholarly journals Toward discerning community based tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Nguyen Ngoc Tho
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Self Discovery

CBT rooted some decades ago in the West and has currently been on the rapid rise thanks to the promotion of internet-based informatics. CBT tourists has shaped several driving forces and motivation to speed up the promotion and completion of CBT worldwide. Along with the boom of high-tech and its incredible pressures on human mind, post-modernism (PM) has been shaped due to the strong demand of liberalizing in human beings' mind and diversifying their lifestyles under the mutual interaction between ecological and cultural resources. PM starts firstly in arts and literature, gradually influences on business and tourism; hence impacts on CBT. The reconciliation of CBT and PM gives birth to discerning CBT advanced by discerning travelers who definitly care on their selfparticipation, self-experience, self-discovery during their journeys as well as the request for cooperation, co-controlling and co-responsibility of all the tourists, state agents and the local communities during the services. The discerning CBT travelers partially promote the commeners' awareness and engagement in advancing standard of life and civilizing of their lifestyle. Discerning CBT is surely not to replace popular CBT as a whole but to modify the diversity of modern tourism as it meets a concrete part of the various demands of tourists and pay more important role in standardizing human life.

scholarly journals Exploration of the Reform and Innovation of College English Teaching under Humanistic Literacy Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1017
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Attention To Students

Humanistic quality education forms a systematic ultimate thinking of human beings and a comprehensive and profound understanding of culture by digging out the contents related to humanity. It is to link life closely with the culture on which individuals depend for survival, and it serves the growth of individuals, the development of professional students and the expansion and deepening of the connotation of life. At present, in College English teaching, teachers’ awareness of humanistic education and humanistic quality are low in many aspects, such as teaching objectives, teaching contents, teaching organization and teaching evaluation. And students’ learning methods and strategies are also lack of the inhalation of humanistic quality. To carry out humanistic quality education, we should pay attention to the cultivation of teachers’ humanistic awareness and quality, and further enhance the ideological and depth of curriculum content. Meanwhile, we should also pay more attention to students’ self-cultivation from learning attitude, learning methods and learning strategies, with the purpose of guiding students to self discovery, self-understanding and self-monitoring in the learning process.

Hypo-egoicism and Cultural Evolution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Martin ◽  
Amey Kulkarni ◽  
Wyatt C. Anderson ◽  
Matthew Sanders ◽  
Jackie Newbold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Self Reflection

Human beings may be prepared by evolution to regulate their behavior in ways that were adaptive for our Paleolithic ancestors. When people behave in ways that are compatible with these adaptations, they rely primarily on hypo-egoic strategies that are efficient without being overly effortful or self-reflective. This chapter proposes that hypo-egoic self-regulation is an easy and efficient mode of self-regulation because people evolved to function in a mostly hypo-egoic fashion. Unfortunately, modern societies often require people to behave in ways that are incompatible with those predispositions, requiring them to rely on hyper-egoic strategies that require more effort, deliberation, and self-reflection. The chapter examines the causes and consequences of the mismatch between human beings’ evolved predispositions and the demands of modern life, and concludes with recommendations for how people can live more hypo-egoically even in complex, delayed-return societies.

scholarly journals Forståelse av åndelighet og åndelig omsorg for gamle mennesker – en hermeneutisk studie

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Linda Rykkje
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Existential Issues ◽  
Present Understanding ◽  
Care For Older People

Understanding spirituality and spiritual care for older people – a hermeneutical studyIn old age, spirituality and existential issues may become salient. The study aim is an understanding of older peoples’ perception of spirituality and spiritual care in a Norwegian context. Gadamer hermeneutics is the guiding methodology. 30 interviews were conducted with 17 participants between 74-96 years, six self-reliant, five with homecare, and six nursing home residents. The findings present understanding of spirituality, soul and spirit, the meaningful in life, inner peace, care from family in old age, and spiritual care. The study discusses spirituality as a force that contributes to wholeness and health, especially by the experience of “inner calm and peace”. That which may contribute to inner peace is love for fellow human beings and being with others, religion and nature, together with meaningful activities and feeling “alive”. Spiritual care involves “to care about” the whole person through compassionate care, presence, listening, touch and facilitating socializing and activities. 

scholarly journals Read Death Drive through Heart of Darkness

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Qiling Wu ◽  
Tsingan Li
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Self Discovery

Scholars try to get close to Kurtz and Conrad’s inner men to analyze their attitudes towards race through race. However, the author transfers race into human drive to give explanation of Marlow’s narrative in Heart of Darkness and further argues that Marlow’s narrative has dug deeply into human beings’ drive. To change it another way, the journey to the central Africa does not just force Marlow to see primitive Africa, the natives, to meet Kurtz, his madness and evil, it is also a journey to self-discovery or drive-discovery.

Synoptic and dynamic analyses of classroom discourse

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Dynamic Analyses ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Three Components

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between teachers’ theories of language and learning and the nature of classroom discourse. Through analysis of data collected from two year 3 classes, it is argued that there are three components functioning simultaneously in all lessons. These are the interpersonal, the content and the metalanguage components. The focus of the paper is on how the content and the metalanguage components are realized in the classroom discourse, and on the educational implications of the metalanguage component in particular. It is suggested that the quality of the metalanguage component has an impact on the overall quality of the language education program and that this impact derives from an appropriate theory of language use.

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