scholarly journals Introduksjon: Menneskeverd – mangfoldige forståelser for en mangfoldig skole

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Ådne Valen-Sendstad ◽  
Ingrid Reite Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Do So

This chapter is called “Human dignity – diverse approaches for diversity in school”. Human dignity is one of the most important value concepts, as it appears as a common, global value that “everyone” owns – and is yet the source of the most merciless ongoing debates in society. In school, these debates are less in focus. In the formal curriculum and in the educational laws, dignity appears as a repeated basis. Yet, in educational discourse and teaching practices the definitions are vague and seldom concretized. In this chapter, we ask the following: 1) What characterizes different approaches to dignity as a concept? 2) What challenges and possibilities do the different approaches to dignity entail in school? In this chapter we will therefore aim at presenting different approaches to dignity. We do so by presenting a broad spectrum of approaches to dignity. We argue that dignity might be a diverse concept, and it can be explored as approaches promoting the “dignity of the strong” versus the “dignity of the weak”. The different approaches are exemplified with key issues of diversity and inclusion in school. The aim of the chapter is to give an introduction and an overview of diverse approaches to dignity – and thus, finding the beginnings of new debates about dignity for a diverse school.

scholarly journals Mekanisme Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi dalam Proses Penyadapan dilihat dari Perspektif Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM)

JURNAL BELO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-85
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ingelyne Nussy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Investigation Process ◽  
Do So

ABSTRACT Recognition and protection of a guarantee of human dignity to earn a respectable place in the eyes of the law and government. Related to the interests of law enforcement, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for the purpose of wiretapping evidence in court, while will protecting the privacyrights of suspects. Legal protections for the accused to be seen as matter of law adopted. Therefore, the protection of the privacy rights of a person to be seen in the investigation process. For the Commission to conduct wiretaps should see privacy rights as stipulated in the law and the government should establish a special set of rules that intercepts, thus providing the possibility for law enforcement has the authority to do so does not conflict with human rights.

Dealing with the communist past: Its role in the disintegration of the Czech Civic Forum and in the emergence of the Civic Democratic Party

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubomír Kopeček
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
Civic Forum ◽  
Do So

The end of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 has opened the thorny question of how to deal with the communist legacy. This paper focuses on important aspects of decommunization at the beginning of the 1990s and analyzes the role they played in the disintegration of the Civic Forum and in the emergence of the Civic Democratic Party. The paper shows that the decommunization agenda gradually became a significant divisive factor within the Civic Forum and served as one of the key issues through which the Civic Democratic Party defined itself. It also provided an opportunity for politicians skilled enough to grasp this issue to do so and to incorporate it into their wider political agendas.

scholarly journals Azetidinimines as a Novel Series of Non-Covalent Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of β-Lactamases with Submicromolar Activities Against Carbapenemases of Classes A, B and D

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugénie Romero ◽  
Saoussen Oueslati ◽  
Mohamed Benchekroun ◽  
Agathe C. A. D’Hollander ◽  
Sandrine Ventre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Resistant Strain ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Lead Compound ◽  
Synthetic Methodology ◽  
Lactamase Inhibitor ◽  
Do So

The increasingly worrisome situation of antimicrobial resistances has pushed synthetic chemists to design original molecules that can fight these resistances. To do so, inhibiting β-lactamases, one of the main modes of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics, is one of the most sought-after strategies, as recently evidenced by the development and approval of avibactam, relabactam and vaborbactam. Yet molecules able to inhibit simultaneously β-lactamases belonging to different molecular classes remain scarce and currently there is no metallo-β-lactamase inhibitor approved for clinical use. Having recently developed a synthetic methodology to access imino-analogues of β-lactams (Chem. – Eur. J. 2017, 23, 12991,see ref) we decided to evaluate them as potential β-lactamase inhibitors and specifically against carbapenemases, which can hydrolyze and inactivate penicillins, cephalosporins and carbapenems. Herein we eport our findings that show that our newly developed family of molecules are indeed excellent β-lactamase inhibitors and that our lead compound can inhibit NDM-1 (0.1 µM), KPC-2 (0.4 µM), and OXA-48 (0.6 µM) even though these three enzymes belong to three different molecular classes of carbapenemases. This lead compound also inhibits the ESBL CTX-M-15 and the cephalosporinase CMY-2, it is metabolically stable, and can repotentiate imipenem against a resistant strain of Escherichia coli expressing NDM-1.<br><br><br>

The “Poor” in Ancient Israel – and in Contemporary African Biblical Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-221
Author(s):  
Knut Holter
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Do So

The academic discipline of biblical studies experiences an increasing tendency to engage in burning issues of our own time. The contemporary globalization of the subject – with more and stronger exponents outside its traditional Western habitat – challenges a discipline that used to be defined as a purely historical enterprise whose only purpose was that of providing textual and historical raw materials for others, such as the supposedly “real” theologians of systematic theology, practical theology, or missiology. Using examples provided by African biblical scholars who interpret biblical concepts of poverty, the article argues that the academic discipline of biblical studies has a mandate to participate in the current struggle for justice and human dignity, and to do so with its particular insights and tools vis-à-vis the biblical texts.

Weak Radiator Design Using Dimples

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Nan Cheng ◽  
Chih Chun Cheng ◽  
Gary H. Koopmann
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Mode ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Vibration Modes ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Beam Surface ◽  
Specific Frequency ◽  
Radiated Sound ◽  
Radiated Sound Power ◽  
Do So

A design method for achieving minimum sound radiation from a beam is presented. The strategy is to form a series of cylindrical dimples on the beam surface in order to make one or more vibration modes of this dimpled beam have the same shape as the weak modes. Consequently, the dimpled beam behaves as a weak radiator when one or more vibration modes are excited. Instead of minimizing the radiated sound power at a specific frequency or in a bandwidth, the objective is to maximize the modal assurance coefficient (MAC) which quantifies resemblance between the vibration mode of a dimpled beam and a weak mode. To perform this strategy, two key issues are addressed in this paper. The first is to determine the so-called weak mode of a beam. And the second is how to determine the required dimple size and the dimple location on this beam so that the dimpled beam may have vibration modes resembled to the weak modes. A methodology to do so based on the finite element method and the mode assurance criteria is proposed. Results show that the radiation efficiency of the dimpled beam after optimization using MAC as the objective is generally lower than the uniform beam. However, the effectiveness of this strategy depends on how close in shape between the vibration mode of the dimpled beam and the designated weak mode.

scholarly journals Embodying Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Power in ‘the Field’: Reflections on Dress and the Presentation of the Self in Research with Older Pakistani Muslims

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Zubair ◽  
Wendy Martin ◽  
Christina Victor
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Embodied Self ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Do So

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in researching people growing older in the South Asian ethnic minority communities in the UK. However, these populations have received comparatively little attention in wide-ranging discussions on culturally and socially appropriate research methodologies. In this paper, we draw on the experiences of a young female Pakistani Muslim researcher researching older Pakistani Muslim women and men, to explore the significance of gender, age and ethnicity to fieldwork processes and ‘field’ relationships. In particular, we highlight the significance of dress and specific presentations of the embodied self within the research process. We do so by focusing upon three key issues: (1) Insider/Outsider boundaries and how these boundaries are continuously and actively negotiated in the field through the use of dress and specific presentations of the embodied ‘self’; (2) The links between gender, age and space - more specifically, how the researcher's use of traditional Pakistani dress, and her differing research relationships, are influenced by the older Pakistani Muslim participants’ gendered use of public and private space; and (3) The opportunities and vulnerabilities experienced by the researcher in the field, reinforced by her use (or otherwise) of the traditional and feminine Pakistani Muslim dress. Our research therefore highlights the role of different presentations of the embodied ‘self’ to fieldwork processes and relationships, and illustrates how age, gender and status intersect to produce fluctuating insider/outsider boundaries as well as different opportunities and experiences of power and vulnerability within research relationships.

scholarly journals Attentional Literacy as a New Literacy: Helping Students Deal with Digital Disarray

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pegrum ◽  
Agnieszka Palalas
Keyword(s):  
Information Overload ◽  
The Self ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Informational Environment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

When students learn online, they do so within a wider context of digital disarray, marked by distraction, disorder and disconnection, which research shows to be far from conducive to effective learning. Specific educational issues include a lack of focus, linked to information overload in an environment characterized by misinformation and disinformation, as well as a lack of connection to the self and others. Arguing that today’s growing focus on digital literacies in education already serves as a partial response to digital disarray, this evidence-based position paper proposes the concept of attentional literacy as a macroliteracy which interweaves elements of now established literacies with the emerging educational discourse of mindfulness. Through attentional literacy, students may gain awareness of how to focus their attention intentionally on the self, the relationship with others, and the informational environment, resulting in a more considered approach to learning coupled with an appreciation of multiple shifting perspectives. Armed with this developing skillset, students stand to benefit more fully from digital educational experiences. Considerations for continuing research in this area include the need to adopt a critical stance on mindfulness, and the need to operationalize attentional literacy for the classroom.

scholarly journals Environmental Management Accounting: The State Of Play

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desiree Cullen ◽  
Catherine Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
The State ◽  
External Cost ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Cost Approach ◽  
Private Cost ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Do So

Environmental management accounting (EMA) is characterised by a lack of standard taxonomy. Minimal consensus, either in terminology or definitions, has been a feature of the literature. This paper seeks to not only provide a structured overview of the extant literature on environmental management accounting, but to do so in a manner that allows the reader to better understand the key issues and concerns. The private cost approach suggests that corporate environmental outcomes should be part of the characteristic management accounting undertaken by a firm. Conversely, the external cost approach suggests that only by recognizing externalities or the non-market costs imposed on society by firms, will management accounting deliver the required level of environmental outcomes.

scholarly journals Relationship between moral responsibility for zoonotic pandemics outbreaks and industrial animal farms

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-713
Author(s):  
Josip Guc
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Animal Farms ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Livestock Health ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Moral Blame ◽  
Do So

The responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic was first ascribed to persons associated with the Huanan Seafood Market. However, many scientists suggest that this pandemic is actually a consequence of human intrusion into nature. This opens up a whole new perspective for an examination of direct and indirect, individual and collective responsibility concerning this particular pandemic, but also zoonotic pandemics as such. In this context, one of the key issues are the consequences of factory-farming of animals, which contributes to circumstances in which zoonotic pandemics emerge. Moreover, it is part of a larger economic system, global capitalism, whose logic implies certain coercion toward its participants to keep it essentially unchanged and therefore to make sure that livestock health remains ?the weakest link in our global health chain? (FAO). However, even though the precise answer to the issue of moral responsibility for zoonotic pandemics outbreaks in general and the COVID-19 pandemic in particular cannot be given, it is possible to list certain indicators and make a framework helpful in ascribing moral responsibility to certain persons. The paper intends to do so by examining the notion of responsibility and by applying it to the issues mentioned. The results of this analysis show that it is misleading to place moral blame on people involved in actions that directly caused the animal-to-human transmission of a certain virus or on humanity as a whole.

Toward a Complete Axiology of Classroom Practice

1998 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Marshall Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Do So

Kant's argument that autonomy is the basis of human dignity complements the experiential truth that students have the ultimate agency with regard to their learning. Students must see themselves as objects with workable content objectively subject to evaluation — "objects being events-with-meanings" (Dewey), that can be more appreciated personally, socially, and intellectually. To do so sustains and broadens the conditions in which paideia can flourish for its own sake as well as for human ends.

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