Education for Sustainable Development in Spanish University Education Degrees

This work presents an analysis of student perception of Spanish university education degrees regarding their training in sustainable development. A sample of 942 students was used. The methodology consists of analyzing the results of a survey answered by the first- and fourth-year students from nine education degree courses in four Spanish universities. Comparison of the perception of learning by fourth-year students against those of the first year enables improvements in learning regarding sustainability to be ascertained. The questionnaire consists of 18 questions concerning four sustainability competencies: C1-Critical contextualization of knowledge, C2-Sustainable use of resources, C3-Participation in community processes, and C4-Ethics. Two composite indicators are defined to analyze the absolute learning (achieved on completion of their studies) and the relative learning (achieved with respect to what should have been achieved) declared by the students in each competency, degree and university. The results show that students declare an improvement in all their sustainability competencies, although the results of the final learning are far from those expected: they have learned only 27% of what they should have learned. Moreover, the learning achieved in the four competencies depends on the degree and the university.

Massimo Quaini: geografia storica, fonti, conoscenze territoriali e loro uso politico e socio-culturale

Quaini's commitment is aimed – with the development of the Gambian concept – towards the construction of a critical and operational historical geography (usable for the aware and sustainable management, institutional planning and socio-cultural use of territories), through innovative theoretical-methodological reflections and concrete case studies: with a focus on the landscape-territorial historicity and the heritage of regions and places, and openness to interdisciplinarity and local knowledge, integrating – with exemplary critical contextualization – the written and graphic documentary sources with those of the terrain.

Family Ministry: Past, Present, Future

Within the family ministry movement, various philosophies, curriculum, conferences, and ministry models have been historically developed for the Christian discipleship of families. These resources and models have become an integral part of the local church’s ministry to families within the church, the home, and the community. However, as sociocultural shifts occur in our contemporary context, these changes may necessitate future reconceptualization and a critical contextualization approach to family ministry.

Pancasila dan Multikulturalisme Indonesia

Indonesia has founding fathers that have any brilliant ideas. At the time of drawing up the independence, they have debated each other for the sake of strong base of Indonesia. Their ideas have been embraced in conference brochure of BPUPKI. One of the figure that made especial reference in this paper is Soekarno. He have proposed Pancasila, even he embraced Pancasila in one term: “gotong-royong.” The extortion of states of philsosophy of Indonesia is the spirit of “gotong-royong.” Soekarno, in the reality, designed the “gotong-royong” as state of understanding for Indonesia.This paper has a purpose to digging the early idea of the founding of the nation., especially the Soekarno’s idea of Pancasila and “gotong-royong.” Specially, i hope, the discussion of this theme can give any contribution for Indonesian politic and social lives, of which to be felt decline in any ways progressively.Therefore, critical analysis to both of them become the especial pressure. The digging will be focused on Pancasila. Hereinafter, this paper will explain how this research can enrich multiculturalism of Indonesia. The critical contextualization for Indonesian daily live will be searched on last chapter.

The Penitential Psalms and Wholeness

In this article I examine a Mesopotamian therapeutic ritual and its prayer, “My god, I did not know.” It is clear that although the prayer is quite general, its purpose is to reconcile a sick person to his personal deity so that the patient is healed. I will then examine structural and content similarities with Pss 38 and 51. Thus, the paper’s methodology is comparative and form critical. I conclude that Pss 38 and 51, like the Mesopotamian penitential prayers and rituals, were ritual prayers through which the faithful Israelite was reconciled to God so that wholeness could be re-established in his or her life. This has implications for wholeness and health today as believers pursue right relationship with their creator. It also has implications for the critical contextualization of the psalms into different cultural contexts.