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November 2005
Values and Knowledge Education (VaKE) – can they be combined?
When watching the mainstream in the media, values seem to be a “best seller”. New technologies have widened the possibilities for communication and in a consequence these innovations have increased the speed of the developmental process in society, economics, science etc. But where do we go to? Values are serving as points for orientation. People are united by the traditions of shared interpretation of specific religious and cultural principles. The present period of “high-speed-change” forces the individual and the public mind to turn the focus on these points for orientation and to ask how the new elements affect the stability of the traditional interpretation. The actuality and popularity of talking about values is guided by the necessity of the trial to assimilate these new elements into a valid new interpretation, which is the base for the construction of a stabile community. (more...)Posted on November 2005
The French Vision of Europe from Victor Hugo’s United States of Europe to the No to the Constitution
The political Europe can not exist as long as the intellectuals, the artists, the creators, i.e. those who contribute the most in the making of the collective imaginary, do not succeed in forging a common dream, forceful and inspiring, able to be the basis of an authentic European identity and an authentic European culture. (more...)Posted on November 2005
The Learning Process in Banking Organizations
We live in an organizational world. Organizations play a major and continuing role in our lives especially with the business and technology development. These organizations have different forms and become a necessary part of our society and serve many important needs. Organizational behavior is concerned with the study of people’s behavior matching an organization’s settings. It is necessary to understand interrelationships with other variables which together comprise the total organization. (more...)Posted on November 2005
November 2005
Bravery, Courage, and Honour
These characteristics are embedded in the Maltese Cross, a symbol worn by fire-fighters, specifically in the United States. Fire-fighters hold a particular status and earn respect because they demonstrate these characteristics each day protecting the community. In some places these men and women are under attack. (more...)
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The Therapy for the Sane
The Therapy for the Sane
How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
by Lou Marinoff
Bloomsbury USA, 2003
Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D
In his Gorgias Plato has Socrates explain that his philosophical discussion concerns "a matter in which even a man of slight intelligence must take the profoundest of interest--namely, what course of life is best." In the Apology Socrates justifies his mission by claiming "life without this sort of examination is not worth living." Thus, there is little doubt that from its earliest recorded history the discipline of philosophy has been deeply concerned with how people are to best live their lives. (more...)
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Another Brick in the Wall? Putting Freedom and Democracy on the Curriculum in Hungarian Schools
Hungary is an East Central European country with a population of 10 million. Every day about 1,821,000 children (between the ages of six and eighteen) go to kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools. Approximately a further one million parents and teachers are affected by the public institutional system. How does this mass of many millions of people manage everyday conflicts? What conflict management and civic models does Hungarian public education use today, 15 years after transition to democracy? Relying on nation-wide studies carried out in recent years by the Kurt Lewin Foundation I will now attempt to reveal answers to questions like these. Our work presents the connection and correlation between school aggression, hazing, and the civic socialisation of the individual. The text is also inclusive of a number of interview extracts, too. (more...)Posted on November 2005
Investigating new Ways to Study Adolescent Moral Competence
To explore adolescent moral development and moral competence it is important to develop an instrument, which would make a moral dilemma content explicit for subjects and assist adolescents to make a proper decision. We suppose that a specially designed movie could be used as a tool for representing a moral dilemma core to develop essential motivation and inclusion of viewers in the presented task, to present a realistic content of the problem situation and to present the context of this situation as a whole, and finally to make explicit the emotional peculiarities of the situation. The new method to assess adolescent moral competence has been tested in few secondary schools of Moscow, Russia in 2002-2004 (participants’ age 13 – 16 y.o., N=250). It has been found that this new method allowed to objectify the content of a moral dilemma much more effectively than a traditional, written manner did and consequently revealed more adequately the level of adolescents’ moral competence. (more...)Posted on November 2005
Therapy Beyond Modernity - Interview with Dr. Richard House
Dr Richard House, prolific author, editor, educator, psychotherapist and activist in the politics of psycho-practice in UK agreed to offer us an interview. Graduating from Oxford University in 1976 (with First Class Honours), Richard House gained a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia (Norwich) in 1984. After working in publishing he trained as a counsellor/psychotherapist (1987-95), and has worked in the 'human potential' field since 1990 in various capacities. He was recently appointed Senior Lecturer (part time) in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, London (Research Centre for Therapeutic Education). (more...)
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November 2005
Metaphorical Representations of the Consultancy and the Consultant in Romania (1)
The present study was conducted on constructivist analytical frame and it concentrated on the metaphorical representations of the HR specialists about the HR consultants and, generally, about the consultancy process. The study has been developed during January February 2005, by D&D Research, with the participation of HR-Romania. The methodology was mostly quantitative, based on the deployment of 188 questionnaires by face-to-face administration, but, also, by the respondent’s self-evaluation.
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November 2005
Nation States and Cultural Diversity
Diversity is embedded in the very texture of our world, be it natural or social, be it animal or human, animate or inanimate. It cannot be killed, it cannot be exterminated, but it can be “relocated”. Diversity has no need for us to safeguard it, but it needs people to understand it and to understand the new mechanisms that produce it. Once, these mechanisms were nation states, with their specific history, language, peoples and territories. Now, these realities have lost their power to produce cultural differences, which does not mean that the world will be unified or uniform in the future. They will be replaced by another type of symbolic machinery that will generate cultural variance. What exactly this machinery will be and how exactly it will function, it is probably still too soon to predict. (more...)Posted on November 2005