Academic literature on the topic 'Interfaced contemplation'

For most of its history, the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) has focussed much of its attention on teaching methods and curricula to the exclusion of the person who must deliver them. In this article we propose that TESOL recognize the inner lives of teachers through understanding their spirituality from the perspective of the teacher’s personal and professional being and becoming. We encourage teachers to reflect on the spiritual dimensions of practice and propose how these might interface with standard disciplinary knowledge to produce more integrated language teachers.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of a large e-book touch-wall, on which the visualized interface provides information in a fun, hedonic-oriented fashion on readers of different ages browsing in a public library. The authors examined how emotions exert influence on the information-seeking behaviors of readers. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigated the emotions and responsive eye movements of 38 readers in various age groups when operating the touch-wall interface of New Taipei City Library. They were monitored using an eye-tracker and a camera that videotaped their spontaneous facial expressions. A facial affect scoring technique was used to measure emotions and statistical analysis was used to explore the relationships among the scope of eye movements, emotions and information-seeking behavior of readers of different ages. Findings Results revealed that participants experienced an array of emotions, such as contemplative, doubtful or peaceful. The older the participant was, the smaller the scope of eye movements was. Scope was also affected by emotions (both positive and negative). Originality/value These results serve as useful reference for exploration into human – information interaction, perceived ease of use, affected searching and the formulation of knowledge structures in visualized interfaces.

The Hypertension Singing Bowl was shaped from a year of the author’s blood pressure readings, and 3D printed in stainless steel so it would ring. This digitally fabricated singing bowl is an “ultimate particular” that establishes the design space of Acoustic Sonifications. This paper presents early experiments with Acoustic Sonification and analyses them using an Annotated Portfolio to identify interaction, perception, aesthetics and contemplation as important axes of the domain. This illustrates how Annotated Portfolios could also be used to analyse New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

The paper portrays the utilization of tools for data gathering and extraction that permits researchers to fare data in standard document groups from various areas of the facebook long range informal communication benefit. Kinship networks, gatherings, and pages can subsequently be breaking down quantitatively and subjectively with respect to demographical, post-demographical, and social qualities. The paper gives a review over expository headings opened up by the data made accessible, talks about stage particular parts of data extraction through the official Application Programming Interface, and quickly connects with the troublesome moral contemplations connected to this sort of research.

Today there is a growing interest in spirituality at both the popular and academic levels. Some missiologists have been suspicious of spirituality because of how it has been defined. This article looks at definitions of spirituality and how they interface with missiology in a way that is mutually enriching for both disciplines. Four regions of the world are examined to see what they might contribute to our understanding of mission spirituality. Emphasis is placed on the need for contemplative prayer to shape and sustain mission praxis.

Abstract This volume in the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law addresses religion, the State and discrimination. The long history of state-religion interaction has yielded four main interface models: the religious state; the state with an established religion; the antireligious state; and the secular state. African states have drawn from these four models when struggling to manage state-religion relations. This volume argues that the African countries studied here, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, apply the concept of state-secularism without having their triple heritage, which encompasses African religion, Islam and Christianity, in contemplation. This volume proposes that the best way to realise the full flowering of the triple heritage is to erect the three pillars of Charles Taylor’s definition of state-secularism, which in this case should entail i) the freedom to have and to manifest religious beliefs, ii) equal treatment of religion, and iii) and efforts toward an all-inclusive state identity.

<p>http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n1p319</p><p>O presente texto aborda a questão do patrimônio material e imaterial e seu potencial educativo na formação cidadã de alunos da educação básica. Tem como objetivo refletir sobre as perspectivas de desenvolvimento de uma Educação Patrimonial em uma cidade educadora. Fundamenta essa discussão estudos que analisam a educação sob uma perspectiva crítica, em que esta supere a simples transmissão e contemplação dos bens patrimoniais destituídas de sentido, presentes em muitas propostas educativas em instituições de educação formal e não formal, de modo, ainda, que haja colaboração com a gestão do patrimônio cultural. Sendo assim, este texto contempla reflexões sobre a educação patrimonial como uma área emergente na educação e analisa uma experiência na região do alto Tietê, no município de Guararema. Os primeiros resultados apontam para considerações de que a Educação Patrimonial deve ser um diálogo permanente entre as vivências, experiências e percepções dos educandos e cidadãos ante os bens culturais e suas formas de ser e de agir cotidianos, com os conteúdos escolares e ações educativas desenvolvidas nas unidades escolares e instituições culturais, como forma de entender os processos constituintes de sua identidade cultural auxiliando na gestão do patrimônio cultural.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Culture, citizenship and cultural heritage: interfaces between the school, the city and cultural policies in the city of Guararema, SP </strong></p><p> <strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This paper addresses the issue of tangible and intangible heritage and its educational potential in formation of citizenship of basic education students. It aims to reflect on the perspectives for developing a heritage education in an educating city. This discussion is based in the Heritage Education in studies which examine education from a critical perspective , in that it exceeds the simple transmission and contemplation of the property meaningless, present in many proposals on educational institutions and formal education, and non-formal, so also there is collaboration with the management of cultural heritage. This discussion is based in studies which examine education from a critical perspective , in which it exceeds the simple transmission and contemplation of the property meaningless, present in many educational proposal in formal education, and non-formal institutions, although there is collaboration with the management of cultural heritage. This article includes reflections on heritage education as an emerging field in education and analyzes the experience in the upper Tietê, in the municipality of Guararema, in São Paulo state. The first results indicate that the considerations of that heritage education should be an ongoing dialogue among the experiences, perceptions and participation of students and citizens about cultural property and their ways of being and acting everyday with learning contents and educational activities developed in school units and in cultural institutions as a way to understand the constituent processes of cultural identity assisting in the management of cultural heritage.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Heritage Education. Cultural Policies. Educating City.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Culture, citoyenneté et patrimoine culturel: les interfaces entre l'école, la ville et les politiques culturelles dans la ville de Guararema, SP</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Résumé</strong></p><p>Cet article traite de la question du patrimoine matériel et immatériel et de leur potentiel éducatif dans la formation des étudiants à la citoyenneté dans l'éducation de base. Vise à réfléchir sur les perspectives de développement d’une éducation au patrimoine dans une ville éducatrice. Sur la base on a des études qui analysent l’éducation au patrimoine dans une perspective critique, pour surmonter la simple transmission et la contemplation des biens patrimoniales sans signification, présent dans de nombreuses propositions d'enseignement dans les établissements d'éducation formelle et non formelle, de moyen qui puisse exister la collaboration avec la gestion du patrimoine culturel. Cet article contient des réflexions sur la pédagogie du patrimoine comme un domaine émergent dans l'éducation et analyse l'expérience dans la région de l’Alto Tietê, dans la ville de Guararema. Les premiers résultats indiquent que les considérations sur l'Éducation au Patrimoine devraient être un dialogue permanent entre les connaissances, les perceptions et les expériences des étudiants et des citoyens devant les biens culturels et leurs manières d'être et d'agir quotidiennes, et les contenus d'apprentissage et des activités éducatives développées dans les unités scolaires et les institutions culturelles, comme un moyen de comprendre les processus constitutifs de leur identité culturelle en aident la gestion du patrimoine culturel.</p><p><strong>Mots-clés:</strong> Éducation au Patrimoine. Ville Éducatrice. Patrimoine Culturel.</p>

In this article, a theoretical study is made to explore the effect of squeezing film in conical bearing for the permeable porous wall utilizing non-Newtonian lubricants. The Permeable medium impacts are characterized by modified Darcy’s law. The modified Reynolds equation representing the non-Newtonian properties following the cubic stress law condition is determined. After general contemplations on the flow in a bearing clearance and in a porous wall, the Cameron approximation is used to acquire modified Reynolds equation. The perturbation technique is used to solve the modified Reynolds equation and closed-form expressions are obtained for the fluid film pressure, load capacity, and response time. The results are illustrated by the graphical representation which shows that the introduction of porous on conical bearing with Rabinowitsch fluid, dilatant lubricant increases the film pressure, load capacity, and response time and decrease for pseudoplastic lubricant as compared to Newtonian fluid.

Since the late twentieth century, the development of cybernetics, physical computing and robotics has led artists and researchers to create musical systems that explore the relationship between human bodies and mechanical systems. Anthropomorphic musical robots and bodily integrated ‘cyborg’ sensor interfaces explore complementary manifestations of what we call the ‘anthropomorphic analogy’, which probes the boundary between human artificer and artificial machine, encouraging listeners and viewers to humanise non-musical machines and understand the human body itself as a mechanical instrument.These new approaches to the anthropomorphic analogy benefit from historical contextualisation. At numerous points in the history of Western art music, philosophers, critics, composers, performers and instrument designers have considered the relationship between human musician and musical instrument, often blurring the line between the two. Consideration of historical examples enriches understandings of anthropomorphism in contemporary music technology.This article juxtaposes the anthropomorphic analogy in contemporary musical culture with manifestations of anthropomorphism in early seventeenth-century Europe. The first half of the seventeenth century witnessed a flourishing of instrumentality of all sorts. Musical instruments were linked with the telescope, the clock, the barometer, the paintbrush, and many other instruments and machines, and these came to be understood as vehicles for the creation of knowledge. This flourishing of instrumental culture created new opportunities for contemplation and aesthetic wonder, as theorists considered the line between human being and machine – between nature and artifice. Manifestations of the anthropomorphic analogy in seventeenth-century conceptions of musical instruments help to contextualise and explain similar articulations of the anthropomorphic analogy in the present day.

This essay introduces and examines aspects of the theological aesthetics of contemporary Canadian artist, Michael D. O’Brien (1948–). It also considers how his philosophy of the arts informs understandings of the Catholic imagination. In so doing, it focuses on his view that prayer is the primary source of imaginative expression, allowing the artist to operate from a position of humble receptivity to the transcendent. O’Brien studies is a nascent field, owing much of its development in recent years to the pioneering work of Clemens Cavallin. Apart from Cavallin, few scholars have focused on O’Brien’s extensive collection of paintings (principally because the first catalogue of his art was only published in 2019). Instead, they have worked on his prodigious output of novels and essays. In prioritising O’Brien’s paintings, this study will assess the relationship between his theological reflections on the Catholic imagination and art practice. By focusing on the interface between theory and practice in O’Brien’s art, this article shows that conversations about the philosophy of the Catholic imagination benefit from attending to the inner standing points of contemporary artists who see in the arts a place where faith and praxis meet. In certain instances, I will include images of O’Brien’s devotional art to further illustrate his contemplative, Christ-centred approach to aesthetics. Overall, this study offers new directions in O’Brien studies and scholarship on the philosophy of the Catholic imagination.