520 research outputs found
An Investigation into whether access to quality education can be better met with the use of e-learning, analysing rural and urban schools. A Case of Zimbabwe
No full textZimbabwe is committed to transforming teaching and learning at all levels of education through the introduction of e-learning.
However, the successful introduction of e-learning into basic education depends largely on the availability of ICT infrastructure
and the capacity of teachers and students to use them. Using some selected rural and urban secondary schools in some parts of
Zimbabwe as a case study, this study investigates the accessibility of e-learning infrastructure among students and teachers of
rural and urban schools. It was found that access to e-learning resources by teachers and students was inadequate. Nonetheless,
there were differences in access to e-learning resources between students and teachers of rural and urban schools. Students of
urban schools had more access to e-learning resources and therefore had more access to quality education than their rural
counterparts. Young teachers of urban schools were also more likely to have access to e-learning resources than those of rural
schools. This digital divide was largely due to rural communities not being able to afford the resources and poor infrastructure
development and urban schools staffed with teachers that were trained in the pre-computer era. It is recommended that the
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education provides all basic schools across the country with ICT infrastructure. Also, efforts
should be made to build the capacity of all teachers in order to facilitate the efficient introduction of e-learning in education like
the initiative made by Higherlife Foundation to train Basic ICT Skills to teachers
Rhetoric, Prudence, and the Morrill Act of 1862.
No full textThe Morrill Act was the political telos of numerous rhetorical messages calling for pedagogical changes in higher education. This study examines the role of prudence in four of them. The method is a mode of textual criticism that attempts to capture the bifurcated sense of rhetorical invention: The immediate rhetorical situation, and the cultural grammar that constrains the rhetor performatively. The author illustrates how the relevant rhetorical strategies/gestures within each text and the text\u27s textual context pointed to a certain conception of prudence. Historically, the author argues that the struggles between different notions of prudence impacted political, pedagogical action. Theoretically, the author reflects on the nature of prudence in relation to the rhetorical canons, agent, purpose, and audience. The study contributes to a broader understanding of how prudence emerges in rhetorical action
Evaluating the effectiveness of m-health based diabetes self-management and community based networking
No full textImplementation of mobile based social and collaborative learning in improving the level of performance of students using web 2.0 tools. a case of Bindura University Of Science Education
No full textThe mobile phone has gained much popularity as a communication tool. Apart from communication, several uses
have been discovered which include learning among other things. Mobile-learning platforms allow users to interact
and collaborate with each other in projects and to share work in a social media as creators of user-generated content
in a virtual community, in contrast to the current computer based e-learning system where users are limited to the
passive viewing of content that was created for them. The need for this research came from the realization that most
students now own smart phones which they are using to join and use social networking platforms hence the need to
harness the power of mobile phones and use it for learning purposes. A sample of 28 students was used to gather
data. Fourteen students used the mobile learning system and other fourteen students used the traditional e-learning
system. They both wrote the pre-test (test before exposure to the system) and post test (test after other 14 students
have been exposed to the system). The tests written were used to assess the effectiveness of mobile -learning over
the current e-learning 1.0 system. Paired-Sample T-Test was used to calculate the difference in mean values for both
groups. Interviews and questionnaires were also used to collect data for the results. The results show that there was
no difference in the mean values for the pre-test scores. On the other hand, the results show that there was an
increase in their post test scores on the side of those who used the mobile platform. There was a significant increase
in the mean scores for those who used the mobile system than for those who were not exposed to the system. The
overall results showed that there was an increase in the level of performance of students through the use of the
system
Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality
No full textPhilosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. This book aims to forge a bold new path forward, outlining a theory of prudence and morality that unifies a wide variety of findings in neuroscience with philosophically sophisticated normative theorizing.
The author summarizes the emerging behavioral neuroscience of prudence and morality, showing how human moral and prudential cognition and motivation are known to involve over a dozen brain regions and capacities. He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence and morality based on neuroscience and lived human experience. The result demonstrates how this theory coheres with and explainsthe behavioral neuroscience, showing how each brain region and capacity interact to give rise to prudential and moral behavior.
Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory will be of interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology, neuroethics, and decision theory
Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality
No full textPhilosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. This book aims to forge a bold new path forward, outlining a theory of prudence and morality that unifies a wide variety of findings in neuroscience with philosophically sophisticated normative theorizing.
The author summarizes the emerging behavioral neuroscience of prudence and morality, showing how human moral and prudential cognition and motivation are known to involve over a dozen brain regions and capacities. He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence and morality based on neuroscience and lived human experience. The result demonstrates how this theory coheres with and explainsthe behavioral neuroscience, showing how each brain region and capacity interact to give rise to prudential and moral behavior.
Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory will be of interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology, neuroethics, and decision theory
Examining the Factors Affecting Accounting Prudence
No full textThis study examines the effect of managerial ownership, firm size, leverage, and growth opportunities on accounting prudence. This type of research includes causal research using quantitative methods. The population in this study were all mining companies listed on the BEI, as many as 28 companies. The sample in this study was determined by purposive sampling, so the full selection was 50 data from 10 financial statements of mining companies for five years. Secondary data was collected through the Indonesia Stock Exchange website and analyzed using Multiple Regression Analysis with the Ordinary Least Square model using the Eviews Version 12 software. The results found that managerial ownership positively and significantly affected accounting prudence. Meanwhile, firm size and leverage have no significant positive effect on accounting prudence. Meanwhile, the growth opportunities variable has a negative and significant impact on accounting prudence. The suggestions given by the author for further research are expected to consider other factors outside of this research that can affect accounting prudence such as litigation risk, taxes, and public ownership and can expand objects to other sectors and extend the research period to provide better results and more accurate
Aquinas, prudence, and proactive parenting: The "Treatise" applied.
No full textThis dissertation is on prudence and its role in child-rearing. More specifically, it is on how Thomas Aquina's Treatise on Prudence (S.T. IIa IIae QQ 47-56) can with profit be used to help parents today in the task of raising their children well. It is the author's conviction that Aquinas has a unique and important contribution to make to the contemporary debate on 'parenting', so-called, and the dissertation is a defense of that conviction. The paper is divided into three Parts, with each Part consisting of two chapters. The overall logical structure of the paper is that of chain argument which runs as follows. Employing the modern notion of 'proactivity' as a framework within which to speak of child-rearing practices, it is argued that: If proactive parent, then practical, provident, and equitable; If practical, provident, and equitable, then prudent; If proactive parent, then prudent. The thesis is that: It is not possible to be a proactive parent without the intellectual virtue of prudence. Each Part of the paper is dedicated respectively to one of the three qualities mentioned: practicality, providence, and equitability. Proactivity is a comprehensive theory of effective living; it is an approach to life and to problem-solving which has its origins in the fields of business and motivational psychology. Its principal proponent is the immensely popular author, lecturer, and leadership specialist, Dr. Stephen R. Covey. The use made of the notion of proactivity in the paper is twofold. First, in particular, it is used to focus the discussion of prudence and its role in conscientious parenting. The author noticed several fundamental and undeniable similarities between the notions of proactivity and prudence and has sought to exploit these similarities as a way of better understanding what it means to be an effective parent and to raise children well. Second, in general, the notion of proactivity is used to re-enter into the modern debate on child-rearing the figure of Thomas Aquinas. Parallel to the debate concerning public education, there arose a debate as to the 'private education', the upbringing, that children receive from their parents at home. And this debate--about which parenting style is most effective in raising children of responsible character--while certainly more focussed and closer to resolution today, is by no means overwith. It is into this debate that the author attempts to re-enter Thomas Aquinas and his Treatise on Prudence: under the auspices, that is, of the theory of 'proactivity'. (Abstract shortened by UMI.
Normative Prudence as a Tradition of Statecraft
No full textEthical dilemmas of international relations have led to two distinct principles of thought, as presented in this article. The Western tradition has generally advocated the distinct differences between politics and morality, though asserting that the former is grounded on the latter. The “normative prudence” school of Aristotle, Aquinas, Burke, and Niebuhr interlink a nation\u27s morality and politics in an ethical and pragmatic statecraft of nations. Realists such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Hobbes, on the other hand, divorce the two, maintaining that “prudence” is the most vital element in the political realm. Realists argue that politics supersedes morality and is upheld through self-interest as the pure search for the truly good. Both views spotlight the individual citizen as the center of moral society yet differ on the importance of the means and ends of statecraft and political adroitness of leaders. Adhering to Aristotelian views, Coll clearly advocates the notion that “moral principles are ultimately realized only in specific acts which human beings choose to carry out.” The author cites Washington, Lincoln, and Churchill as examples of leaders whose moral wisdom in political reasoning led to remarkable statecraft explicitly derived from prudence
Chapter 3 How should we treat our future selves? The moral requirements of prudence to one’s present and future selves
No full textThis book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choices involving our earlier and later selves, in which the earlier self makes a decision for the later self. The author connects the scientific understanding of the neurobehavioral processes at the core of individuals’ perceptions of their future selves with the philosophical reflection on individuals’ moral relationship with their future selves. She delineates a descriptive theory of the perception of the future self that is based on empirical evidence and that systematizes and integrates the current theoretical literature. She then argues for the morality of prudence and interprets diachronic self-regarding decisions as decisions between two agents— the earlier and later selves—that belong to the realm of intergenerational ethics, which regulates the relationship between contemporary people and future generations. Finally, the author provides a moral theory of prudence based on respect for one’s agency. This theory identifies what the present and the future selves owe to one another in diachronic self-regarding decisions. Moral Choices for Our Future Selves will be of interest to scholars and students working in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science
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