51 research outputs found
Feature Story: Inspiring Leadership Forum 2021: Virtual Edition, presented by TD Speaker Spotlight on Suki Kim
No full textOn Wednesday, March 3, journalist and award-winning author Suki Kim will share her story in her keynote presentation at the Inspiring Leadership Forum 2021: Virtual Edition, presented by TD. Kim is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism, and her experiences reveal the realities of what it’s like to live in a world where everything is closely monitored and controlled.
The theme for this year’s event is “The Courage Within”, with each of the keynote speakers embodying the theme. Kim identifies her decision to become a writer as one of the most courageous things she has done in her life. At the age of 13, Kim and her family moved from South Korea to the United States. Looking back at her experience living in a new country and learning a new language at such a young age, Kim believes that her determination to become a writer led her to where she is today.Staffn
Filosofia e estética na formação da criança: considerações a partir da novela filosófica Suki
No full textEste trabalho se foca na tentativa de responder às perguntas: Qual é o papel da estética no ensino de filosofia para crianças?; Quais as possibilidades para a formação da criança que podem ser vislumbradas a partir da união da experiência estética e da experiência do pensar? Para tanto analisou-se a novela Suki, de autoria de Matthew Lipman por ser o programa por ele definido para a Estética e dada à centralidade deste autor ao se falar em Filosofia para Crianças. Na busca de responder às perguntas acima expostas este trabalho apresenta o conceito de formação defendido pelos frankfurtianos e utilizado como categoria para análise do objeto deste estudo, bem como os conceitos de Indústria Cultural e semiformação. Enfim, a partir da defesa de uma infância plena, destaca-se a importância de unir a experiência do pensar e a experiência estética e, nesse sentido, são tecidos alguns comentários sobre a dimensão estética da proposta de Lipman. Conclui-se o texto apontando algumas possibilidades de união das experiências do pensar e estética sem redução dos elementos estéticos e da própria estética ou instrumentalização do pensar.This paper’s focus is trying to answer the following questions: Which is the role of aesthetic in teaching philosophy to children?; Which are the possibilities to the children’s formation, that can be found through the union of aesthetic and thinking experiences? To answer them, the novel Suki, written by Matthew Lipman, was analyzed. This was due to the fact of this novel being the program defined by the author to the Aesthetic, and also, because of its author’s way of talking about Philosophy to Children. Trying to answer the questions mentioned above, this paper presents the concept of formation supported by the frankfurtians and used as category to the analysis of the object of the study, as well as the concepts of Cultural Industry and semiformation. Eventually, from the defense of a full childhood, we highlight the importance of joining the experience of thinking and the aesthetic experience and we also make some comments about Lipman’s aesthetic proposal. At the end of the text we present some possibilities of the aesthetic and thinking experiences’ union, without reducing the aesthetic elements, or the aesthetic itself, or the instrumentalization of thinking
Filosofia e estética na formação da criança: considerações a partir da novela filosófica Suki
No full textEste trabalho se foca na tentativa de responder às perguntas: Qual é o papel da estética no ensino de filosofia para crianças?; Quais as possibilidades para a formação da criança que podem ser vislumbradas a partir da união da experiência estética e da experiência do pensar? Para tanto analisou-se a novela Suki, de autoria de Matthew Lipman por ser o programa por ele definido para a Estética e dada à centralidade deste autor ao se falar em Filosofia para Crianças. Na busca de responder às perguntas acima expostas este trabalho apresenta o conceito de formação defendido pelos frankfurtianos e utilizado como categoria para análise do objeto deste estudo, bem como os conceitos de Indústria Cultural e semiformação. Enfim, a partir da defesa de uma infância plena, destaca-se a importância de unir a experiência do pensar e a experiência estética e, nesse sentido, são tecidos alguns comentários sobre a dimensão estética da proposta de Lipman. Conclui-se o texto apontando algumas possibilidades de união das experiências do pensar e estética sem redução dos elementos estéticos e da própria estética ou instrumentalização do pensar.This paper’s focus is trying to answer the following questions: Which is the role of aesthetic in teaching philosophy to children?; Which are the possibilities to the children’s formation, that can be found through the union of aesthetic and thinking experiences? To answer them, the novel Suki, written by Matthew Lipman, was analyzed. This was due to the fact of this novel being the program defined by the author to the Aesthetic, and also, because of its author’s way of talking about Philosophy to Children. Trying to answer the questions mentioned above, this paper presents the concept of formation supported by the frankfurtians and used as category to the analysis of the object of the study, as well as the concepts of Cultural Industry and semiformation. Eventually, from the defense of a full childhood, we highlight the importance of joining the experience of thinking and the aesthetic experience and we also make some comments about Lipman’s aesthetic proposal. At the end of the text we present some possibilities of the aesthetic and thinking experiences’ union, without reducing the aesthetic elements, or the aesthetic itself, or the instrumentalization of thinking
Filosofia e estética na formação da criança: considerações a partir da novela filosófica Suki
No full textEste trabalho se foca na tentativa de responder às perguntas: Qual é o papel da estética no ensino de filosofia para crianças?; Quais as possibilidades para a formação da criança que podem ser vislumbradas a partir da união da experiência estética e da experiência do pensar? Para tanto analisou-se a novela Suki, de autoria de Matthew Lipman por ser o programa por ele definido para a Estética e dada à centralidade deste autor ao se falar em Filosofia para Crianças. Na busca de responder às perguntas acima expostas este trabalho apresenta o conceito de formação defendido pelos frankfurtianos e utilizado como categoria para análise do objeto deste estudo, bem como os conceitos de Indústria Cultural e semiformação. Enfim, a partir da defesa de uma infância plena, destaca-se a importância de unir a experiência do pensar e a experiência estética e, nesse sentido, são tecidos alguns comentários sobre a dimensão estética da proposta de Lipman. Conclui-se o texto apontando algumas possibilidades de união das experiências do pensar e estética sem redução dos elementos estéticos e da própria estética ou instrumentalização do pensar.This paper’s focus is trying to answer the following questions: Which is the role of aesthetic in teaching philosophy to children?; Which are the possibilities to the children’s formation, that can be found through the union of aesthetic and thinking experiences? To answer them, the novel Suki, written by Matthew Lipman, was analyzed. This was due to the fact of this novel being the program defined by the author to the Aesthetic, and also, because of its author’s way of talking about Philosophy to Children. Trying to answer the questions mentioned above, this paper presents the concept of formation supported by the frankfurtians and used as category to the analysis of the object of the study, as well as the concepts of Cultural Industry and semiformation. Eventually, from the defense of a full childhood, we highlight the importance of joining the experience of thinking and the aesthetic experience and we also make some comments about Lipman’s aesthetic proposal. At the end of the text we present some possibilities of the aesthetic and thinking experiences’ union, without reducing the aesthetic elements, or the aesthetic itself, or the instrumentalization of thinking
Transfers and the transition from socialism : key tradeoffs
Get PDFThe old days in the now transition societies were characterized by stagnant incomes, rationed goods, and few civil liberties, but a high degree of income security. The early days of reform have brought crashing incomes, more goods, civil liberties, and rising insecurity. Most countries are set on a course toward some form of capitalism, which by definition means greater risk-taking, less security, and almost certainly greater inequality in income distribution. Should transfers be used to compensate for increasing insecurity and poverty? The short-run drop in incomes, the heritage of cradle-to-grave state protection, and the Western European vision of the welfare state provide compelling motivation for using transfers. But, argue the authors, there are significant tradeoffs between moving to a welfare state and shifting to dynamic, growing economies. The transition economies do not have the real levels of productivity or the tax bases needed to sustain the kind of tax effort a large-scale system of transfers would require. Short-run gains in security could in the long run mean insufficient private and public capital accumulation and lack of competitiveness. The result could be financial collapse (as witnessed in Ukraine) or an extreme form of Eurosclerosis (a possibility for Hungary or Poland). Under either scenario, those whom the transfers are supposed to protect - the old, the poor, the disabled, and the unemployed - are most likely to suffer disproportionately over the medium to long term, and probably even in the short term. In any viable scenario, transfers are likely to be important for both welfare and political reasons. Some options for providing transfers are more likely to be consistent with macroeconomic imperatives and to have relatively low adverse-incentive effects - for example, flat-rate (or flatter) pensions at quite low replacement rates, and local rather than general (income-tested) social assistance. The authors recommend using intrisically temporary measures - such as temporary employment schemes - in the transition. This avoids a permanent transfer burden while recognizing the severity of the interim transition period. In sum, the alternative of less reliance on comprehensive transfers puts more pressure on private coping mechanisms and will, in the short run, increase risk. But it may be the price of a viable transition to the growth that is essential to success.Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Services&Transfers to Poor,Safety Nets and Transfers
Infrastructure finance : issues, institutions, and policies
Get PDFThe author analyzes the distinctive features of formal and informal financing of infrastructure and the principal issues policymakers must address in dealing with infrastructure finance: its adequacy in competitive financial systems, its budgetary vulnerability, the rationale for foreign finance, the role of user charges and taxes, the pros and cons of earmarking taxes, the institutional framework for infrastructure finance, the role of municipal finance, different approaches to the private financing of infrastructure (such as franchises, leases, management contracts, and consumer cooperatives), the critical role of contractor finance, and informal financing of infrastructure.The author concludes the following points. Not only the amount of funds but the regularity of their flow is central to maintaining infrastructure. But infrastructure must compete on a level playing field with other sectors. Any essential (but not open-ended) subsidies for maintaining universal minimum standards of service are best carried on the government budget, subject to periodic review. Institutional reform is needed to rationalize the division of resources and responsibilities among all layers of government and to provide mechanisms for insulating infrastructure finance from budgetary and other pressures. Such mechanisms include earmarking, privatization, and objective criteria for sharing value-added tax and other national tax revenue. Most developing countries do not have a national infrastructure agency to fund and coordinate technical assistance for infrastructure projects. The author makes a case for an apex financial entity in charge of municipal financial intermediaries for infrastructure, pointing to the instructive experience of intermediaries in Colombia and Jordan. One responsibility of such an agency would be to determine the necessary import content (for equipment, technical, and managerial expertise) of infrastructure finance, to prevent overborrowing. Privatization of infrastructure should be viewed as implicit earmarking, but official regulation of public utility prices should allow private utilities to generate retained earnings (to encourage self-financing) and should allow adjustments for inflation and exchange rate fluctuations. Infrastructure policy should allow for cost recovery through user charges as well as for tax revenues, especially through municipal taxes, since even the viability of loan finance depends on an efficient tax effort. While infrastructure finance is important, it is not always the decisive constraint, judging from the operating losses of even adequately funded infrastructure projects.Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Housing Finance,Urban Economics,Public&Municipal Finance
Effect of dispersion preparation technique of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) fillers on mechanical properties of natural rubber (NR) latex films
No full textImpacts of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Links Between Green Marketing Awareness and Consumer Purchase Intentions
Get PDFAbstractThis study examines the mediating roles of corporate social responsibility on the links between green marketing awareness and consumer purchase intentions. Data was analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach for the analysis of structural equation models with SmartPLS computer program version 2.0. PLS results revealed that corporate social responsibility partially mediated the link between green marketing awareness and purchase intentions of the product. Consumers develop positive green marketing awareness based on the growing environmental knowledge. They were aware of the green marketing program of the retail store when they noticed that the store allocated specified space to sell eco-friendly products. Furthermore, the companies make their green marketing activities known to the publics by distributing eco-friendly fliers which helps to increase sales revenue, raise consumer awareness, and develop greater intention to purchase the products. The outcomes of the mediating effects of this study add a new momentum to the growing literature and preceding discoveries on consumer green marketing awareness, which is inadequately researched in the Malaysian setting
The prevalence of substance use amongst first and fourth year commerce students at the University of Cape Town : a comparative analysis
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