Discourse and religion in educational practice

Despite the existence of long-held binaries between secular and sacred, private and public spaces, school and religious literacies in many contemporary societies, the significance of religion and its relationship to education and society more broadly has become increasingly topical. Yet, it is only recently that the investigation of the nexus of discourse and religion in educational practice has started to receive some scholarly attention. In this chapter, religion is understood as a cultural practice, historically situated and embedded in specific local and global contexts. This view of religion stresses the social alongside the subjective or experiential dimensions. It explores how through active participation and apprenticeship in culturally appropriate practices and behaviors often mediated intergenerationally and the mobilisation of linguistic and other semiotic resources but also affective, social and material resources, membership in religious communities is constructed and affirmed. The chapter reviews research strands that have explored different aspects of discourse and religion in educational practice as a growing interdisciplinary field. Research strands have examined the place and purpose of religion in general and evangelical Christianity in particular in English Language Teaching (ELT) programmes and the interplay of religion and teaching and learning in a wide range of religious and increasingly secular educational contexts. They provide useful insights for scholars of discourse studies to issues of identity, socialisation, pedagogy and language policy

Peace, pace and parallax: Toward a quanto-analytic discernment of past security needs and military wants among the import-dependent sovereign countries of developing Eurafrasia

A quantifiably comparative political explanation is sought, in real economic terms, of the possible influence of aggregate regional armaments imports on the respective military outlays of the individual stakeholders, over time. A dynamic model is hypothesized and subjected to empirical scrutiny in a contextualized systemic approach. Perceptive behavioral adjustments by susceptible actors to subjective needs, objective wants and instrumental emulations, are articulated by redesigning Richardsonian grievance from a quasi-Straussian, adaptive expectations , perspective. An embedded discrete-time-dependent surrogate indicator of regional tension helps assess the possible influences of the exogenous variables (Arms Imports) on the endogenous ones (Military Expenditures) and the compounded consequences for the dynamic stability of the system as a whole. At interplay are 29 developing countries, in 5 geo-political subsystems constituting 1 tricontinental ensemble ( EURAFRASIA ), from 1967 to 1983: \u27AFRICA\u27 (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia); \u27ARABIA\u27 (YemenAR, YemenPDR, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait); \u27ASIARABIA\u27 (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan: India exogenously);\u27NEAREAST\u27 (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt); \u27AEGEO-MEDITERRANEAN\u27 (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey). USACDA data series M80D and I80D , smoothed at source for the period 1967-1983, are used for MILITARY EXPENDITURES (million US$, 1980 Exchange Rates, 1980 Constant Prices) and ARMS IMPORTS (million US\$, Current Exchange Rates, Constant 1980 US$). OLS techniques help characterize Military Expenditures, at individual, subgroup, and system levels of synthesis. Simulations (scenarios of 15%, 30%, 50% and reference-100% multilateral cuts in regional Arms Imports) permit compare these characterizations. Computed as theoretically prescribed, desires are contrasted with realities (the actual Military Expenditure time series). Heuristic eigenanalytic techniques permit verify system stability (cycles, oscillations, explosiveness dots) under exogenous shocks; generalize \u27local trajectories\u27 (into \u27time-slice systems\u27) to highlight potential systemic implications; produce a longitudinal collage yielding insights otherwise unavailable in conventional eigenanalytic pursuits desensitized to dynamic exogenous shocks. Results appear intuitively acceptable and historically plausible. Findings indicate that, for the spatio-temporal domain investigated, policies conducive to greater individual prosperity and collective stability were possible and could have been adopted, precisely by those placed best to benefit most from such

Cochlear ımplantatıon ın a patıent wıth usher's syndrome

Usher's Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa. Usher’s Syndrome patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss can be considered as candidates for cochlear implantation. This case study reports a deaf-blind with Usher's Syndrome who received a cochlear implant, the audiological evaluation is presented and the therapy sessions are discussed. The patient demonstrated good performance overtime after the implantation including open set speech understanding and telephone use

Peace, pace and parallax: Toward a quanto-analytic discernment of past security needs and military wants among the import-dependent sovereign countries of developing Eurafrasia

A quantifiably comparative political explanation is sought, in real economic terms, of the possible influence of aggregate regional armaments imports on the respective military outlays of the individual stakeholders, over time. A dynamic model is hypothesized and subjected to empirical scrutiny in a contextualized systemic approach. Perceptive behavioral adjustments by susceptible actors to subjective needs, objective wants and instrumental emulations, are articulated by redesigning Richardsonian grievance from a quasi-Straussian, adaptive expectations , perspective. An embedded discrete-time-dependent surrogate indicator of regional tension helps assess the possible influences of the exogenous variables (Arms Imports) on the endogenous ones (Military Expenditures) and the compounded consequences for the dynamic stability of the system as a whole. At interplay are 29 developing countries, in 5 geo-political subsystems constituting 1 tricontinental ensemble ( EURAFRASIA ), from 1967 to 1983: \u27AFRICA\u27 (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia); \u27ARABIA\u27 (YemenAR, YemenPDR, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait); \u27ASIARABIA\u27 (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan: India exogenously);\u27NEAREAST\u27 (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt); \u27AEGEO-MEDITERRANEAN\u27 (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey). USACDA data series M80D and I80D , smoothed at source for the period 1967-1983, are used for MILITARY EXPENDITURES (million US$, 1980 Exchange Rates, 1980 Constant Prices) and ARMS IMPORTS (million US\$, Current Exchange Rates, Constant 1980 US$). OLS techniques help characterize Military Expenditures, at individual, subgroup, and system levels of synthesis. Simulations (scenarios of 15%, 30%, 50% and reference-100% multilateral cuts in regional Arms Imports) permit compare these characterizations. Computed as theoretically prescribed, desires are contrasted with realities (the actual Military Expenditure time series). Heuristic eigenanalytic techniques permit verify system stability (cycles, oscillations, explosiveness dots) under exogenous shocks; generalize \u27local trajectories\u27 (into \u27time-slice systems\u27) to highlight potential systemic implications; produce a longitudinal collage yielding insights otherwise unavailable in conventional eigenanalytic pursuits desensitized to dynamic exogenous shocks. Results appear intuitively acceptable and historically plausible. Findings indicate that, for the spatio-temporal domain investigated, policies conducive to greater individual prosperity and collective stability were possible and could have been adopted, precisely by those placed best to benefit most from such