A description and evaluation of the program in Reeve Hall, a residence hall for women at Indiana State College

Not available.Ann EppertNot ListedNot ListedMaster of ArtsDepartment Not ListedCunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana State University.isua-thesis-1962-eppertMastersTitle from document title page. Title formatted into pages: contains 64p. : ill. Includes bibliography

Topography and Nature Symbolism in Thomas Mann’s ‘Zauberberg’

In my master's thesis I examine the meaning of topography and nature symbolism in Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain". I select text passages and chapters that exemplify the importance of mountains, height and snow for the whole story and inevitably lead to the question of whether the story would have worked in the lowlands. For example, the first chapter “Arrival” already resembles a journey to Hades if one looks at the topographical and natural symbolic references that Thomas Mann has skillfully interwoven. But nature, flora, and fauna, and above all the seasons, also play an important role in Mann's contemporary novel and underline the inner and outer movement of the protagonist Hans Castorp. In their fictionalized form of the novel, places such as the Berghof or Davos serve as a cipher that significantly reflects the tension of the whole plot and at some points leads to disorder or disorientation. Spatial movements can be found throughout the text, up and down, right, and left, but those also culminate in the chapter “Snow”, which is why I dedicate a focus of my work to that. On the one hand I examine the symbolic meaning of the snow, which can be seen both as a bringer of death and as a means of blurring the boundaries, on the other hand I deal with the spatial movement (internal and external) of Castorp - and to what extent he can be regarded as the only balancing figure in the novel. A symbiosis of opposites is created, for example, in snow and sea. The work demonstrates the importance of the mountains as the novel's spatial-theoretical setting and explains why flat land and sea are to be regarded as topographical and symbolic "opponents" and decisively advance the plot

Intercultural philosophy and the nondual wisdom of ‘basic goodness’: Implications for contemplative and transformative education

Radical personal and systemic social transformation is urgently needed to address world-wide violence and inequality, pervasive moral confusion and corruption, and the rapid, unprecedented global destruction of our environment. Recent years have seen an embrace of intersubjectivity within discourse on educational transformation within academia and the public sphere. As well, there has been a turn toward contemplative education initiatives within North American schools, colleges and universities. This article contends that these turns might benefit from openness to the ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics of the ‘wisdom traditions’ from which many contemplative practices are drawn. To illustrate this point, we discuss the value of intercultural philosophy of education, and introduce Eastern philosophical ideas, specifically, the Shambhala Buddhist notion of the nondual ground and wisdom of basic goodness and related teachings. We detail how awareness of basic goodness and its holistic expression in the ground, path, and fruition of Shambhala teachings can open vital questions regarding intersubjectivity, challenge and reinvigorate aspects of current engagements with contemplative practices, and provide significant insights and educational paths for transformational endeavours in neoliberal times. Informed by our learning from Shambhala, we conclude with a deepened understanding of intercultural philosophy of education

Kulutus ja identiteetti : yksilöllisyyttä ja yhteisöllisyyttä Dynamo-baarissa

Siirretty Doriast

Suomi ja Latinalainen Amerikka : komparatiivinen analyysi kulttuurieroista ja niiden vaikutuksesta liiketoimintaan

Siirretty Doriast

Towards Intercultural Philosophy of Education

In this paper, we propose an understanding of philosophy of education as cultural and intercultural work and philosophers of education as cultural and intercultural workers. In our view, the discipline of philosophy of education in North America is currently suffering from measures of insularity and singularity. It is vital that we justly and respectfully engage with and expand our knowledge and understanding of sets of conceptual and life-practice resources, and honor and learn from diverse histories, cultures, and traditions. Such honoring provides responsive conditions for our coming together in and across differences in order that we may productively and creatively address and overturn grammars of violence, destruction, and dis-ease in these complexly troubled times. Committing ourselves to deconstructing historical and contemporary beliefs, values, and practices that are compromising human and planetary flourishing, we undertake responsibilities to go cross-cultural and intercultural

Der Makro-/ Mikro- Link – UN Missionen als Kommunikationsstrukturen internationaler Interventionen. Das Beispiel der UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)

Albert M, Eppert K, Sienknecht M. Der Makro-/ Mikro- Link – UN Missionen als Kommunikationsstrukturen internationaler Interventionen. Das Beispiel der UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Forschung / DSF. 2017;41