Prevalence of Congenital Hearing Loss in Puppies

By Zoe Heimbrock, Communication Sciences and Disorders Advisor: Peter Scheifele Abstract: Statistical data was collected and analyzed on the prevalence of hearing loss of puppies that were tested in FETCHLAB. Similar results to current data were found

Reading religion in Norwegian textbooks: are individual religions ideas or people?

Different religions are treated in different ways in Norwegian sixth form textbooks. We carried out an exhaustive content analysis of the chapters devoted to individual religions in textbooks for the Religion and Ethics course currently available in Norway, using rigorous indicators to code each word, image and question according to whether they were treated the religion as a set of ideas or a group of people. After adjusting for trends in the different kinds of data (word, image, question), we found that Buddhism and Christianity receive significantly more attention for their ideas than Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, which are treated more as people. This difference cannot be explained by the national syllabus or the particularities of the individual religions. The asymmetry also has implications for the pupils’ academic, moral and pedagogical agency for which teachers play a critical role in compensating.acceptedVersio

A nine country survey of youth in Europe: selected findings and issues

A nine country survey of the life orientations, values and institutional trust of 8948 young people at the upper end of the secondary school age range was set up at the University of Würzburg in the year 2000. Key findings demonstrate that these young people value personal autonomy and are orientated to success in their professional lives and that they especially trust human rights and environmental groups. Religion is associated positively with humanitarianism and in some countries negatively with modernity. These findings provide an indication of the typical life stances of future opinion-formers and illustrate methodological issues thrown up by international research

Glass in the image – image in glass. preaching in fragments and fragments of preaching . . .

Schwier verwys na ’n ‘kritiese metodepluralisme’ wat te midde van die ‘vreemdheid van die teks’ onder meer ‘n blik het op die Bybel as literatuur; wat die rykdom van die Bybelse taal, motiewe, geskiedenisse, beelde, verhale, argumente en literêre strategieë ontgin; wat vra na die verskillende vorms en tekssoorte – wat die narratiewe, profetiese, voorskriftelike, wysheids- en himniese grondvorme van die Bybelse polifonie ondersoek; wat ’n oog het vir retoriek en metaforiese strukture. Naas die veelvuldige vorme van tekskritiek het die sosiaal-historiese, kultuur-antropologiese en kontekstuele of samelewings-betrokke ondersoeke wat gerig is op identiteits- en geloofsbegronding, sowel as verandering van die praxis, ’n wesenlike plek.E.K. (Universiteit van Suid-Afrika) was verantwoordelik vir die deel oor die homiletiek en W.K. (Universiteit van Pretoria) die deel oor die loodglasvensters. Beide dele is geïntegreer en verwerk deur die outeurs.The view that the sermon is an ‘open work of art’, promoted the awareness that the ‘meaning’ of a sermon is not fixed, but that possibilities are presented for the listeners to ‘assign meaning’. ‘Assigning meaning’ does not mean something fully ad libitum: ‘meaning’ is formed within the guidelines of the text from which a sermon stems. Visual works of art could also be based on Biblical texts or stories, analysed and interpreted by the artist. The artist could mould the encounter with the Biblical text into various forms of art, proclaiming the gospel in ways similar to that of a spoken sermon: a work of art could present possibilities for assigning meaning related to faith. In this article the new stained glass windows, symbolically depicting the Liturgical Year, in a Dutch Reformed church in Pretoria, are discussed with a view to the possibilities they present to form part of experience-based religious education in ‘bringing home’ stories from the Bible and aspects of the Liturgical Year. Also asked is how they could function as visual ‘sermons’, speaking and communicating the ‘Word of God’ to the people inside the church, as well as to people on the outside.http://www.hts.org.za/am201