Homily for the 150th Anniversary of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

This homily celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in the United States. In it, Terry Steib explores the paradox of God as it applies to Vincentians. God is both “beyond limits and beyond knowing” and “more intimate to us than we are to ourselves.” Christians are always left “mystified but hopeful.” Vincentians in particular are mystified by injustice shown to the poor and by the love of God, which led him to create us with free will even though we might then commit injustice. Other mysteries are that God shows himself in persons who are poor and chooses humans, with all their weaknesses, to do his work. Hope lies in the fact that the work is accomplished. Suffering matters to God, and our service to the poor is part of his plan

Retrieving and recontextualising VET theory

To what extent can we speak of theory specific to vocational education and training (VET) and what is its relevance today? This Special Issue 19 of bwp@ aims to (re)ignite academic discourse on VET theory, retrieving earlier theorisation specific to this field, mainly from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (the DACH countries) and connecting it both with international perspectives and contemporary debates. We invite papers in English or German that engage with these debates. From an international perspective, the DACH countries are extraordinary both in their proposition of theories of VET sui generis and especially in their influence on the field of policy and practice. By contrast, for example in English-speaking countries, influential theories that address the question of vocational study, whilst drawing extensively on philosophical and social science concepts, developed largely in opposition to policy and practices that positioned vocational learning as an inferior pathway and narrowed its educational scope. The dual apprenticeship model has been widely imitated internationally but without regard to the social partnerships, labour markets and education workforce developed in Germany, and the theories that shaped this system are neither translated nor widely discussed in other languages. While there are several approaches to VET theory, the core of all these approaches is a framework of normative goals of education, a characterisation of how these goals can be reached through vocational education in particular and the formulation of (education) policy implications that are necessary for successful implementation. For example, Kerschensteiner (1901, 1966/1904) in his emphasis on civic virtues as a central aim of education, drew attention to the possibility of attaining such virtues through work, but acknowledged the necessity of a foundation in general education. In contrast, post-war critical approaches, which regularly draw on critical theory (see Habermas 1968; Horkheimer & Adorno 1947), and can be dated to the 1960s and 1970s, identify autonomy and emancipation as central objectives of education (e.g. Lempert 1971; Blankertz 1974, 1979, 1982). The main challenge of VET theory was to explain how these goals also can be reached through vocational education. Blankertz’s answer lay in emphasizing the role of the VET school in widening and deepening knowledge associated with the workspace. The value of these approaches for contemporary VET is dependent on their adaptation to contemporary problems that VET and society are experiencing: migration and integration; climate change and resource consumption, digitisation and globalisation. The tertiarisation of both the economy and of education, as the service sector employs a greater proportion of the population and a growing number of young people enter higher education, even in Germany, also calls into question the relevance of established VET theories. As the structures and forms of organisation that have sustained VET since the 1970s have given way to new social formations and new forms of precarity, the relevance of theories developed during the long period of post-war growth is called into question. Correspondingly, whether a critical standpoint can still be clearly located after the “fall of metaphysics” (Adorno 1998/1965) has also been deemed as questionable (cf. Schäfer 2005). Furthermore, a succession of de-centring approaches including post-structuralist, postmodernist and post-anthropocentric paradigms has suggested the erosion of earlier ‘grand narratives’, the supersession of the ‘enlightenment project’ and even questioned the progressive potential of human labour that explicitly VET theories tend to take for granted. Call for Papers bwp@ Spezial 19 2 Against this background, the bwp@ Special invites contributions that address both VET theory and its application to contemporary issues. The aim is to stimulate a discussion on the continuing significance of VET theory. The aim is to provide space for ideas on how the discipline and its subject could position itself, both nationally and beyond national borders, in its normative-theoretical contours and/or in relation to VET policy and VET practice

PSJA High School Yearbook, 1959

Black and white images. Bear Memories 1959.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/psjayearbooks/1009/thumbnail.jp

Cloud 9

Written by Caryl Churchill October 25-27, 29-31 and November 1-4https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdp/1079/thumbnail.jp

Center for Catholic Education Newsletter, Spring 2003

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A Lesson from Aloes

Written by Athol Fugard Productions took place March 22-24, 26-31https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdp/1064/thumbnail.jp

ANALISIS BIBLIOMETRIK PERKEMBANGAN PENELITIAN BIDANG ILMU INSTRUMENTASI

A study of trend analysis of the field of instrumentation research during the period 2006-2016 was conducted. The study aims to determine: (1) the development of the number of international publications in the field of instrumentation on the Scopus database from 2006-2016; (2) core journals in international publications in the field of instrumentation; (3) productivity of instrumentation researcher; (4) number of documents based on agency collaboration in international publications in the field of instrumentation; (5) the development of international publications of field research instrumentation by subject; (6) maps of international publications development of research in the field of instrumentation by keyword (co-word) and based on the author (co-author). Data collection by searching through scopus with keyword instrumentation, instrumens, measurements, medical instrumentation, virtual instrumentation and instrumentation system with category article title, abstract, keywords in the period 2006-2016. Data in the form of number of publications per year, journals containing articles of instrumentation, author, author and subject are analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2010. As for the development trend of international publications in the field of instrumentation is analyzed using VosViewer software. The results showed that the development of the field of instrumentation sciences during the period 2006-2016 which was scanned in the highest scopus occurred in 2014 which reached 310 documents (14,90%). The international publication of the field of instrumentation is mostly published in the journal Spine. Universidade de São Paulo - USP is the most widely published institution in the field of instrumentation science and the United States is the largest contributor. Yazici, M., Zhang, H.Q., and Aubin, C.E. is a prolific writer in the field of instrumentation with the most subjects in medicine and engineering. The map of instrumentation development based on the coword grouped into 5 clusters and the co-authors clustered into 7 clusters

Városi levegőminőség előrejelzése = Prediction of urban air quality

A CHIMERE fotokémiai transzport modell alkalmazásával egy operatívan működő levegőminőségi előrejelző modellt dolgoztunk ki az Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálatnál. A CHIMERE Euler-típusú többskálájú fotokémiai transzport modell, mely egy numerikus időjárás előrejelző modellhez csatlakozik. Az így létrejött integrált meteorológiai-kémiai modellrendszer képes előrejelzi az ózon, aeroszol és egyéb légköri szennyezőanyagok várható értékeit. Az előrejelzés Budapest frissített, NO2, CO és PM kibocsátásokat tartalmazó emissziósadat hálóján fut. A budapesti levegőminőségi előrejelzések 2010. augusztus 1-je óta folyamatosan, operatívan készülnek, és az eredmények rendszeresen elérhetőek az Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat honlapján, a http://www.met.hu/levegokornyezet/legszennyezettseg_elorejelzes/ oldalon. Az itt bemutatott PM10, O3, NO2, SO2 koncentrációk városi területi eloszlásai az Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat HAWK3 (Hungarian Advanced WorKstation) megjelenítő rendszerével készültek. honlapon a város 11 levegőminőségi mérőhelyére vonatkozóan diagramokon, kísérhetjük figyelemmel a következő 24 órában várható PM10, O3, NO2, SO2 szennyezettséget. Az előrejelzések közzétételének egyik célja az, hogy a Fővárosi Önkormányzat szmog helyzet esetén meghozandó intézkedéseit segítse. A web-alapú levegőminőségi információs rendszer hatékony segítséget nyújthat az önkormányzat számára a forgalomkorlátozások bevezetésénél, valamint Budapest levegőminőségének tervezésekor. | Operational air quality forecast was implemented at the Hungarian Meteorological Service using the CHIMERE photochemical transport model. The CHIMERE is an Eulerian-type, multi-scale model, which is coupled to the WRF model. It was chosen thanks to its flexibility to produce daily forecasts of ozone, aerosols and other pollutants over an urban scale. AQ forecast was made over an updated emission domain of Budapest with special focus on NO2, CO and PM releases. The model system has be operational since 1 August 2010 and the results of predictions can be seen in the website of the Hungarian Meteorological Service http://www.met.hu/levegokornyezet/legszennyezettseg_elorejelzes/. The spatial distributions of PM10, O3, NO2, SO2 levels presented here were made by HAWK3 (Hungarian Advanced WorKstation) developed by Hungarian Meteorological Service. This public website contains diagrams for 11 locations in the city where the air pollution measuring stations work and concentration fields for PM10, O3, NO2, SO2. Using this visualized air quality information system efficient environmental information service, pollution control strategies and plans of future air quality can be introduced by local government in Budapest