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Book Synopsis Practical Pursuits by : Janine Anderson Sawada
Download or read book Practical Pursuits written by Janine Anderson Sawada and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, and explains how, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the leading members of these communities went on to create ideological coalitions inspired by the pursuit of a modern form of cultivation. Variously engaged in divination, Shinto purification rituals, and Zen practice, these individuals ultimately used informal political associations to promote the Confucian-style assumption that personal improvement is the basis for national prosperity. This wide-ranging yet painstakingly researched study represents a new direction in historical analysis. Where previous scholarship has used large conceptual units like Confucianism and Buddhism as its main actors and has emphasized the discontinuities in Edo and Meiji religious life, Sawada addresses the history of religion in nineteenth-century Japan at the level of individuals and small groups. She employs personal cultivation as an interpretive system, crossing familiar boundaries to consider complex linguistic, philosophical, and social interconnections.
Book Synopsis Practical Pursuits by : Ellen Gardner Nakamura
Download or read book Practical Pursuits written by Ellen Gardner Nakamura and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of Western medicine in the late Tokugawa period is usually depicted as a prelude to modern medicine. By comparison to the Western medical science that was systematically introduced in the Meiji period, the Tokugawa study of Western learning is often seen as a hopelessly backward exercise in which inadequately equipped Japanese doctors valiantly struggled to make sense of outdated Dutch knowledge. In contrast, this book argues that the study of Western medicine was a dynamic activity that brought together doctors from all over the country in efforts to effect social change. Western knowledge was not simply the property of elite samurai doctors working for the Bakufu or domains but was shared even by commoner doctors working in local practices in rural backwaters. Through the examples of the doctors Takano Choei (1804–1850) and Takahashi Keisaku (1799–1875), this book explores the context into which local Japanese doctors incorporated Western ideas, the social networks through which they communicated them, and the geographical spaces that supported these activities. By examining the social impact of Western learning at the level of everyday life rather than simply its impact at the theoretical level, the book offers a broad picture of the way in which Western medicine, and Western knowledge, was absorbed and adapted in Japan."
Book Synopsis Scientific Training for Practical Pursuits. A Farewell Address Delivered to the Students in the School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, 1854 by : Robert Vickers Dixon
Download or read book Scientific Training for Practical Pursuits. A Farewell Address Delivered to the Students in the School of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin, 1854 written by Robert Vickers Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Practical Pursuits by : Janine Anderson Sawada
Download or read book Practical Pursuits written by Janine Anderson Sawada and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, and explains how, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the leading members of these communities went on to create ideological coalitions inspired by the pursuit of a modern form of cultivation. Variously engaged in divination, Shinto purification rituals, and Zen practice, these individuals ultimately used informal political associations to promote the Confucian-style assumption that personal improvement is the basis for national prosperity. This wide-ranging yet painstakingly researched study represents a new direction in historical analysis. Where previous scholarship has used large conceptual units like Confucianism and Buddhism as its main actors and has emphasized the discontinuities in Edo and Meiji religious life, Sawada addresses the history of religion in nineteenth-century Japan at the level of individuals and small groups. She employs personal cultivation as an interpretive system, crossing familiar boundaries to consider complex linguistic, philosophical, and social interconnections.
Book Synopsis Principles and Methods of Physical Education and Hygiene by : William P. Welpton
Download or read book Principles and Methods of Physical Education and Hygiene written by William P. Welpton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Physical Education by : W. P. Welpton
Download or read book Physical Education written by W. P. Welpton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Primary Artisan Education by : W. P. Welpton
Download or read book Primary Artisan Education written by W. P. Welpton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Ethics by : Susan Sauvé Meyer
Download or read book Ancient Ethics written by Susan Sauvé Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics. It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and schools (Stoics and Epicureans) from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers, analyzing their main arguments and assessing their legacy. This book maps the foundations of this key area, which is crucial knowledge across the disciplines and essential for a wide range of readers.
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Book Synopsis Action Leadership by : Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Download or read book Action Leadership written by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action leadership is a creative, innovative, collaborative and self-developed way to lead. It eschews the hierarchical structure usually associated with leadership and is based instead on the democratic values of freedom, equality, inclusion and self-realization. It take responsibility for, not control over, people through networking and orchestrating human energy towards a holistic outcome that benefits the common interest. Action leaders are passionate people who abide by the motto that “Learning does not mean to fill a barrel but rather to ignite a flame” in others. And in this time of rapid economic, political, technological, social and ecological changes, action leadership and action leaders are precisely what’s needed to improve how people and organizations engage constructively to address the myriad complex issues challenging society at all levels. Action Leadership: Towards a Participatory Paradigm explains and illustrates how action leadership can be developed through participatory action learning and action research (PALAR). It addresses real-life issues by people who choose to work collaboratively towards shared goals while developing their learning, insights, knowledge, people skills and personal relationships through involvement in a PALAR project. The book provides a conceptual framework for action leadership and for the integrative, practical theory of PALAR; and examples of applications in higher education, management education for organization development, and community development. Readers are encouraged to adopt, adapt and further develop the evolving concepts of action leadership and PALAR in a participatory paradigm of learning, research and development.
Book Synopsis Teacher Personal Theorizing by : E. Wayne Ross
Download or read book Teacher Personal Theorizing written by E. Wayne Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-09-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between teacher theorizing and teacher action as illustrated by the curricular and instructional practices of teachers. The authors show that all teaching is guided by theory developed by the teachers. Teachers could not begin to practice without some knowledge of the context of their practice and without ideas about what can and should be done in those circumstances. In this sense, teachers are guided by personal, practical theories that structure their activities and guide them in making decisions. This literature is very significant in explaining and interpreting many phenomena of schooling such as why teachers alter curriculum documents and other policies, how inservice education can be improved, how supervisors can help teachers to improve their practices, and how administrators can become leaders to improve education. This perspective has broad and specific implications for every facet of education. Those interested in teacher education and development, in supervision, in curriculum, and in administration will find it especially relevant.
Book Synopsis The New Century Dictionary of the English Language by : Hulbert G. Emery
Download or read book The New Century Dictionary of the English Language written by Hulbert G. Emery and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teaching and Learning Through Reflective Practice by : Tony Ghaye
Download or read book Teaching and Learning Through Reflective Practice written by Tony Ghaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical guide to enable all those involved in educational activities to learn through the practices of reflection. The book highlights the power that those responsible for teaching and learning have to appraise, understand and positively transform their teaching.
Book Synopsis Studying the Major Subjects by : Claude C. Crawford
Download or read book Studying the Major Subjects written by Claude C. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Builders of America by : Ellsworth Huntington
Download or read book The Builders of America written by Ellsworth Huntington and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism by : Paul Forster
Download or read book Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism written by Paul Forster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work.
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