positions, administrative services, and supply funds. Areas that are not reduced include programs that support the humanities, athletics, science and technology, as these areas are deemed too important to the formation and development of students’ characters and skills, which are needed to ensure success in their ensuing years. Letters to a state legislator and to the community are attached in the Appendix.
Keywords: school funding, budget reduction, administration reduction, school budgeting
Introduction
As Butler Elementary School has been tasked with eliminating $1,000,000 from its annual budget, there are a number of cuts that the school will be required to make in order to meet the desire… Continue Reading...
Jasper, the theory of philosophy never fits directly to the subjects dealt in universities and in particular, to "humanities," and there exist quantitative differences. It has become more common and the German universities faced the problem with the more orthodox philosophy, "Neo-Kantianism." Jasper's work Diegeistige Situation der Zeit, that meant a lot to him, had a major impact on the lives of many people when published (The Spiritual Condition of the Age). The question to which Jasper gave much importance was, "What is philosophy?" The first point is dealing with "What is philosophizing?" and the second point is dealing with "How to philosophize?" The questions that appear at… Continue Reading...
A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 8, no. 2 (2000): 7.]
This realism is especially noteworthy because throughout Europe the first rumblings of the Protestant Reformation were approaching at the time that Michelangelo was working in the Sistine Chapel: Martin Luther would nail his 95 Theses to the church in Wittenberg in 1517 and Zwingli would join the call for reform in Switzerland shortly thereafter. John Wycliffe had already been active in calling for reform in the century prior in England, essentially setting the stage for rebellion, and in France John Calvin would… Continue Reading...
when it relates in some way to the humanities, sociology or psychology. I enjoy multiple viewpoints and complex material is also easy for me to grasp. Learning is difficult for me when I cannot relate to it on a personal level, when it has no connection to human behavior and it’s a subject that does not deepen my sense of the field. I like a subject that also appeals to my feelings.
My communication skills are good: I can be emotional but always respectful; I am able to empathize easily with others and speak in their same manner;… Continue Reading...
2. Impart critical thinking skills in the student nurse interns
3. Enable the student nurse intern to relate nursing to other knowledge fields such as sciences, liberal arts and humanities.
4. Train the student nurse intern to conduct physical assessments, come up with plans of care, assess patient outcomes and evaluate their responses.
5. Inculcate a spirit of team work in the student nurse intern (Holtz & Gnambs, 2017)
Evaluation of the program
Nursing students on externship should be technically evaluated to ensure the program’s objectives are met. The evaluation process is a multi-dimensional one and rigorous so to say. It should be in line with the provisions of Assisting, Developing and Evaluating Professional Nursing Interns, an initiative of… Continue Reading...
and mathematics) disciplines are important but they do not reign over the humanities, as the latter are recognized as formative of students’ characters.
Preferred Pedagogy
Inductive learning is helpful with simple concepts but for more advanced learning, deductive methods can be helpful too. Saying that one pedagogy is better than another can constrain teachers as well. For example, many teachers often develop their own teaching styles over the course of experience and so long as they are effective what matters most is that students are meeting their educative goals. Teachers are encouraged to develop a variety of pedagogical methods to meet the… Continue Reading...
