Global Intelligence and Human Development

Global Intelligence and Human Development

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  • Author: Mihai Spariosu
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 9780262693165
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

Proposes an innovative approach to globalization based on an ethics of global awareness.


Global Intelligence and Human Development

Global Intelligence and Human Development

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  • Author: Mihai Spariosu
  • Publisher: Mit Press
  • ISBN: 9780262195119
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

Proposes an innovative approach to globalization based on an ethics of global awareness.


Remapping Knowledge

Remapping Knowledge

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  • Author: Mihai I. Spariosu
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 1789201365
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 381

The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational authority can predefine or predetermine it, global intelligence involves long-term, collective learning processes and can emerge only from continuing intercultural research, dialogue, and cooperation. In this book, the author elaborates the basic principles of a new field of intercultural studies, oriented toward global intelligence. He proposes concrete research and educational programs that would help create intercultural learning environments designed to stimulate sustainable human development throughout the world.


Exploring Humanity

Exploring Humanity

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  • Author: Mihai I. Spariosu
  • Publisher: V&R Unipress
  • ISBN: 3847000160
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate – even if it pleads for an ever-wider inclusion of other cultural perspectives and for intercultural dialogue.In contrast, it would be wise to retain a number of its assumptions and practices – which it incidentally shares with humanistic models outside the Western world. We must now reconsider and remap it in terms of a larger, global reference frame. This anthology does just that, thus contributing to a new field of study and practice that could be called »intercultural humanism«.


Weighting Differences

Weighting Differences

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  • Author: Vasile Boari
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443812153
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

Irrespective of the level of analysis, identity remains a vague concept, slippery, and insufficiently elaborated and defined. Be it individual or collective, ethnical or social, local or general, regional (e.g. the EU) or global, identity is a recurrent subject in political debates. Situated on the edge of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology it increasingly becomes a leading paradigm in the area of social sciences. Starting from the broader European perspective, this volume has a multidisciplinary approach and gathers relevant works of internationally renowned scholars who tackle questions related to the Romanian identity: Who are the Romanians? What is the essence of their identity and how has it evolved along history? What are their primary qualities and flaws? How do Romanians perceive their Europeanness and how do they assume their European condition? With no claim to unique answers, the book provides a multi-layered view of what Romanian identity means in contemporary period and how it develops in the broader European context. By challenging the common sense understanding of identity, we raise even more questions to be anasered by further research.


Locating Values in Literature

Locating Values in Literature

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  • Author: Corina-Mihaela Beleaua
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 1793609411
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 245

Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.


Philosophical Perspectives on Play

Philosophical Perspectives on Play

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  • Author: Malcolm MacLean
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317554310
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value. Made up of contributions from leading international thinkers and inviting readers to explore the presumptions often attached to play and playfulness, the book considers ways that play in ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds can inform understandings of each, critiquing established norms and encouraging scepticism about the practice and experience of play. Organised around four central themes -- play(ing) at the limits, aesthetics, metaphysics/ontology and ethics -- the book extends and challenges notions of play by drawing on issues emerging in sport, gaming, literature, space and art, with specific attention paid to disruption and danger. It is intended to provide scholars and practitioners working in the spheres of play, education, games, sport and related subjects with a deeper understanding of philosophical thought and to open dialogue across these disciplines.


Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands

Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands

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  • Author: Mihai I. Spariosu
  • Publisher: V&R Unipress
  • ISBN: 3847006924
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

This crossdisciplinary collection of essays combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-examine the most influential contemporary theories of intercultural relations and their application in various domains including historiography, sociology and cultural studies. A particular focus lies on Central Europe, historical Banat and Transylvania, but also on the current public policies toward ethnic and religious minorities as well as recent immigrants. It argues that much more complex approaches are needed, both historically and conceptually, in exploring intercultural relations. Thus, the political decision-making in East Central European countries and the European Union as a whole could benefit from a well-informed historical perspective by learning from the successes and errors of their predecessors.


Human Development and Global Institutions

Human Development and Global Institutions

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  • Author: Richard Ponzio
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317278534
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue, both in terms of intellectual and technical advance, and operationally. Showing that human development has had a profound impact on shaping the policy agenda and programming priorities of global institutions, it argues that human development has helped to preserve the continued vitality of major multilateral development programs, funds, and agencies. It also details how human development faces new risks and threats, caused by political, economic, social, and environmental forces which are highlighted in a series of engaging case studies on trade, water, energy, the environment, democracy, human rights, and peacebuilding. The book also makes the case for why human development remains relevant in an increasingly globalized world, while asking whether global institutions will be able to sustain political and moral support from their member states and powerful non-state actors. It argues that fresh new perspectives on human development are now urgently needed to fill critical gaps across borders and entire regions. A positive, forward-looking agenda for the future of global governance would have to engage with new issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals, energy transitions, resource scarcity, and expansion of democratic governance within and between nations. Redefining the overall nature and specific characteristics of what constitutes human progress in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world, this book serves as a primer for scholars and graduate students of international relations and development. It is also relevant to scholars of economics, political science, history, sociology, and women’s studies.


Modernism and Exile

Modernism and Exile

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  • Author: M. Spariosu
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137317213
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss.