Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty An Essay

Literacy as Resistance; Resistance as Literacy: An Essay Review

" …the truth…involves honesty, courage and a readiness to break ranks. " ~ Terry Eagleton Imagine a large-scale public education project operating on the theoretical and practical assumptions that: (1) we are confronted with multiple crises emerging from current institutional directions, historical trajectories, intellectual traditions, and structural requisites that urgently demand new sets of...

What constitutes Authorship in Art Music?

The field of Art Music is based on sufficiently different values than those of popular music. According to the author, a (classical) contemporary music composer, the idea of intellectual ownership in Art Music is inextricably connected with the concepts of originality and structure as opposed to surface elements such as strings of notes or specifically recognizable timbres which frequently form...

A price to pay: Turkish and Northern American retaliation for threats to personal and family honor.

Two studies investigated retaliatory responses to actual honor threats among members of an honor culture (Turkey) and a dignity culture (northern United States). The honor threat in these studies was based on previous research which has shown that honesty is a key element of the conception of honor and that accusations of dishonesty are threatening to one's honor. In both studies, participants ...

معنویت در تجربیات سالمندان دارای فرزند معلول ذهنی-یک پژوهش با رویکرد پدیدارشناسی

Objectives: Over the next 30 years there will be a considerable increase in the number of elderly parents of children with intellectual disability. The present article is a part of a phenomenological study on the lived experience of elderly parents of children with intellectual disability which focuses on the issue of spirituality. There is insufficient scientific evidences related to this impo...

The association between spirituality and depression in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities: social supp