critical thinking is one of the major aims of education, and its prerequisite is to have thoughtful teachers with critical thinking viewpoints. there have been numerous models for critical thinking including two major psychological and socio-political ones. the present article has considered a comparative study of critical thinking from the viewpoints of robert ennis and henry giroux considerin...

Visual archetypes from Russian Orthodox iconography shaped a widely understood visual vocabulary with politically important cultural meaning. Icons derived their symbolic authority from their status in Orthodox doctrine as divinely revealed sacred truth. Although the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 officially denounced organized religion, revolutionary artists nonetheless recycled iconic ar...

In spite of the difference in the country development level, especially in computer and automation technology, between Poland and well developed countries, the history of local computer control applications in the Polish power industry is rather interesting. The paper has been prepared by the IFAC Technical Committee SWISS due to significant social political and cultural aspects of power system...

systems. Such is not the case, and it would have been helpful for them to have explained why. Socialist monetary systems suffer chronic but hidden fi nancial imbalances. Central planners direct resources to ineffi cient uses, using the fi nancial system as a means of enforcing their dictates. When banks and other state enterprises act ineffi ciently, they do not go bankrupt, transferring contro...

New system design and evaluation methodologies are being developed to address social, organizational, political, cultural, and other nontechnological issues in information systems. This paper presents a social interactionist framework for researching these kinds of organizational issues. The framework is influenced by theoretical models of organizational change, user resistance, adoption and us...

This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to migrants’ cultural differ...

entrepreneurship in the world, especially in western developed countries, the much interest in recent years the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems and integrating the separation of infrastructure services needed by entrepreneurs and governments innovative citizens, industrialists and entrepreneurs to create. a person apart from the idea of an entrepreneur, long way to run and deliver it to t...