Graduate Student Appreciation Week
نویسنده
چکیده
The movement of people from one country to another and the subsequent settling of migrants in host communities diversely affect all parties in relocation processes. Directly or indirectly, both migrant and their host communities respond differently to the worldviews of the migrants and the socio-cultural contexts of the host communities. While the religious beliefs of people appear to be the least considered values of parties involved in the migration processes, its centrality in orientating the behavior patterns of the parties cannot be downplayed. This makes people’s religious beliefs and practices an important value for knowing, understanding and creating an atmosphere of tolerance and harmonious leaving in societies. It is more important, especially in America, where changing policies are applied to immigration processes. Since the enactment of the First Amendment however, the United States has relegated teaching and learning of religious subjects in her foundational education curriculum. This stance towards religious education has its own ramification on people’s socio-cultural and political behavior. On the one hand, the removal of religious subjects has denied citizens the opportunity to learn about religious values of the other and subsequently becoming ignorance about how people’s religious values shape their behavioral in the society. On other hand, the absence of transmitting authentic knowledge about people’s religious orientations with academic approaches leaves individual to acquire religious knowledge from sources which sometimes impact knowledge grounded on misinformed religious indoctrination. Considering the ever increasing religious diversities in America with immigration as a major factor, this paper explores the extent to which immigration has changed the religious landscape of the American society in a pluralistic one. Using Otto Maduro’s framework of power, knowledge and values, I argue that religious underpinnings influence the outcomes of encounters between migrants and their respective host communities in America. And one of the surest ways of keeping tolerance with other’s religious worldviews, prevention of conflicts and crime fashioned out of misinformed religious indoctrination is for America to consider reintroduction of teaching and learning religious subjects into the foundational education curriculum.
منابع مشابه
An adaptive Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method for time-dependent discrete ordinate transport
To my beautiful wife, Ashley. For your unconditional love, faithful encouragement, and resolute support. You have always believed in and inspired the pursuit of my dreams. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to express my immense gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Glenn Sjoden. What started as an undergraduate summer research project transformed into my path in graduate school. As both an advisor ...
متن کاملA Graduate Level Expert Systems Course
system studied. The Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute offers a course called Expert, Knowledge-Based, Problem-Solving Systems to graduate students who have already taken the graduate-level introduction to AI. The course size is limited to 20. It is run as a 14-week course, with one 3-hour class per week. One goal of the course is to examine a number of expert, knowl...
متن کاملWiring the Nervous System: Mechanisms of synaptic targeting
Number Presenter Presenter Type School 1 L.Sullivan Undergraduate George Mason University 2 M.Rubaharan Undergraduate George Mason University 3 S.Iyer Graduate student George Mason University 4 C.Waggener Graduate student Virginia Commonwealth University 5 M.McDonough Undergraduate College of William and Mary 6 B.Rabe Undergraduate College of William and Mary 7 W.Herbst Undergraduate College of...
متن کاملChemistry of Bowl-Shaped Aromatic Compounds and Metal Nanocluster Catalysts
SAKURAI, Hidehiro Associate Professor HIGASHIBAYASHI, Shuhei Assistant Professor PANDA, Gautam Visiting Scientist; JSPS Invited Fellow MURUGADOSS, Arumugam Visiting Scientist; JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow TAN, Qi-Tao Visiting Scientist; JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow MORITA, Yuki Post-Doctoral Fellow SUGIISHI, Tsuyuka Post-Doctoral Fellow REZA, A. F. G. Masud Visiting Scientist (JASSO Follow-up Researc...
متن کاملWelcome to the 17 th Annual Arts and Sciences Grad Expo
We would especially like to thank William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Vice Provost for Research Mark S. Redfern and Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson. From the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, we thank the Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of Arts and Sciences, N. John Cooper; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Kathleen Blee; and Assistant D...
متن کامل