The teacher attrition at the beginning of teaching career has aggravated shortage teachers in some countries. We carried out a case study novice physics working two Brazilian schools. Based on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, we analyzed contradictions that emerged and how they transformed his activity. analysis indicates central contradiction, which from capitalist modes educational work a...

ôbjective: we mainly sought to understand the relationship among college students' spiritual well-being, life satisfaction, economic status, and alienation. methods: â sample of 292 undergraduate students (187 females and 105 males) between the ages of 18 and 26 years were selected using the cluster sampling method. then, they completed measurement questionnaires of alienation, satisfactio...

Psychologist Dr. Robert M. Gordon has testified in many court cases about the form of child abuse known as parental alienation [2]. One of the things that frustrates him is that advocacy groups such as NOW (National Organization of Women) [3] dispute the existence of parental alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome to the extent that it becomes difficult to talk in court about a very real p...

“Three personal aspects of this work might be of interest: (1) it documents the often-praised interplay between teaching and research; (2) it was a successful example (rarer than one might think) of interdisciplinary collaboration; and (3) it illustrates how a work’s success can bring irritation as well as pride. “My concern for clarifying the meaning of alienation began when I taught a course ...

Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s decline and the democratization of politics. This paper, however, shifts attention from the dominant party to citizen...

In this article, I explore select case studies of Parkinson patients treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) in light of the notions of alienation and authenticity. While the literature on DBS has so far neglected the issues of authenticity and alienation, I argue that interpreting these cases in terms of these concepts raises new issues for not only the philosophical discussion of neuro-ethi...

The alienation of science & technology is a kind of abnormal phenomenon coming from the research or use of science & technology. It makes science & technology from the tool that serves and brings benefit to human into the power that controls and harms human, so the regulation of the alienation of science & technology is the requirement of the sound development of science & technology, and the s...

This study aimed at identifying the degree of alienation of the students of the Syrian refugee residing in both the refugee camps and cities , and to find out whether there were differences among the study sample's degree of alienation attributed to the variables: achievement, gender, number of alienation years, and the place of residence. To achieve this aim, the researcher applied a 70-item q...