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This study aims to describe how civic skills are strengthened through Citizenship Education in fostering student participation as citizens. This research is a mix method research with data collection by observation, interviews, and documentation, as well as distributing questionnaires. Participants in this study on qualitative data were lecturers and for quantitative data were 53 students who contracted Civics Learning courses in elementary schools in the Elementary School Teacher Education study program at Esa Unggul University. The results of this study indicate that lecturers provide strengthening of civics skills in Civics Learning courses in Elementary Schools through a project-based learning model, then open space at each meeting for students to be active in the learning process. The results of the analysis of quantitative data, strengthening civic skills through Citizenship Education in fostering student participation as citizens is successful. This can be seen from the survey with the results of Interacting with citizens of other countries to promote personal and shared interests with Agree totaling 91 points; Monitor public events and issues with Agree totaling 123 points; Deliberate and make decisions on public policy issues with Agreed totaling 108 points; Influencing policy decisions on public issues with Agree totaling 100 points; Carry out policy decisions on public issues with Agree totaling 113 points; Taking action to improve political and social life with Agree totals 97 points

HomeHypertensionVol. 33, No. 1Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1998 Free AccessOtherPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toFree AccessOtherPDF/EPUBProceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1998 William B. Campbell William B. CampbellWilliam B. Campbell Search for more papers by this author Originally published1 Jan 1999https://doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.33.1.169Hypertension. 1999;33:169This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 52nd Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa, September 15–18, 1998. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on Mechanisms of Target Organ Injury in Hypertension, which was organized by Drs John E. Hall, Russell L. Prewitt, and Ernesto L. Schiffrin. The program for the conference included 74 oral presentations and 179 posters, which were selected from the 480 submitted abstracts. These presentations, which were judged the best hypertension research, covered a variety of topics, from genetics, molecular biology, receptors, vascular biology, and signal transduction to clinical hypertension and obesity. All presenters were encouraged to submit a manuscript for consideration for publication in this proceedings issue of Hypertension. There were 123 manuscripts submitted, and 72 were accepted for publication. Manuscripts were reviewed by 2 referees and a Section Editor. Only the manuscripts that required minor or no revisions were accepted for publication in this issue. Section Editors were members of the Publications Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, and included Kenneth M. Baker, George L. Bakris, Donald J. DiPette, Anna Dominiczak, Gary H. Gibbons, Joey P. Granger, David R. Harder, Joseph R. Haywood, Joseph L. Izzo, Margot LaPointe, Thomas E. Lohmeier, and Leopoldo Raij.I am grateful to these committee members for the time and diligent efforts that they devoted to the evaluation of the submitted manuscripts. I am also grateful to all who served as referees for the manuscripts. The timely review of the manuscripts has allowed publication of the proceedings within 4 months of the meeting. This rapid publication would not have been possible without the experience, hard work, and encouragement of Dr Edward D. Frohlich, Editor-in-Chief of Hypertension. This also required the dedicated support of the editorial staff of Hypertension: Annie L. Rivera, Debby K. Smith, Irene S. Hebert, and Virginia L. Helton. They provided organization, hard work, advice, and diligence, and their efforts are greatly appreciated by the Publications Committee and the authors.The Council meetings are also the occasion of several invited lectureships and awards. In 1998, Dr Suzanne Oparil presented the annual Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture; Dr David H.P. Streeten received the Council for High Blood Pressure Research Lifetime Achievement Award; Dr Martin Matsumura received the 14th Annual Hoechst Marion Roussel Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Program Award; Dr Edward W. Inscho received the Harry Goldblatt Award; and Dr Masashi Yanigisawa received the 1998 Novartis Award for Hypertension Research.We will continue to strive to make this supplemental issue to Hypertension a valuable and comprehensive forum that showcases the latest developments and advances in the field of hypertension research. To this end, we will continue to feature full-length, peer-reviewed research articles that are published in a timely manner. Previous Back to top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails January 1999Vol 33, Issue 1 Advertisement Article InformationMetrics https://doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.33.1.169 Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1999 PDF download Advertisement

Much of the mental health research that has emerged from the September 11 (9/11) attacks has been focused on posttraumatic stress disorder and its symptoms. To better understand the broader experience of individuals following a disaster, focus groups were conducted with individuals from affected companies both at Ground Zero and elsewhere in New York City. Twenty-one focus groups with a total of 140 participants were conducted in the second post-9/11 year. Areas of identified concern were coded into the following themes: Disaster Experience, Emotional Responses, Workplace Issues, Coping, and Issues of Public Concern. Discussions of focus groups included material represented in all five themes in companies both at Ground Zero and elsewhere. The emphasis and the content within these themes varied between the Ground Zero and other companies. Content suggesting symptoms of PTSD represented only a minority of the material, especially in the company groups not at Ground Zero. This study's findings revealed an array of psychosocial concerns following the 9/11 attacks among employees of companies in New York City that extended far beyond PTSD. This study's results provide further evidence that trauma exposure is central to individuals' post-disaster experience and focus, and to individuals' adjustment and experience after disaster.

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We follow our cow and forget our home'. This statement encapsulates the problems that this thesis addresses in relation to the three interdependent themes of identity, movement and survival. This study is concerned with Fulani identities and mobility in Greater Accra, Ghana. It is ultimately about Fulani survival across space and through time. It involves an understanding of where people are coming from, where they have travelled to and the environments in which they have grown up, been educated, married, borne children and worked. The units of analysis are the lives, stories and experiences of individuals, as well as the communities and ultimately ethnic group of which they form a part. The account thus addresses the 'personal troubles' of individual women and men, both young and old, as well as wider 'public issues' taken up by the Ghanaian state and press. These issues are also observed to be the subject of debate and concern in the Fulani community in Greater Accra. This thesis concerns itself with the sites and circumstances in which Fulani consider themselves to be the same or different. The markers of Fulani identity, as recognized by Fulani and non-Fulani alike, are examined. The factors are investigated that allow them, as a distinct ethnic category, to maintain and perpetuate this identity and viability in Greater Accra. The analogy of 'construction sites' is useful for considering these different, explicit and implicit events and recurring processes, through which people reproduce themselves as Fulani (of various kinds). These sites are locations as well as contexts of action. They are social circumstances (with personnel, power relations, procedures etc.) such as ethnic associations, public gatherings and common rites of passage. The recurring processes include genealogical reckoning of kinship and endogamous marriage transactions, and the ways in which ties of descent and filiation are used to enhance individual survival and family development goals.

The new reality of private actors addressing public issues, such as social and environmental concerns, does not fit anymore with a polarized idea of public versus private actors and their traditionally assigned responsibilities. A reconceptualization of the relationship between private actors and public issues is needed. This paper therefore aims to explore under what conditions private can be public in the sense of private actors assuming responsibility for public issues. We explore existing debates in three broad strands of literature: business and society, governance theory, and green political theory. Based on the combined insights of these literatures, we suggest replacing the traditional focus on actors with a focus on activities when referring to responsibility for public issues. We identify three evaluative criteria to outline the conditions under which private can be public, depending on whether private activities (1) aim to contribute to solving public issues, (2) are based on pluralistic and de...

Studies of issue publics suggest that widespread political ignorance does not matter because those affected by specific issues are involved and well informed, and can meaningfully shape policy in their policy area. However, research on civic participation raises important questions about whether the opinions of the active are representative of the less active. To examine whether meaningful differences in policy attitudes exist between the politically active and inactive within issue publics, we compare the policy attitudes of interest group members to nonmembers. Across ten interest groups we find uniformly consistent evidence of policy distinctiveness among group members and show that party identification and ideology largely account for the difference. We also find that the policy differences between members and nonmembers vary according to the primary incentive offered by an interest group. Groups primarily offering expressive benefits exhibit the greatest opin- ion differences within an issue public, whereas opinion differences are muted for groups emphasizing solidary or material incentives. Finally, we find evidence of attitude extremism among group members. Taken together, our study suggests that the voices of non-active citizens are not well represented within issue publics.

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Journal Article Poverty As a Public Issue and The Changing Faces of Economic Security Get access Poverty As a Public Issue. Edited by Seligman Ben B.. New York: Free Press, 1965. 359 pp. $5.95. The Changing Faces of Economic Security. By Turnbull John G.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. 157 pp. $5.00. William A. Martin William A. Martin Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital AreaBaltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 1967, Page 125, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/12.3.125 Published: 01 July 1967

phrase, retrospective prospect, stolen from Kenneth Burke, describes one of the processes of Burke's book revisions. He would read what he had written, change very little, and then update with essay which both summarizes in new language what he had already written and projects its implications for the future. Thus he looked backwards to view things forwards. purpose of this essay is to summarize what has already been said in the preceding essays and speculate about their implications for our organization as we salute its Golden Anniversary. A REVIEW OF THE PAST It is customary to contextualize our organization, and Reid's opening essay reminds us of our deep roots. He explores the tradition of forensics, but especially debate, through a deal of western history. While our association has come to represent more than debate, the argumentative perspective is probably the motive for its existence. first national conference, held in 1974, emphasized this view by defining forensics as an educational activity primarily concerned with using argumentative perspective in examining problems and communicating with people (McBath, 1975, p. 11). second national conference defined the argumentative perspective by saying it views forensics as a form of rhetorical scholarship, which takes various forms, including debate, public address and the interpretation of literature (Parson, 1984, p. 9). In tracing forensics activities back 2400 years, Reid emphasizes how both the theory and practice was a major focus of schools, initially the sophists. While the goals of Protagoras's exercises were political and legal performances, the scene for his exercises was in the academy, even in its primitive form. When the Romans developed a more elaborate progymnasmata, including the simplest telling of the fable to the more advanced controversiae and suasoriae, these activities were also in the academy. Whether the activities translated to the larger social context depended upon the form of government, and under most of the emperors, the activities were excluded from public discussion. Stated differently, Reid reminds us that debate and other forensic activities are in the academy, and to a very large extent they have remained in the academy to this day, with the attendant benefits and disadvantages. That this assummption is largely taken for granted is evident from the 1974 National Conference description: Forensics serves as a curricular and co-curricular laboratory for improving students' abilities in research, analysis, and oral communication. This perspective organizes scholarship, stimulating research and creative activity to promote understanding of personal and public issues through (McBath, 1975, p. 9). In other words, personal and public issues were to be practiced in the academy, and their transfer to the real world was assumed. notion of a public sphere of argument, borrowed from Jurgen Habermas, outlines a place where personal and public issues were to be discussed. Phillips differentiates the public sphere from the private and technical ones: The private sphere contains the discourse of personal relations, the technical sphere contains the discourse of experts and specialists, and the public sphere is a transcendent one that facilitates discussions related to the public good (Phillips, 1996, p. 236). Goodnight echoes this distinction: Transcending the personal and technical is the public, a domain which, while not reducible to the argument practice of any one group of social customs or professional communities, nevertheless may be influenced by them. But the public realm is discrete insofar as it provides forums with customs, traditions, and requirements for arguers in the recognition that the consequences of dispute extend beyond the personal and technical spheres (Goodnight, 1982, p. 220). Many public figures discussed issues in the technical realm of the academy and later proposed or evaluated legislation on those issues in the public realm. …

"What authority do you have to say these things?" Remarks on church documents about public issues. For a number of reasons it has become important for South African churches to reconsider the ways in which they were accustomed to speak about public issues. In the first part of the article some of these reasons are pointed out. In the second part an important study of the German Protestant Church, the EKD, addressing these issues, is analysed. In the third part an assessment is made of the contribution the German study makes to the debate on church declarations on public issues in the South African context.

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Since the arrival of Protestants in Brazil, the presence of Protestant educational institutions became a reality. Seminaries were founded at the end of the 19th century, focusing on the training of clergy without much concern for dialogue with other churches or with society at large. Public issues, ecumenism—through dialogue and cooperation between Protestants and Catholics—and interdisciplinary theological approaches only became current concerns in the mid-twentieth century, especially with liberation theologies—both Protestant and Catholic. Before that, however, one of the authors who was able to grasp these dimensions in his theological endeavour was Richard Shaull, who, through his theological method, opened a dialogue with the social sciences in order to interpret the reality in which he placed Christian action and mission. Through bibliographical research and document analysis, focusing on the reading of “The New Revolutionary Mood in Latin America”, a report on Latin America presented by Shaull to the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Missionary Board, the article aims to show Shaull’s theology, institutionally located, as one that thinks about public issues in dialogue with social sciences and considers its implications for and within Christian churches. In the light of studies on public theology, this paper presents Richard Shaull’s writings as a theological approach to the church, considering its ecumenical stance; to society, considering its most pressing issues of the time; and to academia, through the interdisciplinary dialogue he undertakes with the social sciences.

To identify the corporate political activity (CPA) of major food industry actors in France. We followed an approach based on information available in the public domain. Different sources of information, freely accessible to the public, were monitored.Setting/SubjectsData were collected and analysed between March and August 2015. Five actors were selected: ANIA (Association Nationale des Industries Agroalimentaires/National Association of Agribusiness Industries); Coca-Cola; McDonald's; Nestlé; and Carrefour. Our analysis shows that the main practices used by Coca-Cola and McDonald's were the framing of diet and public health issues in ways favourable to the company, and their involvement in the community. ANIA primarily used the 'information and messaging' strategy (e.g. by promoting deregulation and shaping the evidence base on diet- and public health-related issues), as well as the 'policy substitution' strategy. Nestlé framed diet and public health issues, and shaped the evidence base on diet- and public health-related issues. Carrefour particularly sought involvement in the community. We found that, in 2015, the food industry in France was using CPA practices that were also used by other industries in the past, such as the tobacco and alcohol industries. Because most, if not all, of these practices proved detrimental to public health when used by the tobacco industry, we propose that the precautionary principle should guide decisions when engaging or interacting with the food industry.

This paper analyses the public theology of Pentecostalism in the Chinese context of Hong Kong by discussing Pentecostal Christians’ public involvement. It asks whether Pentecostal Christians actively shape society or are rather shaped by the surrounding culture and absorb and reflect dominant trends within a culture. The essay explains the different aspects of a Pentecostal public theology in the Chinese context by first giving an overview of different historical forms of Pentecostalism in the Hong Kong and Chinese context, each of them expressing a different pattern of public expression and engagement with public issues. The essay then presents some cases of how Pentecostalism engaged in public issues in Hong Kong. A third part identifies motifs of Pentecostalism that are particularly prominent in the Chinese cultural context. The article suggests that these cultural elements shape the engagement with public spheres and push Pentecostals in the Chinese context towards a public theology that is similar to that of conservative Evangelicals.