academics should not reject the very idea of networking out of hand, but embrace it as a valuable strategy for surrounding yourself with happy people who are happy to help you.
Many academics reject the very idea of networking for a variety of reasons. Many feel that acquiring and using professional contacts is more appropriate for those in industry or business, but not in academia.
Younger academics may shy away from the idea of proactively approaching peers and senior colleagues because they are introverted or because they don’t know how to start.
Networking is somewhat like exercise in that it requires extensive time and effort without being able to see immediate results.
The tendency to refrain from networking can limit people from reaching their full potential.
The Matthias Utinger Marble Tree is an enchanting eco friendly educational wonder.
Six marbles make deeper and deeper notes as they plink plonk down the tuned wooden leaves of the tree, before plopping into the base.
The Wooden Marble Tree is a longtime favourite of the Waldorf and Montessori school systems and was inspired by their principles of constructive play.
It is ethically made, environmentally sound, and nontoxic.
Matthias Utinger is an award winning Swiss designer of educational toys. His glorious invention was nearly lost to us when the original manufacturer went into bankruptcy in 2006. It is now produced by a family company specializing in quality wooden toys.
German Design Prize Winner, 2000
Hand made Germany
Suitable for all people over 3 years of age
Melodious tones bring joy to kids and adults alike
Brilliant hued leaves transition from yellow to deep green in a lovely rainbow of colors
Includes wooden tree with six marbles
Gravity makes beautiful music as the included marbles bounce from wooden leaf to leaf
Psychologists refer to these dimensions as warmth and competence respectively. Ideally you want to be perceived as having both.
Warmth, or trustworthiness, is the most important factor in how people evaluate you.
If someone does not trust you, you are not going to get very far. You might even elicit suspicion because you come across as manipulative.
Displaying your strength can backfire
Cuddy says, “A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat.”
Warmth facilitates trust and the communication and absorption of ideas. Even a few small nonverbal signals; a nod, a smile, an open gesture, can show people that you are pleased to be in their company and attentive to their concerns. Prioritizing warmth helps you connect immediately with those around you, demonstrating that you hear them, understand them, and can be trusted by them.
When we feel confident and calm, we project authenticity and warmth.
St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne has become the only cathedral in the southern hemisphere with a designated girls’ choir.
“The Cathedral believes that women and girls should be given the same opportunities for leadership and ministry in our Cathedral as men and boys: whether they aspire to be archbishops or choristers.”
The Dean of Melbourne, Dr Andreas Loewe, is delighted at the new venture. “Many cathedrals in Australia have mixed choirs. We are privileged in adding an entirely new choir to our traditional choir of boys and men, which has been leading choral weekday and Sunday services since 1888.”
Lowther Hall, which has a strong track record as a leading educator in arts and music, was chosen as the Cathedral Girls’ Choir School after a rigorous 18 month selection process.
The principal, Ms Elisabeth Rhodes, observes: “This is a significant milestone for our school and an appropriate recognition of girls and women within the Anglican Church. We are honoured to have been selected. It is a wonderful opportunity for the girls and will enhance Lowther Hall’s extensive range of musical offerings for our students.”
Persisting political instability, widespread violence, economic crises, and natural disasters are common factors affecting children worldwide. Zimbabwe serves as a powerful reminder to policymakers about the importance of prioritizing the needs of children during great social, economic, and political challenges.
UNICEF proclaims that the true measure of any nation’s standing is gauged by how well it attends to its children. Many indicators can be used to measure child welfare, including children’s health and safety; material security; education and socialization; and a sense of being loved, valued, and included in their families and societies (UNICEF, 2007).
In Zimbabwe, political and economic instability, food insecurity, and disease are among the factors that threaten the welfare of children. This article discusses how each of these factors affects the welfare of Zimbabwean children, especially within the context of education.
To encourage young Zimbabweans to be educated, Education Zimbabwe was initiated in 2013.
We assist students with information that will help them learn with a vision driven mentality, so that they can make an impact to the nation after their studies.
We envision a nation with people determined to build a better Zimbabwe
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$4 million has been committed to the Little Scientists program in Australia to inspire three year old and four year old children, through active engagement with the world around them. Young Australians are becoming more numerate and scientifically literate by learning to count with little towers of wooden blocks and blowing bubbles. Nurturing the imagination of each child ensures they will go on to create the prosperity for Australia to remain a first world, generous social welfare net, high wage economy. read more
Activities start with familiar objects and experiences. Each child asks questions, which can be explored rationally. Making connections, drawing inferences, and creating new information are the building blocks for a culture of science and technology to create an innovation nation.
The curriculum encourages the autonomy, self confidence and self esteem of each child, based on the progressive ideas of Friedrich Fröbel, the renowned educator, who developed the Kindergarten concept 175 years ago. The program sparks interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics by encouraging teachers to implement ideas and concepts from workshops, while exploring together with the children in their care.
The five year olds agree: trees make the wind by shaking their branches. Their teacher does not correct them, but instead asks whether anyone has seen the wind in a place where there are no trees. One boy recalls a visit to the seashore, where the wind was whipping up water and sand with no trees in sight. Another child says that moving cars make fallen leaves twirl. Perhaps, they decide, trees are not the source of a breeze.
Little Scientists marks a departure, says a kindergarten teacher who participates in the programme. “You have to be willing to do something with the kids that might not lead to a result. They will not take something home that they can show their parents.” Teachers trained in the method encourage children to ask questions about natural phenomena and everyday objects. read more
What people of the past can teach us about recovery from war.
Silence was long the norm for returning combat veterans.
Military leadership added to the horror by assuring soldiers that everything was fine. “You saw horrible things. But you have to forget them. Just do not think about it anymore.”
A cluster of symptoms occur after someone is exposed to death, serious injury, assault or the threat thereof. Symptoms include reexperiencing the trauma, as in nightmares or intrusive memories, avoiding talk or triggers, negative mood and thoughts and unusual patterns of arousal, such as hyper vigilance or problems concentrating.
“Something has happened in the brain and in the central nervous system that has caused a permanent change, or a relatively permanent change, in how they feel, how they think and how they behave,”
Moral injury refers to a betrayal of “what’s right”, no matter what that might mean in a particular culture, by a legitimate authority figure in a high stakes situation. Moral injury in combat is an issue dating back at least to Homer’s Iliad, the epic poem about the siege of Troy dated to around the eighth century B.C. The poem opens with the commander of the Greek army, Agamemnon, taking a captive woman, Briseis, from the warrior Achilles. Achilles, offended by this betrayal of “what’s right” in Greek military culture, refuses to fight.
Restoring trust
Cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness meditation, and therapy that challenges skewed thinking patterns are all crucial tools for the treatment of trauma.
So much of what happens in a war zone is chance. It is almost random and it is out of individual control. It is difficult to recover from thinking ‘Bad things happened, therefore it was my failure’ .
Reducing the social and moral implications of events, such as war or genocide, to a biological set of consequences may unintentionally and paradoxically decrease social and moral responsiveness to these events.
Shakespeare wrote about visitations by ghosts and spirits after battle.
Soldiers who lived thousands of years ago can give us a deeper understanding of psychological trauma.
Many Western cultures see these feelings as reflecting indecision.
Mixed emotions are a sign of emotional complexity, not necessarily a sign of indecision.
People who show mixed feelings are better able to differentiate their emotions and experience their lives in an emotionally rich and balanced way.
In cultures where there is more emphasis on family bonds and duty, people are more likely to experience emotional complexity because they are able to see different perspectives. A job loss may be disappointing, but also an exciting opportunity to spend more time with family or to try something new.
People experiencing higher emotional complexity are also better able to control their emotions and have a lower incidence of depression.
Sedan was founded in 1424. In the sixteenth century Sédan was an asylum for Protestant refugees from the Wars of Religion. Until 1651, the Principality of Sedan belonged to the La Tour d’Auvergne family. It was at that time a sovereign principality.
During the Franco-Prussian War, on 2 September 1870 the French emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner with 100,000 of his soldiers at the First Battle of Sedan. Due to this major victory, which also made the unification of Germany possible, 2 September was declared Sedantag “Sedan Day” and a national German holiday in 1871. It remained a holiday until 1919.
, Cuddy says people quickly answer two questions when they first meet you:
