David Little
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 137822 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Little |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Little |
| ASSINATURA | LITTLE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5737-7082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 172 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Initiating and Sustaining GSAs Across the District as Part of a Vision for Equity
BACKGROUND: Increasingly, there are calls for educational equity to explicitly include LGBTQ+ students, including the creation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) clubs, or Genders and Sexualities Alliances (GSAs), which are associated with positive outcomes for LGBTQ+ students and promote a safer school climate for all students. However, less is known about strategies to initiate and sustain GSAs. Chicago Public…
In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss
Sumner B. (Barney) Twiss, who died in 2023, was for ten years a General Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ). He was a frequent contributor of articles, a member of the JRE Editorial Board, and a member of the journal's Board of Trustees. In this article, colleagues and students reflect on some of his many contributions, not only to the JRE but to the broader discursive fields of comparative religious ethics and human rights
Autonomy, autonomisation and the Council of Europe
The Council of Europe’s educational projects have always been designed to support its political purpose, which is to promote and defend human rights, democratic governance and the rule of law. This article traces the fluctuating fortunes of the Council’s engagement with the educational concepts of autonomy and autonomisation with reference to three main phases of its work: (a) the adult education project of the 1970s, which was the context in whi…
Language learner autonomy
For me, ‘language learner autonomy’ denotes a teaching/learning dynamic in which learners plan, implement, monitor and evaluate their own learning. From the beginning they do this as far as possible in the target language, which thus becomes a channel of their individual and collaborative agency. By exercising agency in the target language they gradually develop a proficiency that is reflective as well as communicative, and the target language be…
The Right of Self-Defense and the Organic Unity of Human Rights
The article challenges the fashionable but finally unsupportable opinion in political and academic circles that there exists no compelling, unitary, universally resonant moral and legal justification of human rights. The argument is intimated by two overlooked passages in the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that presuppose the right of self-defense against arbitrary force, understood as both a moral and legal concept, and as…
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures
Both supply and demand side changes are necessary to achieve a sustainable food system. However, the weight accorded to these depends on one’s view of what the priority goals are for the food system and the extent to which production systems versus consumption patterns are open to change. Some stakeholders see the problem as one of ‘not enough food’ and focus on the need to sustainably increase supply, while others consider the resource demanding…
Christianity and Freedom
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government, consent of the governed, economic liberty, autonomous civil society, and church-state separation, as well as more recent advances in democracy…
Law, Religion, and Human Rights
Disputes over the nature, basis, and enforceability of human rights go back to early 1947, when the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) first began. Nor were the disputes limited to the drafting process. Intense arguments emerged among social scientists, philosophers, religious leaders, legal thinkers, and public figures around the world over the very idea of human rights, namely, the notion that human beings possess lega…
Ritual, Religion, and Peacebuilding
This chapter describes the role of religious ritual in the process of peacebuilding. It looks at the role of ritual in traditional religions and then examines how specific religious leaders use rituals and even develop new ones in order to foster reconciliation or transformation to support peace. Peacebuilding requires both ritual and rational approaches. Drawing on a wide set of interdisciplinary research on ritual, the chapter identifies distin…
The New Name for Peace? Religion and Development as Partners in Strategic Peacebuilding
This chapter compares the fields of development and peacebuilding, with an eye to exploring affinities as well as areas of resistance to collaboration. It identifies the following points of convergence: 1) a focus on the local community; 2) an emerging consensus regarding the “rules of engagement”; and 3) a growing recognition that the criteria for “authentic” human development must be articulated on a case-by-case basis. Religious actors and ins…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically, beginning with a mapping of scholarship on religion, …
Rethinking the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics
This essay describes the author's change of approach to the comparative study of religious ethics from the one contained in a book on the subject (with S umner B. T wiss), published in 1978. The change resulted from interactions with A bdulaziz S achedina, the noted scholar of Islam, demonstrating the importance of comparing different ethical systems in reference to global topics like human rights, particularly the right to freedom of conscience
Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction
The Nolde Lecture, Lutheran Seminary of Philadelphia, October 1, 2013 The Legacy of Ecumenical Protestantism
Scholars of the “new history” of the post–World War II ecumenical movement claim that ecumenical Protestantism left a contradictory legacy. It advanced the development of a more pluralistic, equitable social order, stressing the importance of a moderate center between theological and political extremes. At the same time, it did so because of parochial theological beliefs that were tied to a privileged social position it inadvertently helped to un…
Three decades of work for the Council of Europe
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A career in phonetics, applied linguistics and the public service
As this issue was in preparation, the journal learned with great regret of the passing of John Trim. John was a long-serving member of the Language Teaching Board and his insight and advice proved invaluable for this and previous editors. An expert in the field of phonetics, linguistics, language didactics and policy, John worked tirelessly to improve the state of language teaching throughout his life. Among his key posts, he was director of the …
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Editorial note This new strand in the journal provides a space for contributors to present a personal stance either on future research needs or on the perceived current applications of research in the classroom. Like much of our current content, it echoes the historical uniqueness of this journal in terms of its rich and expert overview of recent research in the field of L2 teaching and learning. However, this new strand takes such research as it…
Calvin and Natural Rights
This article applauds the recent rise of scholarly attention to studying the relation of religion to natural rights in general and Calvinism in particular. Against the strong belief in some quarters that appeals to nature, including the idea of rights, do not play a significant role in Calvin's thought, the article concurs with recent (and some not so recent) work to the contrary, arguing that such appeals do occupy an important, if ambiguous, pl…
Is Responsible Aquaculture Sustainable Aquaculture? WWF and the Eco-Certification of Tilapia
Public awareness of possible environmental impacts of seafood consumption is growing. The seafood industry and environmental pressure groups have begun to certify fish and other aquatic products produced to sustainable standards. Representations of sustainability advanced by both groups in relation to tilapia converge around limited definitions related primarily to technical parameters. Such an approach does not adequately represent the complexit…
Language learner autonomy and the European Language Portfolio
This article argues that the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio is capable of supporting the implementation of language learner autonomy on a large scale. It begins by explaining what the author understands by ‘language learner autonomy’, then introduces the European Language Portfolio and explains how it can stimulate reflective learning in which goal setting and self-assessment play a central role. It concludes by giving two practi…
The Development of Aquaculture in Central Thailand
Expansion of aquaculture in Central Thailand since the 1970s is intimately linked to growth in other sectors of the local and national economy, and to participation in global trade. Thailand's agro-industrialization has led to the diversification of agriculture in the Central Region and the co-development of aquaculture. Production of domestic aqua-products is largely positive for consumers, farmers and the environment. By contrast, intensive pro…
Ethics and Scholarship
Within the precincts of Harvard University, one can still hear an ardent defense of the venerable distinction between “facts” and “values,” or, as sometimes put, between “description” and “evaluation.” Arguments over this distinction go to the heart of the relation of ethics to scholarship, as was vividly illustrated recently by a controversy in this university concerning a doctoral dissertation proposal in “ethnonational studies.” Among other th…
On Behalf of Rights
Though responses to Stout's book, Democracy and Tradition, have touched on his discussion of rights, none has comprehensively examined his position on the subject. Having endorsed several objections Stout raises against some influential views on democracy and rights, this article proceeds to criticize Stout's description and theoretical account of the natural and human rights traditions. The central argument is that Stout cannot successfully both…
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Since its circulation in two draft versions in 1996, and especially since its commercial publication in English and French in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has come to dominate discussion of L2 curricula, the assessment of L2 proficiency, and L2 teaching and learning in Europe. Although it is widely referred to, however, the CEFR remains relatively little known beyond the summaries of its six proficiency le…
The Common European Framework and the European Language Portfolio
Learner-centred approaches to language teaching, especially those that seek to develop learner autonomy, require the learner to take decisions concerning the goals, content and methods of learning; they also assign a central role to self-assessment. Although the logic of learner-centredness demands that learner self-assessment should somehow be integrated with other forms of assessment, to date this has been only a minority concern, usually in re…
Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction
Learning as dialogue
Independent Workers, Dependable Mothers
Journal Article Independent Workers, Dependable Mothers: Discourse, Resistance, and AFDC Workfare Programs Get access DEBORAH L. LITTLE DEBORAH L. LITTLE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 161–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.2.161 Published: 01 July 1999
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures
Both supply and demand side changes are necessary to achieve a sustainable food system. However, the weight accorded to these depends on one’s view of what the priority goals are for the food system and the extent to which production systems versus consumption patterns are open to change. Some stakeholders see the problem as one of ‘not enough food’ and focus on the need to sustainably increase supply, while others consider the resource demanding…
The Development of Aquaculture in Central Thailand
Expansion of aquaculture in Central Thailand since the 1970s is intimately linked to growth in other sectors of the local and national economy, and to participation in global trade. Thailand's agro-industrialization has led to the diversification of agriculture in the Central Region and the co-development of aquaculture. Production of domestic aqua-products is largely positive for consumers, farmers and the environment. By contrast, intensive pro…
Is Responsible Aquaculture Sustainable Aquaculture? WWF and the Eco-Certification of Tilapia
Public awareness of possible environmental impacts of seafood consumption is growing. The seafood industry and environmental pressure groups have begun to certify fish and other aquatic products produced to sustainable standards. Representations of sustainability advanced by both groups in relation to tilapia converge around limited definitions related primarily to technical parameters. Such an approach does not adequately represent the complexit…
A Different Kind of Justice
In “transitional societies” like South Africa and Bosnia, which are currently moving from authoritarianism, and often violent repression, to democracy, questions arise about the appropriate way to deal with serious human rights offenders. Will a system of retributive justice bring about the healing and harmony necessary for peace and stability? Or, is “a different kind of justice” required, one explicitly aimed at reconciliation, and designed to …
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Since its circulation in two draft versions in 1996, and especially since its commercial publication in English and French in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has come to dominate discussion of L2 curricula, the assessment of L2 proficiency, and L2 teaching and learning in Europe. Although it is widely referred to, however, the CEFR remains relatively little known beyond the summaries of its six proficiency le…
Belief, ethnicity, and nationalism
On the basis of a continuing study sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace, this essay addresses the role of religious and related forms of belief in the formation and mobilization of ethnic identity and nationalism. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of ethnic conflict to intolerance and discrimination, as defined by human rights standards. Drawing upon the work of Max Weber, and giving examples from case studies of Sri…
The European Language Portfolio
This article describes the structure, functions and origins of the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio (ELP); summarizes the scope and findings of the pilot projects (1998–2000) and the measures that have been taken to encourage large-scale implementation in 2001 and beyond; outlines the pedagogical challenge posed by the ELP; and suggests various possibilities for future work
Language learner autonomy
For me, ‘language learner autonomy’ denotes a teaching/learning dynamic in which learners plan, implement, monitor and evaluate their own learning. From the beginning they do this as far as possible in the target language, which thus becomes a channel of their individual and collaborative agency. By exercising agency in the target language they gradually develop a proficiency that is reflective as well as communicative, and the target language be…
The Recovery of Liberalism
This essay is a discussion of Reinhold Niebuhr's 1932 classic Moral Man, which critiques the Liberal Movement up to the 1930s. Little reviews some of the books fundamental conclusions. First, according to Niebuhr, to believe that individual self-interest is fulfilled in a collective good is to subscribe to a “utopian illusion”. He faults liberals for allowing themselves to be victims of the Enlightenment, i.e. being incurable optimistically ratio…
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Editorial note This new strand in the journal provides a space for contributors to present a personal stance either on future research needs or on the perceived current applications of research in the classroom. Like much of our current content, it echoes the historical uniqueness of this journal in terms of its rich and expert overview of recent research in the field of L2 teaching and learning. However, this new strand takes such research as it…
Language learner autonomy and the European Language Portfolio
This article argues that the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio is capable of supporting the implementation of language learner autonomy on a large scale. It begins by explaining what the author understands by ‘language learner autonomy’, then introduces the European Language Portfolio and explains how it can stimulate reflective learning in which goal setting and self-assessment play a central role. It concludes by giving two practi…
Ethics and Scholarship
Within the precincts of Harvard University, one can still hear an ardent defense of the venerable distinction between “facts” and “values,” or, as sometimes put, between “description” and “evaluation.” Arguments over this distinction go to the heart of the relation of ethics to scholarship, as was vividly illustrated recently by a controversy in this university concerning a doctoral dissertation proposal in “ethnonational studies.” Among other th…
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Religion and Social Analysis in the Thought of Ernst Troeltsch
physics of history has symbolic and not empirical validity. When Troeltsch distinguishes between communal and societal periods, and interprets the present period as the development towards a new communal period and even towards a religious re-integration-such assertion is very questionable to say the least, if it is to be understood in an empirical sense. But as soon as this assertion is understood not as an empirical expectation but as a symboli…
Religion and Social Analysis in the Thought of Ernst Troeltsch
physics of history has symbolic and not empirical validity. When Troeltsch distinguishes between communal and societal periods, and interprets the present period as the development towards a new communal period and even towards a religious re-integration-such assertion is very questionable to say the least, if it is to be understood in an empirical sense. But as soon as this assertion is understood not as an empirical expectation but as a symboli…
The Non-Religion of the Future
Max Weber Revisited
The accuracy of Max Weber's grasp of Puritan religious experience has persistently been called into question by the critics of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber is alleged either to have misunderstood the sources of Puritanism, or to have overlooked the real character of Puritan belief and action, or to have misconstrued its social significance. In short, Weber is generally accused of failing to assess correctly the causes,…
The Church and the Body Politic
Religion, Order, and Law
Journal Article Religion, Order, and Law: A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England Get access Little David, Religion, Order, and Law: A Study in Pre-Revolutionary England. New York, Harper & Row, 1969. v, 269 pp. $7.00. Stephen D. White Stephen D. White Junior Fellow Society of Fellows, Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 15, Issue 4, October 1971, Pages…
Religion, Order, and Law
Some Justifications for Violence in the Puritan Revolution
Whatever else it may be, the study of political revolution is the study, in a given case, of competing and incompatible assertions regarding the legitimation or justification of violence. This is true because: Since, as Weber put it, the state by definition possesses the legitimate monopoly of violence, and to propose radical changes in the character of a state, as happens in political revolutions, is to propose a radical alternative to the exist…
Max Weber
Religion, Order, and Law
Action Theory and the Human Condition
Journal Article Action Theory and the Human Condition, by Talcott Parsons. New York: Free Press, 1978. xi + 464 pp. $15.95 Get access David Little David Little Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 77–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709708 Published: 01 March 1981
Response to D. H. Smith's Paper on Contemporary Voluntary Action Research
David Little, Response to D. H. Smith's Paper on Contemporary Voluntary Action Research, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 24, No. 4, Voluntary Action and Religion: A Symposium (Jun., 1983), pp. 304-307
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Human Rights
Book reviewed in this article: Liberty, Community, and Justice. By R.E. Ewin. Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community. By Loren E. Lomasky Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By James W. Nickel
Christianity and the Constitution
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics . Ralph C. Hancock
The Recovery of Liberalism
This essay is a discussion of Reinhold Niebuhr's 1932 classic Moral Man, which critiques the Liberal Movement up to the 1930s. Little reviews some of the books fundamental conclusions. First, according to Niebuhr, to believe that individual self-interest is fulfilled in a collective good is to subscribe to a “utopian illusion”. He faults liberals for allowing themselves to be victims of the Enlightenment, i.e. being incurable optimistically ratio…
Belief, ethnicity, and nationalism
On the basis of a continuing study sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace, this essay addresses the role of religious and related forms of belief in the formation and mobilization of ethnic identity and nationalism. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of ethnic conflict to intolerance and discrimination, as defined by human rights standards. Drawing upon the work of Max Weber, and giving examples from case studies of Sri…
Learning as dialogue
SriLanka
Journal Article Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity, by David Little. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1992, xxviii + 176 pp. $14.95 Get access Nirmala S. Salgado Nirmala S. Salgado Augustana College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 56, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 224–225, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711771 Published: 01 July 1995
Award winners
Strategic competence and the learner's strategic control of the language learning process
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Sworn on the Altar of God
Language awareness and the autonomous language learner
This paper offers a language‐awareness perspective on the concept of autonomy in second language learning. The introductory section distinguishes between two kinds of language awareness and elaborates a working definition of learner autonomy. The second section looks at child development and the role played by both kinds of language awareness in first language acquisition. It considers in turn the importance of context in developmental learning, …
Rethinking Human Rights
In reviewing five edited collections and one monograph from the 1990s, the article summarizes the present status of the “human rights revolution” that was signaled by the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . It goes on to elaborate and evaluate some of the attempts contained in these books to deal with theoretical and practical controversies surrounding the subject of human rights, particularly the discussion of what to…
Independent Workers, Dependable Mothers
Journal Article Independent Workers, Dependable Mothers: Discourse, Resistance, and AFDC Workfare Programs Get access DEBORAH L. LITTLE DEBORAH L. LITTLE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 161–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.2.161 Published: 01 July 1999
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