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John A. Karkala, Ph.D. <jakarkala@aol.com>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>
Dear John:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my following list distribution;
(12/02/07)
English and Japanese translation of three Finnish books
http://preview.tinyurl.com/28htdg
(2) I greatly appreciate to receive this very philosophical msg.
In reference to your third para of your msg, I present the following slide;
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/yqbyvf>
This is an excerpt from the following paper;
Takeshi
Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7
This paper is in the following book;
Global
Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis - Takeshi Utsumi -
William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
In
the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt
You may also refer to TapioÕs following recent excellent paper;
Varis,
Tapio;
"New technologies and innovation in higher education and regional
development," in Monograph
"Universities and Regional Development: the challenge in the era of the
globalisation of higher education," Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ISSN
1698-580K
http://www.uoc.edu/rusc/4/2/dt/eng/varis.html
This was mentioned in the following list distribution;
(11/28/07)
Excellent paper by Tapio Varis and references about GUS
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2z3y3q
(3) Thanks to the rapid advancements of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) and transportation, our world is getting smaller and
smaller, and hence we definitely need a new ethos. As I mentioned
elsewhere often, this may correspond to the cross-pollination of various
civilizations to create a new global civilization.
I look forward to receiving your note on it, since it may become the core of
GUS philosophy as accommodating the ÒUnity-in-DifferenceÓ -- the last line of
the above slide.
Your note would also be appreciated by Kaisa.
(4) Referring to your last para, I am always amazed with the FinnishÕs
excellent achievements.
I mentioned of the DAVOS ranking of Finland as the world #1 on education and
training in my following list distribution;
(11/20/07)
(1) "Cultural Bridges 2007" Event, (2) Signing MOU ceremony at the
University of Tampere, (3) Visiting Tallinn University and others
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3dfrpz
Recently, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
announced the following;
The
OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
<http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3343,en_2649_201185_39713238_1_1_1_1,00.html>
The top performer in science in this PISA 2006 was
Finland.
Subsequently, I am very delighted to work with them on the creation of our GUS.
Keep in touch -- hope to see you at our next Columbia University seminar.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: <Jakarkala@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:57:36
EST
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new]
(12/02/07) English and Japanese translation of three Finnish books
Dear Takeshi:
I
am amazed at your ability to handle so much communications following like an
avalanch. But I have not been able to respond to them in any significant
manner. I am nevertheless chewing them to my purpose of globalizing
mythic grasping of social reality in our time.
. In the
tribal days the mythic approximation to reality was done in terms of
tribal ethos, in the national and imperial days similar mythic pyramids were
erected. What is needed is to globalize a mythic understanding of the
social reality, or what Plato says approximation to Truth, or what Buddha says
accommodated Truth, or what Upanishads and Kant regard as 'conceptual Truth' as
distinct from Truth in Itself, unknowable. Creativity, 'creative
distruction', the duality need to be reconciled as necessary aspects of the
continum.
What we
need are not tribal or national, or imperial pyramids under which we
would like to subsum 'other cultures,' but a multifliate, centrifugal, lotus,
or center and the circule type of mind set to accommodate all cultures in
various petals, or sectors, but rooted in the center. We need some
basic central 'mythos' (Aristotle, a framework to hold a generalized
explanation) to live by, as main springs of emerging civilization of
Information revolution. That will be one of the necessary adjunct to GUS.
I
am in the middle of a work in progress on the topic, about which I will send
you a note later.
Secondly,
I agree with your statement that "Finland can be the leading country with
vision based on sound moral, which everyone is longing for!" During
my visit to Finland in the summer, I learned that Finland is the only country
that broadcasts, contemporary news in Latin! When i asked to Professor
Vaino Kaukonen of Helsinki University, who is listening to that program, he
mentioned that according to Neilson's Report 15 million world wide, Scientists,
Doctors, Pharmacists, Scholars and others (not necessarily
Catholics) who had struggled with conjugations and declensions, are brushing up
to the oral musicality of the language. It was ingenious of
Jyvaskyla University to do so. Well Nokia is not backward in coming forward in
the new oncoming revolution.
John A. Karkala, Ph.D.
Professsor emeritus, Comparative
World Literature
Member, University Seminars: on
Shakespeare/Renaissance, and on Indology/South Asia
Columbia University, New York
100 Bennett Avenue #4E
New York, NY 10033
tel.212-928-9485
jakarkala@aol.com
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John A. Karkala, Ph.D.
Prof. Emeritus, Comparative World Literature
Member: Columbia University Seminars
on Shakespeare/Renaissance, and on Indology/South Asia
100 Bennett Ave, 4E
New York, NY 10033
212-928-9485
jakarkala@aol.com
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +3358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611
tapio.varis@uta.fi
tapio.varis@hamk.fi
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/
and
Principal Research Specialist
Unesco-Unevoc International Centre for Technical and Vocational
Education and Training
Gorresstr 15
53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +358-335-51-3608
Fax: +358-335-51-3611
t.varis@unevoc.unesco.org
www.unevoc.unesco.org
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula
Ph.D.(educ.), Lic.Techn., Docent
Adjunct Professor, New Learning Environments
Tampere University
Tampere, Finland
Mobile: +358 400 403 632
kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi
or
Kruununtie 8 C
02180 Espoo, Finland
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