“We Are Here”: Race, Gender, and Spaces of “Common Ground” in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward

MELUS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Wendland-Liu
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
John Edgar Wideman ◽  
Bell Hooks

scholarly journals An Engaged Pedagogy of Everyday Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulius Yamin Slotkus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Augusto Boal ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Engaged Pedagogy ◽  
Michel De Certeau

This book is a research monograph about everyday life and education. Its aim is to explore the potential (both for cultural theory and practice) of the intersections that can be traced in-between them. To do so, the book starts with a theoretical discussion that builds first on everyday life from a cultural perspective (using the arguments of authors such as Michel de Certeau, Guy Debord, Michael Sheringham and Ben Highmore) and then on education and critical pedagogy (drawing on bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Sara Ahmed) in order to build a common ground from where their joint potential of both subjects can be grasped. This common ground and the way in which it can be articulated and used is further strengthened in a third section that is based on theatre (especially on the methodology of the theatre of the oppressed developed by Augusto Boal) and on the power of the everyday narratives (term used by de Certeau and Sheringham) that theatre introduces. After this theoretical framework, a specific context of a project where education was successfully used to change everyday life in a small city of Colombia is used in order to problematize and illustrate the importance and potential of this approach.

Talking Across Cultures in Early Intervention: Finding Common Ground to Meet Children's Communication Needs

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Peña ◽  
Christine Fiestas
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Provider Perspectives ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Caregiver Role

Abstract In this paper, we explore cultural values and expectations that might vary among different groups. Using the collectivist-individualist framework, we discuss differences in beliefs about the caregiver role in teaching and interacting with young children. Differences in these beliefs can lead to dissatisfaction with services on the part of caregivers and with frustration in service delivery on the part of service providers. We propose that variation in caregiver and service provider perspectives arise from cultural values, some of which are instilled through our own training as speech-language pathologists. Understanding where these differences in cultural orientation originate can help to bridge these differences. These can lead to positive adaptations in the ways that speech-language pathology services are provided within an early intervention setting that will contribute to effective intervention.

Spatial Representations as an Emergent Feature of Perceptual Processing

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Wascher ◽  
C. Beste
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Integrated Network ◽  
Perceptual Maps ◽  
Emergent Feature ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Selection Of

Spatial selection of relevant information has been proposed to reflect an emergent feature of stimulus processing within an integrated network of perceptual areas. Stimulus-based and intention-based sources of information might converge in a common stage when spatial maps are generated. This approach appears to be inconsistent with the assumption of distinct mechanisms for stimulus-driven and top-down controlled attention. In two experiments, the common ground of stimulus-driven and intention-based attention was tested by means of event-related potentials (ERPs) in the human EEG. In both experiments, the processing of a single transient was compared to the selection of a physically comparable stimulus among distractors. While single transients evoked a spatially sensitive N1, the extraction of relevant information out of a more complex display was reflected in an N2pc. The high similarity of the spatial portion of these two components (Experiment 1), and the replication of this finding for the vertical axis (Experiment 2) indicate that these two ERP components might both reflect the spatial representation of relevant information as derived from the organization of perceptual maps, just at different points in time.

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