scholarly journals Discourse critical analysis of the Dictatorship educational policy (1967-1974) about the Greek-speaking education of the Greeks abroad

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evaggelia Kalerante
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Greek Population ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Political Structures

<h1> </h1><h1>The present paper is concerned with the Dictatorship legislative texts (1967-1974) related to issues about the Greek-speaking education of the Greeks abroad.</h1><p> </p><h1>The legislative texts about education are presented as discourse in which the cultural and political practice is articulated; and is also composed by other cultural and political practices conducive to its dialectic association with other dimensions of society. The critical analysis of the Dictatorship legislative texts focuses on the discourse verbal practices and the ideological scenario. Thus, an attempt is made to depict: a) discourse practices and b) broader social and political structures and standpoints in the legislation which are related to the broader theoretical frameworks of the democratic regime and, particularly, special issues about the nation-state definition.</h1><p> </p><h1>The fact that should definitely be made obvious is how the discourse practices in legislation are conducive to the reproduction of political-educational standpoints of the Greek nation-state in association with the Greek population abroad on the basis of a broader political framework of dictatorship. Norman Fairclough’s discourse critical analysis was chosen because there is interest in: the linguistic characteristics of the text and how they are attuned to the regime’s political practice. Therefore, throughout the discourse educational levels, in which legislation is introduced, the regime’s structure of ideology is elevated.</h1><p> </p>

Re-Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Geographical Knowledge and Ecuadorean Multiculturalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH A. RADCLIFFE
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
State Projects

AbstractStarting from an understanding that maps of an entire nation-state territory reflect and regulate state projects and expressions of national identity, rather than providing detailed technical information for decision making, this paper examines the national maps of race/ethnicity produced under Ecuador's state-led multiculturalism. Using national-scale cartography as a means to examine contested processes of rearticulating state, citizen and nation, the paper analyses recent transformations in cartography, nation building and geographical knowledge in Ecuador. Directing a critical analysis towards the ways maps of indigenous populations are produced, circulated, authorised and read provides a distinctive lens by which to explore postcolonial questions of belonging, rights and presence. The paper discusses how, despite the emergence of innovative maps, the plurinational project envisaged by indigenous cartographers remains stymied by a series of material, cultural and postcolonial limitations.

A Critical Theory of Adult and Community Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brookfield
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
Learning Projects

Critical theory is one of the most influential theoretical frameworks influencing scholarship within the field of adult and community education. This chapter outlines what constitute the chief elements of critical theory using Horkheimer’s (1937/1995) classic essay as a touchstone for this analysis. It argues for a set of adult learning tasks that are embedded in this analysis and that apply both to formal adult education settings and informal learning projects carried out in communities. Future likely trends are the extension of critical theory’s unit of analysis to include race, class, gender, disability and sexual identity, and critical analysis of digital technologies.

scholarly journals Creative Craft-Based Textile Activity in the Age of Digital Systems and Practices

Leonardo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Kenning
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Media Technologies

Domestic craft-based textile activities, such as knitting, crochet, hand weaving and lace making, are often viewed as being of limited creative potential. The perceived lack of creativity arises, in part, out of the extent to which these activities copy, reproduce and re-create existing pattern forms and use preexisting templates. This paper reports on the findings of an experimental research project that explored the creative potential of crochet lace making using digital media, technologies and practices. It provides critical analysis of how new technologies, practices and theoretical frameworks have implications for ongoing domestic craft-based textile activities.

Buchbesprechung – Diskussion / Review – Discussion: Fürst, Reformation, Land – Aktuelle Forschungen zu Landgraf Philipp von Hessen (1504–1567)

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-300
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Breul ◽  
Holger Th. Gräf
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Church Policy

ABSTRACT This review article provides an overview and critical analysis of the recent literature on Philip of Hesse on the occasion of his 500th birthday in 2004. The article covers the following fields of Philip’s life and reign: i) the young Philip; ii) territorial policy; iii) Reformation and church policy; iv) social and educational policy; v) dynastical issues and his bigamous marriage; vi), princely household, art and culture; vii) foreign policy and international relations; viii) Philip in his later years; ix) reception; x) general historiographical assessment of Philip of Hesse.

scholarly journals The Functions of the Spanish Approximators Como and Como Que in Institutional and Non-Institutional Discursive Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abril Jimenez ◽  
Nydia Flores-Ferrán
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Pragmatic Variation ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
As If

AbstractThe Spanish approximators como and como que (“sort of,” “as if,” “kind of,” “seems,” “like”) serve multiple pragmatic functions. They can be employed in similar contexts to express vagueness when speakers experience uncertainty or to hedge and avoid being straightforward. Furthermore, these forms can alternate according to context since they represent two ways of saying the same thing. This study investigated the use of como and como que in two speech events: narratives of personal experience (non-institutional) and therapeutic interviews (institutional), which were generated by Spanish speakers of several varieties, educational levels, and lengths of residence in the United States. The study was informed by the theoretical frameworks of sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation, and the data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative approaches. The findings revealed that while como was the preferred form among the speakers of the study they employed como que more often in the therapeutic interviews. Thus, both discourse and the pragmatic functions conditioned the use of these approximators.

Comparative Theory and Political Practice: Do We Need a ‘State-Nation’ Model as Well as a ‘Nation-State’ Model?

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Stepan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Matched Pair ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Type I ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Comparative Theory

AbstractSome polities have strong cultural diversity, some of which is territorially based and politically articulated by significant groups that, in the name of nationalism, and self-determination, advance claims for independence. In this article such polities are defined as ‘politically robustly multinational’. If the goal is peace and democracy in one state in such a polity, this article advances theoretical and empirical arguments to show that ideal typical ‘nation-state’ making policies are less appropriate than policies associated with new ideal type I construct called ‘state-nation’. Countries discussed are Spain, Belgium, and Canada and the ‘matched pair’ of successful Tamil political integration via state nation policies in India, and failed Tamil political integration due to nation-state policies in Sri Lanka.

The Closing Triangle: Critical Notes on a Model for Peasant Mobilization in Latin America

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Singelmann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Multiple Power ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Critical Notes

Students of contemporary campesino movements in Latin America have their analyses generally focused on two problem-complexes. One of these entails the macro-structural changes of the larger society within which campesino movements develop. Such changes are represented by the gradual imposition of the nation-state over the more remote regions of the countries, the concomitant decline in the geographic, political, and economic isolation of these remote areas, the emergence of ‘multiple-power domains’ within which ascending groups challenge the political brokerage monopolies of the traditional large landholders over the campesinos within their domains, and the development of clientelistic political structures within which campesino followings become attractive power resources for politicians at the regional and national level.

Ideology as the Ethos of the Nation State

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Abstract: Ideology can be considered the ethos of the modern, liberal, democratic, capitalist nation state. Working from the descriptions of political ethos in Aristotle's Rhetoric, Tapies, and Politics, the differences from and similarities to post-Renaissance political structures underline the modern insistence on ways to stabilise the representation of the group in power, giving it its veil of authority, as well as ways to stabilise the description or definition of the individual within the nation. Looking at a number of contemporary commentaries from both political theory and cultural studies, the essay elaborates the rhetoric necessary to constitute ideology as the ethos of the nation state, and goes on to detail some of the constraints on the individual who, in gaining access to power, becomes subject to that state. The rhetoric of ideology provides not only an ethos for the character of the group in power, but also a set of guidelines for establishing a spedfic responsive state in the audience, an ethics of pathos. Its ethos is a strategy that imposes a strategy. The circularity of this ethos marks many of the analyses undertaken by current theory, and it has only recently been challenged by, among others, feminist historians of rhetoric. The discussion moves to a point where it asks: given that multinational and transnational corporations now share with the nation state the regularisation of capitalist exploitation, is ideology effective as a political rhetoric any more? Who is the wife of the nation state? And, what is the ethos of the multinational?

scholarly journals A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ILLITERACY AND SCHOOL DROPOUT IN RURAL MOROCCO

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 254-269
Author(s):  
Youssef Nait Belaid ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
Dropout Rates ◽  
Policy Management ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
National Framework

Why, despite enormous efforts to reduce illiteracy and dropout rates in Morocco, are rural populations the most affected by these two scourges? The dominant explanation is the limited provision of education and literacy in rural areas. Previous studies in the fields of sociology of education and educational policy management have analyzed the problems of illiteracy and school dropout separately. These studies have not been comprehensive enough to explain the complex relationships between illiteracy, school dropout and the new dynamics of rural areas. Thus, this article aims to analyze the national strategies for education and literacy in rural areas in Morocco, and to show their limitations, in terms of quantitative and qualitative achievements. We believe that actions to combat illiteracy and school dropout, particularly in rural areas, must be comprehensive and more integrated. This is why we propose some improvements for the success of the national framework of intervention in education and literacy.

scholarly journals ‘Blood, it’s in you to be Governed'

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Alex Christison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality ◽  
The Creation

The author of this paper investigates how blood has been constructed as a gendered and heteronormative cultural product, explored through the use of critical analysis of historical and contemporary uses of blood. Heteronormativity and the fallacy of discrete sexes are then defined and explored to give context to the argument. It is found that through gendering under the two-sex model of opposing male and female sexes, blood is heteronormative. A case study of Canadian Blood Services was used to show how governance is enacted based upon the limitation of a heteronormative construction. This argument is bolstered in a theoretical discussion of the nation-state and the creation of the archetypical citizen, part of which is a compulsory heterosexuality.

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