scholarly journals Mirarse a uno mismo: Acerca de la afectación como engranaje clave de las políticas de reforma curricular

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Carla Andrea Villagran
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Curriculum Policies ◽  
Better Than

This article presents the results of a research project that seeks to describe and analyze the curricular policies of reform in the daily life of schools, paying particular attention here to the processes of regulation and self-regulation that they produce and impose on their subjects. From the Foucauldian notion of governmentality we understand that curriculum policies and regulations, technologies, and behaviors produce performative effects (Ball, 2002, 2012), which affect not only the life of the institutions but also of the subject (Ahmed, 2004, Berlant, 2011). Thus, the question that orientates this article is woven around the articulation of the government of others and self-government (Foucault, 1988, 2009) as a key mode of school reform technologies and the modes of social affectation. The processes of reform cross subjects through performative technologies (Ball, 2002) and constitute a part of what Rose (2012) called the ethopolytic, that is, these processes act at the level of feelings and beliefs, and put the self in check. As a hypothesis, it is argued that judgment, self-reflection and self-responsibility are attached to questions that teachers ask themselves in the call to become better than they are. 

scholarly journals Private Self-consciousness, Self-reflection, Insight and Alcohol Consumption Among Young People and Adults

Psico-USF ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-644
Author(s):  
Cristyan Karla Nogueira Leal ◽  
Gabriel Gonzaga Barbosa de Faria ◽  
Mariane Lima DeSouza
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Young People ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Private self-consciousness is a relevant metacognitive capacity in the self-regulation process, with possible implications in alcohol consumption. This research verified the influence of self-reflection and insight, dimensions of private self-consciousness, on drinking behavior. A total of 523 Brazilians, aged from 20 to 39 years old, participated in a survey by answering the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale and the AUDIT test. The results showed that women have higher levels of self-reflection, whereas men have higher levels of insight. With regard to alcohol consumption, young people drink at higher risk levels than adults. Self-reflection and insight were negatively correlated with alcohol consumption. Age and gender differences in the intensity of the correlation between variables and the influence of environmental factors on the regulation of drinking behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals Towards an expansive object and a restrictive experience in Everyday Aesthetics: A Chestertonian metaxological approach

Kepes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 197-231
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Romero-Ramírez ◽  
Duncan Reyburn
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

This article proposes to resolve an internal ambiguity in the subdiscipline called Everyday Aesthetics (EA), systematized by the researcher Horacio Pérez-Henao, according to whom the extension of aesthetics to the everyday has been done, on the one hand, by means of a consideration of an expansive object and subject according to aesthesis itself, as mainly proposed by Katya Mandoki, and, on the other hand, by means of a restrictive object and subject according to the parameters of an authentic aesthetic experience, a theory headed by John Dewey. Methodology: To resolve this tension, a hermeneutic methodology known as the fourfold sense of being, related to Hegelian dialectic, albeit with important modifications supplied by William Desmond was used. This methodology allows a suitable way to explore and discuss different approaches in everyday aesthetics epitomized by Mandoki and Dewey, and makes possible the proposal of a third way, epitomized by G. K. Chesterton. Results: Bearing in mind the original intention of EA—according to which the everyday must be revitalized from an aesthetic perspective, as explained by Joseph Kupfer, it is argued that the two alternate positions of Mandoki and Dewey are unsatisfactory; an attempt is therefore made to respond to this through the analysis of the aesthetic approach of G. K. Chesterton. From his aesthetic reflections, it can be ascertained that to revitalize daily life, the object must be expansive and the subject, restrictive, from a certain méthodos and according to patterns that qualify an everyday aesthetic experience. All of this seeks to pave the way for subsequent investigations of EA being both expansive and restrictive. Finally, it is argued that this Chestertonian EA converges with and extends the aesthetics of design of Jane Forsey, and thus shows that design itself can be revitalized in keeping with a restrictiveexpansive approach to everyday aesthetics. Conclusion: aesthetics should be expansive every day, in that it should concern itself with any aspect of daily life, and restrictive, in that it should set certain limits on the self and its intentions with regard to the possibilities of aesthetic experience.

scholarly journals Det utilstrækkelige subjekt – En foucauldiansk analyse af selvhjælpslitterær selvstyring

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Erik Mygind du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis

Denne artikel undersøger, hvordan bestemte personlighedstræk søges problematiseret og kultiveret i moderne selvhjælpslitteratur. Undersøgelsen, som har et særligt fokus på autonomi, trækker teoretisk på Michel Foucaults begreb problematisering samt Foucaults tanker om governmentality og selvstyring. Artiklen kombinerer disse analytiske perspektiver i et forsøg på at vise, hvordan det autonome subjekt forsøges kultiveret på trods af det paradoks der indtræder, når kultiveringen sker gennem subjektets underkasten sig litteraturens anvisninger. Det konkluderes i artiklen, at problemer i selvhjælpslitteraturen generelt formuleres som forskellige typer mangler, der som løsning indebærer konstant udvikling hen mod et mål om selvrealisering, som aldrig helt kan opnås. Subjektet subjektiveres dermed som et ufærdigt projekt, der aldrig er helt godt nok, og som altid har brug for forbedring. Dette gælder også for autonomi som problem, og i artiklens anden halvdel vises det, hvordan den allestedsnærværende ufuldendthed ved subjektet manifesterer sig i paradokset, hvor subjektet bør være selvstændigt, autonomt og handle ud fra sin egne overbevisninger, men samtidig udleder denne evne til at handle autonomt fra de samme autoriteter, som det bør være autonomt fra. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Erik Mygind du Plessis: The Inadequate Subject: Self-Help Literature and the Government of the Self – a Foucauldian Analysis This article investigates how current self-help literature seeks to problematize and cultivate certain personality traits. The study emphasizes individual autonomy, and is based on an analytical framework employing Michel Foucault’s concept of problematization and his insights into power and governmentality – particularly those concerned with the various ways in which subjects govern themselves. The article combines these two analytical perspectives in an attempt to show how the objective of creating autonomous subjects is carried out in this literature, despite the paradoxical nature of doing so through the readers’ subjection to self-help instructions. The analysis concludes that the problems taken up in the self-help literature are generally formulated in terms of various forms of incompleteness. This entails a constant and never ending development towards, as a final objective, a self-realization, which can never quite be achieved. Thus the subject is construed as an unfinished project that is never quite good enough, always requiring improvement. The second part of the article analyses how this ubiquitous incompleteness of the subject manifests itself through the paradox of creating autonomy through subjection. Key words: Foucault, problematization, self-help, autonomy.

scholarly journals "Our Branches Are Broken:" Using the Tree Of Life Healing Methodology with Victims of Gukurahundi in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumisani Ngwenya
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Group Action ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Midlands Province ◽  
The Government ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Better Than

Between 1983 and 1987, an estimated 20,000 people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands Province in Zimbabwe were killed by government forces in an operation code-named Gukurahundi. Since that time, no official apology, justice, reparations or any form of healing process has been offered by the government which was responsible for these atrocities. Many people still suffer trauma from the events of this time. The overall question that this research project sought to answer was whether a small group of survivors of Gukurahundi could heal via participation over time in a group action research project directed at their healing. This article assesses the effectiveness of the Tree of Life healing approach, which was one of the methodologies tried during the course of the research with a small group of survivors of the 1980s atrocities. We found that while the approach was very helpful to the participants, it was difficult to talk about “total healing” due to the fact that the perpetrators are still in power. In addition, no effort had been made to even acknowledge the harm done, and the participants still felt marginalized politically and economically, while the perpetrators appeared to be care-free and enjoying life. Participants agreed that, given the circumstance, this approach offered them a measure of relief and that it was still necessary to address healing holistically. It was however acknowledged that some form of relief was better than a lifetime of painful memories even if systemic change remains to be seen.

scholarly journals Foucault Among the Stoics: Oikeiosis and Counter-Conduct

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Depew
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Stoic Philosophy

This paper explores the relation of Foucault’s notion of counter-conduct to the Stoic notion of oikeiosis. Initially, oikeisosis is set against Platonic homoiosis, specifically as discussed in the Alcibiades, which provides what Foucault calls the “Platonic model” of conduct. The paper examines what Foucault means by “care of the self” and points to its difference from the Delphic maxim “know yourself” that centered on a principle of homoiosis, or ethical transcendence. Noting how the problematic of care of the self leads to what Foucault calls “the government of conduct,” the paper considers the possibility of “counter-conduct.” Given that Foucault has argued that the autonomy of conduct has been rendered invisible through its “juridification,” this paper proceeds with a genealogy of the codification of morals in natural law theory. This culminates with the sixteenth century return to Stoicism in the person of Grotius. Showing that a certain conception of counter-conduct present in Gerson is transformed in natural law theory into a juridical grounding of the government of conduct, this paper draws out the immanent relation of conduct and counter-conduct in the notion of appropriation. Arguing that Grotius has fundamentally misunderstood the concept of oikeiosis, which he takes from Cicero and which subtends his theory of appropriation, this paper suggests that a return to the early Stoic formulation of oikeiosis allows for a rethinking of the problem of the government of conduct. A certain moralization of action, irreducible to codification that is present in early Stoic thought provides a model of “counter-conduct.” Ultimately, “care of the self,” as it is given in Stoic philosophy, relates the subject of action to the principle of ethical immanence that grounds Foucault’s critique of the subject.

Ego effectiveness: A novel individual difference approach to health behavior and coping

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110014
Author(s):  
Michael D Robinson ◽  
Roberta L Irvin ◽  
Michelle R Persich
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
The Self ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Total N ◽  
Protocol Study ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Health And Well Being

Taking care of one’s health can require trading current feelings for longer-term considerations of health and well-being. The present research (total N = 366) sought to assess ego operations of this type in terms of the extent to which the self would be capable of responding to health-challenging situations in ways deemed to be effective. Ego effective individuals engaged in a greater frequency of health-protective behaviors as well as a lesser frequency of risky behaviors, both with respect to a peer protocol (Study 1) and a daily life protocol (Study 2). Findings are informative concerning multiple self-regulation perspectives on health.

Self-Regulatory Processes Employed During Self-Modeling: A Qualitative Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Rymal ◽  
Rose Martini ◽  
Diane M. Ste-Marie
Keyword(s):  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Competitive Sport ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Regulatory Processes

Self-modeling involves the observation of oneself on an edited videotape to show a desired performance (Dowrick & Dove, 1980). While research has investigated the effects of self-modeling on physical performance and psychological mechanisms in relation to skill acquisition (e.g., Clark & Ste-Marie, 2007), no research to date has used a qualitative approach to examine the thought processes athletes engage in during the viewing of a self-modeling video in a competitive sport environment. The purpose of this study was to explore the self-regulatory processes of ten divers who viewed a self-modeling video during competitions. After competition, the divers were asked four questions relating to the self-modeling video. Zimmerman’s (2000) self-regulation framework was adopted for deductive analysis of the responses to those questions. The results indicated that a number of self-regulatory processes were employed, and they were mainly those in the forethought (75%) and self-reflection (25%) phases of Zimmerman’s model. Directions for future research in self-regulation and self-modeling are discussed.

Faust-Sammlungen

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Rohde
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Literary Subject ◽  
The Subject

For more than a century, Faust was more than just an object of literary theory. In Germany, in the course of the overwhelming response Goethe's Faust tragedy spawned, both character and literary material developed into a national object of identification. The 'Faustian' became the sign of an age. For the self-reflection and self-description of Germany as a cultural nation in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century, the Faust myth was of central importance. The singular meaning of the Faust story is also reflected in the fact that in the 19th and 20th centuries it became the subject of numerous at first predominantly private, and later also public, collecting activities, unlike any other literary subject matter. What stands out is the breadth and internationality of the collectors, both individual and institutional. The contributions collected in this volume discuss the origins, the composition, the objects and the forms of presentation of these collections – and what they reveal about the cultural memory (not just of) the Germans.

The Flow Self-Regulating Hydrostatic Screw and Nut

1979 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bassani
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Pumping Power ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
Special Shape ◽  
Lead Screw ◽  
Global Efficiency ◽  
Better Than

The new principle of flow self-regulation is applied to hydrostatic screws and nuts. These self-regulating hydrostatic screws and nuts permit a continuous and automatic distribution of the total flow in two half flows in the two recesses merely due to the special shape of the double thread. Formulas are presented and compared with those of ordinary hydrostatic screws and nuts supplied by two pumps. The comparison shows that the self-regulating screws and nuts have a stiffness equal to that of ordinary ones supplied by two pumps, and also that they have pumping and friction dissipated power and therefore a total dissipated power generally equal to those of ordinary ones supplied by two pumps. Their global efficiency is comparable to that of ordinary hydrostatic screws and nuts supplied by two pumps and is consequently better than that of the ordinary ones supplied by only one pump but through two flow regulators. A calculation example is presented, of a self-regulating hydrostatic lead-screw and nut, dissipating minimum pumping power. Finally a prototype of a screw and nut of this kind is shown.

scholarly journals Anarcheology and the Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject in Foucault’s On the Government of the Living

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Daniele Lorenzini
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

On the Government of the Living plays a pivotal role in the evolution of Foucault’s thought because it constitutes a “laboratory” in which he forges the methodological and conceptual tools—such as the notions of anarcheology and alethurgy (or, better, what I call here the “alethurgic subject”)—necessary to carry on his study of governmentality independently from his History of Sexuality project. In this paper, I argue that Foucault’s projects of an anarcheology of the government of human beings through the manifestation of truth in the form of subjectivity and of a genealogy of the subject of desire, albeit essentially linked to one another, are conceptually autonomous. These projects are both part of a genealogy of the modern subject but should be treated independently insofar as it is the former, elaborated in On the Government of the Living, that provides us with the key to understanding Foucault’s interest in the care of the self and parrhesia as an integral part of his analyses of governmentality and the critical attitude from the late 1970s.

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