Transnational migrant students between inclusive discourses and exclusionary practices

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212
Author(s):  
Jia Li
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Sociolinguistic Ethnography ◽  
Power Project

AbstractTransnational migrant students have been found to experience marginalization in educational contexts around the world. This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores the incorporation and learning outcomes of an as yet under-researched group: transnational migrant students from Myanmar in a border high school in China. This context is unique in that migrant students are celebrated as part of China’s soft power project to extend its international reach. Despite these welcoming discourses of diversity, transnational migrant students experience significant exclusion as a result of practices such as military-style school regulations, a Gaokao-centered curriculum, and streamed segregation. Overall, the paper highlights the necessity to pay attention to the ways in which schools reproduce social stratification of migrant students through implicit and explicit institutional practices despite celebratory diversity discourses.

To the Question of the Classification Patterns of Social Stratification in the Countries of the World (Brief Overview of Some Concepts and Author’s Comment)

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
S. N. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The World

The author considers the problems of typification of society. Some concepts of typification of social stratification models in different countries formulated and justified in historical and legal, historical, sociological, and economic scientific literature are reviewed. The circumstances that make it difficult to formulate universal concepts designed for application in the complex of social Sciences are identified. These circumstances include insufficient consideration of legal factors, including the position of the legislator, the specifics of the corporate legal status, and the characteristics of the mechanism for changing individual legal status. The author offers a variant of classification of society types from the point of view of legal registration of their structure. The possibility of distinguishing types such as consolidated companies and segmented companies is justified.

When Health Diplomacy Serves Foreign Policy: Use of Soft Power to Quell Conflict and Crises

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 724-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasim Sadat Hosseini Divkolaye ◽  
Mohammad Hadi Radfar ◽  
Fariba Seighali ◽  
Frederick M. Burkle
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Global Health Security ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
And Training

AbstractObjectiveHealth diplomacy has increasingly become a crucial element in forging political neutrality and conflict resolution and the World Health Organization has strongly encouraged its use. Global turmoil has heightened, especially in the Middle East, and with it, political, religious, and cultural differences have become major reasons to incite crises.MethodsThe authors cite the example of the human stampede and the deaths of over 2000 pilgrims during the 2015 annual Haj pilgrimage in Mecca.ResultsThe resulting political conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia had the potential to escalate into a more severe political and military crisis had it not been for the ministers of health from both countries successfully exercising “soft power” options.ConclusionGlobal health security demands critical health diplomacy skills and training for all health providers. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;page 1 of 4)

Hacia la acreditación internacional de programas educativos con base en competencias

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
A. Garcés Báez ◽  
Ma. del R. Moreno Fernández ◽  
E. Mora Colorado
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The World

Las competencias para la Acreditación Internacional de los Programas Educativos en Computación y Tecnologías de la Información. A partir de los fundamentos se transita por los programas académicos y algunos organismos acreditadores tomando como eje, en ambos casos, las competencias hasta llegar a su identificación en el escenario internacional en el Marco del Acuerdo de Seúl. Como es sabido el desarrollo de competencias se enfoca sobre situaciones y problemas específicos, es por ello que una enseñanza por competencias brinda la oportunidad de garantizar que los aprendizajes sean adquiridos de manera oportuna y precisa, en términos de su trascendencia personal, académica y social. En todos los casos el concepto de competencia señala tanto el proceso como los resultados del aprendizaje, las cuales podría aplicar las competencias en el mundo. The competences for the International Accreditation of the Educational Programs in Computing and Information Technologies is addressed. Based on the fundamentals, we move through the academic programs and some accrediting bodies taking as their axis, in both cases, the competences until their identification in the international scenario within the framework of the Seoul Accord. As it is known, the development of competences focuses on specific situations and problems, which is why a teaching by competences provides the opportunity to ensure that learning is acquired in a timely and accurate manner, in terms of personal, academic and social significance. In all cases, the concept of competence indicates both the process and the learning outcomes, which will be the spearhead to apply the skills in the world.

Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral prompts

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-272
Author(s):  
Sandro Caruana ◽  
Laura Mori
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
The World ◽  
Speech Events

Abstract Scientific literature has tackled Maltese English (MaltE) mainly in the framework of World Englishes in order to focus on its features compared to other varieties of English around the world. In this paper we shed more light on MaltE by proposing a sociolinguistic perspective, oriented towards its social stratification, and by referring to it through degrees of linguistic competence in English. We therefore propose two continua of variation: MaltE as an L2 continuum and as a situational one. Within this framework, we identify two groups defined as Mainly Maltese Speakers (MMS) and Mainly English Speakers (MES). We suggest that MaltE can be interpreted both as an L2, and as a variety used according to speech events, domain, participants, in-groupness etc. To investigate this we carried out a perceptual experiment involving two groups of university students, specialising in Maltese and English respectively. We discuss the results based on ratings and evaluations of authentic MaltE written and spoken prompts.

The world of the Yoruba taxi driver: an interpretive approach to vehicle slogans

Africa ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
World View ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Wealth Status ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
The World ◽  
Status Mobility ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the slogans which are so prominent and ubiquitous on motor vehicles as expressions of social stratification among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. I interpret the slogans in the context of the taxi owners' and drivers' social interactions, not just as disembodied expressions of a total Yoruba world view. In studying the slogans I pay particular attention to processes of accumulation of wealth, status mobility and the way these are affected by cultural values. It is argued that the vehicle owners make different claims at different stages of their careers. Their fears and hopes at each stage must be understood in the light of the contemporary Christian and traditional mix of beliefs about destiny, the world and God.

The Life-World of Persons with Mood Disorders

2018 ◽  
pp. 616-633
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Chronic Depression ◽  
Life World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Lived Time

This chapter analyzes mood disorders as disorders of implicit and explicit temporality. First, depression is conceived (a) as a desynchronization from intersubjective time, (b) as an inhibition of conation or basic drive. The inhibition results in a disturbance of cyclical bodily functions and in a retardation of lived time, manifested both in a loss of the future as a space of possibilities, and in a predomincance of the past in the form of accumulated guilt. Depressive delusions may then be described as beliefs which result from the freezing of self-temporalization and which resist an intersubjective alignment of perspectives. Further considerations are given to chronic depression and mania, the latter being described as the opposite type of desynchronization as compared to depression, namely an acceleration and partial decoupling of the inner time from the world time. Finally, consequences for a “resynchronizing therapy” are outlined.

scholarly journals Identification of Nepal’s Soft Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Binod Khanda Timilsana
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Power Measurement ◽  
Power Indices ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Policies

Soft power, according to Nye, is a particular power of attraction to a state based on the appeal of its culture, political values, and foreign policies (Nye Jr. 2004, p. 11, 2008, p. 96). In the changing paradigms of state powers from military strength, economic might, political power, technological competency to soft power endeavors, identification of own soft power is the process of measuring own strength. Hard power measures can be observed from out sides as well but soft power potentialities will not appear easily without systematic attempt to expose them in front of international actors. Hard power measurement is easy and more exact than soft power qualities. There are very limited academic attempts visible in identification of Nepal’s soft power. Great soft powers of the world are visible and measurable through soft power indices developed by different think tanks and research agencies. The soft power 30 and Global Soft Power Index are exemplary forums engaged in ranking states in terms of soft powers. Reputation, influence, political values, culture, foreign policies, enterprise, culture, digital, governance, engagements and education are the indicators of soft power. The newly explained taxonomy of soft power includes four subunits of soft power namely resources, instruments, receptions and outcomes. Buddhism is a powerful soft power resource of Nepal. Conflict resolution and peace process model of Nepal is another potential soft power. Culture, engagement in multilateral global and regional forum, natural beauty with the world is highest Mt. Everest, diasporic community of Nepal, social networks, public diplomacy and personal diplomacy are remarkable soft power properties of Nepal. Nonetheless, identification of Nepal’s soft power is in very preliminary phase.

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