Synthetic Nationality: Mandel'shtam and Chaadaev

Slavic Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-610
Author(s):  
Clare Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Growing Up ◽  
Osip Mandel'shtam ◽  
The One

“A world that is your own must be created for you since the one you inhabit has become foreign to you.”Petr Chaadaev, “Second Philosophical Letter”In "The Whisper of History and the Noise of Time in the Writings of Osip Mandel'shtam" Gregory Freidin writes that "only a cultural orphan growing up in the revolutionary years could possess such an insatiable need for a continuous construction of a gigantic vision of culture meant to compensate for the impossibility of belonging to a single place." Freidin's richly suggestive remark hints at both the nature of and the reasons for Mandel'shtam's "orphandom," and the means by which he sought to surmount or circumvent his pervasive homelessness and achieve a "homeland, a house, a hearth" in culture.

NURTURING OF CHILDREN THROUGH DRAMA AND THEATRE: THE CASE OF INTWASA KOBULAWAYO PERFORMANCES

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Vimbai Moreblessing Matiza
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Dramatic and theatrical performances have a long history of being used as tools to enhance development in children and youth. In pre-colonial times there were some forms of drama and theatre used by different communities in the socialisation of children. It is in the same vein that this article, through the Intwasa koBulawayo performances, seeks to evaluate how drama and theatre are used to nurture children and youth into different developmental facets of their lives. The only difference which this article will take into cognisance is that the performances are done in a different environment, which is not the one used in the pre-colonial times. Although these performances were like this, the most important factor is the idea that children and youth are socialised through these performances. It is also against this backdrop that children and youth are growing up in a globalised environment, hence the performances should accommodate people from all walks of life and teach them relevant issues pertaining to life as they live it now. Thus the main task of the article is to spell out the role of drama and theatre in the nurturing of children and youth through socio economic and political development in Intwasa koBulawayo festivals.

scholarly journals Epistemic Disobedience and Decolonial Healing in Norma Elía Cantú’s Canícula

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Poks
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Border Community ◽  
Line Splitting ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
The One ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Using the U.S.-Mexican border as the place of enunciation, Cantú’s autoethnobiographical novel insists on the materiality of the border, especially for those living on its southern side, while simultaneously deconstructing it as artificial - a line splitting families and assigning nationalities on an arbitrary basis. Being a collage of photographs from the time the writer was growing up in southern Texas and the cuentos inspired by these visuals, Cantú’s Canícula documents how border crossings and re-crossings become symptomatic of living in a liminal space and how they destabilize the concept of nationality as bi-national families must learn to live with ambiguity. On the one hand, there is the undeniable materiality of the border, with its pain, fear, deportations, and other discriminatory practices; on the other, there is a growing border community of resistance cultivating the memory that they are not immigrants, that they lived in Texas before the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty. The paper examines the community’s strategies of survival in the contested cultural and social space and advances the thesis that, giving her community an awareness of its homogeneity and reclaiming its place within the larger socio-political context, Cantú becomes an agent of empowerment and change. She helps decolonize knowledge and being.

I processi di integrazione delle nuove generazioni letti attraverso il capitale sociale

2012 ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Guia Gilardoni
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The One

The article presents considerations regarding the usefulness of social capital in studying integration paths, and it examines research data on the integration of the new generations in Italy, analysing a sample of 17,225 preadolescents (aged 11 to 14), of whom 13,301 were Italians, 2,921 foreigners and 1,003 children of mixed parentage. Data has been collected by a questionnaire translated and adapted from the one used by Portes and Rumbaut in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) of 1992 in the United States. They are used to present the Italian situation in light of segmented assimilation theory. One first result is the underachievement of Latinos. Given this finding, an effort is made to consider various factors which contribute to shaping the socio-existential circumstances of this specific group. The second main result is that children of mixed couples were those most disposed to form intercultural relations. When distinguishing between those with an Italian father and a foreign mother and those, vice versa, with an Italian mother and a foreign father, forcefully evident is the central role played by the mother in the transmission of cultural elements and in the construction of a sense of belonging and identity. Third, focusing on social capital at family level and within the peer group, it has been revealed a greater cross-cultural propensity among the new generations than among previous ones: Italian preadolescents growing up in a multi-ethnic society are more open to, and willing to accept, the challenge of cultural diversity than are their parents. More in general, the new generations contribute to creating a more inclusive social space in which membership of social circles becomes more transversal with respect to cultural and ethnic origins.

scholarly journals Tendencies of children’s growing up in modern educational environment: risks and prospects of development

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08040
Author(s):  
Vladimir Tereshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pedagogical Analysis ◽  
The One

The relevance of studying the process of child’s growing up is due to a number of contradictions; on the one hand, children’s space of activities is changing, he/she develops in paradoxical, contradictory conditions, on the other hand, growing children do not show an active desire to grow up, sometimes imitate disharmonious forms of behaviour. The purpose of the study is, firstly, to describe the range of domestic and foreign works related to both childhood and adulthood on the background of changing socio-cultural practices, secondly, to isolate the existing manifestations of the problems, identifying the main contradictions caused by changes in the process of growing up, and thirdly, to attempt to develop conceptual provisions of psychological and pedagogical analysis of growing up in modern educational organization. We consider the growing up of a modern child in the educational environment as a process of constant changes in the structure of his/her subjective and objective characteristics, including the formation of child’s image of adulthood in ontogenesis, its development and implementation, as well as the reflection of development of adulthood by children in the psychological and pedagogical space by the participants of educational process (parents, teachers).

scholarly journals Stepfamilies

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Gill Gorell Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
If Current ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The One ◽  
Year 2000

Family life in Britain is changing daily to include more stepfamilies, which have widely differing structures with varying histories, losses, transitions and economic circumstances. Of the one in five children who currently experience separation before they are 16, over half will live in a stepfamily at some point in their lives. Of the 150 000 couples with children who divorced each year at the end of the 1980s, a further 35 000 had a subsequent divorce. For some children we need to think of step-parenting within wider processes of transition, which include relationship changes of many kinds. The National Stepfamily Association have calculated that if current trends of divorce, cohabitation, remarriage and birth continue, there will be around 2.5 million children and young adults growing up in a stepfamily by the year 2000. The true pattern of re-ordering of partnership and family life is hard to chart, since many couples second or third time around prefer to cohabit rather than to marry.

scholarly journals Language mixing in young bilinguals

1980 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy E. Redlinger ◽  
Tschang-Zin Park
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Function Words ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Language Mixing ◽  
Language Differentiation ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTThe speech of four two-year-old children growing up bilingually in a German-speaking community was studied for periods varying between five and nine months. An analysis of their language mixing revealed an initially higher rate of mixing which diminished with a growth in language development as measured in MLU. The data suggest that the children were at various stages in a gradual process of language differentiation thus providing support for the one-system theory of bilingual acquisition. An examination of the distribution of lexical substitutions by part of speech revealed that nouns were most frequently substituted by all children; however, more function words were substituted than content words overall.

scholarly journals THE ARTISTIC WORLD OF MODERN CHILDREN'S PROSE

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
A. Ashimbaeva ◽  
◽  
Z. Tursynali ◽  
S. Sabigazina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The One

The article tells that the main character traits are laid in childhood. It is during this period of growing up that a worldview and ideas about morality are formed, one of the main sources of which, of course, is children's literature. It is for this reason that, over time, people began to understand the need for the existence of works especially for children. Modern children's prose is developing, transforming, no worse than the one that was before. The problems of the past are being replaced by more urgent and fresh ones. The works of the latest children's literature are a treasure trove of the most important diverse information that you need to be able to reveal, discern, and read between the lines. Thus, the latest literature pushes us ourselves to seek morality, hidden meaning, which leads to the development of various spheres of personality. Today children's literature begins to return to its main task - the ethical education of the younger generation. Writers talk about morality, morality, mutual understanding between parents and children.

scholarly journals A Czech Story about the Social and Legal Protection of Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. p75
Author(s):  
Lukáš Stárek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Full Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

In the Czech Republic, aid to and protection of children in various life situations have a longstanding tradition. In identifying children who are growing up in situations of risk, as well as providing them with full support and assistance in gaining their rights, all who work them professionally in some aspects of their lives are obliged to participate. Along with social workers, these are mostly paediatricians and other doctor specialists, midwives, pre-school teachers, teachers, pedagogues, psychologists… When applying work, social workers need to possess many layers of knowledge and skills on the one hand, and practice thoughtful ethical behaviour on the other hand. The text brings information about the system in the Czech Republic and the view of the social workers themselves helping children.

scholarly journals The permeability of microwave treated wood for distilled water

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukáš Merenda ◽  
Jiří Holan
Keyword(s):  
Microwave Radiation ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Wood Property ◽  
Treated Wood ◽  
Longitudinal Direction ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Low Permeability ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Wood Impregnation ◽  
The One

Permeability of wood is a wood property which strongly affects a process of drying wood, as well as steaming, boiling and wood impregnation. The low permeability of the most industry treated wood causes investigating the ways which increase the permeability of wood. The one of the considered methods is drying of wood with the aid microwave radiation which causes rotation and friction of water molecules, thus the temperature and the pressure inside the wood are growing up. As a result of raised pressure are crackled cell walls which makes the wood structure more permeable in transverse direction, but in longitudinal direction the wood speciemens treated with microwave radiation don’t analyse differences in the permeability in comparison with unmodified wood.

scholarly journals Finding wisdom in the life of a humble man: Lessons learned from my father

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Paternal Grandmother ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

In truth, it feels rather pretentious of me to consider my life to be a meaningful source of wisdom that might guide future scholars. Perhaps that is why I have chosen to draw on the life of my father, William Cecil Mullins, as the inspiration for the guidance I proffer here. I rarely speak about this good man and only few of my friends and colleagues ever had the pleasure of meeting him while he was alive. Yet, forever etched in my memory are his stories about growing up in the hills of Southwestern Virginia during the Great Depression, the survival instincts that those years instilled in him, and the abiding love he had for his mother, eight siblings, and for those hills he called home.Because I spring from such humble roots, I have always felt different from those I regarded as born to a career in the academy. Indeed, I see the fabric of my life as more akin to the quilts that my paternal grandmother, Creecy Lou, made from feed sacks and the remnants of tattered garments rather than to the rich tapestries I have seen adorning the halls of academia. That is not to disparage my upbringing or my grandmother’s quilts. In fact, the one quilt I have of hers that has survived all these passing years remains among my most cherished possessions. Every faded or worn piece carries memories and feelings that are truly precious to me. Like that quilt, my life is a patchwork that is not easily stitched together to form a clear or coherent tale of academic success that others might wish to emulate. Yet, I have achieved success. That I must admit. I also do not believe that my success came in spite of my humble roots. Instead, if I merit the right to stand among renowned scholars in education research contributing their acquired wisdoms, it is because of those roots and the insights they have afforded me.With that backdrop in place, let me share several basic “truths” that I have stitched together from my father’s words and deeds. These patchworked lessons have been instrumental to my academic success. Perhaps these lessons might inspire others seeking guidance. Whether these lessons represent “wisdom,” I cannot say. Yet, as with my grandmother’s quilt, I am confident in their practical value.

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