scholarly journals Catchalls and Conundrums: Theorizing “Sexual Minority” in Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Robert C. Mizzi ◽  
Gerald Walton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Religious Fundamentalist ◽  
Social Markers ◽  
Minority Sexuality ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Groups

The term “sexual minority” functions in social, cultural, and political contexts as a catchall for minority sexuality categories. Yet, apart from serving as an umbrella term, its uses are contradictory. On the one hand, the term emphasizes “sexuality,” which serves the purposes of religious fundamentalist and political groups that demonize minority sexualities to the exclusion of identity, background or family status. On the other hand, the term can be useful for readers and researchers in sexuality studies to become more globally aware of, and to reconceptualize, sexuality outside of tightly contained LGBT boxes. Such a contradiction has implications for education practice and policy. We suggest, for instance, using the term cautiously when describing same-sex sexualities because, as an umbrella term, it can homogenize people who represent a highly diverse spectrum of racialized categories, class backgrounds, genders, sexualities, and other social markers of difference. As a pedagogical heuristic device, the term is useful in delineating the differences between queer and sexual minority pedagogies when deciding upon the approach that will best draw an audience into the discussion. Our overall goal through this critical exploration is to support new understandings and insights of sexual diversity in ways that effectively challenge heterosexism and homophobia.

Collective Memory After Violent Conflict

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Markus Breitweg
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
The One ◽  
Violent Conflicts

This chapter develops a framework for the analysis of collective memory in post-conflict settings. It is argued that so far collective memory is not sufficiently theorized within peace and conflict studies, even though in the aftermath of violent conflicts competing memories easily become subject to salient struggles that may even result in yet another outburst of violence. It is these competing representations of the past that researchers should more thoroughly concern themselves with and that they lack an appropriate heuristic device for. Focusing on processual and multidimensional concepts from the fashionable field of memory studies, the author proposes a new framework for analysis that offers categories and ideal-types for practice-oriented research. Based on poststructuralist discourse analysis, the framework allows to link discursive structures and patterns of identity, on the one hand, to actual agency on the other hand, thus facilitating effective interventions.

Redesigning initial teacher’s education practices with learning scenarios

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Pedro ◽  
João Piedade ◽  
João Filipe Matos ◽  
Neuza Pedro
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
The One

PurposeThe construction of learning scenarios is a way to plan for teaching activities, promoting the development of skills related to problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. Using learning scenarios as a lesson planning strategy becomes a powerful tool in initial teacher education. On the one hand, it mobilizes teaching-related scientific concepts, and on the other hand, it offers opportunities to think on innovative pedagogic approaches involving strategies and capacities essential for the future teacher. Research shows that teacher education programs within real school contexts enriched with digital technologies represent an important factor in increasing the quality of teachers’ preparation and their future professional practice. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe authors present the analysis of practice of design and implementation of learning scenarios in teachers’ initial education courses developed with students of teaching master degrees. Activity theory is used in the analysis of a case study of a student-teacher in Computer Science.FindingsThe results have been analyzed, contributing to the specification of the principles underlying the learning scenarios in initial teacher education.Research limitations/implicationsResults show the affordances and possibilities of using learning scenarios as structuring resources for the initial teacher education practice.Originality/valueTherefore, the use of learning scenarios brings a set of potentialities to teacher training given its prospective nature.

Behind the Scenes: The Struggle of Political Groups for Influence as Reflected in Inscriptions

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar von Hinüber
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Groups

The main topic is the attempt to trace activities of different religious groups, Hindus, and in particular Śaivas, on the one side, and Buddhists on the other, as reflected in specific wordings of inscriptions.

scholarly journals Universitetsskolen – et bud på en didaktisk orienteret forskningsbasering af læreruddannelsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe Carlsen ◽  
Alexander Von Oettingen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
School Students ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

I disse år er både i Danmark og internationalt fokus på, hvordan læreruddannelsen på den ene side kan blive mere forskningsbaseret og på den anden side forbindes tættere til praksis. Dette fokus bygger på en forestilling om, at forskningen yder et vigtigt bidrag til uddannelsen af kommende folkeskolelærere, men også at denne forskning skal være koblet stærkt til praksis, og at den skal kunne formidles til både skolens praksis og uddannelsen. Med andre ord ekspliciteres en bestemt forestilling om, hvad forskning er og skal. I artiklen udfordres denne grundlæggende forståelse af, hvad forskning i en læreruddannelseskontekst er og skal være, og der peges på et transformatorisk forskningsbegreb der skelner mellem teori, empiri og praksis. Gennem erfaringer fra forsknings- og skoleudviklingsarbejde i Universitetsskolen vises hvordan studerende, lærere og læreruddannere gennem refleksive og transformative processer mellem teori, empiri og praksis får en mere nuanceret forståelse for skolens og uddannelsens praksis. Nøgleord: læreruddannelse, praksissamarbejde, forskningsbasering, forskningsbegreb, teori–praksis “The University School” – a suggestion of a more didactically oriented concept of research AbstractIn Denmark as well as internationally, there is increasing focus on how teacher education can become on the one hand more research-based, and on the other, more closely linked to practice. This is based on the notion that research provides an important contribution to the education of future primary school teachers, while such research must be strongly linked to practice and at the same time communicable to the school, both in practice and for educational purposes. In other words, a certain idea of what research is, and which purpose it holds, is explicated. In this article, the basic understanding of the role and purpose of research in the context of teacher education is challenged, and a transformatory concept of research is outlined – one that distinguishes between theory, empirical data, and practice. Through experience from research and developmental work in the schools participating in “The University School”, students, teachers, and teacher educators are shown ways to develop a more nuanced understanding of school practices and education through reflexive and transformative processes between theory, empirical data and practice. Keywords: teacher education, practice collaboration, research-based, concept of research, theory–practice

Student movements: Malaya as outlier in Southeast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Author(s):  
Wang Gungwu
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
The Political ◽  
Student Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The One ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Political Groups

For the past three decades, student movements in most countries in the world have been beaten back, but there are signs that some may be returning. In response to the Arab Spring, students participated fully in Tahrir Square and beyond. The student elections in Egypt that followed, however, seem to have been divided according to the various links that each student group had with the political groups contending for state power, like the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists on the one side, against secular and revolutionary groups on the other. It is not certain if the student elections really reflected the overall mood of the country or whether they were simply shaped by political protagonists outside the campuses.

The Concept of Evolution and Early State Formation

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gebhard Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Primitive Society ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The One ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Kinship Bonds ◽  
Political Groups

The emergence of the state and similar forms of large-scale, stratified society from the matrix of primitive egalitarian social relations poses a problem sui generis for political anthropology. On the one hand, since the Neolithic, hierarchical stratification and political domination have evolved in a relatively short time from the patterns of kinship bonds and ephemeral leadership characteristic of primitive society (Service, 1975; Carneiro, 1978). On the other hand, the extent of the division of labor and of hierarchical stratification in even the most primitive corporate political groups is significantly greater than that found in egalitarian bands and tribes. This difference lends support to very specific explanations such as the theories of cataclysmic sociocultural change of political anthropology (Service, 1975:15).

scholarly journals Invisible Desires in Ghana and Kenya: Same-Sex Erotic Experiences in Cross-Sex Oriented Lives

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 883-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Spronk
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
The People ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The One

This article explores the tension between same-sex sexual practices and eroticism, on the one hand, and theoretical investigations on sexual diversity, on the other. The author’s analysis is based on research in Ghana and Kenya over the last two decades. A significant proportion of the people she met have (had) experience with same-sex sexual practices at some point in their life. Their choice to start and continue with it and in what form differed considerably per person and over their life course. These diverse possibilities throw an interesting light on the question of sexual diversity, which tends to be locked in a Western paradigm based on binary oppositions of female vs male, homosexual vs heterosexual and non-Western vs Western. While this paradigm has been criticized, theory on sexual diversity nevertheless inclines towards focusing on difference from the norm as its standpoint and therefore always implies non-heterosexuality. The author argues that African contemporary realities suggest innovative analytical directions of global heuristic value. Rather than focusing on self-realization based on notions of individualization, she explores the notion of well-being as put forward by Michael Jackson in Life within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want (2011). She explores how realizing gendered and sexual well-being is a constant struggle rather than a linear path, and how diversity comes into being as erotic practices that are generated through phases in life course.

Settlers, Strikers and Sans-Travail: The Douala Riots of September 1945

1974 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Crop Agriculture ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Groups

The outbreak of World War II is generally regarded as having had profound consequences for the future of the colonial world. These consequences are usually linked to such largely external factors as the signing of the Atlantic Charter, the participation of colonial subjects in Allied armies, and the demands made for political reforms by colonial officials and metropolitan political groups. Of equal importance for the rapid pace of political change ushered in by the war, however, were developments within the colonial territories themselves. For one thing, the world depression of 1929 lasted right up to the war in many African countries. A connexion can often be drawn between the ‘unfavourable terms of trade, the declining revenues … the pessimism of the period 1930–45’ and the emerging anti-colonial movement. In the case of certain countries, however, this general economic explanation must be broadened to take other factors into account. For example, in the Ivory Coast, the contradiction between African cash-crop agriculture on the one hand and, on the other, such colonial policies as forced labour and the indigénat which favoured European agriculture was also at the root of the discontent. In the Congo, the excessive demands made on the rural population to produce for the ‘war effort’—following upon similar exactions during the depression years—reinforced the oppressive apparatus of the colonial state and, in turn, heightened the discontent.

The Queer Nation Acts Up: Health Care, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in the County of Angels

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 609-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Goltmakor
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Health Care Politics ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
Constitutional Privacy ◽  
Political Groups

The emergence of organized political groups of people with AIDS has forced issues of health and illness into a public visibility which threatens traditional assumptions of privacy and public heterosexual privilege. The struggle against the stigmatization of AIDS has forced many gay men and lesbians to reject the relative pleasures of the closet and its legal girdings in discredited notions of constitutional privacy for a radical insistence on the right to be ‘queer’ on their own terms in public. ACT UP and Queer Nation present a threat not only to prevailing state and church ideologies of power and submission, but perhaps more importantly to the gendered and sexualized assumptions which define the boundaries of public space itself. People who are ill and people defined as degenerates present a special threat to the historical myths and antiurban morphology of Los Angeles, which still is perceived as an island of private consumption and public piety by those in power. The challenge presented by ACT UP and Queer Nation is an integral part of the spatial densification of the region, feared by old Anglo and new Catholic authorities.

15. European parties:

2021 ◽  
pp. 348-368
Author(s):  
Tapio Raunio
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Formation ◽  
Party System ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
European Level ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
European Parties ◽  
Commission President ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Groups

The party system of the European Parliament (EP) has been dominated by the two main European party families: centre-right conservatives and Christian democrats, on the one hand, and centre-left social democrats on the other, which controlled the majority of the seats until the 2019 elections. In the early 1950s, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) decided to form party-political groups, instead of national blocs, to counterbalance the dominance of national interests in the Council. Over the decades, the shape of the EP party system has become more stable, and traditional levels of group cohesion and coalition formation have not really been affected by the rise of populism and the increasing politicization of European integration. National parties remain influential within party groups, not least through their control of candidate selection. Outside of the Parliament, Europarties—parties operating at the European level—influence both the broader development of integration and the choice of the Commission president.

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