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2. State Policies and Women's Autonomy in China, the Republic of Korea, and India, 1950-2000: Lessons from Contrasting Experiences. Working Paper.
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World Bank, Washington, DC., Das Gupta, Monica, Lee, Sunhwa, Uberoi, Patricia, Wang, Danning, Wang, Lihong, and Zhang, Xiaodan
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This paper compares the influence of state policies on gender roles and women's empowerment in China, India, and South Korea. In 1950, these newly formed states were largely poor and agrarian, with common cultural factors that placed similar severe constraints on women's autonomy. The three countries followed very different paths of development, which have had a tremendous impact on gender outcomes. Today the countries show striking differences in the extent of gender equity achieved, with China showing the most gender equity and South Korea the least. India has achieved considerable improvement in gender equity, but both men and women continue to struggle with poverty, illiteracy, and poor health conditions. Following an overview of kinship systems and the construction of gender in the three countries, this paper focuses on several key issues: access to education, employment and income patterns, women's health and health education, family law and the legal rights of women, and state efforts to influence gender-related values and behaviors through mass communication. The experiences of these three countries suggest that even when states are interested in promoting gender equity, their actions are often constrained by the desire to maintain stable family structures. In addition, it is very difficult for states to alter inequitable rural rules of residence and land ownership, which form part of the moral order of rural society. Transition to an urban economy often loosens the constraints to gender equity. The impact of policies to provide opportunities for women's empowerment have been greatly enhanced by communication efforts to alter cultural values that impede women's access to those opportunities. (Contains 59 references.) (SV)
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- 2000
3. Towards a Social History of Technological Ideas: Joseph Black, James Watt, and the Separate Condenser. An Occasional Paper on Man/Society/Technology.
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West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Coll. of Human Resources and Education., Donovan, Arthur, Donovan, Arthur, and West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Coll. of Human Resources and Education.
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This seminar paper explores the role that historians of technology can play in the reevaluation of the relationship between technical and social change. Historians of technology need to ask questions about the nontechnological aspects of society which have influenced technical change in the past. In the realm of ideas, historians should check whether the main normative and descriptive assumptions used by innovators were, in fact, dominant ideas in the societies in which they lived. In short, historians need to write a social history of the ideas that encouraged investigations of techniques, made the discovery of new techniques possible, and guided the uses of these techniques. As an example, the story of the relationship between the chemist Joseph Black and James Watt, inventor of the separate condenser for the steam engine, is presented. The story shows the integration of technology, society, and culture. The relationship between the men is examined for scientific discoveries that were transmitted between them, the general character of the society supporting their activities, and common areas of understanding and knowledge. In this case, an important technical innovation depended upon a close and friendly relationship between the men. (Author/ND)
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- 1976
4. The Unfinished Assignment: Equal Education for Women. Worldwatch Paper 7.
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Worldwatch Inst., Washington, DC., McGrath, Patricia L., McGrath, Patricia L., and Worldwatch Inst., Washington, DC.
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New educational opportunities for women around the world are traced. An introductory section provides an overview and discussion on the implications of equal education for women. Other sections discuss the historical background of equal education for women, women's literacy, the primary school experience, secondary education, technical skills, university education, careers as educators, and full sexual equality in education. History has shown that the changing role and characteristics of womanhood are expressed in the educational arena by women's choice of schools, courses, and preprofessional qualifications. Changes in female access to education both express social transformations and provide an index of future alterations in fertility patterns, family status, marital behavior, and support for ideals of sexual equality. Women's literacy is affected by prejudice, cultural imperatives, and the absence of relevant role models for women at higher stages of academic life which discourage women from making full use of their intellectual talents. Also, educational expectations for men and women remain unequal largely because marriage is regarded as the ideal career for women while the necessity of earning a living is drummed into males from an early age. The educational prospect for women is rapidly changing, though, as shown by the crumbling of the educational double standard in some countries and by United Nations statistical projections that the situation of girls attending schools is improving rapidly. (Author/ND)
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- 1976
5. Teaching Movements in History: Understanding Collective Action, Intersectionality, and Justice in the Past
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Martell, Christopher C. and Stevens, Kaylene M.
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Movements have been the driving force of social change through most of human history. Yet despite the important impacts that movements had in the past that led to a more just present, most Americans generally hold low opinions of movements. The authors see this as a major failing of history education. The authors argue for a need to center the people, rather than individual leaders, and their experiences in the history classroom. This article outlines three important concepts that should guide how history teachers approach the reorganization of their curriculum around movements, and ways this can ultimately help students develop a stronger understanding of the past. First, teachers should emphasize the role of the people organized in movements and engaged "collective action" in the past and present. Second, teachers should illuminate the role of "intersectionality" in movements for justice. Third, teachers should help students understand the difference between movements "for" and "against justice." Finally, the authors conclude this paper by presenting ways history teachers can do this work both as renegades and subversives, and how the role of community and school context influences how teachers might approach this work.
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- 2023
6. Intergenerational Challenges in Australian Jewish School Education
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Gross, Zehavit and Rutland, Suzanne D.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the intergenerational changes that have occurred in Australian Jewish day schools and the challenges these pose for religious and Jewish education. Using a grounded theory approach according to the constant comparative method (Strauss 1987), data from three sources (interviews [296], observations [27], and documents) were analyzed, thus enabling triangulation. Findings show that there is an incongruity between what the adult community defines as the central components of Jewish and religious identity, which are more particularistic, and the perspectives of Jewish youth, which are more universalistic.
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- 2014
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7. America's Children in Wartime: Beyond the 'Latchkey Child.'
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Tuttle, William M.
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An American historian writing about the experiences of American homefront children during the Second World War sought to add authenticity to his book by including in it the personal stories of people who had been children during the war, told in their own words. The writer's letter of appeal, published in about 100 U.S. newspapers and about 75 African-American, Hispanic-American, and Jewish-American publications, received an overwhelming response, and this paper discusses the impact that some 2,000 letters received from people who were children on the homefront during World War II had on the book. Focusing on two topics, the paper first discusses the way in which the letters changed the book by expanding the writer's conception of what was going on in the homefront children's lives. The second topic concerns how the letters illuminated the chronological divisions within the homefront children's cohort itself, revealing significant differences in the development and lives of children born during three time periods: 1932 to 1935, 1936 to 1941, and 1942 to 1945. (DB)
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- 1991
8. Contextualizing Trump: Education for Communism
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Malott, Curry
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In this article, Dr. Malott challenges the conclusion that the primary factor that led to Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election was the racism of poor whites. Rejecting this position for its capitulation to bourgeois caricatures of segments of the working class, Malott points to the fall of communism for a more historically contextualized understanding of how we got to where we are. That is, this essay notes that the rise of the socialist bloc after World War II was so inspiring to the world's oppressed and colonized that it slowed down capitalism's tendency toward an extending rate of exploitation. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc, and an aggressive anti-communist campaign, capitalists unleashed a more aggressive capitalism called neoliberalism. After nearly five decades of neoliberal wealth redistribution, and the destruction of the communist movement, right-wing demagogy has risen in European country after European country. Meanwhile, the white middle class--like other segments of the work force--has experienced significant downward mobility and is therefore desperate for economic relief. Because the white middle class tends to see their interests as the same as the capitalist class compared to those of the white working class, this group of more privileged and pampered workers--as has been the case historically--is increasingly susceptible to racist and fascist ideology. It was within this context that Trump and the so-called alt-right (i.e., neofascists and neo-Nazis) gained marginal influence, which is quickly eroding evidenced by Trump's falling approval rating. As a response to Trump, neofascism, and capitalism more generally, this essay argues for a communist education and the organization of the party form.
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- 2017
9. Day Care as a Social Service Strategy: 1890 to 1946. A Substantive Paper.
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Gray, Wendy
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the social work profession on day care delivery from 1890 to 1946, and to relate the outcomes of the investigation to some contemporary social policy issues. The first chapter discusses day care during the Progressive Era (1890 to 1918) while the second chapter explores the "professionalization" of the day nursery from 1919 to 1930. Chapter three focuses on day care delivery during the depression years (1931 to 1939). The development of "foster family day care homes" during this period is explored in detail and the developing concern for the "mental hygiene" of children in the day nursery is discussed. The fourth chapter evaluates persistently neglected issues in the history of day care, this time in the context of the World War II era. The initial negative reaction of social workers to mothers entering the labor force is depicted in this chapter. The final chapter summarizes all of these themes in the context of the conflicting social policy goals surrounding current day care services. In addition, the role of social services is evaluated according to the options presented in the revised draft of the 1979 Health, Education, and Welfare Day Care Regulations. Supporting documentation concerning research on day nurseries from 1919 to 1929, federal policy on day care services during World War I and the depression years, and day care services during World War II is included in three appendices. (Author/RH)
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- 1979
10. Social Change and Family Policies. Free Papers, Part 4. International CFR Seminar (20th, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-24, 1984).
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Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (Australia). and Baum, Frances E.
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These free papers presented at an International Committee on Family Research (CFR) seminar include (1) Frances E. Baum's "There's No Room in the Nuclear Family: Sharing As an Alternative Housing Option"; (2) Paula W. Dail's "Parental Role Perceptions among Young, Dual Parent Families in America: Family Policy Implications for the Future"; (3) Daniel B. Hunter and Edna J. Hunter's "Mandated Visitation for Grandparents in Custody Disputes: Will Little Red Ridinghood Visit Grandma?"; (4) Fumie Kumagai's "Aging and Social Policies in Japan"; (5) Renata Siemienska's "Patterns of Polish Families and Their Determinants: Continuity and Change"; (6) Oded Stark's "Migration, Remittances and the Family: A Theory"; (7) Helmut Willems and Roland Eckert's "Youth Protest in Western Europe: Four Case Studies"; (8) Peggy G. Koopman-Boyden's "Mothers, Fathers, and 'Big Brother' in New Zealand: Change in New Zealand Families and the Policy Response"; and (9) Graeme Russell's "Changing Patterns of Divisions of Labour for Paid Work and Child Care." (RH)
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- 1984
11. Cost of Children in Australia. Institute of Family Studies Working Paper No. 8.
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Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (Australia). and Lovering, Kerry
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This report estimates costs of feeding and clothing Australian children at a basic survival level. Detailed information is provided on the types of costs incurred by families at different income levels and with children of different ages. After a brief introduction characterizing the study and summarizing findings, discussion focuses on the history of the Australian government's intervention in alleviating family poverty. Such intervention is subsequently reviewed in relationship to falling birth rates, a changed attitude to children, and an extension of the dependency of young people. Legislation in Australia related to the cost of childrearing is also briefly discussed. Subsequently, the methodological approach of the study is described, and a comparison is made of Australian costs with those of the United Kingdom and the United States. Specifically contrasted are costs for food, clothing, and other items, including costs of household articles, lighting, heating, schooling, entertainment, and holidays. Concluding remarks recommend caution in using the cost figures, delineating some of the calculations' deficiencies. Directions for future research are indicated. Appendices I through III present a minimum diet for preschool-age children, a low cost menu for two adults and two young children, and "costed" food plans for 2-, ,5-, 8-, 11-, and 15-year-olds. Appendix IV discusses budgetary and survey approaches to research on costs of childrearing. (RH)
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- 1984
12. Forty Years of Progress: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Now?
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Black, Rhonda S. and Salas, Beverly A.
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This paper uses personal profiles to highlight major events across the past five decades that have affected the lives of individuals with mental retardation and their families. Each of the scenarios provided represents a creation of prototypical families, communities, school climates, issues, and social attitudes during a particular decade. Barbara is a young adult woman who was involved during the 1960s in the initial phases of integrating individuals with mental retardation into the workforce. Jose, a second-language learner, went through special education testing processes and the public educational system during the 1970s. Terrell is a young man brought up by his teenage mother in a single parent household during the 1980s. Rachel, born with fetal alcohol syndrome, is involved in a School-to-Work Youth Apprenticeship in the 1990s. Finally, Mitchell, born with Down syndrome, faces the future. The profiles are intended to help society reflect on what has helped and hindered employment and independent living for people with mental retardation. For each decade, an appendix outlines the legislative policy relevant to students and adults with disabilities, philosophy, research breakthroughs, and practices in schools and the community. (Contains 52 references.) (CR)
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- 2001
13. Sacred Architecture as a Narrative for Defining Religion, Culture and Social and Educational Change: A Proposal for a Series of Workshops for Educators.
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Shields, James J.
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Sacred architecture provides a compelling narrative for explaining the ways religious belief and practice contribute to the construction of self identity and of lived cultural values in all societies. This paper proposes a collaborative and ethnographic research workshop series focused on the intersections among culture, religious meaning and practice, and educational and social change within the framework of sacred architecture at sites ranging from historic churches, temples, shrines, synagogues, and mosques to home altars and memorials, as well as on the more customary vehicle of sacred texts and commentaries. The workshop series would be centered in the arts, but not limited to them, and would draw upon a wide range of fields and academic disciplines including social history, theology, cultural studies, education and urban policy studies, as well as architecture. Another purpose of the workshop series would be to enrich the classroom curricula and teaching methodology from preschool through the university, and to develop policy agendas for social change. The primary target group for the workshops will be graduate students primarily from Teachers College, Columbia University, the host institution for the series, as well as graduate students drawn from Columbia's School of Architecture, Union Theological Seminary and neighboring institutions. The paper outlines the format of the workshops and student evaluation methods and presents 10 proposed workshop topics. It provides historical background on sacred architecture and art and uses Japan as a case study for an international perspective on ways sacred architecture, religion, and education intersect. Contains a 14-item bibliography. (BT)
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- 2000
14. The Takeover of the National Indigenous Peoples' Institute (INPI): The Political Experience of a Disruptive Action by the Otomí Community in Mexico City
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Jiménez, Florina Mendoza
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This paper presents an approach to the political experience of the Otomí community living in Mexico City and its councillor Maricela Mejía, in their struggle for the right to housing, education, health and work. They have been making these demands for more than twenty years to cover basic needs, but they have been denied because of the marginalised and excluded conditions in which they live in the urban context. The aim of this text is to show the struggle of the Otomí community as a collective subject can be understood as a defence of the territory, as a space that symbolises the cultural continuity, identity and political action of the original peoples. This text focuses on the seizure of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) by the Otomí community on 12 October 2020. The INPI, as a government institution, has its antecedent in the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI), which took the reins of Mexican welfarism, promoting plans and projects focused on the improvement of "indigenous" communities, with development ideas. The political participation of Otomi women in the takeover of the Institute has been fundamental, as they are the ones who have the spoken up in front of government representatives, a situation in which women demand and play a leading role as interlocutors. In addition to proposing alternative forms of organization and resistance, based on accompaniment, listening and exchange with women from other indigenous peoples and other organizations in struggle. This text recovers some of my experiences of my approach to this movement of struggle and accompaniment of the Otomí community in the takeover of the INPI. It also recovers the words and some experiences of the Otomí women's communication commission for the representation of their word and voice before the representatives of the Mexican government.
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- 2022
15. The Distance between Feminism and Early Childhood Education: An Historical Perspective.
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Goldstein, Lisa S.
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Despite the strong association between women educators and young children, a chasm exists between "education feminism" and early childhood education. This paper explores why this chasm exists, and offers ways in which the two fields can be brought together. The relationship of feminism and early childhood education is explored, using history as a frame of reference. The evolution of feminist thinking about young children and their education is examined, as is the development of the field of early childhood education. The paper concludes by calling into question the hegemonic domination of developmental psychology, the theoretical foundation upon which early childhood education is built, and suggests that feminist theory and epistemology could provide a viable foundation for a new vision of early childhood education. The paper argues that the unification of feminism and early childhood education would benefit both fields. Contains 50 references. (AS)
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- 1993
16. Not Waves but Ripples: Re-Worlding and Counter-Worlding of Intergenerational Feminism
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Zhao, Pengfei and Silberstein, Samantha
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This paper presents an empirical study derived from the WomenWeLove Project (http://ofwomenwelove.org/) and inspired by the storyworlding methodology. Exploring the central questions of how we became feminists and what enabled us to encounter each other in the Feminist Research Collective, we, the two authors, shared our stories with the women we love and contextualized them within their respective socio-cultural histories of the time. The following reading of the ripple stories focuses on rethinking the canonical narrative of feminist movements as three or more distinctive different waves. It suggests that a re-worlding effort could work with the metaphor of ripples instead of waves, start with microscopic personal and intergenerational narratives, and attend to the macro, cultural, and sociopolitical ramifications of the stories. Putting the ripple stories and the following essay together, the article critically explored storyworlding, feminist agency, consciousness-raising, and inter/intra-generationality in critical feminist studies.
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- 2022
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17. Learning from Roger Simon: The Work of Pedagogy in the Social Studies Curriculum
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Tarc, Aparna Mishra
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This paper conducts an affirmative reading of key constructs of pedagogy, ethics, culture and justice put forth in the texts of Roger Simon. Rereading these texts with, against and across the trajectory of one thinker's thought, the article generates new possibilities for pedagogy in global and contemporary times. The paper demonstrates that reading affirmatively is a generative form of critical thinking that considers, deliberates and renews thought as an active ongoing and dialogical process of meaning making. This way of reading, as closely inhabiting the lines of the other's thought, seeks to do justice to the lifework of this remarkable thinker and contributes a view of reading the other's words as a vital to thinking, learning, teaching and acting in the world.
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- 2014
18. Do Human Rights Exist for Korean Gay Men and Lesbians?
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Youn, Gahyun
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All talk of sex was taboo in Korean society until the middle of this century. Only during the last decade has sexuality been a topic of discussion, but still the discourse was dominated by traditional male views regarding sex. Today, the number of homosexuals living openly is growing, and active debate about homosexuality in Korea is now emerging. The current state of homosexual human rights is explored through the following topics: "Homosexuality in the Korean Historical Record"; "Contemporary Homosexual Community in Korea"; "Social Activism on Homosexuals' Rights"; "Homosexuals and the Law"; "Homosexuality and the Mass Media"; and "Academic Activity." This paper includes results of surveys which sampled the number of gays in a given population and polled the attitudes of Korean psychologists towards homosexuals. Most Koreans seem to accept that the historical silence is evaporating and that homosexuality is becoming increasingly visible in their society; there is, however, concern that internalized homophobia may now find external expression. As the number of openly gay Koreans increases it is likely that the demand for civil rights will rise. Until there are more public and professional supporters of gay rights, it will be difficult for homosexuals to achieve civil rights and legal recognition. (LSR)
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- 1996
19. Introduction to Modern Women in Sports: Beyond Winning.
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Koehler, Gretchen
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Women can benefit from sports activities across the entire continuum from play to professional. Women have been catapulted into serious sports training and have been able to contend for more sports opportunities due to the evolution of clothing reforms, more acceptable sports, the right to vote, and the right to control pregnancy. Women have gained much from their growing participation in sports at all levels, such as improved health; releasing muscle and nervous tension; self-expression and self-esteem; and development of leadership, followship, cooperation, and the willingness to sacrifice for the group toward a common goal. Women need to value physical activity and act on that value by choosing to participate. Women have the right to participate on all levels of sport and are entitled to opportunities, training, availability, access, gender equity, and support. The well being and empowerment of women as vital members of society are the benefits beyond winning. (Contains 11 references.) (JDD)
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- 1994
20. Teachers and the Education of the People: Elementary School Teachers and Images of Citizenship in Scandinavia during the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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Kivinen, Osmo and Rinne, Risto
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This paper explores the historical formation of the teaching profession in Scandinavia in the 19th and 20th centuries, with special reference to developments in Finland. It focuses on the process by which mass education has assigned teachers a crucial role in the initiation ceremonies characteristic of modern society in relation to changing models of citizenship. It examines: (1) the role of the state in Scandinavian society; (2) the role of education in culture; (3) the teacher as the model of the fully enfranchised citizen; (4) the role of parish clerks and schoolmasters as the antecedents of elementary school teachers; (5) the emergence of professionally-trained elementary school teachers in the mid-19th century; (6) the evolution of teacher training and selection; (7) changing models of citizenship in Finland and Scandinavia; and (8) explanations of the changing role of teachers in Scandinavia. Contains 65 references. (MDM)
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- 1994
21. The Feminist Challenge to Pedagogy in Higher Education.
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Korn, Jessica
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This essay makes an argument for bringing a feminist perspective to pedagogy in higher education. The paper opens by reviewing the history of gender roles, relations, and perceptions in society before the industrial revolution. Subsequent sections describe women's participation in academia and develop a description of feminist pedagogy. Feminist pedagogy would raise the issue of the missing or invisible voice of women throughout higher education and seeks to bring solutions to recognizing, valuing, and teaching the female perspective and contribution in all disciplines. In explicating this view the essay discusses feminist philosophy, and presents a critique of the traditional academic disciplines from a feminist perspective. Such critiques suggest that current approaches deny expression to and negate the creative works of the non-powerful, are taught chronologically, assume hierarchical approaches, and are founded on competition. Another section describes what is involved in forming a non-gender biased curriculum. A discussion of the underlying values of feminist pedagogy covers the basis for teaching methods. The essay concludes by proposing a study to investigate the influence of change in pedagogy on attitudes about the female voice and its place in the curriculum of higher education. Sixteen references are included. (JB)
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- 1991
22. Child Support: The Dilemma of a Nation.
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Washington State Office of Support Enforcement, Olympia. and Welch, Carol
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This paper presents an overview of the development of child support in America. A review of the English common law from which U.S. laws evolved provides a glimpse into the ways that institutions of marriage and the family were viewed in the 19th century. The development of American law reflects the transformation of family structure by technological and economic advances. Changing gender roles, greater control over reproduction, increased longevity, and geographic and occupational mobility, are some factors that are shaped by such advances. These factors exert a powerful influence on marriage and the family; in particular, they have brought about increases in families headed by never-married and divorced mothers. A disproportionate share of these families live in poverty. The collection of child support is seen as a remedy to the burgeoning problem of children and mothers on welfare. This link between welfare and child support has moved the locus of control from a state to a federal issue. The Family Support Act of 1988 has brought about dramatic change in child support through a requirement that states develop a rebuttable presumption schedule. The Family Support Act also moves to narrow gaps in collection of support in two of the most troublesome types of cases, paternity and interstate. Proposals for changing the child support system are discussed. (Author/RH)
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- 1990
23. Segregation, the 'Black Spatial Imagination,' and Radical Social Transformation
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Lipman, Pauline
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This response discusses the complexity of racial segregation in U.S. cities today and an emerging education movement for equity and racial justice. Racial segregation has been and continues to be a potent, and contested, strategy of containment, subordination, and exploitation, but African Americans have also, out of necessity, turned racial segregation into collective survival, radical solidarity, resistance, and counter-hegemonic economic and social relations. New geographies of racial containment, exclusion, and incorporation in the neoliberal, postindustrial city have spawned a new antiracist, antineoliberal education movement. While people of color have the right to live and attend school anywhere, African American and other parents and students of color are concretely fighting against racist school closings and for equitable public schools in their neighborhoods as part of the battle against displacement and dispossession. I argue that the campaign for sustainable community schools and the program of transformative policy reforms in the Platform of the Movement for Black Lives exemplify a move toward an anticapitalist, antiracist vision of radical economic and political democracy and self-determination. [This article is in response to "Race, Residential Segregation, and the Death of Democracy: Education and Myth of Postracialism" (EJ1140078).]
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- 2018
24. Discussion of Resnick and Wolff, Feiner, Jensen, and Weiss Papers
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Lazonick, William
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- 1982
25. All in the Same Boat
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McKnight, David
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Last December's riots in Sydney's south raised once again the ongoing controversy over Australia's version of multiculturalism. The author of this article argues that 1970s multiculturalism, whatever its strengths then, needs to be revisited and revised to allow for a stronger affirmation of our common humanity. (Contains 9 endnotes.)
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- 2006
26. Children in Wartime: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Home-Front Children.
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Tuttle, William M.
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This paper discusses the impact of World War II on the lives of U.S. home-front children--that is, the boys and girls born between 1933 and 1945 who were children during the war and were still preadolescents when the war ended. The paper proceeds by discussing, first, the topical approach to the subject used in this essay; second, the ways in which sociology has guided the research and analysis it contains; and third, by suggesting collaborative efforts that could be undertaken by interdisciplinary research groups of social historians and social scientists. Finally, it is suggested that in studying U.S. children on the Second World War homefront, the historian should explore topics that were not only important at the time, but have had significant developmental consequences throughout the lives of these children. The most important topics appear to be: wartime migration of families and children; family formation: the sharp increase in marriages and births between 1940 and 1945; children's health during wartime; war separation and the rearrangement of family roles; children's homefront participation in wartime; war's psychological and emotional effects; nonwhite children's experiences during the war; war's effect on child-rearing advice and practices; the scope and effect of wartime governmental policies regarding children; and readjustments for family members due to fathers returning from military service and mothers from wartime jobs. (DB)
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- 1988
27. Whose Citizenship? Which State? Work and Its Challenges for Women's Visions of Citizenship, 1900-1925.
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Nackenoff, Carol
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The role of the women's movement in shaping women's vision of the obligations of citizenship in 1900-1925 was examined. The analysis focused primarily on the final 2 decades of the suffrage struggle. Special emphasis was placed on the class alliances and tensions that were forged during the struggle for suffrage and later helped set the stage for the shape of maternalist policies to come. The following were among the key themes and topics considered: (1) the thesis that maternalism or "difference feminism" was responsible for social policies that engendered a second-class citizenship for working women and women of color during the 1920s-1930s and that had continuing impact in the welfare state; (2) the emancipatory potential of gender difference and attempts to transform interpersonal service from an activity performed by those in subordinate and dependent positions to an activity involving equals rather than servants; (3) the question of whether the maternalist agenda was more about statism than about participation; (4) the theme of class as a contradiction at the suffrage movement's heart; (5) women's contributions to the definition of citizenship; and (6) "scientific motherhood" as an attempt to legitimate women's claims on the political agenda. (Contains 34 references.) (MN)
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- 2001
28. Adult Education & Social Change. Models for Adult and Lifelong Learning.
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Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Office of Adult and Lifelong Learning Research., Ntiri, Daphne W., Ntiri, Daphne W., and Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Office of Adult and Lifelong Learning Research.
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The four papers in this collection form part of the nucleus of research by a task force of advanced social science doctoral students who were foreign nationals enrolled in Midwestern universities. The first three papers, each a chapter situated within an interdisciplinary context, draw from politics, sociology, and history to define constructs on the process of social change. The last paper applies economic theory to the wage earnings of adults in an urban metropolitan setting. An introduction by Daphne W. Ntiri, providing an overview of the research papers, precedes the chapters. The following four papers are included: "In from the Margins: Challenges, Possibilities and Limitations of Participatory Research" (Derek C. Mulenga); "Adult Education and Social Change: Toward a Typology of USA. Adult Education" (Raymond Familusi); "Africa's Educational Dilemma: Roadblocks to Universal Literacy for Social Integration and Change" (Daphne W. Ntiri); and "Quality of Education and Its Impact on Earning of Adults in Urban Industry-Related Occupations" (Fan Zhang). Each paper includes a list of references. (KC)
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- 1998
29. An Analysis of the Women's Movement as a Social Movement.
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Budenstein, Mary Jane
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The paper analyzes the development of the women's movement, indicating how this particular movement empirically documents the theoretical suppositions of a sociologically defined social movement. A social movement is defined as "a group venture extended beyond a local community or a single event and involving a systematic effort to inaugurate changes in thought, behavior, and social relationships." In the first half of the paper, the author describes integral parts in the formation of a social movement, including the role of a communications network, organizational form, leadership, and goals. The women's movement has been able to grow due to the effective use of modern, mass media. There are two branches, the reform or "women's rights" branch, and the radical branch. Within the paper, the National Organization for Women (NOW) is discussed as an example of how the reform branch works within the system toward reforming social and political institutions. The radical branch, which has rejected a formal organizational style, is more liberal. Various crises are reviewed which prompted formation of specific women's movement groups on national, state, and local levels. Ten common goals are identified, including revision of divorce and alimony laws, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passage, and change in educational and political systems to assist and admit women. (AV)
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- 1977
30. The Century of the Child, Part II: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?
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Ronnberg, Margareta
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In 1900, the Swedish writer and social commentator Ellen Key published a book called "The Century of the Child," presenting changes she believed were necessary in the care of children in the twentieth century. This article examines the reality of childhood and child care in Sweden, comparing Key's wishes to both actual changes and current attitudes. It concludes that the conditions of children's lives have changed so profoundly that it is questionable whether the ideals of "the century of the child" have any relevance when discussing childhood today. For example, although corporal punishment and mandatory Christian education have been abandoned, the number of mothers working outside the home--and consequently, the number of day care facilities--has grown enormously, contrary to Key's hopes, and there is no indication that people would reverse the trend. The article claims that childhood today is more public and more participatory; that children are less dependent on parents and more dependent on other adults; and that they are less irresponsible and mentally segregated from the adult world (due largely to the mass media). The article also discusses the conflict of values when childhood is regarded as a transition to "future adulthood," as opposed to a culture unto itself, and advocates that adults allow children a free space to use childhood cultural products and experiences as they will. Finally, the article urges a reconsideration of the definition of childhood and adulthood as opposite states (a model of relations in which one party is weak and the other strong), adopting instead a view of human relations as siblinghood. Contains nine references. (EV)
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- 1996
31. The GI Bill of Rights Legacy to American Colleges.
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Ford, Brenda J. and Miller, Michael T.
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The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, nicknamed the "GI Bill of Rights," influenced a social change in America and its higher education system that could be compared to that caused by the Industrial Revolution. Making college a realistic expectation for many Americans, it also made future generations look upon a college education as an entitlement. The bill was first devised as a means for bolstering an economy that had been shakily emerging from a depression before World War II by a President who was fearful of what returning veterans would do to the economy. The Bill accomplished many social reforms and helped build the world's largest middle class and the world's strongest economy. The Bill's passage may well be considered the most important event of the 20th century. The long-lasting consequence of the GI Bill was that it turned the hodge-podge melting pot that was America, whose ethnic components had composed an overwhelmingly poor working class of people, into country of people more accurately described as college-educated, middle-class, home-owners. It accomplished the goal of many agencies which had worked for years to assimilate the children of European immigrants into the "American Dream" of education and opportunity for all. (JB)
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- 1995
32. A Ten Year Social History of School Desegregation in McCormick, South Carolina.
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Jenks, Charles E.
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This research study consisted of a three-tiered investigation, examining the roles of the local, state, and federal governments in bringing about the end of the dual system of education in South Carolina from 1964 to 1974. The study's purpose was twofold: (1) to detail the events leading up to and surrounding the desegregation of a county's school system in rural South Carolina; and (2) to compare the events in this county to the general pattern of events taking place in the state at the time to determine if this county was exceptional in its pattern of school unification. McCormick is a small rural school in western South Carolina with a black majority population. The area is dependent on service and agricultural jobs. The study entails the county's efforts to desegregate schools and the white reactions to those efforts. This study examines both archival and oral data sources. It is hoped this study will: (1) contribute to the archival history of South Carolina in this important era of state history; (2) add to the expansion of the present knowledge of educational history; and (3) address the needs of the school for a sense of identify from its own history. (EH)
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- 1994
33. Inclusion in a Multicultural Nation: Realities through Case Studies
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Balakrishnan, Vishalache
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According to Inclusion Press International, inclusion is not just a "disability issue" but about living full lives, about learning to live together and treasuring diversity and building community. When Malaysia obtained her independence from Britain in 1957, one of the main ruling was all three ethnicities (Malay, Chinese, and Indian) should live together as one multicultural nation. No individual should be excluded from any aspects of Education, Economic and Social means. After almost six decades of independence, many individuals in Malaysia are still unhappy with the social injustice due to exclusion based on several factors such as ethnicity and historical roots. In this paper the researcher would like to argue that, the minority ethnic group have been side lined due to constitutional rights and current policies. Using multiple case studies and collecting date through technology such as Facebook, Whats App and e-mail, the researcher used textual analysis to analyse the data collected. Findings show that, the participants have to fend for themselves and the social injustice caused many to leave their country of birth to move to other countries where they are treated equally for what they are and not who they are. The researcher suggests that, there is a critical need for Malaysia to overlook its Political, Economic and Education policies to ensure a new world which is just and fair.
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- 2015
34. Curriculum, Knowledge, and the Idea of South Africa
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Soudien, Crain
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South Africa is an important social space in world history and politics for understanding how the modern world comes to deal with the questions of social difference, and the encounter of people with different civilizational histories. In this essay I argue that a particular racial idea inflected this encounter. One of the ways in which this happened was through the dominance of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century positivism. In setting up the argument for this essay, I begin with a characterization of the nature of early South Africa's modernity, the period in which the country's political and intellectual leadership began to outline the kinds of knowledges they valued. I argue that a scientism, not unlike the positivism that emerges in many parts of the world at this time, came to inform discussions of progress and development in the country at the end of the nineteenth century. This was continued into the early twentieth century, and was evident in important interventions in the country such as the establishment of the higher education system and initiatives like the Carnegie Inquiry of 1933. The key effect of this scientism, based as it was on the conceits of objectivity and neutrality, was to institute suspicion of "all" other forms of knowing, and most critically that of indigenous knowledge. In the second part of the paper, I show that this scientism persists in the post-apartheid curriculum project. Finally, I make an exploratory argument, drawing on the concept of the "transaction" in John Dewey, for a new approach to knowing.
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- 2015
35. The Kindness of Strangers: Reflections on the Mentoring Movement.
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Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. and Freedman, Marc
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This essay discusses the roots, current shapes, and social and operational implications of mentoring young people in poverty. After an introductory first section on mentoring and the new voluntarism, Section II, "Recurring Fervor," notes recent increased interest in mentoring and traces the early manifestations of mentoring to 19th Century "friendly visiting" campaigns. Section III, "From Mythology to Policy," describes various cultural permutations of the role of the mentor. Section IV, "The New Wave of Mentoring," describes currently operating mentor programs at the state, local, and private levels. Section V, "Exploring Mentoring's Rise," traces the current social causes for the mentoring movement's rise. Section VI, "Great Expectations," looks critically at the movement's great fervor and high expectations. Section VII, "A Modest Intervention," explores actual possible accomplishments through a review of research results and insights from mentors themselves. Section VIII, "Mentoring's Crossroads," considers the gap between enthusiasm for the concept and the modest results and current lack of infrastructure. Section IX, "Implications of Mentoring," discusses the long-term importance of the movement for poor and disadvantaged youth and its implications for raising other societal issues. A list of 128 notes arranged by chapter heading is included. (JB)
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- 1991
36. Biblical Faith, Ethics and the Quality of Life Quest among Black Americans: Implications for Research.
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Marbury, Carl H.
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This paper reviews the role of the black church in black American history and suggests ways in which its role must change to help blacks cope with our modern and technological society. Initially, religion was the one social institution which gave black slaves a common tie before the Civil War. Baptist and Methodist ideologies provided emotional messages of salvation, and Bible stories told orally appealed to the slaves' aspirations for freedom and liberation. After the Civil War black churches became institutionalized. They increased their efforts to improve quality of life by establishing colleges, insurance companies, and political groups. In recent years, black churches have placed more emphasis on economic, social, and political problems than on otherworldly concerns of salvation. Two groups can now be identified: storefront churches and more traditional, institutionalized churches. The author suggests that the black church increase its role of leadership in directing blacks toward a high spiritual quality of life which may not necessarily be the same as the modern American materialistic approach to life. (AV)
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- 1977
37. Schools for European and Eurasian Children in India: Making of the Official Policy in Colonial India and Its Contemporary Significance
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Chhabra, Heeral
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The history of education in India has been looked into with a view which has been narrow in its expanse, often missing out on many social categories which had a relatively limited, yet important, presence in colonial India. Sufficient attention has been paid to the official policies of the British Indian government (starting from Macaulay's Minute). However, a critical analysis of it is assumed to be provided by the nationalist discourse, which is popularly perceived as almost an antithesis of colonial education. In the entire process, the discussion on education broadly gets limited to two sections--the ruler and the ruled, thereby eschewing the diversity within the realm of those seeking and providing education. In this paper, an attempt will be made to understand the emerging importance of "Europeans and Eurasians" as a social category with a peculiar position in colonial India. Though technically part of the ruling "race", their economic standing was not always congruent with their assumed racial superiority. Termed as "poor whites" their presence in India posed challenges to the British government especially after the 1857 mutiny. Employed in the "communication network" of the British Raj, their presence in postal, railways and telegraph departments was imperative for its successful working. The first part of the paper seeks to explore the making of these European and Eurasian communities in India. An official stand regarding schooling of European and Eurasian children was formulated for the first time through Canning's Minute of 29 October 1860. Analysis of this Minute is vital to understand the very "nature of education" extended along with religious overtones providing these schools with a distinct identity and status. Using archival sources, this paper seeks to explore the "making of distinct schools" for them at hill stations and in the plains. Many of these hill schools still exist and have become a symbol of "modernity". Quite ironically their association with the colonial past provides them with a certain elite reputation in independent India (where nationalism is closely tied to education). Analysis of this opens up scope to investigate the ways in which "modernity" is not only understood but professed and adapted through such an educational setup.
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- 2015
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38. The Politics of Gender Segregation and Women's Access to Higher Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Interplay of Repression and Resistance
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Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.
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One of the significant achievements of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the increasing access of women to all levels of education. This paper focuses on women's access to higher education and its unexpected and paradoxical outcomes. Today women in Iran represent over 60% of university students at the undergraduate level. Against the dominant social imaginary of Muslim women, this paper explores how the contradictions and complexities of politics within the Islamic Republic impact women's lives and how women themselves have been able to bring gender justice to the core of Iranian politics.
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- 2015
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39. La investigación sobre comunicación en España en los últimos 25 años (1990-2014). Objetos de estudio y métodos aplicados en los trabajos publicados en revistas españolas especializadas.
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MARTÍNEZ NICOLÁS, MANUEL, SAPERAS, ENRIC, and CARRASCO-CAMPOS, ÁNGEL
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COMMUNICATION , *SOCIAL change , *SOCIAL history , *PUBLICATIONS , *PERIODICALS - Abstract
After its institutionalisation during the early 1970s through the creation of the first faculties of Communication Sciences, Spanish communication research consolidates as a disciplinary field in the 1990s. During this period, the increasing number of universities degrees on communication studies led to an exponential growth of the academic community and, so, of the scientific production in the field. The enormous efforts of meta-research carried out in the last decade, specially focused on the study of peer-reviewed journals, and to lesser extent of PhD theses, have allowed the reconstruction of some relevant aspects of the current communication research in Spain. Nevertheless, these studies have not considered sufficiently those elements which would allow to identify the general epistemological orientation followed by the scientific activity in the field of communication. This paper intends to contribute to this research line. For this purpose, a content analysis has been applied to a sample of 1098 papers published between 1990 and 2014 by six major peer-reviewed communication journals, in order to observe the evolution of the objects of study and the methodological procedures in Spanish communication research during this period. The results show a progressive diversification of the objects of study, the pre-eminence of the studies on media content, a growing neglect of the institutional dimension of the media system (companies, professionals, markets, public policies, etc.), a decreasing interest on theoretical research, a gradual improvement of the methodological standards of empirical research, and a growing dominance of quantitative research, specially by means of content analysis applied to media documents (news, advertisements, television series, etc.). The observed trends are put for discussion considering the consequences that could have be generated on Spanish communication research by the changes of the media system (the growth of the communication sector, the advent of digitalization, etc.) and by the updated institutional context (the autonomy of university degrees in communication studies, the implementation of the Academia teaching acreditation programme) on which scientific activity has deveolped over the past 25 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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40. On the Historical and Ideal Nature of Human Rights: Reading 'Human Rights and Human Diversity' by A. J. M. Milne
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Zhen, Han
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The foundation of human rights is social history, which is reflected as a kind of moral ideal. The ideal is produced on the historical base, it thus has real meaning, meanwhile the ideal is the ideal of the development of history; therefore, the history has a style of progress. In this paper, the author suggests the following points: (1) Individual rights is the product of social development; (2) Human rights is the ideal force guiding social development; and (3) The relation between human rights and social interest should be adjusted continuously in the interaction between history and ideal. (Contains 3 notes.)
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- 2002
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41. The Changing Status of Women and Family Roles.
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Washington, Valora
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The changing role of women in the family is discussed, and alternative policy options relevant to female-headed and dual-income families are identified. A model of family functions and an outline of the historical forces shaping family roles from preindustrial to present times are presented. The model indicates the typical allocation of nine family responsibilities to either husband or wife, displays current trends in allocation, and lists societal supports which supplement or supplant the responsibilities of the family. Areas of responsibility considered are health, protection, breadwinner, household, extra-family social, affective support, child nurturance, morality/standards, and child instruction. The shift in roles resulting from family crises involving handicapped and chronically ill children, unemployment, divorce, and absent fathers, is also discussed. Further discussion explores the influence of public policy on the family and the surrogate role of society in aiding the family. Concluding that child care is perhaps the weakest link in the model, the paper evaluates six alternative child care policy options for aid to dual-worker or single-parent families (public day care centers for all children, child care programs for poor and handicapped, child care vouchers to low income parents, negative income tax, industry supported child care, and tax credit) by five criteria: cost, vertical equity, political feasibility, preference satisfaction, and effectiveness. (RH)
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- 1983
42. Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect
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Rand, Erin J.
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The 25th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP provides a moment to reflect on the group's unquestionably profound effects on the management of HIV/AIDS, the queer community, the history of social movements in this country, and even the development of queer theory in the academy. But it should also encourage individuals to consider the ways in which ACT UP's legacy is one of complicated affective intensities--affects that produce individual feelings, but also those that drive cultural histories and are directed toward political ends. Remembering ACT UP's naissance, then, is an opportunity to recognize the political stakes of recounting a particular affective history, and also to cultivate a deep appreciation of the contradictions involved in deploying affect as an activist tactic. Especially salient to queer politics and scholarship today is the ambivalent relationship between pride and shame that was forged through ACT UP's activism. In order to interrogate the usually unquestioned choice of "pride" as an affect around which to rally, some queer activists and scholars have launched a "renewed engagement with a category that represents, by definition, the very opposite of "pride," at once its emotional antithesis and its political antagonist: namely, the category of shame." In this article, the author aims to investigate the history of ACT UP in order to illuminate both the ways in which the group deployed and produced affects, but also to inquire into the rhetorical maneuvers and conceptual tensions of the contemporary turn to shame in queer theory. (Contains 23 notes.)
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- 2012
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43. Talkin' 'Bout Meta-Generation: ACT UP History and Queer Futurity
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Emmer, Pascal
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The transmission of ACT UP's movement histories is indispensable to the potential for what Jose Esteban Munoz calls "queer futurity," or "a temporal arrangement in which the past is a field of possibility in which subjects can act in the present in the service of a new futurity." Roger Hallas argues that ACT UP's material and visual archive alone cannot guarantee such transmission; ACT UP's histories must be discussed if they are to be preserved and put in the service of AIDS activism today, and this requires intergenerational dialogue. Establishing the grounds for such dialogue necessitates a look at the framing of generational relations. In thinking about the transmission of ACT UP's histories, how does one address relationality without falling prey to rhetorical pitfalls, nor conceding a liberal optimism that disavows difference, generational or otherwise? The author proposes the term "meta-generation" to describe a radically alternative arrangement of generational relations present in ACT UP Philadelphia. He uses the term "meta-generation" to define the particular crosshatching of intergenerational and multigenerational dynamics at work in ACT UP Philadelphia's organizing culture, historically and presently. In reflecting on ACT UP's 25th anniversary, the author suggests that one needs a "critical nostalgia" regarding not just what histories people tell but how this very telling structures the rules of engagement between queer leftist generations. He argues for a meta-generational approach to connecting ACT UP's past with the current AIDS movement, and the potential of a queer future, by recognizing the multiple histories and presents available as political resources. (Contains 26 notes.)
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- 2012
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44. Counterpoints of Care: Two Moments of Struggle
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Gleeson, B.
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This paper examines the history of care in modern society and seeks to expose how deep transformations in care arise from wider social relations. From historical survey we may discern a series of transitional points, where the practice and the experience of care was greatly, sometimes suddenly, redefined. Each betrayed deeper political and ethical struggles that went to the core of social relations, and which weren't merely therapeutic in nature. This paper explores two such "moments". I first examine the emergence of a new institutional landscape during the middle industrial era, in the wake of a series of legal and political reforms that sought to settle a social order uprooted and distressed by raw modernisation. I provide a composite, yet incomplete view, of how this transformation proceeded in one urban setting, colonial Melbourne. In the second instance, I review the ambitions and process of deinstitutionalisation in the late 20th century. Ostensibly, this reform sought, "inter alia", to collapse the great division between "fit" and "unfit" established in 1834. Again, empirical reference is made to the reconstitution of care in Melbourne, Australia, this time during its late 20th experience of institutional reform. The focus in this case is the process of downscaling and closure for a major congregate facility, Kew Cottages. The major conclusion is that periods of intense transition in the ideology and mode of care are reflective of wider social transformations not merely of therapeutic or institutional shifts. (Contains 1 footnote.)
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- 2010
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45. 'Explosions and Examinations': Growing up Female in Post-Saddam Iraq
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Campbell, Perri and Kelly, Peter
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In the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi civilians have witnessed their country descend into profound and often deadly chaos. HNK and Aunt Najma are two young voices from post-Saddam, post-invasion Iraq who write www-based diaries (blogs) on life in post-invasion Iraq. Through their voices, and via the voices of many other Iraqi bloggers, different fragments of the reality of post-invasion Iraq enter the globalised, unruly, digital spaces of cyberspace and create not only accounts of these realities, but what we will call "digital selves." We will identify and discuss the selves that HNK and Aunt Najma "practise" via the use of Michel Foucault's later work on the care of the self and governmentality; and we suggest that HNK and Aunt Najma's digital diaries (blogs) provide a real-time, unfolding, reflexive, and often interactive window into particular life-worlds in post-invasion Iraq, life-worlds that provide glimpses into what it means to grow up female in post-Saddam Iraq.
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- 2009
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46. Literature of the 1940s: A Decade of Change. A Language Arts Unit for Grades 7-9.
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College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. School of Education., Washington-Warren-Hamilton-Essex Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Hudson Falls, NY. Southern Adirondack Educational Center., and Moody, Connie
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This language arts unit of study for high-ability junior-high students looks at the historical events and social issues of the 1940s through the literature of the decade, including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, letters, and newspapers. Numerous opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and speaking are incorporated into the unit. Each student poses a hypothesis, conducts research concerning some issue of significance that arises out of the literature that is studied, and makes both a written and oral presentation of the research. The unit is rich in materials that highlight the concept of change, such as John Hersey's "Hiroshima,""The Diary of Anne Frank," and Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding." This guide provides goals and outcomes, an assessment model, a list of musicians and artists whose works are suggested for use with the unit, a paper analyzing the concept of change, teaching models, 25 lesson plans, assessment forms, a list of 39 works used in the unit, a list of 41 resource materials and 10 videos, an annotated bibliography of 15 items on the concept of change, and a list of 31 computer software resources. (JDD)
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- 1995
47. New City Domesticity and the Tenacious Second Shift
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Johnson, Jennifer A. and Johnson, Megan S.
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Research clearly shows that, in spite of large-scale social and political changes, women still bear the primary responsibility for housework. Research explaining the unequal division of domestic labor produces mixed results. The authors argue that the "new city" structure of the modern suburbs may be partially responsible for the tenacity of the second shift. The goal of the early suburban movement was to firmly embed women's labor in the private sphere of the isolated suburban home, leaving the public cities to men. The resulting suburban domesticity was marketed through advice literature and wartime propaganda as the ideal way to raise children, sustain better marriages, and fulfill a patriotic duty. With the return of women to the workforce, the iconic 1950s private suburb gave way to a reconstitution of the public and private through the colocation of work, home, and shopping. The authors argue that these new cities take for granted the labor of women and have developed to facilitate the second shift through the commercialization of convenience. The modern urban fringe is built to make the second shift as convenient as possible and in the process continues the social and economic expropriation of women's labor.
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- 2008
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48. Making gay OK, 20 years on; Life in a brown paper cover : growing up gay in the '60s
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McKinlay, Tom
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- 2006
49. Thinking Education Histories Differently: Biographical Approaches to Class Politics and Women's Movements in London, 1900s to 1960s
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Martin, Jane
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This paper forms part of a recent trend that aims to contribute to the writing of a more inclusive education history sensitive to the operation of gender. The author presents an analysis of educator activists in twentieth-century England that connects, rather than separates, the domains of education, labour history and politics. The paper also contributes to a redefining of history/histories of education which, instead of relegating gender to the margins, integrates this perspective into its mainstream conceptual frameworks. The intent is to examine the circumstances that make class politics grounded in gendered and occupational identities possible, showing the way in which the politics of place works as an active influence at a range of scales. Here the auto/biographical practices of a married couple who taught in state schools are used as a lens through which to explore the larger questions of the intersection of biography and history, the distinction between lived experience and historical experience, the link between generation and social change. (Contains 62 footnotes.)
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- 2007
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50. Sustainable Leadership and Development in Education: Creating the Future, Conserving the Past
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Hargreaves, Andy
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This article addresses how to reconcile the creative and innovative emphases of future knowledge societies with the needs and demands for longer term sustainable development of enduring and worthwhile practices--within education and beyond it. Drawing on a theoretical framework of organisational memory and sustainability, the article argues that most change efforts deny or demean the past in an attempt to promise a better future, and need instead to build improvement efforts in ways that connect their future and their past.
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- 2007
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