This paper attempts to analyze two intertwined discourses on Mardin's urban space that commodify its culture by representing it as an ideal place of living together. First is the official discourse ...which constructs an image for Mardin as a city of tolerance and belief, and second is the demotic discourse of the Mardinites which appropriates and contests this image. By describing these discourses, the paper intends to indicate the hiatus between the reality of Mardin's locality and its representation. The paper argues that the discourses commodify Mardin's cultural traits and strengthen local power relations by reproducing its urban space.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, ODKLJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Culture undergoes constant changes. Although today, Poland is an almost ethnically homogenous country, ages ago, the dialogue of cultures took place not only on the borderlines of the First Polish ...Republic but also in the then capital city of Cracow. In 1390, Slavic Benedictine monks who used Old Church Slavic language settled in the church of the Holy Cross in Krakow. Francis Skaryna (Francysk Skaryna), a pioneer of Belarusian printing and later the founder of the first printing house in Eastern Europe in Vilnius, published the first Cyrillic prints in the world in Cracow and in the early 16th c. also studied there. Poland was a great example of a multicultural society. In the early 16th c. the Catholics and the Protestants, the Jews and the Armenians, the Tatars and the Karaims lived in Poland. After the Union of Lublin, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania formed one of the biggest countries in Europe at the time; it was inhabited by the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Ukrainians and the Belarusians. In the mid-16th c. Poland became a shelter for multitudes of religious dissenters in Western Europe, such as the Lutherans, the Calvinists, and other Protestants. Today it is useless to seek traces of such multiculturality in many museums. In museums which collect paintings related to the Eastern Orthodox Church, places of monuments connected with Polish culture are frequently occupied by late icons of mediocre artistic value smuggled from Russia. The article attempts to explain this phenomenon in the context of the transformation of modern museology.
The words multicultural and intercultural are not universal signifiers, as Guilherme and Dietz recently stated in this Journal (2015 Vol.10/1). This article therefore attempts to be culturally ...conscious scholarship, and draws a picture of the connotations of these expressions in the recent academic and public/political and discourse in Germany in the mirror of the recent intercultural program developments in German academia. Without attempting to provide a concise analysis of the multi-faceted scholarship and policy papers, the article focuses on the interconnectedness and the discrepancy between the political and the academic discourse. The paper points toward a possible integration of these two areas by suggesting a pedagogical approach that explains intercultural through the arts.
Resumo Nosso propósito nesse artigo é demonstrar que o ato de contar histórias nunca é inocente. Por meio dele identidades homogêneas são legitimadas ao longo dos séculos e a manutenção de uma ...perspectiva monocultural costuma estar, frequentemente, associada às práticas de leitura. Queremos propor a utilização dessa ferramenta para auxiliar-nos na desmontagem de processos identitários hierarquizantes. Baseadas numa perspectiva multicultural, acreditamos que esse dispositivo permite a abertura para o entrelugar e sua ocupação por aquelas(es) que, vivendo às margens, são excluídas(os) dos processos que costumam movimentar os universos de diferentes campos de atuação.
Abstract Our purpose in this article is to demonstrate that the act of telling stories is never innocent. By means of it homogeneous identities have been legitimated throughout the centuries and the maintenance of a monocultural perspective is often associated to the reading practices. We intend to propose the utilization of this tool to help us with the dismantling of hierarchizing identitary processes. Based on a multicultural perspective we believe that this device enables the opening for the in-between place and its occupation by those who, living on the margins, are excluded from the processes that often move the universes of different fields of action.
Resumen Nuestro objetivo en este artículo es demostrar que el acto de narrar cuentos nunca se da sin propósitos. A través de eso, identidades homogéneas son legitimadas a lo largo de los siglos, y el mantenimiento de un punto de vista mono cultural generalmente está conectado a las prácticas de lectura. Queremos proponer la utilización de esta herramienta para auxiliarnos a desarmar los procesos de identidad jerarquizantes. Basadas en un punto de vista multicultural, creemos que ese dispositivo permite la abertura para el entre-lugar y su ocupación por aquellos(as) que, viviendo en las márgenes, son excluidos(as) de los procesos que generalmente mueven los universos de diferentes campos.
The globalisation of the world reflected its inevitable effects in language classrooms which unite students from different cultures. In such classrooms, instructors' sense of self-efficacy is ...affected by classroom multiculturality. Setting out from the paucity of research on classroom nativity and multiculturality as factors influencing instructor self-efficacy, this descriptive case study offers a comparative presentation of self-efficacy experiences of nine Turkish instructors teaching Turkish in both native and multicultural classes. The data were collected through semi-structured observations, participant notes and open-ended questions and conventional content analysis was adopted to analyse the data. The results pointed at three major areas affecting the participants' self-efficacy beliefs and experiences: educational issues, interactional issues and cultural issues. The participants noted that native and multicultural classes have their peculiar characteristics affecting their teaching self-efficacy. In line with the results, some suggestions are made.
Monte Librić, regionality in context Drandić, Dijana; Lazarić, Lorena
Economic research - Ekonomska istraživanja,
01/2020, Letnik:
33, Številka:
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Journal Article, Paper
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The aim of this research was to study attitudes toward bilingualism and the respect for diversity in the regional context and determine if there are differences in attitudes with regard to ...respondents' certain socio-demographic characteristics, all following the example of the literary manifestation for children named Monte Librić. Numerous authors think that multilingualism and multiculturality are reflected through the educational system and readiness to train and encourage pupils at all levels of education to develop their own identity and respect the diversity of other identities. As many as 306 respondents participated in the research, namely teachers, pupils, preschool teachers, students and parents. Results have shown the value of linguistic expression in the mother tongue (Croatian and Italian), linguistic education, multiculturality, respect for diversity, cultural identity and the value of children's creativity in the regionality context, as well as the role of identity, language and culture in encouraging the children's/pupils'/students' development.
Some years have already passed since the book Summer of dead dreams by Harry Thürk (2015) was published. Some inhabitants of Prudnik County have treated the German perception as presented in its ...pages and interwoven in the historicists’ motifs, as a non-fiction and as a reliable source. This is why it has become essential to take some steps to present this multithreaded post-war event more honestly. One of the museums’ functions is their multi-dimensional educational activity, achieved through exhibitions and publications. Consequently, the Prudnik County Museum in Prudnik town has undertaken the task of showing the chequered history of this region from 1945 to 1947 by: a) preparing and elaborating a permanent exhibition entitled “Seen through a net curtain. The multiculturality of Upper Silesia based on Prudnik County”; b) publishing a book of the same title which brings closer the intangible heritage of Prudnik county, seen in its traditions and folk rituals of various social and cultural groups which together form its current “ethnos”; c) publishing a collection of eyewitness accounts by people who remember the years 1945–1947. The issue of changing borders and resettlements still evokes emotions for both the Polish and German communities. Although, the Polish and German tragedy of the civilian population had different origins, the tragedy itself was the same: extermination, forcing people to abandon their homes, going into the unknown, exile, illnesses and death are the common denominators of those sad events at the end of WWII. The museum’s role is to familiarise the public with a very frequently difficult and tragic history which would be free of stereotypes and subjectivity.
La sociedad demanda continuamente de mejores condiciones de vida para la superación de los pueblos, el Estado y la Academia. Estos necesitan trabajar en armonía para poder suplir las necesidades que ...la sociedad exige, sean procedentes del norte o del sur, lo cual amerita salir de la zona de confort, aprovechar los conocimientos que evolucionan día a día, considerando aspectos estructurales del sistema educativo en la educación superior, las políticas gubernamentales, la relación estudiante - docente, la tecnología como herramienta de innovación constante, entender que somos un mundo diverso y multicultural, que el estudiante busca salir de una esclavitud intelectual, para concebir que no se puede comparar a la Universidad como una empresa cualquiera al no dedicarnos al comercio de mercancías. La academia busca gestionar procesos de transferencia y transformación constante de nuevos conocimientos plasmados en logros de aprendizaje; en esta etapa de transición donde no se puede afirmar que existen verdades absolutas, miramos al futuro como impredecible; en este mundo globalizado se busca formar alianzas estratégicas relacionadas con el mundo del trabajo, la cohesión social y el desarrollo profesional, formado dentro de un currículo flexible. Se utiliza una metodología de análisis crítico a los desafíos planteados por Miguel Escotet, quien afirma que “la universidad debe ante todo enseñar a pensar, crear la actitud hacia el riesgo de pensar, ejercitar el sentido común y dar rienda suelta a la imaginación creadora”. (Escotet, 2018, pág. 20).
This paper stresses the need for more research in the field of Participatory Design (PD) and in particular into how to design Health Information Technology (HIT) together with care providers and ...-receivers in multicultural settings. We contribute to this research by describing a case study, the 'Health-Cultures' project, in which we designed HIT for the context of home care of older people with a migration background. The Health-Cultures project is located in the city of Genk, Belgium, which is known for its multicultural population, formed by three historical migration waves of people coming to work in the nowadays closed coal mines. Via a PD approach, we studied existing means of dialogue and designed HIT that both care receivers and care providers in Genk can use in their daily exchanges between cultures in home care contexts. In discussing relevant literature as well as the results of this study, we point to the need and the ways of taking spatio-historical aspects of a specific healthcare situation into account in the PD of HIT to support multicultural perspectives on healthcare.
The increasing number of immigrant students on the Chilean educational system stresses the importance of study teachers’ attitudes to multiculturality in schools settings. Nevertheless, there is a ...lack of adequate measurement instruments to apply on Chilean population. The aim of this work was to validate the Attitude to Multiculturality at School Scale (León del Barco et al., 2007) on a Chilean sample, composed by N=160 teachers. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the unifactorial model had the best fit to the data. Correlation analysis revealed significant relations between attitude to multiculturality at school, perceived out-group threat and prejudice. Linear regression analysis showed that perceived threat and prejudice explained 42% of the attitude to multiculturality at school variability, supporting criterion validity.
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