The Playful Curriculum: Making Sense of Purposeful Play in the Twenty-First-Century Preschool Classroom

2015 ◽  
pp. 225-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan LeAnne Sim
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Preschool Classroom ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Curriculum Making

scholarly journals Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

2022 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Hanna Meretoja
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which the chapter proposes to call metanarrative autofiction. Such writing displays awareness of how our ways of narrating our lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The chapter conceptualizes metanarrativity in this context as a form of self-reflexive storytelling that makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on the process of its own narration but also on the roles of cultural narrative models in making sense of our lives. The chapter discusses affordances of metanarrative autofiction in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années (The Years) (2008), Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Min kamp (My Struggle) (2009–2011), and the Finnish singer-songwriter Astrid Swan’s Viimeinen kirjani (2019, My Last Book).

scholarly journals Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Karen Kastenhofer ◽  
Susan Molyneux-Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
First Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis introductory chapter begins with the empirical example of synthetic biology, a case that has challenged our own thinking, provoking us to re-address the concepts of scientific ‘community’ and ‘identity’ in contemporary technoscience. The chapter then moves on to a delineation of the conceptualisations of community and identity in past sociologies of science, highlighting open questions, promising avenues and potential shortcomings in explaining contemporary conditions. Following this, the individual contributions to this volume are presented, including their analyses on community and identity constellations and the related effects on the contemporary technosciences as institutions, practices and living spaces. This is achieved with a focus on common themes that come to the fore from the various contributions. In a final discussion, we take stock of our attempt at re-addressing community and identity in contemporary technoscientific contexts and discuss where this has brought us; which ambiguities could not be resolved and which questions seem promising starting points for further conceptual and empirical endeavour.

“A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Meierhenrich ◽  
Oliver Simons
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
First Century ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twenty First Century

This handbook engages with the critical ordering of Schmitt’s writings, investing in the proper contextualization of his polycentric thought. More important than whether Schmitt’s positions and concepts are relevant in the twenty-first century is how to read Schmitt so as to grasp the original meanings of his many publications. The handbook intends to provoke debate about the relevance of his canon for thinking about the present. It argues that the motif of order is central to making sense of Schmitt’s contributions to law, the social sciences, and the humanities, as well as that his contributions to diverse disciplines constituted a trinity of thought. Schmitt’s political thought cannot be understood without reference to his legal and cultural thought; his legal thought was informed equally by his political and cultural thought; and his cultural thought contains important traces of his political and legal thought. This theoretical and substantive overlap was deliberate.

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