The Ethnic Minority Speech Codes on Education

This study focuses on examining educational processes in Sikep community (a minority ethnic group in Indonesia). Education is an influencial aspect in forming social harmony in the minority groups. However, formal education cannot be applied properly in particular group of ethnic minorities due to local specific perspectives on education. Therefore, it is important to comprehend local values that are related to education in order to established social harmony in the minority ethnic group. The purpose of this study is to describe the Sikep community’s construction of meaning on local and formal education discourses. The main theories in this research are the Speech Codes Theory and Ethnography Communication Theory. An ethnography communication research method was used in achieving the goal of this research. The research finding indicates that the low participation to formal education is due to the fact that Sikep community has a specific interpretation of the educational process that differs to the formal standard of national education. They perceive education as a part of everyday life. They focus on the educational processes that equip them the skills to survive, particularly in the context of agricultural skills. The knowledge of local philosophical values must also be considered in creating an applicable educational system for Sikep community.

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Managing Ethnic Minorities with State Non-Repression in Interwar Poland

Comparative Politics ◽

10.5129/001041521x16113368270026 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Fedorowycz

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Group ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Minority Groups ◽

The Other ◽

Minority Ethnic Group ◽

Political Survival ◽

Interwar Poland ◽

Divide And Rule ◽

Minority Ethnic ◽

Main Strategy

Why were most ethnic minority organizations in interwar Poland permitted and sometimes encouraged by the state, when the ruling titular ethnic group pursued discriminatory policies against the same minority groups, faced hostility from these groups, and had the capacity to repress their organizations? Current literature focuses on repression as the main strategy deployed by states to manage these relationships. This article, on the other hand, asks why states allow minority organizations to operate. Using the logic of divide and rule, this article demonstrates that, in the case of multi-ethnic states, a state may prefer a plurality of organizations representing a certain minority ethnic group, particularly if the group is restive, in order to ensure that a united opposition cannot legitimately threaten the state’s political survival.

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Disparities in Hypertension in the Ethnic Minority Groups: Beneficial Aspects of Minority Ethnic Group Cultures

Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection - Ethnic Diversities, Hypertension and Global Cardiovascular Risk ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-93148-7_11 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 139-153

Author(s):

Pietro Amedeo Modesti ◽

Charles Agyemang ◽

Francesco P. Cappuccio ◽

Gianfranco Parati

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minority ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Minority Ethnic Group ◽

Ethnic Minority Groups ◽

Minority Ethnic

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Efecto de la Escolarización en la Producción de Relaciones Causales y Contracausales: Evidencia Psicolingüística para el Ámbito Educativo

Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research ◽

10.17583/remie.2016.2127 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 258

Author(s):

Gabriela Mariel Zunino

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Language Processing ◽

Formal Education ◽

Educational Process ◽

Semantic Relations ◽

Practical Application ◽

Discourse Comprehension ◽

Educational Processes ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Different Levels

In order to promote the practical application of psycholinguistic data in educational fields and expecting that this transfer would enhance the development of both the pedagogical field and the investigation in experimental psycholinguistics, we present two experiments to analyse the production of semantic relations in discourse, especially the causality/countercausality dimension. We found that the pattern of causal advantage is cross-wise and consistent in subjects with different levels of formal education, so it could be a suitable scaffold to develop other aspects of discourse comprehension and production. We compare our results with previous findings about discourse comprehension and interpret the data in the framework of educational processes. To use of empirical evidence about language processing on educational fields allows not only to review specific issues such as the characteristics of teaching materials, but also to improve educational process in a comprehensive way, making possible to adapt different approaches to populations with different characteristics.

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