Twenty-first-century preschool bilingual education: facing advantages and challenges in cross-cultural contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 603-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mila Schwartz ◽  
Åsa Palviainen
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Twenty First Century

Rethinking Mahler

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Historical Past

Gustav Mahler’s anniversary years (2010–11) have provided an opportunity to rethink the composer’s position within the musical, cultural and multi-disciplinary landscapes of the twenty-first century, as well as to reassess his relationship with the historical traditions of his own time. Comprising a collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field, Rethinking Mahler in part counterbalances common scholarly assumptions and preferences which predominantly configure Mahler as proto-modernist, with hitherto somewhat neglected consideration of his debt to, and his re-imagining of, the legacies of his own historical past. It reassesses his engagement both with the immediate creative and cultural present of the late nineteenth century, and with the weight of a creative and cultural past that was the inheritance of artists living and working at that time. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives the contributors pursue ideas of nostalgia, historicism and ‘pastness’ in relation to an emergent pluralist modernity and subsequent musical-cultural developments. Mahler’s relationship with music, media and ideas past, present, and future is explored in three themed sections, addressing among them issues in structural analysis; cultural contexts; aesthetics; reception; performance, genres of stage, screen and literature; history/historiography; and temporal experience.

Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Bohak
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Trace Processes ◽  
Twenty First Century

Recent years have seen a steady rise in the scholarly interest in Jewish magic. The present paper seeks to take stock of what has already been done, to explain how further study of Jewish magical texts and artifacts might make major contributions to the study of Judaism as a whole, and to provide a blueprint for further progress in this field. Its main claim is that the number of unedited and even uncharted primary sources for the study of Jewish magic is staggering, and that these sources must serve as the starting point for any serious study of the Jewish magical tradition from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Such a study must both compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of each historical period with those of the contemporaneous non-Jewish world, and thus trace processes of cross-cultural contacts and influences, and compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of one period with those of another, so as to detect processes of inner-Jewish continuity and transmission. Finally, such a study must flesh out the place of magical practices and practitioners within the Jewish society of different periods, and within different Jewish communities.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rahilly
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Change ◽  
Critical Aspects

The conclusion synthesizes the major themes and findings of the book, highlighting the limits as well as the great liberating potential of the trans-affirmative parenting phenomenon. All of these themes mark critical aspects of the new trans-affirmative parenting paradigm among twenty-first-century parents. They exemplify parents’ love and support for their children while at the same time troubling cherished LGBTQ paradigms, on several key fronts: Gender and sexuality do not necessarily present as inherently, disparate aspects of the precultural self, but are more fluid and open to reinterpretation, given new cultural contexts, opportunities, and awareness. “Gender-expansive” child-rearing often looks, fundamentally, very binary and gender-stereotypical, despite increasing visibility around nonbinary possibilities. And normalizing transgender experience, for many of these parents, often entails highly medicalized, potentially pathologizing frameworks for bodies and genders. All told, these families depart from conventional practices and understandings for sex, gender, and sexuality, but in ways that prioritize child-driven, child-rooted shifts and expressions, not necessarily LGBTQ politics. This proves new ground for understanding the mechanisms and parameters of the (trans)gender change afoot.

scholarly journals Re-Contextualizing Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet in Manga

Linguaculture ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Andreea Şerban
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The City ◽  
Representations Of Space

Abstract A fairly new medium for westerners, manga joins the variety of already existing “shakespeares”, bringing a fresh and vivid perspective on some of the most famous Shakespearean plays. This paper discusses several representations of space, with a particular focus on the city (Verona), the Capulet ballroom, and Juliet‘s bedroom, as they are rendered by artists in three manga transmediations of Romeo and Juliet coming from different cultural contexts (British, American, and Japanese). The paper will also explore the ways in which the three cultures play with Shakespeare‘s original Italian setting and negotiate their influence over one another at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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