Contextualizing Violence in a Participatory Classroom

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela B. Ginorio
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Classroom Climate ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Techniques for integrating race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and other categories of socially defined identity in a student-centered participatory classroom are outlined for a survey course on women and violence. Keeping categories of socially defined identity central to every course component changes not only the content of the course, but also the questions asked and the range of possible answers. Students were given two tools with which to analyze each topic: theoretical frameworks (psychology, sociology, feminism) and the categories of socially defined identity. Difficulties with the material are interpreted as signposts of the complexity of the theoretical issues involved rather than as intellectual failures of the students or the instructor. An open and participatory classroom climate facilitates dealing with the stresses of this topic as well as with the ambiguities faced by students exploring the multidimensional space of socially defined identities.

Who sees opportunity to help? A prospective study on adolescents’ detection of intervention opportunities in situations of sexual and dating violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 2843-2862
Author(s):  
Emily A. Waterman ◽  
Katie M. Edwards ◽  
Abigail E. Beaulieu ◽  
Victoria L. Banyard
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Rape Myth ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Victim Empathy ◽  
Minority Girls ◽  
A Prospective Study

Adolescent bystanders (i.e., witnesses to violence) can prevent sexual and dating violence among their peers and create a safer social environment if they detect the opportunity. The current study prospectively examined the association of demographic (i.e., age, gender, sexual orientation), psychosocial (i.e., knowledge, rape myth acceptance, victim empathy), and behavioral (i.e., binge drinking) factors with bystander opportunity detection in situations regarding sexual and dating violence among adolescents ( N = 1,322, 50.3% girls/women, 88.9% White/non-Hispanic, 85.9% heterosexual, 18.6% free/reduced lunch, aged 13–19). Sexual minority girls, adolescents with greater victim empathy, and binge drinkers were more likely to detect bystander opportunity than heterosexual girls, boys, adolescents with less victim empathy, and nonbinge drinkers. These findings suggest that current theoretical frameworks used to understand bystander opportunity and action may be enhanced by the consideration of demographic and personal characteristics.

How Does Mothering Look Like: A Multidimensional Approach to Maternal Cognitive Representations

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (17) ◽  
pp. 2528-2552
Author(s):  
Cláudia Camilo ◽  
Margarida Vaz Garrido ◽  
Mário B. Ferreira ◽  
Maria Manuela Calheiros
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Sorting Task ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Conceptual Maps ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Cognitive Information ◽  
Description Task

From a cognitive information processing perspective, parents’ cognitive schemas strongly influence the way they perceive and act toward their children. In order to explore how maternal cognitive representations about parenting are organized in a multidimensional space, mothers referred to child protection services and mothers with no such reference completed a free description task of maternal attributes and a sorting task of those attributes according to their probability of co-occurrence in the same mother. Overall, the results suggest that maladaptive parenting seems to be associated with less positive parental schemata, higher schemata rigidity, and higher external attributions regarding parenting. Using multidimensional scaling to represent the structure and content of maternal schemata constitutes an innovative contribution to the parenting domain with potential applications. These conceptual maps representing maternal schemata that shape parental responses in child-rearing situations can be used as theoretical frameworks to develop empirically based guidelines for intervention work with maltreating parents.

Similarities and Differences in Relational Boundaries among Heterosexuals, Gay Men, and Lesbians

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne E. Harkless ◽  
Blaine J. Fowers
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Gender Role Socialization ◽  
Role Socialization ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Independent Variable

This study investigated the relative contributions of gender and sexual orientation as factors associated with the formation of boundaries in dyadic intimate relating in both same- and opposite-sex couples. The study examined a relational pattern previously not empirically investigated but widely accepted as an actuality unique to lesbians; specifically, that lesbians tend to remain connected to ex-serious-relationship partners after breakup. The study utilized a research design approach emphasizing the methodological utility and heuristic value of including sexual orientation as an independent variable in studies of gender dynamics. Two general classes of theoretical frameworks, those emphasizing gender role socialization influences and those emphasizing systems influences, were discussed in terms of their relative goodness of fit as conceptual bases for the data. Questionnaires were completed by 60 lesbians, 37 gay men, 45 heterosexual women, and 39 heterosexual men. Lesbians and gay men reported higher levels of connection to ex-serious-relationship partners than heterosexuals. The data reflect how inclusion of sexual orientation can broaden understandings of gender differentiated phenomena beyond more traditional gender-only based accounts.

scholarly journals Radical Embodied Computation: Reproduction of Similarity by Analogy as an Order Generating Mechanism in Complex Systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Hasselman
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Affine Scaling ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Behavior And Cognition

About two decades ago, scholars from the scientific disciplines that study human behavior and cognition, suggested an era of post-cognitivism was imminent, in which the computer metaphor, computationalism and representationalism would be discarded as viable theoretical frameworks for explaining phenomena of the body and the mind. In the present paper I argue that explanations of complex adaptive behavior require a theory of meaning mechanics that explains how complex adaptive systems can use semantic information to coordinate their behavior. This calls for a unification of sorts between the insights obtained in ecological psychology and embodied embedded cognition with principles of natural computation (cf. Decastro, 2007) in the context of explaining the behavior and properties of complex adaptive systems and networks (see e.g., Freeman et al., 2001; Chialvo, 2010; Flack, 2017a; Scheffer et al., 2018). I will refer to this framework as Radical Embodied Computation (REC++) and discuss some of the philosophical and theoretical issues that have to be resolved. I conclude by suggesting a mechanism for the emergence of meaning that is based the conception of self-affine scaling as the reproduction of similarity by analogy.

scholarly journals Homofobia y Orientación Sexual en Deportistas Federados en Cataluña: Inmersos en el Legado de la Heteronormatividad

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Jordi García-Orriols ◽  
Xavier Torrebadella Flix
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks

Nowadays, breaking with sexual diversity discrimination is a social requirement that is increasing. Thus, new theoretical frameworks have been appearing and being discussed but, scarcely, aren’t known by society. Consequently, the heteronormative concept still remains on social contexts, from schools to sport stadiums. In this way, this study is focused on the homophobia grade analysis in different federated sports in Catalonia by the adapted version of Actitudes hacia la Diversidad en el Deporte scale (Piedra, 2016). Moreover, other personal factors (sex, age, sexual orientation) have been considered for the comprehension of this heterosexual masculinity pressure in society, in order to develop future socio-educative proposals to change this scenario.  

Cluttering in the Communicative Disorders Curriculum

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
John A. Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Opportunities For Learning ◽  
Communicative Disorders ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Abstract Cluttering is discussed openly in the fluency literature, but few educational opportunities for learning more about cluttering exist in higher education. The purpose of this manuscript is to explain how a seminar in cluttering was developed for a group of communication disorders doctoral students. The major theoretical issues, educational questions, and conclusions are discussed.

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: Serving GLBT Families in Our Schools

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley M. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Societal Changes

Abstract School speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly likely to serve children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) parents or GLBT students as cultural and societal changes create growth in the population and increased willingness to disclose sexual orientation. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a progressive nondiscrimination statement that includes sexual orientation as a protected status and strongly urges the membership to develop cultural competence as a matter of ethical service delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe cultural competence in relation to GLBT culture, discuss GLBT parent and student cultural issues as they are important in parent-school or student-school relations, and to provide suggestions for increasing sensitivity in these types of interactions. A list of resources is provided.

Culture and Sexual Orientation

ASHA Leader ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
James Lee
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation

Russian Citizens' Representations of the Country's Position in the Geopolitical Space of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, and the World

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Victor F. Petrenko ◽  
Olga V. Mitina ◽  
Kirill A. Bertnikov
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Implicit Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Invariant Factors

The aim of this research was the reconstruction of the system of categories through which Russians perceive the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, and the world as a whole; to study the implicit model of the geopolitical space; to analyze the stereotypes in the perception of different countries and the superposition of mental geopolitical representations onto the geographic map. The techniques of psychosemantics by Petrenko, originating in the semantic differential of Osgood and Kelly's “repertory grids,” were used as working tools. Multidimensional semantic spaces act as operational models of the structures of consciousness, and the positions of countries in multidimensional space reflect the geopolitical stereotypes of respondents about these countries. Because of the transformation of geopolitical reality representations in mass consciousness, the commonly used classification of countries as socialist, capitalist, and developing is being replaced by other structures. Four invariant factors of the countries' descriptions were identified. They are connected with Economic and Political Well-being, Military Might, Friendliness toward Russia, and Spirituality and the Level of Culture. It seems that the structure has not been explained in adequate detail and is not clearly realized by the individuals. There is an interrelationship between the democratic political structure of a country and its prosperity in the political mentality of Russian respondents. Russian public consciousness painfully strives for a new geopolitical identity and place in the commonwealth of states. It also signifies the country's interest and orientation toward the East in the search for geopolitical partners. The construct system of geopolitical perception also depends on the region of perception.

Practicing or Teaching About Sexual Orientation?

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 933-934
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Kimmel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation
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